Re: Vintage software

Ron, I’d be interested in Pagemaker, Excel, Word, Rightwriter, MORE, and MPW. How much would you want for them to be shipped to zip code 20876? Thanks! - Alex On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 17:29 irish...@gmail.com wrote: > I have a collection of software that I am looking to part with. Open to > a

Re: PSU failure on 8100

Thanks, that's an option as well, although I don't have too much experience with opening PSUs I will completely remove it and open it, I'll share a pic here If you guys want. On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 3:26 AM, Wesley Furr wrote: > Don't know much about that series of Mac...but in looking online, d

Re: making boot/system disks - do i have what's needed?

drive on a PowerBook 540 can read a 2HD > disk that I make on my MacBook using an external 1.44 floppy? My external > drive is supposedly PC and Mac compatible. > > > On Friday, 6 February 2015 18:59:22 UTC-5, Alexander wrote: > >> If you're willing to spend some money,

Re: making boot/system disks - do i have what's needed?

If you're willing to spend some money, there's a great solution available, to work around this problem. I have bought a couple of boards from this guy, and they're top quality, and easy to use. http://www.bigmessowires.com/store/ They are available for $90 or $100, depending on configuration. A

Re: I Read a Recent Post

I can confirm the same as Dan. J.S., it sounds like you may have a problem with your mail system. I've been able to get support, in the past, from the LEM staff, when I need it. If you truly can't get a response from the list administrator, drop Dan Knight a line. He's quite a nice guy, who has

Re: I Read a Recent Post

Why don't you rejoin LEM, using a different email account? That seems like the simplest solution, to me. - Alex On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 10:23 AM, 'James Fraser' via Vintage Macs wrote: > > Hello, > >> While it's great to see the posts here, I do have a few parts-needs and >> don't know how to

Re: Help with old Mac, dial-up modem and AOL hassles?

The way that I see it, it's better to be inclusive, rather than exclusive. To be clear, my interest in Mac collecting is exclusive to 68k Macs, because those have the most sentimental value, to me. However, the smaller the audience, the more likely the group is to wither away, altogether. Also, a

Re: Help with old Mac, dial-up modem and AOL hassles?

James, I think that we should consider that all of the pre-G3 Power Macs are pretty vintage, by any reasonable description. Pretty soon, I'd say that the G3 machines should be included, as well, as the newest G3s are 11 years old. The 7300/200, itself, is 17 years old. Definitely vintage. Just

Re: MAC LC and Internal SCSI Termination

I can confirm that diskless classic Macs did not (except for the IIfx, with it's external black SCSI terminator) ship with terminators installed on unused ports. Lacking one makes absolutely no difference, as well, having used many macs, and many, many SCSI devices. The slow SCSI busses and short

Re: Where to get a system 4.1 floppy or similar for Mac SE superdrive

You might want to use at least System 6.0.4, which would likely be the version that the SE FDHD shipped with. System 4.1 is far too old, for this machine. Good luck! - Alex On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Jason Johnson wrote: > Well a system software disk will help your internal hard drive is

Re: 'Board recaps: who performs them?

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Derek Morton wrote: > Hey all, regarding this here is something to read... > > http://www.chemi-con.com/u7002/life.php > > This article shows that operating an aluminum electrolytic capacitor (which > is the type I assume everybody is referring to) below it's rate

Mac SE Superdrive (Model M5011) - Worth getting going again?

Hey Guys -- I have a Mac SE Superdrive I'd like to get going again, but given I'd really like to get it online (email, NNTP, Gopher, Telnet, SSH, IRC, etc) is it worth even trying with this system? As best as I can tell the RAM maxes out at 4 Megs and most Internet applications I've seen requi

Re: Comparable Mac Laptop - question (help)

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:34 AM, wrote: > I wish to get an old Mac Laptop that is the comparable version to a destop > mac 7300/200 > > What Mac Laptop was sold at the same time as a Mac Desktop 7300/200 > > 7300/200 can run system 7.6 and system 8 > > > If anyone knows the answer to this questi

Re: Mac SE SCSI

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:47 PM, hartonj wrote: > My bet is on: > > 832x624 @ 75 Hz > > or the next step down, as noted at the second site, two posts up. Again, don't forget that _very_ few modern LCDs will do 832x624, at any refresh rate. NEC MultiSync LCDs, however, do seem to support that res

Re: Mac SE SCSI

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 6:29 PM, glen wrote: >>From: Jake Tesler > >>Anyway, I found my old Performa 6110CD, and tried to boot it, just for proof >>of concept. It chimed, and I quickly realized that the HD was shot. Not an >>issue, as it comes with a CD drive and a Floppy drive, and I have the

Re: Macs Requiring "real" Apple Monitor?

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Nate Raymond wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Wesley Furr wrote: >> >> I'm cleaning up and cleaning out...I have in my collection a few Mac's, >> LCII/III's, two that are somewhat newer, then I also have a IIci and IIcx. >> Just because I don't have time

Re: Needed: 800K disks for Mac Plus

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Eric Hall wrote: > They can be ordered on-line easily enough. > http://floppydisk.com/ For transfer (not archive!) you can also tape over the 2nd hole on HD floppies. It will work, it just won't last. - Alex -- - You received this message because you are a

Re: Apple //e with a 5260?

On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Art wrote: > A detail I missed until recently was that use of the IIe card in a system > like the LC 575 is that when you have the IIe card in the LC PDS you loose > the use of the comm slot (so no more comm slot Ethernet). >From what I can tell from the research

Re: Anyone make an affordable SCSI CF/SD replacement?

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Jason Galarneau wrote: > Absolutely true. I just bought several SCSI-CF adapters from > artmix.com for $99 each. A little expensive, but the guy probably > isn't making much money on them. My hope is that there are enough orders for him to go in to full productio

Re: Anyone make an affordable SCSI CF/SD replacement?

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Britt Dodd wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:49 PM, GuyWithGuitars wrote: >> > Certainly what would be needed to facilitate this solution would be > something in the form of a micro controller or processor that > interpreted SCSI commands, and then translated t

Re: Email netiquette (Re: IIci vs. SSD)

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Britt Dodd wrote: > Now back on the topic, if there is a place that sells these guys for a > decent price I'd love to know. I've never found a reliable regular location for SCSI-IDE adapters. I just generally keep a search going on eBay, and skim any good deals.

Re: IIci vs. SSD

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Jason Galarneau wrote: > Artmix.com (Japanese site) sells both a 2.5" and 3.5" to SCSI to CF adapter. > > A little expensive @ $99, but I'm so tired if messing around with unreliable > old SCSI drives. I bought a couple and should have them soon. I'll post a > re

Re: IIci vs. SSD

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Britt Dodd wrote: > Those cards are insane. I'd love to get my 6100 working but there's no way I > can justify 200 for a SCSI to ide card I've acquired my cards over time. The only card that I spent significant money on are my 2.5" SCSI-IDE and 2.5" SCSI-CF adap

Re: IIci vs. SSD

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Derek Morton wrote: > For quite some time now I have been trying to get my IIci running off an SSD, > but to no avail.  The first attempt involved a 128 MB Quantum Rushmore drive > and while the drive was recognized and did work, it only worked for a short > tim

Re: Strange Sound after Startup Chime (Dying Capacitors)

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Wesley Furr wrote: > Ugh...that doesn't bode well!  I guess emulation will be the way to "use" > our vintage computers in the future... Or, the vintage Mac community will have to become more like the vintage Amiga and Atari communities, and start building new "vi

Re: Suggestions for a Classic Mac system

I did some research and found the port's called ADB, which there are a number of ADB keyboards and mice on ebay, but I'll check at our local Goodwill Computer Store this week first. Also given this Mac has a Superdrive, does that mean it can read 1.44" disks formatted under MS-DOS or Linux? Th

Re: Suggestions for a Classic Mac system

Hi Everyone, Well some luck... I knew I had an older Mac stashed away I got for free years ago, but I thought it was just a Mac Classic. It used to sit on a shelf in my office mainly as classic computer art, but I pulled it out today and it's a Mac SE SuperDrive. I only have the computer, but

Re: Mac IIcx Power Supply

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 1:15 PM, PeterH wrote: > > On Aug 12, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Jeff Walther wrote: > >> Gamba had a schematic of the IIci power-on circuitry on his site which >> includes a listing of the power supply connector pins: >> >>

Mac 128 Repair Advice

All, I have a Mac 128k that _seems_ to boot fine, off of the internal 400k drive, based on the drive sounds, and the initial beep, at power-on. However, the internal CRT has a white dot at the center, and nothing else. I know that I've heard of these symptoms, before, but I'm not sure where to st

Re: Quadra 605 Trouble

Thanks for everyone who responded, and so quickly! The problem was, indeed, the PRAM battery. My newer Macs haven't had such issues, when their batteries died, so I had never considered the possibility. Thanks! - Alex -- - You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage

Quadra 605 Trouble

I have a Quadra 605 that is giving me heartburn, lately. First, it was giving the chimes of death, but that was quickly remedied by re-seating the RAM. Now, it powers on, and chimes, and I can hear the hard drive spin up, but I get nothing on the screen, at all, and I never hear it try to boot fr

Re: IIfx woes

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:41 PM, PeterH wrote: > > On Feb 9, 2010, at 4:23 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: > >> The later production IIfx don't need the special "black" external >> terminator. Some people with earlier versions have been able to stack two >> passive terminators and get it to work. > > A s

Re: how to write macintosh files to a 800k disk useing windows 2000 sp4

2000 machine, containing the Mac .dmg files, and use the SE to make floppies from those, using Disk Copy. All you need are System 7 CD-ROM drivers. Here's a suggestion: http://www.macdrivermuseum.net/disk.shtml - J. Alexander Jacocks -- - You received this message because you are a member of

Re: kibimebigibi and Original Mac/UBUNTU

This is being somewhat silly, guys. As much as I agree that storage manufacturers shouldn't have started cheating on sizes, about 15 years ago, the size in bytes is still the size. I can compare file sizes on my Mac Pro, running 10.6.2, to those on my Mac Mini G4, and they are identical, of cours

Re: kibimebigibi and Original Mac/UBUNTU

Anyone know of an extant computer that uses non-8-bit bytes? I certainly can't think of one newer than the 1970s. - Alex On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Scott Holder wrote: > D. Finnigan wrote: >> >> >> Which is why all storage should be declared in bytes. No numbers fiddling, >> no questionab

Re: kibimebigibi and Original Mac/UBUNTU

I hear you, Doug, and I understand. But the 8 bits per byte, 2^10, 2^20, 2^30 multipliers are there, for a reason. Maybe the originators of the terminology should have separated the computer-specific (base 2) usage, from the normal SI units usage, but they didn't. 60 years of computer technical

Re: Original Mac/UBUNTU

Or, rather than worrying about it, you could just burn it to a DVD. That has 4.4gb of space. ;) - Alex On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Doug McNutt wrote: > At 21:19 -0500 12/2/09, Wolf wrote: > standard CD-Rs hold a just a bit more than 702 megs, but most programs > reserve the last few megaby

Re: Installing a full 68040 in a Performa 631

Thanks, Scott. Gaming is most of what I am doing...playing the older games that I miss from my classic Mac OS days. Oh that note, does anyone have a 25mHz 68040 that they want to sell me? If not, I'll jump over to LEM. Thanks! - J. Alexander Jacocks Falls Church, VA, USA 22046 On Wed

Re: Installing a full 68040 in a Performa 631

On a connected topic, how much of a difference in performance would it make, to replace the 25mHz 68LC040 in a Quadra 605 with a full '040? Thanks! On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Scott Holder wrote: > > Derek Morton wrote: >> Since the (real) Mac OS and all Mac OS applications run in the same

Re: Mac Classic II hard drive

And, to reply to myself, here is one for $37, shipped: http://cgi.ebay.com/Adapter-ATAPI-IDE-to-SCSI-IDC-50-BRIDGE-CARD_W0QQitemZ230374668581QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCC_Drives_Storage_Internal?hash=item35a3667925 Good luck! On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:21 PM, J. Alexander Jacocks wrote: > Well, i

Re: Mac Classic II hard drive

antage, to someone who cares about long life for a classic Mac, is that modern IDE HDDs run a lot cooler, and draw much less current, than old SCSI disks. Just my 0.02. On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Clark Martin wrote: > > J. Alexander Jacocks wrote: >> The Classic II took a sta

Re: Mac Classic II hard drive

The Classic II took a standard 3.5" half-height SCSI hard drive. Any other similar drive would work fine. Make sure that you get a 50-pin drive, as opposed to the newer 68-pin or SCA connector drives. There are also a series of SCSI-IDE bridge boards, made by Acard, that would convert a (much c

Re: Strange hard drive behavior

Natürlich will ich's! Danke !! Of course I want it! Thank you!! Am 03.09.2009 um 10:25 schrieb WhyOSX: > > Moin ! > Klar hab' ich! > Und das kann ich Dir als Images schicken - > wennste's haben möchtest. > Kann aber ein wenig dauern. > > Of course I have that! > And I can send you this as images

Re: Strange hard drive behavior

> Is there such a thing as an 3.5" or 2.5" CF-SCSI adapter? If something like this existed using it in an old Macintosh would be great. It would be much cooler and more silent - AND one can take the CF card out of the Macintosh into a newer one. Maybe using the extension bay the Macintosh SE

Re: Strange hard drive behavior

Hum, I have a German System 7 but no System 6 ;-) Due to the hard drive's defect and the SE's 800k drives I cannot install any system 7 - only System 6. But if you have a German System 6 I'd appreciate. -- Alex > Hi ! > It becomes more and more difficult to find reliable SCSI HDs. >

Re: Strange hard drive behavior

> If you like I can send you copy of pdisk for 68k, but I am not sure it > works with system6. or which processor is minimum for it. It only > fixed partition not the format of the partition table at the beginning > of the disk. Thank you! It's a disk image right? > If you have a newer mac around

Re: Strange hard drive behavior

Ahhh, some very strange mistakes. I have a Macintosh SE with System 6.0.8. I formatted and partitioned the drive using Lido. ^ ^^^ The drive spins. SCSI probe recognizes the drive properly but every ti

Re: Freezing Macintosh SE

I looked a bit closer at the RAM SIMMs. The "original ones" have the suffix -10. My "added ones" have the suffix -70. Am I right, that the original ones are 110 ns and my new ones 70 ns? > I think that you've just said what the problem is: the RAM. I do think so, too. :-D --~--~-~--

Re: Freezing Macintosh SE

> RAM is the prime suspect. Go back to the old RAM and see if that > fixes the problem. I went back to the old RAM and everything is well now but I am a bit sad now, because the system is English. I wanted the computer for my little brother and it would be very nice to have the system in Ger

Re: Serial number of Power Macintosh G3

> google 'mactracker' and download it. I have that already, but that's not exactly the same. -- Alex smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Serial number of Power Macintosh G3

I just want to know it because I am interested in the time when it was built. -- Alex --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our n

Re: Serial number of Power Macintosh G3

> Alex, Hi there, > Perhaps I am missing something, but so what? Is there value in the > serial number? No, there is just nothing. At the place where the serial number should be, there's just a "not available". Nothing more, nothing less. > My guess is that the system is probably an off lease

Re: Serial number of Power Macintosh G3

That's not the answer I was expecting... I just want to know when the Mac was build. I know it was build in Ireland which is kind of cool because nowadays the most computers are built in Asia. I am able to "see" the barcode of the serial number but no "readable" text. Are there any possibili

Re: Floppy Drive problem on a Color Classic

> Is the internal cable connected to the system? It has to be. Otherwise the drive would not automatically insert the disk. Am I wrong? Maybe, the cable is broken!? > Is there a guide somewhere that shows how to properly clean a mac > floppy drive? Well, I dont't know, but you simply have

Re: Floppy Drive problem on a Color Classic

> Basically, I put a floppy in and it just stays there stuck until I use > a paper clip to pop it back out. The auto insert pulls it in, but I > don't hear any spinning and no disk appears on the desktop - nor any > other response from the computer that a disk has been inserted. > Any ideas (sugge

Re: SCSI Cable

As you can read in the thread, I have recently bought a Power Macintosh G3 which has a floppy drive. That's the way I'm gonna revive my SE. -- Alex smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: SCSI Cable

Well, the drive in the SE actually works and the G3 _has_ a floppy drive. But I asked whether that cable is able to connect the two Macs, especially for installing System 7.5.x. -- Alex Am 14.08.2009 um 01:05 schrieb nyder: > > I'm a little lost here. > > Does the floppy not work in

Re: SCSI Cable

Well, you're right, but it might work. And in the worst case it won't work, I think. -- Alex Am 12.08.2009 um 23:22 schrieb Andrew Jung: > > Hello Alex, > I don't think that you can connect two Macs together using SCSI as > both computers would have the same ID and cause a conflict of

Re: Found a Macintosh Classic II in a dumpster today!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270347604052. I also have a SCSI/Ethernet adapter, the DaynaPort-3 model. They are available, if you look around. Good luck! - J. Alexander Jacocks --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

Re: Need System 7.5 disks

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: > > > Before OS X, Apple had released CD-ROM sets of most of the software they'd > produced, including apple ][ software. There's NO Apple /// software in the > set and for A/UX it only has the final updates. > > I got a set from May 98 or 99

Re: vintage Mac software

You might want to try the Infocom games...Zork I-III, Sorcerer, etc. They were all available on early Macs...I had them on my SE. - Alex On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Doug wrote: > There is one called Microsoft Adventure which fills the bill. Don’t know > where it came from. I have it on a f

Re: SPAM-MED: Re: Looking for a Mac LC 475

me a line, offlist, if you have one. - J. Alexander Jacocks On Jun 23, 3:31 pm, "Sterling Jacobson" wrote: > Thanks for the reply! > > I think Dylan from the list has one, but I'll let you know if that > doesn't go through. > > -Sterling > >