Re: Mac Plus Plethora of Problems

2016-06-14 Thread uniserver
ptions for Plus, SE and all others. the all others > option was 1:1 interleave. > > > > From: "gordon.hama...@gmail.com" <gordon.hama...@gmail.com> > To: Vintage Macs <vintage-macs@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 11:25 PM > Subject: Re:

Re: Mac Plus Plethora of Problems

2016-06-13 Thread 'Keith Jamison' via Vintage Macs
rleave. From: "gordon.hama...@gmail.com" <gordon.hama...@gmail.com> To: Vintage Macs <vintage-macs@googlegroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 11:25 PM Subject: Re: Mac Plus Plethora of Problems My experience is the opposite. Every SCSI drive I ever tried worked fi

Re: Mac Plus Plethora of Problems

2016-06-03 Thread Mark Kronquist
t; of Marcio T <marciot.freeshell@gmail.com> > Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2016 5:05:16 PM > To: Vintage Macs > Subject: Re: Mac Plus Plethora of Problems > > > As a Mac Plus owner, I will say that finding drives that work with the Mac > Plus is very difficult. Apparently some

Re: Mac Plus Plethora of Problems

2016-06-03 Thread Mark Kronquist
nd loaded with system software, or have floppies. > From: vintage-macs@googlegroups.com <vintage-macs@googlegroups.com> on behalf > of Marcio T <marciot.freeshell@gmail.com> > Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2016 5:05:16 PM > To: Vintage Macs > Subject: Re: Mac Plus Plethora of P

Re: Mac Plus Plethora of Problems

2016-06-02 Thread Charles Lenington
On 6/2/16 3:18 AM, 'Gregg Eshelman' via Vintage Macs wrote: The interleave format on the Mac Plus and SE was required because the computers were slow, so was their SCSI controller. The drives were also slow and had no built in cache memory. After the SE, the SCSI controllers Apple used were

Re: Mac Plus Plethora of Problems

2016-06-02 Thread Marcio T
In my case, I had an early ROM and I ran into the "Unit Reset" bug described here, which made the Mac Plus unbootable with all but a few very specific SCSI drives: http://www.jagshouse.com/plusrom.html On Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 11:25:38 PM UTC-6, gordon@gmail.com wrote: > > My

Re: Mac Plus Plethora of Problems

2016-06-02 Thread 'Gregg Eshelman' via Vintage Macs
party drive formatter with options for Plus, SE and all others. the all others option was 1:1 interleave. From: "gordon.hama...@gmail.com" <gordon.hama...@gmail.com> To: Vintage Macs <vintage-macs@googlegroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 11:25 PM

Re: Mac Plus Plethora of Problems

2016-06-01 Thread gordon.hama...@gmail.com
My experience is the opposite. Every SCSI drive I ever tried worked fine with my Mac Plus. If you are having problems reading a SCSI drive, make sure that you have a terminator on the drive, but only if the drive does not supply its own. The drive needs to be formatted with an appropriate

Re: Mac Plus Plethora of Problems

2016-05-31 Thread Jason Johnson
acs@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Marcio T <marciot.freeshell@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2016 5:05:16 PM To: Vintage Macs Subject: Re: Mac Plus Plethora of Problems As a Mac Plus owner, I will say that finding drives that work with the Mac Plus is very difficult. Apparently s

Re: Mac Plus Plethora of Problems / shipping half Mac + / posted as plain text

2015-09-12 Thread Spenser Whaley
I sure hope you don't actually plan on using packing peanuts to ship this. That will be a nightmare to the electronics like the motherboard with the potential static buildup and what not. Plus packing peanuts will not be enough to protect the CRT from damage. The CRT needs to be kept stationary

Re: Mac Plus Plethora of Problems / response/ plain text e mail

2015-08-08 Thread BigClaim via Vintage Macs
50 is not old - it's just the beginning of life. I am 68 and looking to live to be 200 I have a Mac plus minus the screen - anyone can have it for the price of shipping M.Smith Palm Desert CA bigcl...@aol.com In a message dated 8/7/2015 7:57:39 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,

Re: Mac Plus Plethora of Problems / response/ plain text e mail

2015-08-08 Thread Carlos Randolph
What's shipping to 60010, I'm interested in it. CR On Saturday, August 8, 2015 at 6:13:44 AM UTC-5, bigc...@aol.com wrote: 50 is not old - it's just the beginning of life. I am 68 and looking to live to be 200 I have a Mac plus minus the screen - anyone can have it for the price of

RE: Mac Plus Plethora of Problems

2015-08-08 Thread Wesley Furr
] On Behalf Of Mark Kronquist Sent: Friday, August 07, 2015 10:58 PM To: vintage-macs@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Mac Plus Plethora of Problems Okay. I am old. Almost 50. Phasers were sold by macfriends in PDX at the time largest unauthorized apple dealer on earth. Pc 720k drive with fake iwm

Re: Mac Plus Plethora of Problems / shipping half Mac + / posted as plain text

2015-08-08 Thread BigClaim via Vintage Macs
OK Actually now that I think about it, IT DOES HAVE THE SCREEN, it does NOT have the outside case around it. So is THAT what you want? It is JUST the innards of a Mac Plus - no case but it DOES have a screen. The unit is in a box in my rented storage place. I could not get down there

Mac Plus Plethora of Problems

2015-08-07 Thread Wesley Furr
I recently acquired a Mac Plus from an old friend...it was her parent's and I gather was used for many years. Unfortunately, looks like it got stored in the basement or something and has acquired a bit of mildew...but just sitting around problem is half of its problems...where shall I begin...

Re: Mac Plus Plethora of Problems

2015-08-07 Thread Mark Kronquist
Okay. I am old. Almost 50. Phasers were sold by macfriends in PDX at the time largest unauthorized apple dealer on earth. Pc 720k drive with fake iwm or was it swim. Sounded like shit. Worked fine 199 vs 329 corporate 499 retail for apple 800k. We bot hundreds. What is ram state on plus?