Re: How Many Types/Sizes of PRAM Batteries for Mac?

2001-07-08 Thread Kyle Hansen
the pickle wrote: > 1 is the Rayovac 840, used in 68040 Macs and some 603-based PPCs. This one > is expensive as unless you get 'em from Mike Ford. What a lot of > people do is find a three-cell AA holder and use the wiring harness from a > dead Rayovac 840 to hook it up, giving them a $

Re: How Many Types/Sizes of PRAM Batteries for Mac?

2001-07-08 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Alex Allee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > GURU is no longer maintained in download form > (unless someone gives me a > > darn good reason*). There is an online database > at gurulounge.net. GURU > > 2.9 can be downloaded from Low End Mac. > > > > *I've reverse-engineered the file format

Re: How Many Types/Sizes of PRAM Batteries for Mac?

2001-07-08 Thread Chris Lawson
At 19:35 -0700 on 08/07/01, Alex Allee wrote: >> GURU is no longer maintained in download form (unless someone gives me a >> darn good reason*). There is an online database at gurulounge.net. GURU >> 2.9 can be downloaded from Low End Mac. >> >> *I've reverse-engineered the file format for the

Re: How Many Types/Sizes of PRAM Batteries for Mac?

2001-07-08 Thread Alex Allee
> GURU is no longer maintained in download form (unless someone gives me a > darn good reason*). There is an online database at gurulounge.net. GURU > 2.9 can be downloaded from Low End Mac. > > *I've reverse-engineered the file format for the machine profiles with > ResEdit, so I could concei

Re: What does DC rating mean?

2001-07-08 Thread the pickle
At 11:36 -0500 on 06/07/01, Bill Judson wrote: >Forgive my ignorance of basic electronics, but what happens if I use it >with, say, a 9V 900mA brick? 2.8A? Risk of fire|shock|explosion|Kentucky >fried circuits? Is that spec min, max, or does it have to be exact? That's usually a minimum spec. U

Re: 2-in-1 post, TurboMouse and Color One Scanner

2001-07-08 Thread the pickle
At 13:44 -0700 on 05/07/01, Andrew Michael MacTao wrote: >versions 4 & 5 a few months ago when I got my TurboMouse. The >software is quite handy, actually. You can program all your buttons ...and it can control non-Kensington devices too, to an extent. Kinda like USB Overdrive for ADB, except f

Re: 2-in-1 post, TurboMouse and Color One Scanner

2001-07-08 Thread the pickle
At 18:55 -1000 on 04/07/01, Galen Tatsuo Komatsu wrote: > Scored another TurboMouse today,this time a Version 4.0, (but like >the one I found a few weeks back, missing the ball. =^( Considering this >one lacks DIP switches like the 3.0, does it require drivers of some kind >to handle chordi

Re: How Many Types/Sizes of PRAM Batteries for Mac?

2001-07-08 Thread the pickle
At 23:44 +0200 on 07/07/01, Norbert van Bemmel wrote: >All the batteries mentioned in the GURU 2.8 database are of the 3.6v Radio >Shack type that you bought. Maxell ER3S is compatible, according to GURU. > >BTW, does anyone know if the GURU database is still maintained after the >decease of Newe

Re: How Many Types/Sizes of PRAM Batteries for Mac?

2001-07-08 Thread the pickle
At 14:53 -0600 on 07/07/01, William Hatchell wrote: >I just replaced PRAM batteries in a couple of my old Macs and in doing so >resolved all of my startup issues! I need now to ask a "stupid" question: >how many sizes and types of PRAM batteries are there for older (68K) Macs? >Are they all the

Re: MAC IIsi ROM chip needed

2001-07-08 Thread the pickle
At 15:32 -0500 on 08/07/01, Lloyd Davies wrote: >I am in need of a 512k ROM SIMM for a MAC IIsi - Need to get to get one up >and running for me to sell. Another question, what does a MAC IIsi go for? >I have two of them here, one needs the ROM chio, but if I were to get one >and get it going, w

Re: Mac IIx

2001-07-08 Thread Amber Rhea
on 7/8/01 3:00 PM, (Vintage Macs) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Picked up a Mac II today with a IIx motherboard installed. Just a > couple of questions. To start with it has a Macintosh II PC Drive > Card and a Kinetics Etherport II with a thin ethernet connection and > above that what looks like

Re: 7.1.x diffs. Re: Can we PLEASE play nice? System 7.1 et al

2001-07-08 Thread Clark Martin
At 9:11 AM -0500 7/8/01, R.A. Cantrell wrote: >on 7/6/01 10:59 AM, Gregg Eshelman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >> --- Jeff Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: Steve Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: Vintage Macs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Date: T

MAC IIsi ROM chip needed

2001-07-08 Thread Lloyd Davies
I am in need of a 512k ROM SIMM for a MAC IIsi - Need to get to get one up and running for me to sell. Another question, what does a MAC IIsi go for? I have two of them here, one needs the ROM chio, but if I were to get one and get it going, what would a system with keyboard, mouse and monitor g

New list archives

2001-07-08 Thread Dan Knight
I've just updated the footers for each list with the correct URL for the new archive. From last Thursday onward, everything will be archived. Dan the listmom Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. publisher, Low End Mac publisher, Digital-View

Re: How Many Types/Sizes of PRAM Batteries for Mac?

2001-07-08 Thread Carter Foreman
> Subject: Re: How Many Types/Sizes of PRAM Batteries for Mac? > > All the batteries mentioned in the GURU 2.8 database are of the 3.6v Radio > Shack type that you bought. Maxell ER3S is compatible, according to GURU. > > BTW, does anyone know if the GURU database is still maintained after the >

Re: 7.1.x diffs. Re: Can we PLEASE play nice? System 7.1 et al

2001-07-08 Thread R.A. Cantrell
on 7/6/01 10:59 AM, Gregg Eshelman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > --- Jeff Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Steve Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: Vintage Macs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Thursday, July 05, 2001 5:38 PM >> Subject: Re: Can we PLEA