Junkyard was Re: FPU Cards

2001-09-05 Thread Jeffrey
I have to say something even if it is off topic- Thanks Guys- you rock! I have bought, sold, swapped, and on the rare occasion given away lots of Mac bits on LEM Swap and I have not had a bad experience yet. Yep. He has all but replaced eBay for my old-computer-parts habit. :) -- Vintage

Re: Hard drive upgrade

2001-09-05 Thread Brian
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Gregg Eshelman wrote: Set the SCSI ID to 0, pull all three ID jumpers off. You want termination enabled, might have to find termination resistor packs if the drive is older. You'll also want to set the drive to provide termination power to the bus and to itself. (Never

Re: Upgrading LC475

2001-09-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- From: the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vintage Macs) Subject: Re: Upgrading LC475 Date: Tue, Sep 4, 2001, 6:24 PM At 18:20 -0700 on 04/09/01, Gregg Eshelman wrote: Apple never used a ZIF socket or

Re: Formerly Reasonable And Prudent

2001-09-05 Thread Desert Fox
Anything on 2 wheels! -- Paul/. 95 black 3000GT VR-4 98 VFR800F, TBR aluminum hi exit formerly reasonable and prudent on 9/4/01 23:23, J.S. Garrison at [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled: Wanting a Bandit 1200, or a Valkyrie. (Visions of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride wavering in the distance) --

Re: the power of a vintage laserwriter

2001-09-05 Thread Desert Fox
An interesting port on the LaserWriter IIntx is ADB. In the manual, it says that it can be used for future expansion. -- Paul/. 95 black 3000GT VR-4 98 VFR800F, TBR aluminum hi exit formerly reasonable and prudent on 9/4/01 23:57, Andrew W. Hill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled: The apple

Re: Hard drive upgrade

2001-09-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Tell us the make and model of the drive, then I or someone can dig up a website with all the settings and tell what should work. (Unless the drive is a real old one from a long dead company that wasn't bought by some other company that is still around.) = The earth swarms with inhabitants.

Future Expansion. Re: the power of a vintage laserwriter

2001-09-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Desert Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An interesting port on the LaserWriter IIntx is ADB. In the manual, it says that it can be used for future expansion. It's amazing how much computer hardware from the 80's and early 90's had ports and connectors for future expansion or for future use.

FS: Stuff sitting here

2001-09-05 Thread Desert Fox
I have 2 Mac II, one with a DayStar accelerator card and 12MB RAM, one without with 8MB RAM. I have 4 4MB PAL 30 pin SIMMS but do not have the FDHD upgrade kit w/ ROM so that the PAL SIMMS will work. I've got a Mac IIcx w/ DayStar 50mhz 68030 w/FPU accelerator card and 80MB RAM. Video card is

Re: Hard drive upgrade

2001-09-05 Thread Brian
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Gregg Eshelman wrote: Tell us the make and model of the drive, then I or someone can dig up a website with all the settings and tell what should work. (Unless the drive is a real old one from a long dead company that wasn't bought by some other company that is still

was interleave

2001-09-05 Thread Scott Barber
Greetings Marten, At 23:40 +0200 on 04/09/01, Marten van de Kraats wrote: M... I guess there must be another reason why this thing is giving me I/O problems in the LC while working flawlesly before in the IIfx... Marten I'm not sure this applies to your situation, but when I tried

LCII acquisition

2001-09-05 Thread hart
Hello. I just bought an LCII for no other reason than because it was so-o-o cute! I think that it has a 60 MG hard drive and 4 MG of RAM, according to the “get info” and “about this mac” folders. My 14-year old thought he would be able to play Escape Velocity on it. However, the game

Re: Hard drive upgrade

2001-09-05 Thread the pickle
At 09:26 -0500 on 05/09/01, Brian wrote: On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Gregg Eshelman wrote: Set the SCSI ID to 0, pull all three ID jumpers off. You want termination enabled, might have to find termination resistor packs if the drive is older. You'll also want to set the drive to provide

Re: LCII acquisition

2001-09-05 Thread the pickle
At 20:27 + on 05/09/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I just bought an LCII for no other reason than because it was so-o-o cute! I think that it has a 60 MG hard drive and 4 MG of RAM, according to the ìget infoî and ìabout this macî folders. My 14-year old thought he would be able to

Re: Just Found A Macintosh TV!!

2001-09-05 Thread Chris Lawson
At 16:49 -0600 on 05/09/01, Matt Sattler wrote: indoctrinating my ownership of this odd beast by listening to the Joshua Tree on the fine little stereo speakers it has. Ah, and what an excellent album it is too. Anyhow, this thing has crazy plugs on the back that make it look as though my

Re: MacTV

2001-09-05 Thread Erik
To the person who had the MacTV question about switching to video inputs: The switch is accomplished by a key combo. I think it's Command - Shift - a number greater than 3. C + S + 1 = eject a floppy from 1st drive C + S + 2 = eject a floppy from 2nd drive C + S + 3 = screen shot C + S + 5 (I

Re: Just Found A Macintosh TV!!

2001-09-05 Thread Alex Allee
Hello-- I hope my momentary speechlessness won't interfere with my typing, but I just found a Macintosh TV in a thrift store. There was not yet a price on it and they are usually fussy about selling unpriced computers because they haven't been 'tested for safety.' I told them I wanted to buy it

Re: Just Found A Macintosh TV!!

2001-09-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Too bad the Mac TV is like a LCII- (minus). :P Only 8megs RAM, limited to 8bit color in computer mode. Will the TV/Video stuff work with some other 5xx series board shoved into the case? IMHO the Mac TV is the computer equivalent of painting a Yugo black and sticking on a spoiler and plastic

Fixed Links

2001-09-05 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
Hello All, If anyone was having problems downloading a few of the files on The Site, It should be working now. I had to re-mirror the site. Cheers, Andrew -- Since Judgement Day has now come and gone, it is now up to those who have not passed this test, over the next

Performa 575

2001-09-05 Thread l s
My school was just given three Performa 575s. They are running system 7.1 and I would like to update the system. What is the highest I can go? I have 8.5 system disks available, can I do that? Thanks, Lee __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts NEW

Re: Just Found A Macintosh TV!!

2001-09-05 Thread Alex Allee
Too bad the Mac TV is like a LCII- (minus). :P Only 8megs RAM, limited to 8bit color in computer mode. Will the TV/Video stuff work with some other 5xx series board shoved into the case? I don't think so. Either the TV tuner is built into the LB, or the tuner plugs into a proprietary slot on

Upload vs. Download

2001-09-05 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
Hello All, Just a curious question... One that has always puzzled me. Does anyone know the specifics, why uploading a file to a server takes so much longer than downloading the same file? Cheers, Andrew -- Since Judgement Day has now come and gone, it is now up to

Re: Performa 575

2001-09-05 Thread R.A. Cantrell
on 9/5/01 7:42 PM, l s at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My school was just given three Performa 575s. They are running system 7.1 and I would like to update the system. What is the highest I can go? I have 8.5 system disks available, can I do that? Thanks, Lee if they are 68040 cpu'd 8.1

Re: Upload vs. Download

2001-09-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Andrew Michael MacTao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, Just a curious question... One that has always puzzled me. Does anyone know the specifics, why uploading a file to a server takes so much longer than downloading the same file? Because with a 56K connection your upstream

Re: LCII acquisition

2001-09-05 Thread rlf9
Vintage Macs wrote... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LCII acquisition Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 20:27:11 GMT Hello. I just bought an LCII for no other reason than because it was so-o-o cute! I think that it has a 60 MG hard drive and 4 MG of RAM, according to the ìget infoî and ìabout this

Re: Just Found A Macintosh TV!!

2001-09-05 Thread the pickle
At 17:30 -0700 on 05/09/01, Gregg Eshelman wrote: Too bad the Mac TV is like a LCII- (minus). :P Only 8megs RAM, limited to 8bit color in computer mode. Will the TV/Video stuff work with some other 5xx series board shoved into the case? No :( p

Re: Performa 575

2001-09-05 Thread the pickle
At 17:42 -0700 on 05/09/01, l s wrote: My school was just given three Performa 575s. They are running system 7.1 and I would like to update the system. What is the highest I can go? I have 8.5 Why go higher than 7.1? It will do everything 7.5.x, 7.6.x, or 8.1 will do without the RAM

Re: Performa 575

2001-09-05 Thread the pickle
At 02:53 +0200 on 06/09/01, Marten van de Kraats wrote: My school was just given three Performa 575s. They are running system 7.1 and I would like to update the system. What is the highest I can go? I have 8.5 system disks available, can I do that? No. 8.5 is powerpc only. You cannot go

Re: Upload vs. Download

2001-09-05 Thread the pickle
At 18:05 -0700 on 05/09/01, Andrew Michael MacTao wrote: Just a curious question... One that has always puzzled me. Does anyone know the specifics, why uploading a file to a server takes so much longer than downloading the same file? Are you on a 56K modem by any chance? They're limited to

Re: Just Found A Macintosh TV!!

2001-09-05 Thread Terry Mathews
Really? I was always under the impression that all that had to be transfered was the motherboard and the female connector that resides in the case. Since the TV is SCSI, and the 54xx is IDE... Isn't this the same hack as the Color Classic Mystic? I mean, aren't the motherboard connectors almost

Re: Just Found A Macintosh TV!!

2001-09-05 Thread R.A. Cantrell
on 9/5/01 8:57 PM, the pickle at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will the TV/Video stuff work with some other 5xx series board shoved into the case? If you're lookin to see tv in a Mac, the cheap/easy/best is via the highly touted 6200 series. Cartridge/card/Applevison/remote--may even work in

Re: Just Found A Macintosh TV!!

2001-09-05 Thread the pickle
At 22:18 -0400 on 05/09/01, Terry Mathews wrote: Really? I was always under the impression that all that had to be transfered was the motherboard and the female connector that resides in the case. Since the TV is SCSI, and the 54xx is IDE... Isn't this the same hack as the Color Classic Mystic?

Re: Just Found A Macintosh TV!!

2001-09-05 Thread Alex Allee
At 22:18 -0400 on 05/09/01, Terry Mathews wrote: Really? I was always under the impression that all that had to be transfered was the motherboard and the female connector that resides in the case. Since the TV is SCSI, and the 54xx is IDE... Isn't this the same hack as the Color Classic Mystic?

Re: Performa 575

2001-09-05 Thread rlf9
Vintage Macs wrote... From: l s [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Performa 575 My school was just given three Performa 575s. They are running system 7.1 and I would like to update the system. What is the highest I can go? I have 8.5 system disks available, can I do that? Thanks, Lee This is a

can't connect

2001-09-05 Thread Don Hawryluk
Subject: can't connect Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 00:29:29 -0400 From: donly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: mail To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] i've got a SE/30 4mg ram 80 mb hd sys7.1 a hayes ultra 9600 an earthlink isp account. downloaded every MacPPP/ MacTCP/ ConfigPPP/ FreePPP/ Freeppp setup monkey/

Re: Format interleave

2001-09-05 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
Marten from the Kraats wrote: I am trying a pretty fast hard disk in a LC... Which format interleave is the best: 1, 2, 3, 4??? I have no direct answer to your question. But, since the concept of interleave perplexed me for so many years... I thought I'd toss in a few words on it for the

Re-coloring Macs.

2001-09-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I had a thought the other day about how to alter the color of a Mac case in a way more durable than paint. :) Melt down some of the same sort of plastic in the color of your choice then use a heated spray gun to paint the case. Of course you'd definately want to wear a good chemical filter

Re: can't connect

2001-09-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Don Hawryluk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: can't connect what the #$%?$@# am i doing wrong? thanks don. Did you have a look at the chooser to ensure that AppleTalk was turned on, and the AppleTalk control panel to ensure that the Modem port was selected? = The earth swarms

Joining the LC475 club. :)

2001-09-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I'm going to be given an LC475 with monitor, keyboard and mouse. What to do with it? Heck if I know! :) I need a bigger table plus a bigger room to put it in. Currently the MegaTower 2000 PC and the not so mega but just as heavy tower Radius 81/110 occupy the table I have. The Power IIci sits