A/UX on CD (was: Re: A/UX site...)

2001-10-03 Thread Adam
Now that I think of it, wasn't someone here going to press A/UX onto CD for the benefit of the low-bandwidth masses (like me)? Adam. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital

Re: ZIP eject

2001-10-03 Thread the pickle
At 09:40 -0400 on 03/10/01, Robert Poland wrote: Has anyone come up with a good fix for the ZIP drives that eject the disk clear out to the desktop? LOL. No, but someone else was discussing this topic with me as it applied to SyJet drives about three years ago. If you put them in a vertical

Re: ZIP eject

2001-10-03 Thread Marten van de Kraats
No, but someone else was discussing this topic with me as it applied to SyJet drives about three years ago. If you put them in a vertical orientation, they shoot disks at you. If you put them horizontally, they eject pretty normally. Too bad, placing them horizontally makes them more likely

Re: EZ135

2001-10-03 Thread Gene Osburn
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 17:09:42 -0400 From: Terry Earnest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: EZ135 Now all I gotta do is find a cartridge for it. I picked up a SyQuest EZ135 (for $15).Anyone know anything about it? Nice little drives. Recently picked one up (with eight cartridges) in

Re: Virus's

2001-10-03 Thread Terry Earnest
I picked up a group of Mac Cubed.It's got all kinds of sample shareware on it (they came out in '97')and one of the programs is a jokevirus that flips everthing on the screen upside down. Anybody think you could send this one out without catching all kinds of hell for it? -- Vintage Macs

Re: ZIP eject

2001-10-03 Thread Robert Poland
At 10:03 AM -0400 10/3/2001, the pickle wrote: LOL. No, but someone else was discussing this topic with me as it applied to SyJet drives about three years ago. If you put them in a vertical orientation, they shoot disks at you. If you put them horizontally, they eject pretty normally. At 4:16

Re: ZIP eject

2001-10-03 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, but someone else was discussing this topic with me as it applied to SyJet drives about three years ago. If you put them in a vertical orientation, they shoot disks at you. If you put them horizontally, they eject pretty normally.

Re: LC520 No boot

2001-10-03 Thread Rich S
That was the plan, but have my doubts that the logic board is bad. Hate to go through the trouble of tracking one down and it's not the board. R. - Original Message - From: Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Vintage Macs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 8:14 PM

Virtual CD?

2001-10-03 Thread Rich S
Here's a good one: Looking for a way to copy CDROMs to hard drive (server) to create virtual CDs. Would like to connect to server (multiple systems) and access virtual CDs and run apps as if attached locally. Any cheap solutions? R. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/

Re: Virus's

2001-10-03 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
Gregg Eshelmann wrote: Mainly because the huge majority of people use PCs and Windows. snip If the positions of Mac and Wintel were switched, the Wintel crowd would be crowing about how few viri there are for their platform. There are SO MANY viri written for Pee Cee vs. Mac that it

Seagate's Website

2001-10-03 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
Hello All, Has anyone tried to get on to Seagate's website recently? The past couple of days my browser gets as far as Sending request for seagate.com Then nothing. Even if I go to google, search seagate and try to link from there... Same thing. Specifically, I'm trying to find info on

Re: Seagate's Website

2001-10-03 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, Seagate uses a standard in their model numbers: ST - Seagate technology 138 - first digit is form factor (half height, full height, 3.5, 5.25, etc) remaining digits are approximate size, unformatted. Always round down to guess the size.

Re: EZ135

2001-10-03 Thread Terry Earnest
From: Gene Osburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: EZ135 Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 17:09:42 -0400 From: Terry Earnest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: EZ135 Now all I gotta do is find a cartridge for it. I picked up a SyQuest EZ135 (for $15).Anyone know anything about it? Nice little

Re: EZ135

2001-10-03 Thread Terry Earnest
From: A.Tuazon Message-ID: I'm using one right now with my IIsi =). It works great though some cartridges have a tendency to become corrupt. In my supply of 6 cartridges, 2 went dead on me -- I couldn't even re-format them anymore =(. IMHO it is still a better tech than Zip and since it

Re: LC520 No boot

2001-10-03 Thread Jeff Garrison
-Original Message- From: Rich S [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Vintage Macs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 9:43 AM Subject: Re: LC520 No boot Can hear the power flow to the CRT upon switching on. Nothing else happens other than the faint clicking referred to below. R.