Re: CD burning with ancient Macs (was: ZIP)

2002-03-19 Thread Mark Benson
On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 02:57 AM, Andrew Michael MacTao wrote: If you're burning CD-CD... You'll want to either set your burning speed considerably slower than your CD-ROM drive, or, use a HUGE RAM buffer. Or, if you have a big enough hard disk, you could make an image of the CD

Re: MO Drive, general question, anecdotes

2002-03-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The stuff on peecees does not have utilities for true formatting MO disks. Mac and that util did. I've low level formatted MO disks just fine with the BIOS in my Adaptech 2940 PCI SCSI controller. Fujitsu has a Windows util (that only works with Fujitsu MO

Re: DayStar site

2002-03-19 Thread Goetz Hoffart
So why not stick to strict HTML 3.0? :) This was never an official standard. Does anyone really _need_ the bells and whistles of 4.0? Yes, me. HTML 4 gives you the power to divide content and layout. Great for building nice looking websites for newer browsers which run fine on older

Re: MO Drive, general question, anecdotes

2002-03-19 Thread Goetz Hoffart
I noticed all the later MO drives dropped the 256M format and went to a smaller 23? format. Maybe there is a connection here? Is this a 3,5 MO or a 5,25 MO? All 3,5 MOs run fine here and for my customers (about 20x 3,5 MO) but the 5,25 died young (Only the good ones die young - hah!) If

Re: CD burning with ancient Macs (was: ZIP)

2002-03-19 Thread Goetz Hoffart
You don't need lots of RAM for burning CDs with Toast. I used it with 16 MB and it went fine in double speed. Are you folks using SCSI, or what? Of course. On Vintage Macs there's no IDE (except some Powerbooks and the P630, did I forget something?), USB or Firewire. Grüße Götz -- Web:

Re: CD burning with ancient Macs (was: ZIP)

2002-03-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Goetz Hoffart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't need lots of RAM for burning CDs with Toast. I used it with 16 MB and it went fine in double speed. Are you folks using SCSI, or what? Of course. On Vintage Macs there's no IDE (except some Powerbooks and the P630, did I forget

Re: CD burning with ancient Macs (was: ZIP)

2002-03-19 Thread Mark Benson
On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 11:40 AM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: A NuBus IDE card would be nice, but that would require driver software and/or an onboard ROM to support it. (But hey, why not? Someone made an IDE interface that plugged between a Z80 CPU and its motherboard!) There is a way.

Re: CD burning with ancient Macs (was: ZIP)

2002-03-19 Thread Mark Benson
On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 02:17 PM, the pickle wrote: There is a way. ACARD do a SCSIDE Bridge Adapter that adapts ATAPI CD/CD-RW drives to SCSI. It's not all that expensive and, provided you flash it to the Mac firmware, it is totally transparent to the system. It comes with

OT: This is taking the piss.....

2002-03-19 Thread Mark Benson
My friends thought that, for a joke, they'd get me a little present from the Microsoft .Net exhibition that visited the University department od CompSci today. They got me a t-shirt that says Reserved for Greatness across the front and Microsoft VisualStudio.Net across the back. I ask you, do

Re: OT: This is taking the piss.....

2002-03-19 Thread the pickle
At 16:22 + on 19/03/02, Mark Benson wrote: My friends thought that, for a joke, they'd get me a little present from the Microsoft .Net exhibition that visited the University department od CompSci today. They got me a t-shirt that says Reserved for Greatness across the front and Microsoft

Re: MO Drive, general question, anecdotes

2002-03-19 Thread Dave Byrne
I've got such a collection of eclectic and semi useless equipment, I don't dare bring home another MO drive ;-) I will take the advise of using the same formatter on all the disks, although I think I tried that a long time ago with Silver Lining. Maybe it would be a good time to try it again.

Re: CD burning with ancient Macs (was: ZIP)

2002-03-19 Thread Mark Benson
On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 06:19 PM, Randy Beaudreault wrote: Or, if you have a big enough hard disk, you could make an image of the CD and stream it off the hard disk. This of course needs nearly 700MB of hard disk space though. I'm really just proud because I have a 40GB drive in my

Re: The ever-popular PRAM question

2002-03-19 Thread the pickle
At 13:02 -0500 on 19/03/02, Ken Strayhorn wrote: Hmmm, I know that PRAM batteries are marked 3.6 volt but these 3-volt batteries are half the price so I thought I would ask the assembled experts - is this a cheap solution, or would the .6 volt make all the difference? They usually don't work.

Re: Disk Images

2002-03-19 Thread Terry Graham
Randy wrote: Or, if you have a big enough hard disk, you could make an image of the CD and stream it off the hard disk. I was wondering if there's a way to have the floppies of OS 7.5 as disk images on one Mac and with Install disk 1 in the floppy drive of the other, have those disk images

Re: Disk Images

2002-03-19 Thread Eagle
On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 03:55 , Terry Graham wrote: Randy wrote: Or, if you have a big enough hard disk, you could make an image of the CD and stream it off the hard disk. I was wondering if there's a way to have the floppies of OS 7.5 as disk images on one Mac and with Install

Mac II problem-dark monitor

2002-03-19 Thread andrew favret
Recently my Mac II monitor (standard 13 RGB) ceased to light up when the computer is turned on. I tried cycling the power on-off button on the monitor-no luck. Later I tried substituting a known good monitor-stll no luck. When the Mac II is turned on , it sounds normal-the whirring sound of disk

Re: Mac II problem-dark monitor

2002-03-19 Thread OSTIAANTIC
Andy- It sounds like a weak or dead PRAM battery. Try a new battery and see if it resolves. HTH Ron In a message dated 3/19/02 5:00:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Recently my Mac II monitor (standard 13 RGB) ceased to light up when the computer is turned on. I tried

Re: cd sleds

2002-03-19 Thread flawed jai
i would probably be wiser to look for a way to convert this internal drive to an external one, by getting a regular scsi 50 pin case for it, and an external cable to go into the scsi chain or nubus card. if i did try to mount it internally in one of my IIfx's , I would have to jack into the

Re: Disk Images

2002-03-19 Thread the pickle
At 12:55 -0800 on 19/03/02, Terry Graham wrote: Randy wrote: Or, if you have a big enough hard disk, you could make an image of the CD and stream it off the hard disk. I was wondering if there's a way to have the floppies of OS 7.5 as disk images on one Mac and with Install disk 1 in the

Good day on my new Mac findings!

2002-03-19 Thread jpero
Stock IIfx 8/80 w/ 8*24 (not 'GC boo!), keyboard and square mice what else? :-) Whoo hoo!! But spits on that video card. :-P Pair of '040 25, these two doesn't require heatsinks which mine '25 part requires it and fell over past 28.6MHz, this two may increases chances on overclocking.

FPU 68882

2002-03-19 Thread James E Freeland
for anyone who is interested. found a source for the 68882 FPU chip. http://newark.com catalog p/n 07F6033 Motorola p/n MC68882FN33A US$64.85 for those of you thinking about getting one. Jim F -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: Good day on my new Mac findings!

2002-03-19 Thread the pickle
At 18:00 + on 19/03/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have pick of three FH 5.25 drives in my inventory and I wondered if apple did made deep sump drive shelf to hold FH instead of 1.6 or less HD? Yep, got one downstairs :) the pickle FAQ http://macfaq.org/index.shtml Software Archive

Re: Disk Images

2002-03-19 Thread Eagle
On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 05:45 , the pickle wrote: At 17:43 -0500 on 19/03/02, Eagle wrote: On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 05:37 , the pickle wrote: Floppies can't be shared. But you _can_ share the image of a floppy, and remotely mount that image. Yep, missed that part and by the

Re: FPU 68882

2002-03-19 Thread the pickle
At 18:01 -0500 on 19/03/02, James E Freeland wrote: for anyone who is interested. found a source for the 68882 FPU chip. http://newark.com catalog p/n 07F6033 Motorola p/n MC68882FN33A US$64.85 At that price, I could make a tidy profit buying IIvxen and stripping their FPUs out... the

NuBus-USB (was CD burning.....)

2002-03-19 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
Gregg Eshelman wrote: A NuBus IDE card would be nice, but that would require driver software and/or an onboard ROM to support it. It would be nice. But, if someone is going to develop a card drivers... Perhaps we should breathe some Life back into the NuBus-USB idea. A few things we've

Re: Disk Images

2002-03-19 Thread Scott Holder
At 05:37 PM 3/19/2002 -0500, you wrote: Floppies can't be shared. the pickle Hmm, I'll have to do it again to be sure, but I'm fairly sure I've shared a floppy to get something onto my Duo. Could be wrong though, Ill have to try it again. Scott Holder -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by

Re: CD burning with ancient Macs (was: ZIP)

2002-03-19 Thread Darren
Mark Benson wrote: 40GB Quadra? :P It's a beautiful thing. Its a wasted hdd. 68k with delusions of greatness. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at

Re: Good day on my new Mac findings!

2002-03-19 Thread jpero
At 18:00 + on 19/03/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip if apple did made deep sump drive shelf to hold FH instead of 1.6 or less HD? Yep, got one downstairs :) Well, anybody interested in selling or swap that deep sump shelf well as Nubus cards like RJ45 ethernet NIC, accelerated

Re: FPU 68882

2002-03-19 Thread R.A. Cantrell
on 3/19/02 5:01 PM, James E Freeland at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: catalog p/n 07F6033 Motorola p/n MC68882FN33A US$64.85 for those of you thinking about getting one. Jim F or you can have this one for $2 -- All the best, R.A. Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Vintage Macs is sponsored

Re: CD burning with ancient Macs (was: ZIP)

2002-03-19 Thread Mark Benson
On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 11:34 PM, Darren wrote: Mark Benson wrote: 40GB Quadra? :P added Yup, and it's an 840av too. I love it. I play my MP3s off of it over my network to my iBook to reduce the disk time needed on the iBook and reduce skips due to stupid power saving clicks. I

Re: CD burning with ancient Macs (was: ZIP)

2002-03-19 Thread Darren
Did you read all of the mail or just instantly dismiss this as a waste of time? I use it as an AV machine and a file server so I'd hardly call that wasting it, it just isn't full yet. What is more it's ideal for AV work as it's fast and has acres of room on it for videos Yeah, I'm sorry,

Macintosh HDI-20 External Floppy Disk Drive

2002-03-19 Thread KADaggett
This message written: Tuesday, 19 March 2002 17:56:10 PST Came across one of these things during a recent rescue patrol. It is rather clearly (at least from its design, color and construction) intended as an accessory for a powerbook. I can't find a reference to it in any of the manuals I

Re: CD burning with ancient Macs (was: ZIP)

2002-03-19 Thread Mark Benson
On Wednesday, March 20, 2002, at 01:41 AM, Darren wrote: Did you read all of the mail or just instantly dismiss this as a waste of time? I use it as an AV machine and a file server so I'd hardly call that wasting it, it just isn't full yet. What is more it's ideal for AV work as it's

Re: Disk Images

2002-03-19 Thread the pickle
At 18:56 -0800 on 19/03/02, Terry Graham wrote: So if I put Install 1 floppy in the destination drive should I also have a disk image of #1 on the source computer for when the installer calls for it again - or will it not even spit #1 out, throughout the process? Should stay in there, but it

Re: Mac II problem-dark monitor

2002-03-19 Thread J.S. Garrison
-- From: andrew favret [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vintage Macs) Subject: Mac II problem-dark monitor Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2002, 1:59 PM Recently my Mac II monitor (standard 13 RGB) ceased to light up when the computer is turned on. I tried cycling the power on-off

Re: OT: This is taking the piss.....

2002-03-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My friends thought that, for a joke, they'd get me a little present from the Microsoft .Net exhibition that visited the University department od CompSci today. They got me a t-shirt that says Reserved for Greatness across the front and Microsoft

Re: Good day on my new Mac findings!

2002-03-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This kills two birds with one stone: 32bit clean ROM SIMM to trace out for others to construct theirs for those updating 32bit dirty Macs, document that unique ram properly and find out how it is designed. Two reasons: this helps me to examine the

Re: FPU 68882

2002-03-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- James E Freeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for anyone who is interested. found a source for the 68882 FPU chip. http://newark.com catalog p/n 07F6033 Motorola p/n MC68882FN33A US$64.85 for those of you thinking about getting one. YEEF! Just how many LCIII pizzaboxes could you