Re: Mac LC II help needed

2002-05-15 Thread Mark Benson
I used an LCIII headless for awhile has a server. I honestly can't remember if I stuck an adapter on it to boot it or not. I'll have to try it. They will boot with or without a monitor, the issue is that they often (I only know from the LC and LCIII) disable the video out until you reset them

Re: Mac LC II help needed

2002-05-15 Thread Mark Benson
Should I dump this LC II and find a 475 on eBay? Will the 475 handle the IIe card? I don't know if the Apple //e cards will run on LC3 PDS slots. The design of the interface slot at the back of the LC changed between the LCII and LCIII, I don't know if it is entirely compatible with older

Re: Mac LC II help needed

2002-05-15 Thread Mark Benson
Should I dump this LC II and find a 475 on eBay? Will the 475 handle the IIe card? I used a card to connect my 11c to the LC (that is the original pizza box) a long time ago and it worked fine. Is this the same card that you refer to as a 11e card? I think it is thae same card he refers

Re: Mac LC II help needed

2002-05-15 Thread Chris Edwards
I think it is thae same card he refers to but using it in an LC or an LCII is going to work fine as Apple sold it in those machines anyway (I have an original Macintosh LC sales leaflet that details all the options available) so it's not surprise it worked for you :). I know someone who

Re: Mac LC II help needed

2002-05-15 Thread the pickle
At 12:53 +0100 on 15/05/02, Mark Benson wrote: Should I dump this LC II and find a 475 on eBay? Will the 475 handle the IIe card? I don't know if the Apple //e cards will run on LC3 PDS slots. The Works fine; requires 24-bit addressing be on, though. the pickle FAQ

Re: Mac LC II help needed

2002-05-15 Thread Steven
I don't know if the Apple //e cards will run on LC3 PDS slots. The design of the interface slot at the back of the LC changed between the LCII and LCIII, I don't know if it is entirely compatible with older cards. My Ethernet card in my 475 is only an LCPDS (as opposed to an LC3PDS) and it

Re: Mac LC II help needed

2002-05-15 Thread Steven
I think it is thae same card he refers to but using it in an LC or an LCII is going to work fine as Apple sold it in those machines anyway (I have an original Macintosh LC sales leaflet that details all the options available) so it's not surprise it worked for you :). I think the only way

Re: Mac LC II help needed

2002-05-15 Thread the pickle
At 07:20 -0700 on 15/05/02, Steven wrote: Is this safe to do? Is it safe to plug in ANY device (SCSI/ADB/etc.) into a powered on computer? Only a monitor or serial device. ADB and SCSI both use power and tend to zap things if you hot-plug them. the pickle FAQ http://macfaq.org/index.shtml

Re: Mac LC II help needed

2002-05-15 Thread the pickle
At 07:22 -0700 on 15/05/02, Steven wrote: I don't know if the Apple //e cards will run on LC3 PDS slots. The design of the interface slot at the back of the LC changed between the LCII and LCIII, I don't know if it is entirely compatible with older cards. My Ethernet card in my 475 is only

Re: Mac LC II help needed

2002-05-15 Thread the pickle
At 07:25 -0700 on 15/05/02, Steven wrote: Hate to sound like a newbie here, but what is a headless server? At first Headless = no monitor. the pickle FAQ http://macfaq.org/index.shtml Software Archive ftp://download:[EMAIL PROTECTED]//Users/thepickl/Sites/Archive/

Re: Mac LC II help needed

2002-05-15 Thread mart
Mark B. replied: As I discovered early on any switch for Mac monitors has to be able to direct all the lines to the Mac (including the sense pins that tell it what monitor type it is). I manage now by having several MAc to PC adapters on them (since I use a PC monitor anyway) which fools the

Re: Mac LC II help needed

2002-05-15 Thread Steven
This sound like a good solution to me. Just fool the LCII. I'd say: shortcut the sensing pins in the proper way (depending on desired resolution). Is this LC II upgradeable? Can a newer video card be put in this so that it could recognize this higher speed monitor (I really don't know what

Re: Mac LC II help needed

2002-05-15 Thread Mark Benson
Just the one - it's basically an LC II with 72-pin RAM and an 040 instead of the 030. Not wanting to go too far into unnecessary technicality but they are not the same at all. It does however only have the one PDS slot as pickle says. -- -- Mark Benson Any spelling errors are attributed to

Re: Mac LC II help needed

2002-05-15 Thread mart
Now the sh*t has hit the fan. Having read this, it is important to check if your 17 monitor can do 640x480 at 256 colours. If so, it makes sense to proceed with the Y-adaptor. Just checked the Monitors control panel, and yepper, it can handle it. Any recommendations on this Y-adaptor? I

LC to VGA (was Re: Mac LC II help needed)

2002-05-15 Thread mart
Scott mumbled to himself: As soon as I can build/find an adapter to attach my LC to a VGA monitor, I'm going to set up a dual-floppy only web server. I iust saw one flying by, quite low. Remember it requires 512k Video RAM and the sense pinnings are not final, yet. have fun soldering, -mart

Re: Mac LC II help needed

2002-05-15 Thread Steven
Well, this email is a keeper! I will probably get on this in about a week. So many projects, so little time. Before I mess up my one and only cable (this really is a special cable on the monitor. Can't be found. I literally had to buy a new monitor off of eBay, so I can replace my existing

Erratum 2 Re: Mac LC II help needed

2002-05-15 Thread mart
I wrote: connect all three the sensing pins [...] together and then to GND. I dug up some more, and it seems that the above is wrong. All three to GND stands for 21 RGB. More likely: Plain 640x480 VGA needs 'extended sense pin code 23': connect 7 to 10, nothing to ground. 640x480 VGA on a 17