Re: Mac IIci questions

2002-07-06 Thread Jason Trunzo
I have a ci with 8 megs ram that seems to have a troubled floppy drive. I'd like to swap in a floppy drive pulled from a LC II, and I removed the Hard Drive which sits upon this plastic partition. The floppy drive seems entombed beneath this plastic partition, and I'm wondering what's the best

Re: Mac IIci questions

2002-07-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jason Trunzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdee! By the '040 card do you mean Sonnet's 040 Presto card? If so, that substantially increases your processing speed (to 55 or 60mhz I think) and allows you to run up to OS 8.6 on your IIci. It's an 040, best it will do is 8.1. If it's

relatively foolish question

2002-07-06 Thread Teri Pittman
Okay, I gotta ask this, as I haven't found any information about this: exactly how do DOS cards in Macs work? I have two of them now, one with a 286 chip and one with a 386 chip. I can vaguely remember one of these back in college, that seemed to do emulation and was extremely slow. Do they

Re: relatively foolish question

2002-07-06 Thread Steven
I know this isn't *exactly* the answer you are looking for, but... I have a IIe card in a Mac LC475. The card only works when you double click onto the software. At this point, the Mac will transform into a 1mhz Apple IIe. When you press open apple-control-power on the Mac, a box will appear

Re: relatively foolish question

2002-07-06 Thread Sam Burrish
Yes, you will need all of the original software in order to make it work. There is a booter application which you launch from inside the Mac OS which switches you into PC mode, and the DOS card loads up DOS or Windows from your PC partition. Okay, I gotta ask this, as I haven't found any