Rusty Shackelford wrote:
I found a cable in the basement which seems to be a mac serial to
standard pc serial cable. What types of serial devices can i get to
work with this thing-- 56k usr modem? zip drive? crappy serial printer?
Its a modem cable or half a nullmodem cable. ;) wouldn't
First list post, so be gentle ;-)
I was given an LC III a short while ago which I'd like to add a CDROM drive to
if possible. The machine's running System 7.5 at present. I had a quick poke
around the various 'net resources but couldn't see anything. So, a few
questions:
Will I need additional
Dan-
Where are you located?
Scott
On 8/14/03 9:39 AM, Dan Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To make a long story short, Low End Mac is about $6,000 in the hole due
to the collapse of ad rates in early 2001. Although ad rates have
recovered and we are pretty much breaking even today, we
Hi all,
A relative of mine was kindly given a Mac Iicx. Now she wants a printer for
it. Is there any way of hooking up a modern USB inkjet printer up to a Mac
Iicx, for example with the aid of an adapter (that would be Serial-to-USB?)?
Thanks in advance
Matthias Neumann
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To make a long story short, Low End Mac is about $6,000 in the hole due
to the collapse of ad rates in early 2001. Although ad rates have
recovered and we are pretty much breaking even today, we still have this
huge deficit that needs to be eliminated.
It wouldn't be urgent. I've been 3-4
On 8/6/03 5:41 PM, Winston S. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Scott,
I got 7.5.3 off of the web and it worked fine. You might need to get a disk
tools disk to get an initial system on the hard drive. At least that is what
I did.
To get the drive out you should be able to poke a straightened
I am now the proud owner of a copy of Pina's Dead Mac Scrolls and a
black and white apple scanner that still functions perfectly and
works very well with system 6.
I bought the scanner because I had to do a lot of black and white
scanning some days ago. Of course I could have used my snapscan
If you need more drivers, I have a disk image of the
Asanté driver disk. (i don't THINK its still
copyrighted ~ its REALLY old)
Email me for more info.
--- John Niven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday, August 4, 2003, at 01:54 PM, Jack
Countryman wrote:
site doesn't seem to have
on 8/8/03 3:30 PM, David wrote:
I've got a Radius Full Page display. It works fine with a card in an
SE/30. Actually the card works fine in a couple of SI's that I recently
aquired as well (although you can't close the lid of the case because the
card is too tall).
If you want to run it on the
This website ( http://macfaq.org/software/macos.shtml#Q1.1.3 ) seems to say
6.0.8 will work on the LCII but from what I know, System 7 was shipped on
these.
There is a system called 6.0.8L that¹s supposed to work on the LCII,
otherwise I think system 7 is the only may to go. There is a link to
Jules,
You can connect a CDROM to your LCIII, I did this with a LCII. I did it
with an Apple CDROM I had laying around so the specifics to a non-Apple
CDROM are unknown to me.
You will need another power source for the CDROM as well as a SCSI ribbon
cable with multiple connectors. Be careful about
6.0.8L was made to work with the Classic II and others.
Those others being the LCII and the powerbook 100.
Marten
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on 8/7/03 11:39 AM, Scott Howe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there anywhere I can buy any documentation concerning OS 6 and/or 7? I
would like to have them on hand as I learn them. Are they part of the
machines manuals by chance? Or separate documents?
Thanks again!
Scott
There's
on 8/10/03 6:39 AM, Marten van de Kraats at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am now the proud owner of a copy of Pina's Dead Mac Scrolls and a
black and white apple scanner that still functions perfectly and
works very well with system 6.
I bought the scanner because I had to do a lot of black and
Someone around here has OmniPage, version 3 or lower? It is OCR software.
Marten
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http://www.euronet.nl/users/mvdk/system_6_heaven.html
You can expand your old Mac printer horizon a whole
bunch by digging up the PowerPrint serial to parallel
cable and software. Version 4.5.2 was the last for
68k Macs.
Might be some on eBay, just pop powerprint into the
whole site search on the main page.
=
When you are wrestling for
At 15:30 -0400 08/11/2003, Vintage Macs wrote:
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 23:53:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The problem is that nobody on this list has ever seen
a real live PowerCache adaptor for the Classic,
Color Classic, SE or LCIII. All of those are on the
front of the
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
on 8/10/03 10:53 PM, Gregg Eshelman at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem is that nobody on this list has ever
seen
a real live PowerCache adaptor for the Classic,
Color Classic, SE or LCIII. All of those are on
the
front of the manual with
on 8/13/03 10:43 PM, Darren at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Gregg.
Sometime you have to put it out there to get people to respond.
Good one. Some pics would be nice of any of them.
Especially the classic, multi mhz and a 4mg ceiling or does the adapter
get around that as well?
Is the CC
I found a cable in the basement which seems to be a mac serial to
standard pc serial cable. What types of serial devices can i get to
work with this thing-- 56k usr modem? zip drive? crappy serial printer?
-rusty
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Remember the good old Scribe? It used to melt the letters onto the page.
I had it connected to my Apple IIc. I still remember being able to pull out
the used ribbon and read what was printed right on the ribbon.
on 03/8/12 7:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm all for
Scott Howe wrote:
Its going into a LCII. There seems to be no OS on this so I want to install
6 as it will complete my list of machines containing 10.2.6---6 (Earliers
in due time) Don¹t ask why I want to do this!!!
LCII is much like the LC, 2 smaller slots are for ram (30 pin) the
other,
- Original Message -
From: Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Vintage Macs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: Color Classic Adapters, Was: cute new purchases
Someone on the list says he has a new in the box
PowerCache adaptor for the Classic. The
J.S. Garrison wrote:
This Classic adapter allows the use of up to 4-four MB sticks of RAM.
SO it can be a 68030-whatever running a 50Mhz. CPU.
This is a week when many persons are on vacation where I work. I'm not
slated a day off until Monday.
Pictures soon..
I have something similar for
On Wednesday 13 August 2003 10:13 pm, Rusty Shackelford wrote:
I found a cable in the basement which seems to be a mac serial to
standard pc serial cable. What types of serial devices can i get to
work with this thing-- 56k usr modem? zip drive? crappy serial printer?
It's likely a modem
I'm all for loud computer items. Loud hard drives, clicky keyboards,
mind-numbing dot matrix printers. Brings back the good ole days.
Luis
-Original Message-
From: Vintage Macs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
J.S. Garrison
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 01:30 PM
To:
Hi Jules,
Will I need additional software installed in order to use a CD drive, or are
the necessary drivers already included as part of the OS?
The drivers are certainly included with the OS - whether they are installed or not is
another matter - you'll need the Apple CD-ROM
Extension to
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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The Radius display runs at 640x870 at an unknown
frequency. Its a TTL
monitor, meaninng it doesn't support analog video
like VGA or Mac color.
Its interface is a DB9 connector (somwhat similar to
the old Herculese
displays for PC's).
I suspect that most
on 8/14/03 5:39 AM, Dan Knight at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To make a long story short, Low End Mac is about $6,000 in the hole due
to the collapse of ad rates in early 2001. Although ad rates have
recovered and we are pretty much breaking even today, we still have this
huge deficit that needs
--- Harbourmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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The problem is that nobody on this list has ever
seen
a real live PowerCache adaptor for the Classic,
Color Classic, SE or LCIII.
Huh?
I guess I must be hallucinating every time I open up
my CC
on 8/12/03 9:36 PM, Adam Dietrick at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what is omnipage?
An Optical Character Recognition software to make reading scanned pages of
text easier for your computer. It clarifies the text so that no or fewer
imaging errors occur when scanning pages of text or parts of
what is omnipage?
Desert Fox wrote:
Yep.
Paul/.
on 8/12/03 16:36, Marten van de Kraats at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
scribbled:
Someone around here has OmniPage, version 3 or lower? It is OCR software.
Marten
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Yep.
Paul/.
on 8/12/03 16:36, Marten van de Kraats at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
scribbled:
Someone around here has OmniPage, version 3 or lower? It is OCR software.
Marten
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on 8/12/03 4:51 AM, Gregg Eshelman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
on 8/10/03 10:53 PM, Gregg Eshelman at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem is that nobody on this list has ever
seen
a real live PowerCache adaptor for the Classic,
Color Classic,
I picked up a very nice copy of the Infocom
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy adventure game.
It has the box and manual with the snap in clear
plastic lid, genuine fluff, microscopic space fleet,
peril sensitive sunglasses, DON'T PANIC button,
destruction orders for your planet and your house,
Having owned and maintained both of these printers, AND having worked in an office
where we had many of both, I can say the following:
The IW2 is slightly quieter. In draft mode it is substantially faster, but the print
is much worse. At least in text mode - with the Mac's graphics modes, it
--- Jeff Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 15:30 -0400 08/11/2003, Vintage Macs wrote:
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 23:53:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The problem is that nobody on this list has ever
seen
a real live PowerCache adaptor for the Classic,
Color Classic,
on 8/11/03 2:07 AM, Marten van de Kraats at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW Anyone know wether the imagewriter I and II are comparible in
noise or is one of them a bit less noisier?
Greeting,
Marten
Although it won't be the same for all printers, my experience has been that,
and I own
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I also won bids on a daystar powercache for my IIci
What Mhz? I hope you got at least a 40Mhz with the
FPU chip too.
Next on my list is an imagewriter. For some reason
it seems rather cool to get one of these.
Get one with the AppleTalk card
on 8/10/03 10:53 PM, Gregg Eshelman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
clip
I'm still looking for a Daystar accelerator. I
really wanna try out the
board inside my Classic.
The problem is that nobody on this list has ever seen
a real live PowerCache
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I also won bids on a daystar powercache for my IIci
What Mhz? I hope you got at least a 40Mhz with the
FPU chip too.
The speed is a mystery. I only know it was used to speed up a IIci,
so it should be faster than 25 Mhz. Jugding from the
on 8/13/03 3:30 PM, Warren 'Llama' Ernst wrote:
The IW2 is also very prone to paper jams and misfeeds compared to the IW1...
Mailing labels are particularly prone to unstick themselves from their=
backing when you roll them backwards to align the next sticker with the=
next print job, and get
Is there anywhere I can buy any documentation concerning OS 6 and/or 7? I
would like to have them on hand as I learn them. Are they part of the
machines manuals by chance? Or separate documents?
Thanks again!
Scott
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Scott Howe wrote:
Can someone explain to me how disc tools image file works? And in side of my
performer, there appears to be two slots where it appears RAM would go that
are empty, yet, to the side, is what looks like an onboard stick. Is this
RAM or ROM?
Thanks again...
I cannot WAIT to get 6
On 8/7/03 1:16 AM, J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. Into what Mac is it going?
2. When it's downloaded, is it copied as a disk image after unstuffing?
3. What's the white screen of death?
I've tried the installs on lotsa machines. No problems if it's done on the
right Mac.
--- Jules Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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If I plug a drive into the external SCSI
connector, how do I disable
termination on the host adapter - or is it automatic
on these machines?
It's automatic.
What SCSI ID does the host adapter live at, just
to avoid any conflicts...
--- Dan Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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No big deal. None of them endanger anyone -- until
now. The city has
threatened to issue an arrest warrant and fine me
because of some broken cement,
Let me guess, you're required to have a sidewalk,
which you are then taxed for having (on
--- Michelle Klein-Hass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
PS: I wonder if a modem cable can be used to adapt a
serial Palm cradle to an
old-school Mac serial port?
Don't see why not, unless the TX and RX lines would
need swapped, but that's not hard to do with a
patch box or a double ended housing
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