On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 03:30 PM, John Niven wrote:
Now this got me thinking - why can I only use 8MB of program RAM? It's
called 24 bit addressing, but 2 to the power of 24 is a 16M address
space.
I also have a Classic II that has 10MB of RAM (2MB on the motherboard,
and two 4MB
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I use 68k macs because I just feel more at home with
them. I am used
to them. They same simple to troubleshoot, are
dependable,
I've found my Turbo 601 upgraded IIci to be a much
less twitchy computer than my Radius 81/110,
which itself
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just picked up a CD/Maxtet 700 CD ROM Tower. It's
got 7 CD ROMS and is
marked as a file server. A SCSI device, it hooks to
any Mac from an SE/30 to
an early PPC. Maybe newer, too, but it's got 4x
speed CD's.
LEM has an OEM version of FWB CD-ROM
--- Powermac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whats a good cheap sound card for a mac IIfx?
All there ever was in the cheap end was the Media
Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16 or PAS16. The drivers
fail to work right above System 7.5.3, IIRC.
As for the much higher (priced) end, Digidesign was
a big player
I've found my Turbo 601 upgraded IIci to be a much
less twitchy computer than my Radius 81/110,
which itself is far less troublesome than my 7300/200.
Every time I do _anything_ to the 7300 I find myself
having to do a clean OS reinstall. Had it going good
then dropped in a USB 1.1 card and
I've just confirmed that my Classic II, running OS 6.0.8L, has a
total memory of 10,240KB, the largest free block is 9,102KB, Finder
uses 160KB, while the system uses 978KB. Does this elevate the
Classic II from Road Apple status as a OS 6 machine? :-)
In my book no Mac that can run system 6
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:10 pm, Marten van de Kraats replied
Gregg Eshelman wrote:
I've found my Turbo 601 upgraded IIci to be a much
less twitchy computer than my Radius 81/110,
which itself is far less troublesome than my 7300/200.
Every time I do _anything_ to the 7300 I find myself
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From: Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Vintage Macs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: vintage quality
The 7300 belongs to the generation of mac products I avoid. A
colleague of mine has a 5500 black all-in-one
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:40 am, Powermac wrote:
I find my 7500 and 8500 to be reliable, that would be in the generation you
consider problematic.
Not what you have but the way you use it. :) It's a mighty big slice of the
apple to class as lemons.
OpenOffice1.10 runs well so far on both the
Phil Marlow here- Long time listener, Second time writer.
I personally hate the early PPC's. I have both a 7200/90 (Slow), and a
4400/160 (European - Probably one of the worst macs ever built) which
has made me bitter. The 4400 in particular drives me up the wall. It is
painfully slow to boot
on 8/19/03 4:53 PM, Darren at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stick with macs boys, they're made for you.
I've got one sound card that needs enteries like Jeff has described only
to run on win3.11 or dos.
Fascinating. All, newer integrated machines have components installed and
tuned at the
on 8/19/03 9:54 PM, Powermac at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whats a good cheap sound card for a mac IIfx?
That Mac has built-in sound. No card necessary.
Jeff
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on 8/19/03 10:11 PM, John Niven at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've just confirmed that my Classic II, running OS 6.0.8L, has a total
memory of 10,240KB, the largest free block is 9,102KB, Finder uses
160KB, while the system uses 978KB. Does this elevate the Classic II
from Road Apple status as
OpenOffice1.10 runs well so far on both the quad and the 7300, might have to
ask Gregg about this source for apple 10/100 nics though. Well the bits I've
tried have so far. :)
Ah. OpenOffice. But that reeks of linux. Or what? Linux might run
pretty well on those machines, contrary to the Mac OS.
on 8/20/03 1:36 AM, Gregg Eshelman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just picked up a CD/Maxtet 700 CD ROM Tower. It's
got 7 CD ROMS and is
marked as a file server. A SCSI device, it hooks to
any Mac from an SE/30 to
an early PPC. Maybe newer, too, but
on 8/20/03 6:40 AM, Powermac at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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From: Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Vintage Macs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: vintage quality
The 7300 belongs to the generation of mac
I've got a nice Mac IIci.
I've also got 128MB of RAM and [snip].
I've loaded this with OS 6.0.8. It all seems to work fine, and FAST!
Except that with 128MB of RAM it takes a long time to start-up (memory
test?).
Yes it's a long memory test with 128MB of RAM. The only way that I know of
to avoid
Curious indeed. I have a pair of 6500/225 towers I use for rough work; never
given me a bit of trouble. Most everyday work I do on my mighty Powerbooks,
the 190cs and 5300c, likewise trouble free. All running OS 8.6.
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From: J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Vintage Macs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: IIfx sound card
on 8/19/03 9:54 PM, Powermac at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whats a good cheap sound card for a mac IIfx?
That Mac
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From: J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Vintage Macs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: vintage quality
I'm agreeing with this poster, here. I've had a Performa 6400, 6500;
6100's,
7100, 7300 I'm now using, 8500 they've
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 01:35:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've found my Turbo 601 upgraded IIci to be a much
less twitchy computer than my Radius 81/110,
which itself is far less troublesome than my 7300/200.
Whoa!?! I had a Turbo601 for a few years (I wrote the article
At 2:19 PM +0200 8/20/03, Marten van de Kraats wrote:
I've just confirmed that my Classic II, running OS 6.0.8L, has a
total memory of 10,240KB, the largest free block is 9,102KB,
Finder uses 160KB, while the system uses 978KB. Does this elevate
the Classic II from Road Apple status as a OS 6
At 9:43 AM -0800 8/20/03, J.S. Garrison wrote:
on 8/20/03 1:36 AM, Gregg Eshelman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just picked up a CD/Maxtet 700 CD ROM Tower. It's
got 7 CD ROMS and is
marked as a file server. A SCSI device, it hooks to
any Mac from
How did you get OpenOffice running on those boxes? I thought there was
only an OS X version? I'd love to have OpenOffice on som eof my older
hardware.
Peace,
Todd
On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 10:15 AM, Sque wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:40 am, Powermac wrote:
I find my 7500 and 8500 to
I've just confirmed that my Classic II, running OS 6.0.8L, has a
total memory of 10,240KB, the largest free block is 9,102KB, Finder
uses 160KB, while the system uses 978KB. Does this elevate the Classic
II from Road Apple status as a OS 6 machine? :-)
In my book no Mac that can run
Go on eBay and get your self an Audio Media II card by Digidesign. It is a
NuBus card and has stereo RCA Analog inputs and outputs along with RCA
Stereo SPDIF Digital outputs. The sound quality is excelent as it can do
48Khz sample rate (the DAT standard) If you get one I can provide the
drivers.
Go on eBay and get your self an Audio Media II card by Digidesign.
There's one today on the swap list (and one yesterday?).
-Bruce
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From: Powermac [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: IIfx sound card
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From: J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Vintage Macs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday,
And to keep things on topic, I STILL run back to my accelerated IIci and
Quadra 700 for that 68k feeling.
I must be a 68k elitist since my 68k collection consists of a IIfx, 840av,
and a 950/AWS.
He he he. An accelerated IIci can be faster than a 840 av. One of
those turbo 040 cards for the
That Mac has built-in sound. No card necessary.
I was hoping for stereo sound, plus sound input would be nice so I can use
the videospigot card I have in the corner.
The built-in sound is stereo.
Are you looking for something like this?
Forget it. 6.08L probably won't install on it anyway. See gamba's
system 6 page for ideas on how to deal with to much memory or setup
a ram disk and make your mac fly.
I don't know about the L but 6.0.8 should install on a IIci, or at
least 6.0.7 will.
Of course 6.0.8 will run on it, so will
The LC/LCII/ClassicII-type Macs had some special mojo put in the memory
controller/ROM setup to enable them to see 10 MB, rather than the usual 8
that most System 6-capable Macs see under 24-bit addressing.
Jutso
If 7.1 was installed on LC/LCII/ClassicII-type Macs, and if memory control
panel was
Once upon a time there was some software that would let you use up
to 14Mb on a IIci and others of that vintage. It did it by snagging
the space normally allocated to NuBus slots
Anyone know anything about this?
Marten
Forget I asked. He was of course talking about maxima.
Marten
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Phil Marlow wrote:
Someone on here has their clock set to August 2004 and it's screwing up my
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--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ya Know.. I HAVE FWB, and couldn't get it to
mount any CD in any slot
even after following the maker's directions. I have
TFM in PDF, and read
it, and it makes it all seem like a walk, but it
won't play with me.
Try the CD-ROM Toolkit (with
J.S. Garrison wrote:
Fascinating. All, newer integrated machines have components installed and
tuned at the factory to work in the system. If you see the listname, you'll
glean I'm talking same-era machines. I'm a semi-non-profit. I resurrect both
Vintage Macs and Vintage PC's. My line of
Marten van de Kraats wrote:
Ah. OpenOffice. But that reeks of linux. Or what? Linux might run pretty
well on those machines, contrary to the Mac OS.
No Marten, MacOS 7.1 and 9.1. Wont work on sys6 for obvious reasons.
Of course it reeks of flipping Linux, it was ported to OSX. Like many
things
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