Macs For Kids

Hi All, I just wanted to make it known to the community that I have started a program called Macs For Kids. Essentially what this is is a program whereby I take in donations of mostly older Macs, but, of course, any Mac will be appreciated, and refurbish it for sale to caretakers of young children

Re: SCSI HD settings.

John, According to the Maxtor site, Termination Power ensures a sufficient level of power on the bus. It is recommended that the last device installed have this enabled. It states that all other devices between the host and the last device have this turned off. Active termination is more robust th

Re: SCSI HD settings

>I'm trying t o work out how to set up a 2GB HD to go into a IIci. The >drive in question has a option to force SCSI 1 operation. Should I do >this? >Also it has active terminators, which can be on or off, and can supply >the termination power, or not. >Does the IIci supply term power to it's SCSI

Re: SCSI HD settings.

On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 08:31 PM, John Niven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying t o work out how to set up a 2GB HD to go into a IIci. The drive in question has a option to force SCSI 1 operation. Should I do this? Try without the SCSI 1 option. SCSI 2 and later should work fine with t

Re: SCSI HD settings.

> > Nobody knows anything? :-( > > Somebody must know. > > You guys are just holding out on me :-) > > Tried it with Termination ON but not connected to the SCSI bus. Got a > sad Mac. > > Help.. > > John > > Hi John, Really don't know also, but you should maybe have a look at the siz

Re: SCSI HD settings.

On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 02:24 PM, John Niven wrote: Hi all, I'm trying t o work out how to set up a 2GB HD to go into a IIci. The drive in question has a option to force SCSI 1 operation. Should I do this? Also it has active terminators, which can be on or off, and can supply the term

Re: Update on LEM finances

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Re: Update on LEM finances

on 8/25/03 7:21 AM, Dan Knight at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The Mac community has been more than generous in its support of Low End > Mac. > > I remain overwhelmed at the generosity of the Mac community. I send out > lots of thank you emails each day, and twice I've gone to the bank with > hug

Re: broken apple cd sc plus

At 11:34 PM +0200 8/22/03, Marten van de Kraats wrote: The apple cd sc plus I picked up today does not work. The tray won't pop out. The curious design makes it impossible to just pop in another cd player because head phone port and the cd eject button are not built into the cd but are put on a

Re: DHCP server and MacTCP

At 3:32 PM -0700 8/22/03, John Niven wrote: So if you want to go backwards in OS time you have to ignore Open Transport and use MacTCP. How do you (if at all) configure MacTCP so that you can join the modern world (my workplace) that uses a DHCP server? Last place I worked I managed to get my M

Update on LEM finances

The Mac community has been more than generous in its support of Low End Mac. In ten days, we have lined up a buyer for our TiBook, have some promising leads for selling our two 333 MHz Rev. D iMacs, and have received donations covering over $5,000 of our roughly $6,000 debt load. For the first

Re: AOL for Classic II (+ AOL rant, FREE!)

on 8/26/03 7:06 AM, GaryC at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > on 8/22/03 9:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> In a message dated 8/22/2003 10:18:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >>> I used MacWWW some time back on my Classic. AOL 2.something was a >>>

Re: slightly OT: i have a new toy too

on 8/22/03 2:31 PM, iriXx at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > and its very scary... > > i found some Furbies in the local charity shop today. > > apparently they have a 6502 processor, that was used in the Apple ][, as > well as the Vic20 and C64. > > you can communicate with these things via the IR

Re: AOL for Classic II (+ AOL rant, FREE!)

on 8/22/03 9:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 8/22/2003 10:18:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> I used MacWWW some time back on my Classic. AOL 2.something was a >> floppy that you used to connect and get a newer browser, but as

OT: A G6? Re: vintage quality

--- Steve Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -> I know Mac users who drool over each new speed > bump of the Mac CPU. I > know people who, despite the G5 being released > recently, are wanting either > a speed bumped G5 (an increase in MHz) or the G6 to > be released haste post haste. Heh! There

Re: vintage quality

system 7.6.1 is flawless, and easy to maintain. Like you say, Norton of that era does a great job of keeping it up and running like a charm (and an occasional desktop rebuilding). That is exactly my problem. I don't find it normal that one needs to keep an OS a float with Norton. IN my office I h

Re: vintage quality

On 8/24/03 6:13 PM, "Steve Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -> Funny, I ran 7.5 and had no major issues. Most of my Macs have 7.5.5 on > them (the 5260/100 has 7.5.1 while the compacts have various OSes) and I > rarely encounter issues I cannot deal with (ie they require a reboot and > then se

Re: vintage quality

Jeff wrote: >It wasn't until the Mac decided to use more PC-oriented components that it's >been REALLY problematic. -> I was not a happy man when Apple went with IDE over SCSI as it limited the machine. Plus I never did get that whole Master/Slave thingie. >I own a bunch of old Macs. -> I do to

Re: vintage quality

>The word 'performa' alone makes me sick. -> I laughed at this as my first Mac was a Performa 405. Aside from the RAM limit (which I learned to deal with), it ran and still runs perfectly. I also have a Performa 450 (LC III) that I plan to get up and running. >I remember tolerating the constant c

Re: vintage quality

>on 03/8/19 3:27 AM, Darren at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> And these newer macs..Well? :( -> While I applaud Apple in their development & marketing of newer Macs, I can't help but think that the average consumer doesn't need all the bells and whistles they include with each machine.