Old Mac stuff

2004-01-06 Thread Vanessa Stern
I have a bunch of old Mac software and hardware that I am looking to get rid of. I have no idea of the value of some of these items and am only looking for reasonable offers. Is it OK to post a list here? Thanks, Vanessa -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small

Re: Macintosh IIci troubles

2004-01-06 Thread Daniel Kendell
Anyone here know what is going on? I have exactly that problem :-( When I asked the list last time everyone was going on about capacitors on the motherboard, but I think its something more simple like the PSU. Anyways long story short, I'm getting a new PSU for it very soon. I'll let you know

LCIII problems

2004-01-06 Thread Vanessa Stern
I have an LCIII that won't boot up. I don't get the flashing question mark, I get a message that says The startup disk will not work on this Macintosh model. Use the latest installer to update this disk for this model. I can get it to book up using the system tools disk, but cannot access the

Re: LCIII problems

2004-01-06 Thread Vanessa Stern
I should have said that the update to 7.6.1 was done over 4 years ago and the machine has run flawlessly up to now. The internal drive has been getting noisier over time. I think the problem began when we had a brief power outage, so maybe something was screwed up when the power came back on.

Re: LCIII problems

2004-01-06 Thread Mark Benson
On Jan 6, 2004, at 07:35 pm, Vanessa Stern wrote: I should have said that the update to 7.6.1 was done over 4 years ago and the machine has run flawlessly up to now. The internal drive has been getting noisier over time. I think the problem began when we had a brief power outage, so maybe

Re: LCIII problems

2004-01-06 Thread Darren
Vanessa Stern wrote: I should have said that the update to 7.6.1 was done over 4 years ago and the machine has run flawlessly up to now. The internal drive has been getting noisier over time. I think the problem began when we had a brief power outage, so maybe something was screwed up when the

Re: LCIII problems

2004-01-06 Thread John Niven
On Tuesday, January 6, 2004, at 01:26 PM, Darren wrote: I must ask what is the wrong version of 7.6.1, I mean if it ran this system before it can't be a ppc version so what other wrong version of 7.6.1 can it be? I wrote that before Vanessa revealed that the OS 7.6.1 installation was done over

Re: LCIII problems

2004-01-06 Thread Darren
John Niven wrote: I wrote that before Vanessa revealed that the OS 7.6.1 installation was done over 4 years ago and the machine has run flawlessly up to now. :-) Older OS versions would either let you do an easy instal or customize. If you choose customize you get a list a Macs that you could

Re: Macintosh IIci troubles

2004-01-06 Thread Terence Dennis Sherman
Well, a toothbrush to the motherboard seems to have solved it, as it has been running for a few hours now without any problems save one: the sound does not work. Not even a chime on boot-up (it didn't work befor either, I just didn't mention it). I can't even get sound out of external speakers.