Re: Uncooperative LC

2004-10-18 Thread J. Garrison
On Monday, October 18, 2004, at 11:03 AM, pcsolutions wrote: In reply to Philip Stortz. It boots just fine from the hard disk now, but it emits a wailing noise from the speaker which varies with the spinning of the floppy drive, even with the case on and all the screening in place. It's not reall

Re: new to the list

2004-10-18 Thread Sherman Chen
I have a Mac IIci with a Sonnet Presto 040 card (Sonnet is dumping them on ebay - got mine for $20, but it'll run you $100 at their website) and a Radius video card, ethernet card. I use it to play games :) Sherman On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:28:30 -0400, Thomas Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > He

Re: new to the list

2004-10-18 Thread Thomas Burns
Here's a thought.. can an old Mac IIci with an Sonnet Presto 040 80/40 run [EMAIL PROTECTED] It would be rediculously slow, but at least it'd be productive. I see that the minimum requiremts are 32mb of ram, system 7.5.5 and a power pc processor. Anyone doing this? Thomas - Original Message

Re: new to the list

2004-10-18 Thread Norbert van Bemmel
>Third question, does anyone have their old Macson a PC LAN? I've got a couple PCs >hooked up to DSL through a router. What can you do with an old Mac if you stick it on >a network like this? Can you use it as a fileserver for the PCs? > You can easily hook it up to the internet as well, and fire

Fwd: StyleWriter

2004-10-18 Thread Ian Nixon
I definitely will try this, though. Ian -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac

Re: StyleWriter

2004-10-18 Thread Ian Nixon
Hey Gregg... It's not that it jams on anything...it prepares the cartridge to print, then just when it's about to print, the error and power lights come on. Sorry, I should have been more specific. Ian On Oct 17, 2004, at 10:50 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: --- Ian Nixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok

Re: Uncooperative LC

2004-10-18 Thread pcsolutions
In reply to Philip Stortz. Thankyou for your expertise. The battery seems to be alright until I come by a replacement (fingers crossed). I had previously tried booting from floppy with the HD power cable disconnected, then reconnecting it but when, as you suggested I do the same with the data cabl

Re: Problems with a LC II

2004-10-18 Thread Ken
My Reply follows quote. On 18/10/2004 10:31 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Hi I am new to the list and I could use some help. I >am a mac newbie and I have just aquired a LC II and >when it powers up I hear the chime, but the screen >just stays white and never finishes starting up. No >'happy mac' i

Problems with a LC II

2004-10-18 Thread Jonathan Frazier
Hi I am new to the list and I could use some help. I am a mac newbie and I have just aquired a LC II and when it powers up I hear the chime, but the screen just stays white and never finishes starting up. No 'happy mac' icon no 'floppy X' icon. Just nothing. Does anyone have any ideas of what m