Re: vintage mac on ebay

2005-12-08 Thread Liam Proven
for the Ethernet card and SCSI CD... (In London, England.) -- Liam Proven · http://livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=lproven AOL/AIM/iChat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · MSN/Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · Skype: liamproven · ICQ: 73187508 Gmail/Google Talk/Orkut: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Problems Copying To and From Floppies

2005-12-07 Thread Liam Proven
... that's why 7.5.4 and 7.5.5 existed! -- Liam Proven · http://livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=lproven AOL/AIM/iChat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · MSN/Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · Skype: liamproven · ICQ: 73187508 Gmail/Google Talk/Orkut: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Vintage Macs

Re: Problems Copying To and From Floppies

2005-12-07 Thread Liam Proven
... Whatever gave you that impression? Why would anyone bump a minor version number - *twice* - in their flagship product, and make the result freely available at no charge, for non-essential reasons? -- Liam Proven · http://livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=lproven AOL/AIM/iChat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · MSN

Re: Dead IIsi

2005-10-15 Thread Liam Proven
On 05/10/05, Jeff Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 02:25:15 +0100 From: Liam Proven [EMAIL PROTECTED] The power /cable/ is known to be good. No idea about the PSU but it becomes slightly warm if left connected overnight. I have no other similar Macs to swap parts

Dead IIsi

2005-10-03 Thread Liam Proven
for this old girl? (Unless anyone wants a free dead Mac IIsi in the London area.) -- Liam Proven · http://livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=lproven AOL/AIM/iChat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · MSN/Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · Skype: liamproven · ICQ: 73187508 -- Vintage Macs

Re: Dead IIsi

2005-10-03 Thread Liam Proven
have a 6100, 2 LC475s, a (dead) Classic II, a 7300/166, a Beige G3 and an old Powerbook - possibly a 145, I forget. Nothing I can swap PSUs or logic boards in and out from, though, I don't think. -- Liam Proven · http://livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=lproven AOL/AIM/iChat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · MSN

Re: Mac Plus

2005-09-30 Thread Liam Proven
was the error message? Do you have any non-Apple drive setup utilities to use? If not, do you want some? -- Liam Proven · http://livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=lproven AOL/AIM/iChat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · MSN/Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · Skype: liamproven · ICQ: 73187508

Re: Mac Plus

2005-09-29 Thread Liam Proven
issues that might crop up. -- Liam Proven · http://livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=lproven AOL/AIM/iChat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · MSN/Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · Skype: liamproven · ICQ: 73187508 -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: Turbo Mouse

2005-09-22 Thread Liam Proven
mice connected to a D9 RS232 serial port. Although wired differently, Atari ST mice also used the same or similar connector the Commodore Amiga used something resembling a PC joystick port (IIRC). -- Liam Proven · http://livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=lproven AOL/AIM/iChat: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: forcing macos to boot (or a lesson from the school of hard knocks... take your pick)

2005-09-20 Thread Liam Proven
a Windows PC running MacDrive or something, a Linux machine with the right extensions in the kernel, a BeOS box, in theory a PC running OS X86, or various others. -- Liam Proven · http://livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=lproven AOL/AIM/iChat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · MSN/Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Dead Mac IIsi

2005-09-20 Thread Liam Proven
. -- Liam Proven · http://livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=lproven AOL/AIM/iChat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · MSN/Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · Skype: liamproven · ICQ: 73187508 -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp

Re: Free bits

2005-09-16 Thread Liam Proven
On 16/09/05, Allan Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got any ancient copies of FileMaker? Don't /think/ so, but I'll look... -- Liam Proven · http://livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=lproven AOL/AIM/iChat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · MSN/Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · Skype

Re: Free bits

2005-09-16 Thread Liam Proven
on the IIci, would be greatly welcomed! According to http://lowendmac.com/ii/iici.shtml ... The IIci will only run up to 7.6.1, altho' as Manual Jorge says, you might get somewhere with BornAgain. -- Liam Proven · http://livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=lproven AOL/AIM/iChat: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Free bits

2005-09-15 Thread Liam Proven
of this, I fear. Happy enough to post to Europe or wherever if you're paying PP, though! -- Liam Proven · http://livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=lproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 · Mob: +44 7939-087884 · Fax: +44 870 1271528 AOL/AIM/iChat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · MSN/Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: [EMAIL

Re: Free: Macs LC3 and LC475, with modems. Suitable for charity.

2005-09-13 Thread Liam Proven
On 07/09/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I live in Peterborough (Cambs., UK) and have several 68030 Macs to give away. Forwarded on to a couple of mates of mine in Peterboro'. -- Liam Proven · http://livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=lproven AOL/AIM/iChat: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: stupid question?

2005-08-22 Thread Liam Proven
need's some floppies. If you have enough RAM, tho', I'd strongly recommend 8.1 - it has some really nice tweaks. -- Liam Proven Home: http://welcome.to/liamsweb * Blog: http://lproven.livejournal.com AOL, Yahoo UK: liamproven * ICQ: 73187508 * MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Vintage Macs is sponsored

Re: new mac names designations

2005-07-12 Thread Liam Proven
. -- Liam Proven Home: http://welcome.to/liamsweb * Blog: http://lproven.livejournal.com AOL, Yahoo UK: liamproven * ICQ: 73187508 * MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon

Re: Oh my....... Intel CPU's???

2005-06-09 Thread Liam Proven
? A handwritten letter? -- Liam Proven Home: http://welcome.to/liamsweb * Blog: http://lproven.livejournal.com AOL, Yahoo UK: liamproven * ICQ: 73187508 * MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win

Re: FW: Best said reference yet [Re: Oh my....... Intel CPU's???]

2005-06-09 Thread Liam Proven
On 6/9/05, Andre Skarzynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Here is an interesting piece a friend forwarded to me. Very scary... Facinating! That's a parallel I just drew in a discussion on CIX... -- Liam Proven Home: http://welcome.to/liamsweb * Blog: http://lproven.livejournal.com AOL, Yahoo

Re: Oh my....... Intel CPU's???

2005-06-09 Thread Liam Proven
AmigaOne and Pegasos. Now... no chance. Apple was the high-profile sponsor. When it goes, PPC is dead in the water. -- Liam Proven Home: http://welcome.to/liamsweb * Blog: http://lproven.livejournal.com AOL, Yahoo UK: liamproven * ICQ: 73187508 * MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Vintage Macs

Re: Oh my....... Intel CPU's???

2005-06-09 Thread Liam Proven
and prosper, like saplings in the forest clearing left by the fall of a giant. It will be interesting! -- Liam Proven Home: http://welcome.to/liamsweb * Blog: http://lproven.livejournal.com AOL, Yahoo UK: liamproven * ICQ: 73187508 * MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http

Re: Oh my....... Intel CPU's???

2005-06-06 Thread Liam Proven
. One ISA to rule them all, one ISA to find them; one ISA to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. -- Liam Proven Home: http://welcome.to/liamsweb * Blog: http://lproven.livejournal.com AOL, Yahoo UK: liamproven * ICQ: 73187508 * MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http

Re: Oh my....... Intel CPU's???

2005-06-06 Thread Liam Proven
think they're doomed now. Pegasos, AmigaOne, Tera - and maybe, longterm, IBM itself. -- Liam Proven Home: http://welcome.to/liamsweb * Blog: http://lproven.livejournal.com AOL, Yahoo UK: liamproven * ICQ: 73187508 * MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com

Re: Hosting on the web.

2005-05-09 Thread Liam Proven
/keyboardless (As in a hosting server colocation environment, for an instance?) Good question! I have no idea. Try it and see, I can't see how it would do any harm! -- Liam Proven Home: http://welcome.to/liamsweb * Blog: http://lproven.livejournal.com AOL, Yahoo UK: liamproven * ICQ: 73187508 * MSN

Re: IIsi weak sound

2005-05-02 Thread Liam Proven
! -- Liam Proven Home: http://welcome.to/liamsweb * Blog: http://lproven.livejournal.com AOL, Yahoo UK: liamproven * ICQ: 73187508 * MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon

Re: IIsi weak sound

2005-05-02 Thread Liam Proven
and the plug on the motherboard. This can usually be fixed by cleaning and coating the contacts on the motherboard with electrical cleaner and lubricant. Uhuh. Suggestion. Reread the original message. Note the part that specified that the problem also occurred when listening through headphones. -- Liam

Re: newbie

2005-04-27 Thread Liam Proven
run much. With RAMdoubler, the machine thinks it has 20MB and is fine - and faster than when using VM. -- Liam Proven Home: http://welcome.to/liamsweb * Blog: http://lproven.livejournal.com AOL, Yahoo UK: liamproven * ICQ: 73187508 * MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http

Re: Iigs info?

2005-04-24 Thread Liam Proven
', and an old Mac will format the floppies for you. Those machines are pretty rare and somewhat collectible. I'd go for it like a *shot* if I were you! -- Liam Proven Home: http://welcome.to/liamsweb * Blog: http://lproven.livejournal.com AOL, Yahoo UK: liamproven * ICQ: 73187508 * MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: IIci RAM upgrade

2005-04-03 Thread Liam Proven
is faster than required. Usually, faster is OK, it's slower that is a problem. Suck it and see. -- Liam Proven Home: http://welcome.to/liamsweb * Blog: http://lproven.livejournal.com AOL, Yahoo UK: liamproven * ICQ: 73187508 * MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http

Re: A weak computing site-

2005-03-29 Thread Liam Proven
are welcome, but do remember, my html is awful and it shows. This is more of a little hobby. Neat little site! I like the SE HD replacement - I did that on my Classic II, replacing a flakey 80M with a rock-solid but non-Apple 200M. And yes, I was sweating around the CRT, too. -- Liam Proven Home

Re: Quadra 840 AV vs. 601 Pmacs

2005-03-21 Thread Liam Proven
Quadra 840AV a couple of weeks ago I'm gutted. After getting back into classic Macs recently while refurbishing a bunch of old machines for friends, I want to assemble a kick-ass 68K Mac, just for fun, and the 840 was the fastest ever... -- Liam Proven Home: http://welcome.to/liamsweb * Blog: http

Searching for a driver for an ancient PDS slot Ethernet card

2005-03-16 Thread Liam Proven
red, just next to the BNC connector SONIC DP83932BVF chip Numbers on components side: 480E P/N:05-01-0087-02 On rear side: MADE IN TAIWAN R.O.C. S/N 0X005654 I have looked on Google with no success. Anyone got any ideas? I'm running out of them here... -- Liam Proven Home: http://welcome.to

Re: Searching for a driver for an ancient PDS slot Ethernet card

2005-03-16 Thread Liam Proven
networking protocols are to use ethernet. Oh really? That's odd. The machine has 36MB of RAM and is running MacOS 8.1 but as far as I could tell there was no sign it knew it had Ethernet. I'll try again! Thanks for the tip! -- Liam Proven Home: http://welcome.to/liamsweb * Blog: http

Re: Searching for a driver for an ancient PDS slot Ethernet card

2005-03-16 Thread Liam Proven
. I'll have another look... -- Liam Proven Home: http://welcome.to/liamsweb * Blog: http://lproven.livejournal.com AOL, Yahoo UK: liamproven * ICQ: 73187508 * MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: 400k disks

2005-03-16 Thread Liam Proven
in a SS drive. The tape-over-the-hole trick can work, but the magnetic coercivity of HD disks is different. Not all drives will format them and they might not last long if they do. I'm starting to hoard DD disks for vintage kit... -- Liam Proven Home: http://welcome.to/liamsweb * Blog: http

Re: Mac 512 and LaserWriter IIg questions

2005-03-08 Thread Liam Proven
and 2 SCSI hard disks. Even it will be a challenge. So I guess just wanting to *is* a good enough reason...) -- Liam Proven Home: http://welcome.to/liamsweb * Blog: http://lproven.livejournal.com AOL, Yahoo UK: liamproven * ICQ: 73187508 * MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Vintage Macs is sponsored

Re: Mac 512 and LaserWriter IIg questions

2005-03-07 Thread Liam Proven
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 17:12:00 -0500, Thomas Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My first question is, can you put a web server on a Mac 512k/e? It's been done. Go visit http://aurejac.dyndns.org/ -- Liam Proven Home: http://welcome.to/liamsweb * Blog: http://lproven.livejournal.com AOL, Yahoo UK

Re: Mac SE/30

2005-02-11 Thread Liam Proven
it.now where did I put my copy of Neko. I live in fear of that on my Classic II, so I run the Pyro screensaver. Works fine even on System 6 and it's tiny. On all the old Mac sites, like Gamba's... -- Liam Proven Home: http://welcome.to/liamsweb * Blog: http://lproven.livejournal.com AOL, Yahoo