Re: SE/30 5.25 External drive...

2006-01-02 Thread Michael
I will confirm, DO NOT plug it into your SE/30. You will fry the driver chip in the SE/30. Mike On Nov 3, 2005, at 21:26 , Nat Hall wrote: My Reply follows quote. On 03/11/2005 19:10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi guys... I got a hold of an external PC 5.25 floppy drive (A9M0110) with the

Re: Problems Copying To and From Floppies

2005-12-07 Thread Michael
My recollection, such as it is..., ( and don't ask me where I read this..) is that 7.5.5 was an update for open transport or some other system addition, and that for some computers, an SE/30 for example, 7.5.3 would be more suitable/stable if open transport was not required. Mike On Wednesd

Re: SE/30 5.25 External drive...

2005-11-04 Thread Michael
I seem to recall warnings that state don't use the Apple II 5.25" drive with any Macintosh. It will fry the floppy driver chip. Interestingly, the Mac Plus can daisy chain several external 3.5" floppy drives, but the SE/30 can only handle one. Mike On Thursday, November 3, 2005, at 07:45

Re: Free to a good home

2005-09-01 Thread Michael Amici
are those macs still avalible? how much do you think shipping would be? --- Mike Sloane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, not my dog. I have finally decided to clear out > the pile of old > Apple Macintosh machines that I have had for about > 12 years or so. I > tried to get them all working and u

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

2005-06-08 Thread Michael Hackett
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 20:53:07 -0400 (EDT) Nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I also don't get why anyone but a very tiny minority need a laptop > > faster than a G4. > > I have a friend who's a professional graphics artist and is completely > hampered by his 1Ghz G4 PowerBook when it comes to work

Re: Dayna ethernet

2005-06-08 Thread Michael Hackett
On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 18:55:16 +1000 Darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve wrote: > > >I don't have the Dayna driver... How can I get it? > > Intel's site. LOL, no really. He's right: I believe that's the file you're looking fo

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

2005-06-07 Thread Michael Hackett
feature of Classic. I've always stuck with OT on 7.5 and later, and I use static IPs. If it's just DHCP that's the problem, you could probably assign a single or block of static addresses on the router. -- Michael -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and...

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

2005-06-07 Thread Michael Hackett
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 10:55:08 -0400 "Powermac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think what makes a Mac a Mac is the tightly integrated OS used. My > favorite Macs are of course the 68k ones, back when Apple spent allot > of effort on hardware design and not just marketing. 68K's had a > decent GUI, ha

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

2005-06-07 Thread Michael Hackett
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 19:58:17 -0700 "dr7zyq" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The "rumor" was started by Steve Job's announcement, and, as I > understand it, has to do with the fact that Intel is leading the > industry in low power cpu's, allowing maximum time between charges on > laptop computers T

fixing bad hqx and sit files

2005-05-01 Thread Michael Amici
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system 7 stuffit

2005-04-17 Thread Michael Amici
is there any war to get a really early version of stuffit, somthing that would run on system 7.1 and decompress at least stuffit 1.2 and be avalible as an uncompressed .sea file -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | E

performa 200 fpu

2005-04-16 Thread Michael Amici
was the performa 200 fpu an apple product or made by a third party or both?, and if they were made by a third party which one? -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras

performa 200 system 6

2005-04-15 Thread Michael Amici
is the system 6 image on the classic II also avalible on the performa 200? i heard that the classic II and the performa 200 are basicly the same unit. is it possible that the performa 200 image (if it exists at all) is accessable by a different combination of keys on startup? -- Vintage Macs is s

performa 200 system 6

2005-04-15 Thread Michael Amici
is the system 6 image on the classic II also avalible on the performa 200? i heard that the classic II and the performa 200 are basicly the same unit. is it possible that the performa 200 image (if it exists at all) is accessable by a different combination of keys on startup? -- Vintage Macs is s

Re: Broadband over LocalTalk?

2004-11-06 Thread Michael Hackett
y hub; I get a steady flashing light with my 10/100 switch.) Cheers, -- Michael -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Sup

Re: Claris Emailer Lite

2004-10-12 Thread Michael Hackett
ersion has the same issues, but I would suspect so. I can, however, recommend Musashi as a great shareware email client for old Macs. -- Michael -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon

Re: Mac Spotting

2004-07-14 Thread Michael Day
as well as the Flat-screen iMacs in later editions of that same show. > > On 7/15/04 12:17 AM, "Michael Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> HiI've been following this thread and can't believe nobody's mentioned >> (2) mid-90's Block-Bust

Re: Mac Spotting

2004-07-14 Thread Michael Day
HiI've been following this thread and can't believe nobody's mentioned (2) mid-90's Block-Buster flicks that starred Macs in very prominent roles. The first would be: *Jurassic Park*, where the whole park was run by a Quadra 700 used by Dennis (aka...Newman). Watch closely and you'll see it sta

Re: Big Time Mac Spot

2004-07-13 Thread Michael Day
on 7/13/04 2:31 PM, Dale Hill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > John Kerry is a Mac man, big Time! Don't believe? Grab this week's > Time. It is worth the money for every Mac person in the US to buy > this week's Time, ... and gloat. Kerry doesn't have to worry about > viruses, tons of spam, and lots

Re: Apple IIg

2004-06-11 Thread Michael Hackett
10 here that was faster, with more memory, bigger hard drive, and better video, and I couldn't give it away! Go figure! I guess there's just something special about the classics. -- Michael -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp:

Re: Floppy drive revival

2004-06-02 Thread Michael Hackett
n I tried to reformat the disk on that drive, the formatting failed. That seems to indicate that it's having trouble writing too. :-( Is it possible to get replacement RW heads for these drives, if that is the problem? (Probably not cheaply.) -- Michael -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <htt

Floppy drive revival

2004-05-31 Thread Michael Hackett
uadra, that computer was in daily use up until a little over a year ago, and the floppy drive worked fine then. Any suggestions on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated. -- Michael P.S. If anyone is interested in any of these systems or drives, drop me a line. I'm just cleaning them u

Re: PowerMac 8100 CD Front's on a Quadra 840AV?

2004-05-29 Thread Michael Hackett
it crunched in the door. Less handling of the discs, too. Lots of good reasons. :-) (Are we far enough off topic, yet?) -- Michael -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot

TesT

2004-05-16 Thread Michael
If this shows up on the list then I have found my problem. Michael -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | S

Re: SuperMac Thunder II

2004-05-14 Thread Michael
le.com but can't remember. The Thunder II is either 8-bit or 24-bit. It will work if you install it, but you may need to hold the 'SpaceBar' down when you startup, to wake it up. It's been a couple of years since last I had to do anything with mine. Michael -

Re: email on vintage computers

2004-05-10 Thread Michael Hackett
vice.) Somewhere along the line they opened it up to other platforms, and eventually shrunk it back down to two (Mac & Windows). I bailed and switched to GEnie when the Apple II support started to wane. (I was using the IIgs client software.) -- Michael -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <ht

Re: External CD-ROM drive with vintage Macs

2004-05-10 Thread Michael Hackett
ough, then I'd probably start to suspect the cable too. Check the pins on the 25-pin end -- I've seen these bent or broken off occasionally. -- Michael -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter

Re: video card in IIsi

2004-05-10 Thread Michael Hackett
gh it =does= have a PDS pass-through port on it. I wonder what that would support? The manual doesn't say. Maybe if you got really creative and built a cable to extend the PDS slot... :-) -- Michael -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: video card in IIsi

2004-05-08 Thread Michael
ou'll have to use 7.1 or better on the IIsi to get it to work with the extensions and control panels. I could be wrong though, maybe just having the Radius files in the system file may fix your problem. Hope you get it working. Michael -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <

Re: IIsi questions

2004-05-05 Thread Michael
y be too cool for words. > That's the feeling I have when using the SE, eudora 1.3, and an external supra express 33.6, though I cheat, when using a hard drive. But... Still just to Cool for words. :)) Michael -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and...

Re: IIsi questions

2004-05-05 Thread Michael
sing an after market OS on a PC. :^) Michael -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lo

Re: Mac IIci

2004-05-05 Thread Michael
urs worth of dust, and dirty heads. Michael -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac

Re: Mac IIci

2004-05-04 Thread Michael Hackett
e a light in from outside.) The amount of dust that can accumulate in these things is astonishing sometimes! It might just need a good blowing out, and maybe a head cleaning. Try that before writing it off completely. -- Michael -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and...

Re: IIsi questions

2004-05-03 Thread Michael
on 05/02/2004 10:15 AM, A.Tuazon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > on 04/5/2 10:17 AM, Michael at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> on 05/02/2004 05:28 AM, A.Tuazon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > > Actually, the listed max RAM for the IIsi is only a guideline since the max

Re: IIsi questions

2004-05-02 Thread Michael
on 05/02/2004 05:28 AM, A.Tuazon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey folks, > > A few questions regarding my IIsi: > > 4) I loaded the IIsi to the max with RAM (64megs). I then installed > RamDoubler (an old copy) and doubled the RAM to 128MB. Would love to know what number is on the ROM stic

Re: Twin or Single SCSI Bus

2004-04-23 Thread Michael
Some will say NO NO NO put the internal boot drive on address '0', but with a SCSI chain the "main" boot drive should be the one nearest the system, and that is '6', because as we all know the system is '7', and it does not jump to '0' first, it l

Re: Twin or Single SCSI Bus

2004-04-22 Thread Michael
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Re: Ethernet for a Classic II

2004-04-21 Thread Michael Hackett
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:40:33 -0700 Clark Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 8:55 AM -0700 4/21/04, Timothy Virkkala wrote: > >LocalTalk Bridge doesn't allow TCP/IP? Hmmm. > > LTB will pass MacIP packets (IP inside AppleTalk packets) but it > won't convert them to IP over Ethernet. For that

Re: SSI NuBus Ethernet card

2004-04-09 Thread Michael
ducts support. That always disappoints. > > Is this what you call "phone net" ? No, 'Phone Net' plugs into the Printer port, and uses regular phone line to connect to each computer. Not Super Fast, but it works. Michael > -- Vintage Macs is sponso

Re: startup problems on IIsi

2004-04-09 Thread Michael
icks, but if someone has to have something, or just anything that will get there unit to start, I can send some 1mb sticks to that someone. As for the 72-pin sticks I've got too many starving Macs my self wanting more 72-pin SIMM's ;-) Michael -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by &

Re: Newbie: How to type an "@" on ADB keyboard?

2004-04-09 Thread Michael
e I missed the point? > > t > ADB keyboard has no @ on the Keyboard. Like the old keyboard for a Plus. Michael -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerSho

Re: startup problems on IIsi

2004-04-08 Thread Michael
on 04/06/2004 12:02 PM, John Niven at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Monday, April 5, 2004, at 10:51 PM, Michael wrote: >> What kind of RAM? Your best bet is 8 chips on each stick, not 2, 4 >> or 9. >Theoretically, they don't HAVE to be the same speed > (some c

Re: startup problems on IIsi

2004-04-07 Thread Michael
on 04/06/2004 12:02 PM, John Niven at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Monday, April 5, 2004, at 10:51 PM, Michael wrote: >> What kind of RAM? Your best bet is 8 chips on each stick, not 2, 4 >> or 9. >Theoretically, they don't HAVE to be the same speed > (some c

Re: startup problems on IIsi

2004-04-06 Thread Michael
errors. x00f x001 = The ROM checksum test failed. x00f x002 = The first Small chunk of RAM to be tested failed. (should be other numbers and or letters) Were there any other numbers or letters on the screen? Michael -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and...

Re: LC slot compatibility

2004-03-24 Thread Michael Hackett
to Open Transport after installation. I'm not sure what you could do on a later OS where Classic Networking was no longer available. (When was it removed? 7.6? 8?) -- Michael -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.sma

Re: LC slot compatibility

2004-03-19 Thread Michael Hackett
> With the above exception concerning some cards and the LC / LC II it > doesn't much matter which machine you use. Thanks, Clark and Gregg. I appreciate the confirmation. Cheers! -- Michael Bandwidth tax: I will be putting a couple of these cards on eBay, so to say thanks, if anyone he

LC slot compatibility

2004-03-18 Thread Michael Hackett
;t know how it would fare with other versions, or whether the Apple driver is optimal for this card. Thanks so much! -- Michael -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital

Re: Boot from CD

2003-11-12 Thread Michael Day
HiAs a denizen of both this list and the lem-swap list, I thought I'd mention that I have a good supply of both OS 7.5 and 7.5.3 OEM (generic) CDs at a very reasonable price. They are bootable and will install the OS on any Mac capable of using them. I don't go OT very often...but I remembe

Re: Boot from CD

2003-11-12 Thread Michael Day
on 11/11/03 10:50 PM, J.S. Garrison at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > on 11/11/03 8:40 PM, dquebbeman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Thanks, Chris... >> >> I wonder, was there such a thing as a factory CD with 7.5.5 or earlier? The >> earliest I've seen was 7.6 (which I can't get to run on the Mac

Re: Gray Scale SE30

2003-10-28 Thread Michael Day
on 10/28/03 9:52 PM, J.S. Garrison at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > on 10/28/03 9:46 PM, Michael Day at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> HiI'm a lurker on this list. I have a Micron Xceed color cardit is >> NOT a gray-scale but it worked very nicely with a 15"

Re: Gray Scale SE30

2003-10-28 Thread Michael Day
On 10/28/03 8:10 PM, "Bryan Kattwinkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 10/28/03 3:30 PM, jw wrote: > >> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2761729360&category=25436 > > Looks like the real thing. Demand far outstrips supply for these. I would > not be surprised if the bid price

Re: Test

2003-10-20 Thread Michael Day
Did I pass??? ;-) Crabola > From: "J.S. Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Vintage Macs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:06:44 -0700 > To: "Vintage Macs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Test > > > > > -- > Vintage Macs is sponsored by and.

Re: Need help with a CC's

2003-09-28 Thread Michael Day
:10:15 -0700 > To: "Vintage Macs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Need help with a CC's > > on 9/28/03 6:18 PM, Michael Day at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi thereI'm just re-subbing after a long tour in the Candy & Graphite >> Mac world.

Need help with a CC's

2003-09-28 Thread Michael Day
Hi thereI'm just re-subbing after a long tour in the Candy & Graphite Mac world. I have a large horde of sharp-screened CC's (20) and a pile of 550 and 575 mobo's(40) and want to build a bunch of Mystics to sell. I remember the "065 Enabler" but tried to configure a bunch of blank HD's in a Qua

Test

2003-09-28 Thread Michael Day
Sorry...this is a test -- 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: IIci problem

2003-03-31 Thread Michael Evenson
All 8 banks are populated > -Original Message- > From: Vintage Macs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > the pickle > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 5:29 PM > To: Vintage Macs > Subject: Re: IIci problem > > > At 09:11 -0500 on 31/03/03, Michael Evenson wrote:

Re: IIci problem

2003-03-31 Thread Michael Evenson
I have two of them and they both behave the same. They work fine as long as I do not use the Radius 8 24X card with it and the Radius Card works fine with out the cache card. I should also mention that The IIci also has a 3COM EtherLink card in it. It's the full length version. I've now also noted

IIci problem

2003-03-31 Thread Michael Evenson
Hi again, I miss-spoke in my last post. It is not an accelerator card that I'm using - it's a cache card. Sorry, Mike -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Came

IIci problem

2003-03-31 Thread Michael Evenson
Hi, I have just swapped my 4MB 30 pin SIMMs with 16MB SIMMs and now have 128MB in my IIci. Since doing that, it will not boot with both the 24X8 video card and IIci Accelerator card installed. If I pull either one of the two cards it boots fine. Question: Is there sufficient power in the I

Re: broken personal LW ntr - help!

2002-10-03 Thread Michael Gryba
You could source the parts yourself, the mark-up in the printer industry can be 100% or more for parts alone. Getting your hands on an working organ donor is probably the cheapest bet. I would recommend not spending money on a machine to be used for parts if it does not work on it's own consider

Re: sound files

2002-07-30 Thread Michael Gryba
>get it to say some of HALs quotes during startup and such, but it seems I >need either I need a form of quicktime that will run on a mac classic >running OS 7.5.3 on 4mb ram, or i need some way to dumb the files down ...and that won't work, because the Classic not only lacks Color Quickdraw in

sound files

2002-07-29 Thread Michael Gryba
First things first you sould know I was born and raised in PC country, I really didn't see a mac until I got my hands on a Mac classic, well i fell in love with it and have got myself alittle collection going now. my problem is that someone here posted a link to the "hacks" page of the applefritt

Re: It's not Hardware

2002-05-09 Thread Michael J Flaherty
> How well does mac on linux run for you ? Pretty well really. My only criticism would be that video is somewhat slower than on Mac OS. I have a Nexus 128, on which I have both acceleration and DRI working under Linux, so I guess that this is as good as it gets on my machine, at least for

Re: It's not hardware

2002-05-09 Thread Michael J Flaherty
On Thursday 09 May 2002 11:54, you wrote: > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 10:48:24 +1000 > From: Darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: It's not Hardware > > Michael J Flaherty wrote: > > > >YDL screams on it t

Re: So, the modem....

2002-04-10 Thread Michael Danieals
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:56:23 +0100 Mark Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have found a 56k USR FaxModem at a price I consider to be > approaching > reasonable that is supported in the Mac. It uses a standard CCL for > dial > question > is will it work wit OT/PPP in Sys 7.1? I have

Re: Virtual Girl

2002-04-01 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
James, If you haven't already sent it off to Jesse, could you put my email addy in the Cc: field? Iechyd Da, Andrew >Found it. > >984k stuffed. > >Let me know and I'll zap it to you. > -- <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< When are the "Adults" in this world going

Re: Origin....

2002-03-27 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
Mark Benson wrote: >I think my dad deserves a bottle of scotch for his efforts. Single Malt... May I suggest Glenlivet? Iechyd Da, Andrew -- <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< When are the "Adults" in this world going to grow up? <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <

Re: monitor cable questions

2002-03-27 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
Janet wrote: >...I am stopped in my tracks by the gaping >realization that this creature has no cord! >there at the back, where all my others have their own attached cords >coming out, sits a VGA sized female dongle, three rows of 5 holes, >staggered, mini D, and not a cord in the house to connec

Re: MacPayForIt

2002-03-27 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
pickle wrote: >Google still has most of the MacFixIt info in their cache, so if you need >something that you can't grab from the site, try Google. On that... Does anyone know... Does Google's cache expire after a certain period of time since pages were originally cached, or, since the last

Re: Please be careful not to quote *too much* of the original message

2002-03-27 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
>Come on now. . . . >and this is OT enough. I agree here with Mart, Mark, Darren & Paul... OT is OT. If someone has a story about how their '57 Chevy is the same, exact colour as their IIci that has been sitting in a smoke filled room for the past 10 years... That's an amusing anecdote & m

Re: Neotech IG24

2002-03-26 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
pickle wrote: >There are such things as 24-bit greyscale? I always thought most stuff >just used 8-bit for greyscale. Yes. 8 bit greyscale is standard. Even a 24 bit video card will not use more than 8 bits for greyscale. 8 bit is all that's necessary for 256 shades of grey, since the vide

Re: MicroTek E3 Scanner

2002-03-24 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
>On Sunday, March 24, 2002, at 03:30 AM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: > > > The DB15 is probably for a transparency adaptor or >> sheet feeder. I bet the DB25 is the SCSI in port >> and the CEN50 is supposed to be the daisy chain > > SCSI out port. (Or possibly the other way around.) Mark "nanny" Be

MicroTek E3 Scanner

2002-03-23 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
Hello All, Someone recently gave me a MicroTek E3 Scanner. I went to MicroTek's website & downloaded both the Mac & Windozer drivers for it. It seems to be working fine as a single SCSI device. Since it only has 1 Centronix connector, obviously I'd need to either make it the last devic

Re: The ever-popular PRAM question

2002-03-20 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
>yoyoyo wrote: > >Can you describe the "tack-soldered" procedure. Is that duel battery holder >with two 1.5 volts batt.. Of course it is? Tack soldering generally means, to lay a wire flat on a contact & solder it down, rather than wrapping it around a pin or inserting it into a cup before sold

NuBus->USB (was CD burning.....)

2002-03-19 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
Gregg Eshelman wrote: >A NuBus IDE card would be nice, but that would >require driver software and/or an onboard ROM to >support it. It would be nice. But, if someone is going to develop a card & drivers... Perhaps we should breathe some Life back into the NuBus->USB idea. A few things we'

Re: CD burning with ancient Macs (was: ZIP)

2002-03-19 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
Gregg Eshelman >I still haven't managed to burn a bootable Mac CD-R >using a System folder from a CD that will boot. > >I've tried making a Toast image then dragging a >System folder from an original CD that does boot then >adding other files I want on it. Burn it as "bootable" >but nope, won'

Re: CD burning with ancient Macs (was: ZIP)

2002-03-19 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
> >If you're burning CD->CD... You'll want to either set your burning >> speed considerably slower than your CD-ROM drive, or, use a HUGE RAM >> buffer. Mark Benson wrote: >Or, if you have a big enough hard disk, you could make an image of the >CD and stream it off the hard disk. This of

Re: The ever-popular PRAM question

2002-03-19 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
Ken Strayhorn wrote: >Hmmm, I know that PRAM batteries are marked "3.6 volt" >but these 3-volt batteries are half the price so I >thought I would ask the assembled experts - is this >a cheap solution, or would the .6 volt make all >the difference? There was discussion about this going around

Re: CD burning with ancient Macs (was: ZIP)

2002-03-18 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
Götz wrote: >You don't need lots of RAM for burning CDs with Toast. I used it with 16 >MB and it went fine in double speed. True. Toast defaults to a 2 Meg RAM buffer. So, as long as you're burning from a medium that's considerably faster than your burner... Hard drive, ZIP drive, FAST CD-ROM

Re: First timers LC hard drive installation

2002-03-18 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
pickle wrote: >Just grab the grey ribbon and pull straight back, hard. > > >That wide grey flat complicated cable looks fragile > >It's not :) As long as you pull with a steady, even pressure. Don't yank or jerk on the cable. If the connector is being stubborn, you can ease the cable sligh

Re: mac2ci scsi

2001-11-03 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
Steff wrote: >Could this be a matter of drive's speed? May be, the internal HD spins at >5400 rpm while the external-one at 7200 rpm, both configured to >auto-start? That wouldn't cause the problem. I've got a 7200 RPM Seagate drive in my IIci right now. I can hook an older 110 Meg (I forgot

Re: Nubus Ethernet

2001-11-03 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
Jesse Parkerton wrote: > More info, I didn't have any ethernet drivers instaled at all. I just >presumed OT 1.1.2 installed a mess of them by default. > I've added ethernet nb ext. Do I have the right driver? The asante >drivers seem to be for mactcp, but I thought the apple drivers

Re: Nubus Ethernet

2001-11-03 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
Jesse Parkerton wrote: > I just got two nubus ethernet cards for the IIci, but I am having some >problems. > > I am trying to fileshare with my PBG4, running 9.2.1. I had a similar problem trying to ethernet my IIci to a friend's iMac DV (OS 9.0). It wasn't a big problem, since I

Re: Apple IIgs

2001-11-03 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
Bertie wrote: >Where can I find manuals for this? >What troubleshooting do I need to perform on this (kinda cool) relic? >What are the uses for one of these nowadays, aside from collector's wanting >them? Unfortunately, Gamba's website, probably the best place for sourcing manuals, was force

Re: Question

2001-10-28 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
Steve Conrad wrote: >I have an ancient Rodime HD... > >After several tries I went the "Nuke >and Pave" route with APS PowerTools. > >Also, it said it would take 10 >minutes to format the HD but it took under 2 minutes for it to declare that >it was done. That's normal. APS is always ultra-conserv

Re: Radius fp monitor

2001-10-24 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
Isaac Fried wrote: >One more question. What does it take to connect a Radius full page(no >pivot) monitor to a Mac IIci(Mac IIcx, Mac IIsi)? IF Look around an eBay, or, the lem-swap list for a Radius NuBus Precision color card. I have one that came with my IIci, several years ago... It's on

Re: fixing screen scratches?

2001-10-24 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
>the pickle wrote: >> >> > > Sandpaper won't scratch glass. At least not normal sandpaper. Steve Merryman replied: >I find rather, that most sandpaper, will scratch most glass. Even >"dollar store" sandpaper. Perhaps the answer here is steel wool. If the scratches are in the coating, the ste

Re: Colour Mac Classic

2001-10-24 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
sstanley wrote: >That link only allows you to download the system update. The OS is not >available from apple. I don't really need OS 7.1 or else. Any OS that >would work on a Color Mac Classic would be fine. I sent you an off list link to a source for 7.1. If anyone else needs that sourc

Re: Apple MultiSyn 15" monitor help, again

2001-10-24 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
Jim Raper wrote: >4. I hooked up my working 15" MS monitor to his computer for a loan >until other arrangements could be made. > >5. No problem until late last week when after a freeze-up, he restarted >and got no monitor picture. >He has attempted to restart since then and still cannot get a moni

Re: Can any scsi Mac burn CDs?

2001-10-24 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
Josh wrote: >I would like to set up an old IIvx as a CD-R station. If I put in an 800 MB >hard drive and attach a scsi CD-R drive, would this work? I would read in a >cd I want to copy using the CD-R to the hard disk. I figure even a slow >hard drive can supply a CD-R drive with a 1x write spee

Re: Colour Mac Classic

2001-10-23 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
sstanley wrote: > I recently obtained a free Color Mac Classic. It was previously owned >owned by a school. Installed on it was the schools netwerk program which >instantly starts up when you boot. Unfortunately I cannot bypass this >program as I need the "administrators" password to do so. >

Re: Help

2001-10-23 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
Isaac Fried wrote: >I want to post a message(my very firs!). I typed it in simpletext then I >copied it. To send it I opend "reply" to a message I just got(LC V?...) and >pasted my pice on its blank. Then I presses the "Send" button and my >message went out. Moments later I get MAILER-DAEMON telli

SCSI Director

2001-10-23 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
Hello All, Someone on another lem list was asking about SCSI Director. So, I am planning to put a copy up on "The Site." Digging through my archives, I found: v. 2.1.4 v. 4.0.1b3 Pro v. 2.0 Pro v. 2.1.2 Anyone know which would be the better choice? I know, *usually* newer is better. B

Re: system 6 apps

2001-10-20 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
>Jay Jay Johansson wrote: > >>I have a question! The apps for the system 6 can work in system 7? pickle replied: >Most of them, yes. Some won't, but most will. Not only will most work with OS 7.x... Most of the stuff I've downloaded from Marten's site:

Re: QuickTime 3 Pro

2001-10-20 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
> > Does anyone by chance have the installer for QuickTime 3 Pro? I've >>got my serial #. But, I seem to have lost or deleted the installer > >somewhere. I've got 2.5 & below, and 4.0 & up. Marten replied: >Any download of QT3 will do. It is the serial number that makes it pro. Yes. I

QuickTime 3 Pro

2001-10-20 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
Hello All, Does anyone by chance have the installer for QuickTime 3 Pro? I've got my serial #. But, I seem to have lost or deleted the installer somewhere. I've got 2.5 & below, and 4.0 & up. Iechyd Da, Andrew -- <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< Since Judgement Da

Re: Clearing out unused extra memory after closing IE 4.01 and/orOE 4.01

2001-10-17 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
> Folks, > > I notice that approximately 5MB or so of RAM >does not clear out after I use IE 4.01 and/or OE 4.01. My Performa 550 has >36MB RAM, and should have about 28MB to 31MB RAM free, depending on how much >MacOS 7.5.5 uses at a given time. 32 bit addressing is

Re: Free Cell for Mac. Re: DOS

2001-10-13 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
pickle wrote: >Do a search on VersionTracker for "freecell" or "card game" and check out >the many, many, options. Dunno how many (if any) are 68K-compatible, but >anything capable of running VPC acceptably ought to be able to handle the >freecell games for Mac :) Found a couple versions on

Re: Free Cell for Mac. Re: DOS

2001-10-13 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
> > There is a card game that comes with Windoze '95 called, Free Cell. Does > > anyone know if there's a Mac version of this particular game? Gregg Eshelman wrote: >Ha! It's got you in its spell! ;-) Well, sort of... I enjoy the idea that winning FreeCell is primarily based on strategy &

Re: DOS

2001-10-12 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
Hello All, As long as we're DOSsing this subject around, There is a card game that comes with Windoze '95 called, Free Cell. Does anyone know if there's a Mac version of this particular game?... It seems a terrible waste of time and hard drive space to have to run VirtualPC just for one ga

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