Earlier this year, the Orange Micro web site disappeared. OM sold a
variety of products that worked on the Apple II through to modern G4
Macs and Windows PCs. My area of interest is the OrangePC DOS/Windows
PC card family but I've tried to dig out most OM material from the
Wayback archive. Alas
On 8 Jul 2005, at 20:31, soviet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Someone now if a sonnet 7200 g3 400 mhz pci card can be used on a
powermac
9600 ?.
The card goes in one pci slot and have 3 dimm pc100 slots. In sonnet
website
only de 7200 is supported.
I seriously doubt this. I experimented on
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 20:28:24 -0800 (PST), Don P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As I recall, it was a comic book size magazine which
tried to unite
/blend Lisa and Mac users. I normally throw nothing
Mac related away but I did toss these mags, also,
since:
1. It was so short lived that there seemed
On 5 Feb 2005, at 20:30, Dowe G. Keller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anybody here know of a good website for learning how to program
the 68k mac. Especially accessing the gui and os from asm code.
The Mac toolbox wasn't really designed for easy access from assembly
code. To get started on
That bloke in the UK still owns the ex-Douglas Adams IIfx. I haven't
had reason to use it recently (I bought it to use as a Linux and A/UX
hacking box) but its provenance has been confirmed by Adams's widow.
The sketch that I discovered on the disk (Brief Re-encounter) has
been forwarded to the
Does that computer on the right look familiar?
http://www.ipo.tue.nl/homepages/mrauterb/presentations/HCI-history/
sld068.htm
Phil
---
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originally intended purpose -- C H Thornycroft
--
Vintage Macs is sponsored by
On 16 Jul 2004, at 20:30, J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's a shame that the information on older Macs and their peripherals
is
getting harder and harder to find on the internet.
It'd be great if there was a group preserving everything about these
items
so that finding photos and
On 26 May 2004, at 20:30, Hasan Kacmaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've just purchased a mac IIci (I always wanted to but couldn't afford
it several years ago!) The problem is finding the right monitor for it.
I've got a HP-71 PC monitor and two macintosh-PC monitor adapters.
One of them is a
On 20 May 2004, at 20:31, Daniel Kendell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am a test, please ignore me.
---
The Macintosh Council - http://www.macintoshcouncil.tk
MacDan - http://macdan.o-f.com
It would be rude to ignore you totally, Daniel, especially when you
sound so despondent on your Mac Council
Jeff W's and Mark B's comments on NuBus video cards reminded me of a
discussion on another forum. I have a SuperMac Spectrum 24 V in my IIci
that works pretty well for my limited graphics demands. However the
card is labelled as requiring 12V @ 2A and 5V @ 2.5A while the psu is
labelled as
On 8 May 2004, at 20:31, Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://users.pandora.be/mydotcom/library/network/wfwdos.htm I guess
the real one included a tpc stack?
Yes. Try a web search for microsoft network client version 3.0 which
throws up lots of possibilities.
Phil
--
Vintage Macs is
On 6 May 2004, at 20:31, Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are some relatively unknown Win 3.xx versions.
Windows 3.11 still ran on a 286 but included 32bit
disk access (or was it file access?) for a 386 and
later. There was also the extremely short lived
Windows for Workgroups 3.1,
On 22 Apr 2004, at 20:30, Michael Hackett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
On Tuesday, February 17, 2004, at 08:30 PM, Gregg Eshelman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You must use driver version 4.2 with System 6.
You can boot a System 6 Mac from a Zip formatted with
the 4.2 Zip tools, but you must then NEVER EVER pop
that disk into a Zip drive on any Mac running a
newer
On Tuesday, February 3, 2004, at 08:31 PM, Mark Benson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My IIci has caught the 'turn on when it feels like it and won't turn
off' bug. Is it the board or the PSU that causes that?
Think positive... Check that the reset switches aren't stuck and remove
any dust balls
On Monday, January 19, 2004, at 08:30 PM, dana sibera
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you can get
to compressed air, blowing it out from under all the places that it can
hide (simm slots too, and connectors) it'll help things along
marvellously :)
Compressed air is quick but you get electrostatic
Thanks for the recent information, Jeff W and Gregg. I've just
purchased a maxed out IIvx -- 68MB RAM, Turbo 601 card at 100MHz,
uprated hard disk, uprated VRAM (don't know how much yet). The only
disappointment is the mediocre Radius 8XJ video card but you can't have
everything...
So far
More information at http://www.mandrake.demon.co.uk/Apple/ that I trust
will be of use to compact and vintage Mac owners. Apologies to the
nannies for spamming the two lists.
I think I found all of the significant Radius QA documents -- please
let me know if you find one that I've missed. If I
On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 08:30 PM, Bryan Kattwinkel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Bryan Kattwinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got 3 LaserWriter IIf units that have trouble
picking up paper out
of the tray. I know I can get a new part from
fixyourownprinter.com, but
it is $30. Any
On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 08:31 PM, Marten van de Kraats
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As promised: the profile of the ImageWriter I. It is of course just
a concept. Feel free to comment.
We are now in the process of developing a guideline for the profiles
of all other (vintage) mac
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
On Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 11:09 AM, John Niven
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes the setup of MacTCP isn't a big deal - but having to get my
companies MIS people to assign a fixed IP address is the real problem.
In my past company they were good about it. I haven't asked in my new
company -
On Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 11:09 AM, Darren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A better way to try maybe a minimal install of OS7.1 with exodus or
trying exodus under OS6. From what little I've seen the speed is far
better than a unix like install, you also don't use the macs hard drive
space. A
Derek Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am looking for information on a scanner which was
released around
1987 (I think). It was unusual in that there was a
fixed camera
attached to an arm and held above the scanning
surface. It also had
two light sources which gave (relatively) even
On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 08:31 PM, John Hixson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone suggest what might be going on with my newly acquired IIfx?
When
I try to start it by pressing the rear power button, it clicks on and
immediately trips off (per PS green light). If I hold the button in, it
Is the original poster switching the ADB *after* the Mac has booted? If
you intend switching ADB, you must have all of the devices online when
the system first boots. And even then, it may not be a good thing to
switch them when the system is live, especially on compact Macs and
early Mac IIs.
The old chestnut can I get a USB card for my NuBus Mac hasn't been
raised for a while so I thought I'd muddy the waters... The Atari
community has been working on a USB cartridge for their machines and
have made a lot of progress:
http://www.strotmann.de/twiki/bin/view/APG/ProjUSBCart
Note
On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 08:30 PM, RedNight [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Unfortunately they think anything computer related is expensive and
thus tax
the crap out of it. They don't seem to pull this crap when you order
stuff
from Europe, but then it's expensive as hell to ship the
On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at 08:31 PM, dan_A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a Macintosh IIci that I would like to get onto the Internet.
Snip
As others have said, you need OpenTransport.
Just to be slightly contrary, you can get your IIci connected without
Open Transport by using MacTCP,
On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 08:30 PM, Jamie Hutt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/18/03 4:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a IIci that refuses to shut down. I go through the shutdown
procedure, the screen blanks and it shuts off for a split second then
boots
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 08:30 PM, the pickle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 15:31 -0600 on 11/02/03, Jeff Walther wrote:
snip
while it is installed? Also, do you think I should get an external
5.25 drive and joystick for it?
Do you need them? :)
Yes if you want to play Lode
From: Jason White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lastly, my LC III has a standard VGA jack instead of a Mac Monitor
jack. Does the 475 too? I really hate those adapters.
Your LC III has a VGA jack? Interesting - I didn't know they had
those.
But I DO know that my 475 (actually a Q605, but same thing)
On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 01:31 PM, Steve Conrad
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried to use the System Suitcase from the Disk Tools (Disk 6 of 6,
none
of the others I have (2-5) have a System Suitcase/Folder) from System
7.0.1
to make a start-up disk for some of my older Macs. So
On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 02:01 AM, Marten van de Kraats
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am not sure this topic come up on the compact or the vintage mac
list, but some time ago there was a discussion about problems with
copying from older Macs to newer Macs running OS X. During appletalk
On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 08:30 PM, Ted Parks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After connecting both my Centris 650 and 7100/80 to DSL by ethernet,
the
Centris seems to load web pages faster. The 7100/80 has only 16 megs
of RAM,
while the Centris has about a 100. Also, the 7100 is
On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 08:30 PM, Warren Ernst wrote:
This is EXACTLY true. I worked through college as Tech Support for
Beagle
Bros in the early 90's, just as Apple was killing the II and the Mac
LC was
the color computer Apple thought people would buy. Beagle got almost no
On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 08:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is what I got (I took inventory as I unloaded, and
my back is very sore.)
Apple //e
Apple //c
Apple IIgs
Apple IIgs Woz edition
Apple 3.5 drive in original box
box of Apple // software
(snip)
On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 10:36 PM, the pickle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 15:53 -0500 on 12/11/02, Shannon wrote:
I have some disk images with a creator of IMGg and a type of GKON.
That's the creator code for GraphicConverter, and it's quite possible
that they
aren't really
On Tuesday, October 29, 2002, at 07:32 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
By all means, please mention any applicable software you can think of,
anytime!
That said, I wonder what version of DiskTop you're referencing?
There's a
huge (876K) current shareware ($49.95!) version
On Sunday, October 27, 2002, at 07:28 am, Charles Shannon Hendrix
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The point is to share the printer. It's hooked up to a UNIX system.
All
the machines share it via the print spooler. The server uses
GhostScript so
every machine prints PostScript to it.
On Monday, October 21, 2002, at 07:17 pm, Kevin Quosig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just came into possession of a IIfx with the follow
config:
--1 GB Apple Hard Drive
--80 MB RAM
--Macintosh Display Adapter (630-0400, 1989/90, both
on-board slots filled)
--Fusion Video Card (FX/DSL),
On Monday, October 21, 2002, at 07:17 pm, Kevin Quosig
[EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I recently had given to me the following vintage Macs:
--LCII
--LCIII
--Color Classic
--IIfx
--8100/110
--SE/30
I also have the following add-on cards:
--Daystar 50MHz PowerCache (030)
--Daystar,
On Saturday, October 19, 2002, at 06:43 am, Gary Adams
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If its the one I am thinking a company either in Scotland or England
had
developed one that Apple was looking at but never followed through on
it.
Gary
That sounds like the Mac on a card that Cirtech were
On Friday, October 18, 2002, at 09:47 pm, Philip Stortz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
now there's a project worth reverse engineering! definitely something
i'll have to consider next spring (i won't have time and space for any
real projects till then, unfortunately!). if anyone has any
On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 06:21 pm, the pickle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
feasible (though probably at a terrible resolution) to
put an LCD screen into a compact case along with a G4
Mac that supports video out...
640x480 would work but the electronics are impractically expensive
On Sunday, September 1, 2002, at 07:37 pm, Gregg Eshelman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Apple of iMac and beyond is way more standardized
than it appears, compared to the Beige Era. Could be
why some of us consider it a bit boring now. Oh look.
_Another_ Mac with transparent plastic.
On Saturday, July 13, 2002, at 08:36 pm, Visionary [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
OK, turning off extensions really didn't do much because when I go
into
MacTCP, all the values are still protected. However, I'm not now even
given the opportunity to enter the elusive master password were I to
On Sunday, July 7, 2002, at 09:45 am, Teri Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Okay, I gotta ask this, as I haven't found any information about this:
exactly how do DOS cards in Macs work? I have two of them now, one
with a
286 chip and one with a 386 chip. I can vaguely remember one of
Is there a system extension that will provide spring loaded folders (as
with Mac OS 8 and 9) with the System 7 Finder?
Phil
---
Most engineering products can be readily adapted to suit their
originally intended purpose -- C H Thornycroft
--
Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/
On Saturday, June 15, 2002, at 03:55 am, (Vintage Macs) wrote:
Thanks for your response, but I'm not trying to get them networked via
AppleTalk -- I don't want to do File Sharing. I want to get an old Mac
onto Internet, and to do that I want it to talk (via PPP) to another
computer. But I
On Friday, May 24, 2002, at 08:31 pm, (Vintage Macs) wrote:
Motorola made a variety of 030 CPU without an MMU
built in. Without the MMU the Mac can't support
virtual memory. The card won't activate without
the Allegro extention. (Just like the DayStar 030
cards don't work without their
On Saturday, April 27, 2002, at 04:59 pm, Gregg Eshelman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The ATX mobo connector is one piece, fits only one
way and has an annoyingly useless tiny little
catch that's usually oriented so it's nearly
imposssible to get at to release.
If you think that the tab is
On Sunday, April 21, 2002, at 12:21 pm, Teri Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I have MacTCP installed. I installed PPP 2.5, but it kicked and
complained
that I didn't have OS 7.1. Trashed it, downloaded installed PPP
2.01. I
still can't open a connection. When I try to open the TCP
On Friday, April 19, 2002, at 08:30 pm, Ken wrote:
Have acquired a nice little Apple 40SC tape drive
backup unit. It's in perfect shape except the main
driver roller is soft and gooey - looks like someone
used the wrong cleaner fluid on the rubber roller.
As Mart commented, they all go
Has anyone else tried the combination of the 8*24 card (in a IIci in my
case) with a new LCD display (NEC 1550V)? The NEC supports separate
sync, optimum resolution 1024*768 so it should work with the adapters I
currently use. Until now, I've used a Formac 17 multisync display quite
happily
I have uploaded the control panel for the Mouse Systems three button
device (c 1993) to my web space at:
http://www.mandrake.demon.co.uk/Apple/Mouse_Systems.sit.hqx
I have also added a similar vintage driver for the Logitech three button
ADB mouse:
On Saturday, March 30, 2002, at 08:30 pm, Mark Benson wrote:
Is there a free DHCP server for the Mac. I want to set my LC475, which
runs 24/7 as a webserver and now a DNS, as a DHCP server to save me
having to set all my machines up by hand. Also is there any chance of
serving VNC or
Terry Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OS X 10.1 is far more lenient; it supports AFP over AppleTalk, instead
of
just TCP/IP over AppleTalk. So, I started with the basics on my Q950:
Mac OS
7.5.5. No dice, when trying to mount the OS X 10.1's share, I get The
connection with the server
Version 2.0.3 (1988) of the formatter can be found at the link below. I
have an even earlier copy somewhere that I could dig out but I'd have to
search through 50 disks...
Phil
http://www.mirror.ac.uk/collections/hensa-
micros/local/mac/drivers/rodime_form.hqx
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