Mac II Was: Mac II Hard Drive

2005-10-21 Thread Robert Gray
At 19:25:34 -0400 on 10/19/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...what do you think is a fair price? You should be able to get one for free or practically nothing; however, shipping will run you $30-35. Get a IIfx if at all possible. The price will be the same but the machine is a big step

Mac II PRAM batteries Was: Mac II Hard Drive

2005-10-21 Thread Robert Gray
At 18:18:34 -0700 on 10/19/05 Scott Baret [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...make sure you know how to solder batteries in. Not all II's have soldered-in batteries. All seven of those that I've owned/repaired had battery holders on the mobo. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/

Re: Hard disk not detected by 68030 Macs

2005-09-18 Thread Robert Gray
I have a hard disk (500Mb Quantum) that has OS 7.5 installed perfectly on it; however, none of my 68030 Macs (SE/30, IIci, LC3) can even detect its existence. Was it a universal install? What format was applied? -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: Macintosh IIfx SIMMs/Information

2005-09-02 Thread Robert Gray
At 23:57:33 -0700 on 8/30/05, Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Jeff Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a pinout/datasheet for the IIfx/LWNT 64 pin SIMMs? I'm thinking about running off a few homebrew circuit boards If you're thinking of SIMM stackers to

IIfx maximum RAM upgrade

2005-08-22 Thread Robert Gray
Because these are extremely rare, I think they meet the exception to listing [third party] eBay items on LEM prohibited: A FULL SET OF EIGHT 16MB APPLE IIFX MEMORY SIMMS eBay #5233447899 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=5233447899ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1 -- Vintage Macs is

Re: Mac 512 and LaserWriter IIg questions

2005-03-04 Thread Robert Gray
At 3:30 PM -0500 on 3/4/05, Thomas Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...what is the pds slot on a LaserWriter IIg motherboard for? I assume you mean the IIg logic board...the board that makes any series two LaserWriter a IIg. I don't see any plug on the board. The only connector internal to the

Re: Unbeleivable Thrift store find!

2004-08-28 Thread Robert Gray
At 13:53:57 -0500 on 8/28/04, King Cheetah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I grabbed the IIfx... Whoah nellie! 131 mgs RAM Whoah nellie indeed! I was never able to put more than 128 in a IIfx -- 8 sticks of 64 into eight sockets. How'd they do it? -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by

Re: Newbie: How to type an at on ADB keyboard?

2004-04-12 Thread Robert Gray
At 22:10:52 +0200 on 4/08/04, In-Hae Felton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I get an @ on my SE 1/40 with ADB Keyboard? ASCII (AMERICAN Standard Code for Information Interchange). Not all the world uses American standards. Some countries even have a different language. ;-) (Sarcasm directed

Re: Eclectic Stuff; Was: LC Road Apple

2003-04-04 Thread Robert Gray
At 21:07:42 -0800 on 4/3/03, Dave Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, please take this OFF the list. It has nothing to do with compact macs. Isn't there a moderator on this list? Hello? All this from someone who wanted to use the Quadlist to discuss the pros and cons of IE for web site design

Re: LC Road Apple; Was: Re: new 68k for Dad

2003-04-03 Thread Robert Gray
That doesn't explain why a half dozen Mac hackers never came up with a trivial software solution. If it were doable, it would have been They don't work for Apple? Computer hobbyist...geeks...you know the kids that were hacking all kinds of stuff back then. They would have solved this if it

Re: LC Road Apple; Was: Re: new 68k for Dad

2003-04-01 Thread Robert Gray
At 00:09:08 -0500 on 4/1/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 00:06 -0500 on 01/04/03, Robert Gray wrote: At 07:43:41 -0500 on 3/31/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 07:42 -0500 on 31/03/03, Robert Gray wrote: I was thinking about something along the lines of...MODE32... a little file

Re: LC Road Apple; Was: Re: new 68k for Dad

2003-03-31 Thread Robert Gray
I was thinking about something along the lines of...MODE32... a little file that you stick in your extensions folder. If the solution were that trivial, the question never would have come up. :-) -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: LC Road Apple; Was: Re: new 68k for Dad

2003-03-31 Thread Robert Gray
At 07:43:41 -0500 on 3/31/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 07:42 -0500 on 31/03/03, Robert Gray wrote: I was thinking about something along the lines of...MODE32... a little file that you stick in your extensions folder. If the solution were that trivial, the question never would have

Re: LC Road Apple; Was: Re: new 68k for Dad

2003-03-27 Thread Robert Gray
[Slamming Apple for the way they developed their line of computers and for not providing expandability.] I think Apple knew what they were doing. For every geek there are probably 30 users who just want to do a little word processing, send some email, surf the web, and maybe make a bithday

Re: Question For You All

2003-03-24 Thread Robert Gray
At 17:10:44 -0600 on 23 Mar, Steve Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its Mystery Motherboard Time!...ID: 820-0380-A Apple Computer At 5:31 PM on 3/23/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not much of a mystery when the only hit on Google for that part number tells you what it is. At 19:02:52

Customs charges Was: Anybody know the schematic to build localtalk cables

2003-03-11 Thread Robert Gray
Someone wanna 'splain how...that's legal? If you don't pay anything for it, how are they allowed to tax it? It's the law! Obviously it's based on the item's value. If it was based on the declared value, everything would be imported as free or a gift. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by

A thick ear Was: W**** *** K**

2003-03-06 Thread Robert Gray
At 19:33:26 -0400 on 3/5/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is a thick ear and 1000 lines? Probably something British. :-) -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras

Re: IIfx 040 card?

2003-03-03 Thread Robert Gray
At 16:31:47 -0500 on 3/2/03, Hal Meeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: Wasn't there a TokaMac card...? Yes, there was. -- 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

Re: Processor Upgrade for IIfx

2003-03-01 Thread Robert Gray
At 07:39:00 +0100 on 3/1/03, Stefan Daehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know what card this is? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewItemitem=3403759120 Whatever it is, it doesn't belong there. However, someone should be interested in the set of 16 meg SIMMs.

Netiquette Was: My lil' LC to the Pickle

2003-02-07 Thread Robert Gray
This was , or I thought, a matter between [someone] and myself. Wrong thinking. Place it in the public, it becomes a public matter. ANY message directed to one person rather than of interest to the entire membership doesn't belong here. Take it off-list. I suppose that includes the nanny's

Re: Q700 operating costs Was: IIci Router Was: Wired Router

2003-02-07 Thread Robert Gray
My Q700 draws 31W...Works out to about $3 worth of electricity per day where I live. I think your computer is off by a factor of thirty. Are you saying that I should be paying 90 dollars a month, or only 10 cents? The point is you're confusing the terms day and month. -- Vintage

Re: Q700 operating costs Was: IIci Router Was: Wired Router

2003-02-07 Thread Robert Gray
At 23:59:55 -0800 on 2/6/03, Clark Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Macs that I measured (21 models) take between 14 and 87 watts. For those who care, the measurements I've been quoting are ones I've done myself using a watt meter. This is different than measuring the current and multiplying by

Re: multiple scan 15

2002-12-24 Thread Robert Gray
At 02:58:16 -0800 (PST) on 12/24/02, Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an M2943 Apple Multiple Scan 15 monitor. It has an audio jack in the back and one on the left side. All that is is a pasthrough for headphones. No speakers in the monitor at all. That's odd. I've got four

Missing Digests 1447, 1448, 1449 Was: I VOCALLY OBJECT TOPICKLE'S ABUSING EPI!!!

2002-12-22 Thread Robert Gray
What happened to Digest issues #1447, #1448, and #1449? They never hit my mailbox. Would someone please redirect a copy to me? Thanks. Bob Gray Huntingtown MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: Getting other monitor resolutions Was: [csh@widomaker.com: Radius Precision 8-24 by NEC]

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Gray
The Radius drivers I use only list a pair of Apple monitors as options. Is there any way to get these drivers to do more? I know hindsight is 20/20, but I can't understand why anyone would make a driver without the ability to be altered or updated. Far as I know they'll only do what they can do.

Getting other monitor resolutions Was: [csh@widomaker.com:Radius Precision 8-24 by NEC]

2002-11-23 Thread Robert Gray
I have a Radius Precision Color 8*24 card sold by NEC...The card's control panel let's you select among various NEC monitors. The maximum resolution allowed is 640x480Is this just a matter of using the Radius drivers and control panels instead of the NEC software, or is this something

Mac with the most hours Was: Old time used utility

2002-11-21 Thread Robert Gray
See who has the Mac with the most hours of use. 29,249 on my IIfx -- 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

Re: disk doubler

2002-11-21 Thread Robert Gray
Is there a fast-copy utility available like the one that DD comes with? Try Speed Doubler. -- 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!

Re: MultiSync monitor and a IIfx

2002-11-14 Thread Robert Gray
I have a SuperMac Spectrum/24 PDQ Plus v1.60 which is supposed to give me 24-bit color to past the 1024x768. I installed the MultiScan software from Apple and I selected the 17 Multiscan from the list. However from the Control Strip the only option is 640x480. Not familiar with the Apple

Re: Rethinking I.E. Browsers

2002-10-29 Thread Robert Gray
IF [Mozilla] really IS just a clone of IE Don't look at that as a bad thing. They won't try to duplicate anything which doesn't work well. That's silly thinking. The rational is to give users an option as more poorly written sites cater to Microsoft standards and fail under other

ATi extention Was: Determining the amount of VRAM I have

2002-10-23 Thread Robert Gray
Anyone know if the ATi extention still works for the GC card with OS 9.1? What's the ATi extention and where can I get it? -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras

Re: NuBus Video card

2002-10-19 Thread Robert Gray
The 8*24GC has an enormous ATT processor And ATT would stand for...Advanced Micro Devices (Am29000-30GC, 1987 AMD)? ;-) Or did you mean to write an enormous DSP? -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To

Re: r/ gray, 'thread is a troll' [Alum beanies booties Was:stopping computers]

2002-09-25 Thread Robert Gray
not at all!! I am completely serious. all these measures are used to eliminate static in improvised environments, when it isn't possible to order and obtain the manufactured standard antistatic materials The thread under which I wrote my comments was not r/gray, 'thread is a troll' it was

Re: stopping computers

2002-09-24 Thread Robert Gray
Someone oughta tell him alfoil isn't going to help a bit Someone ought to tell the list that this whole thread is a troll. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital

Re: Holy Double Display, Batman!

2002-09-13 Thread Robert Gray
*And*, the IIgs monitor has a detachable cable. So does the 13 AppleColor High-Resolution RGB. There's also the 12 AppleColor RGB monitor (no High-Resolution on product label) that will work with Macs. The power and signal cables are non-detachable. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by

Re: OS copyright

2002-08-01 Thread Robert Gray
What are you supposed to do if you get a nasty virus or a power surge blasts your box or it gets stolen or cooked in a fire or otherwise trashed so the software onboard is permanently kaput? On vintage Macs, it's called backing-up your hard drive. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by

Re: that IIfx RAM by wizard

2002-04-01 Thread Robert Gray
MicroMac sells (or sold) SIMM stackers that would put four 30pin SIMMs in each IIfx slot. As I recall, their stackers would put two 64pin SIMMs from your machine's inventory into a single shot. Say you had 20MB configured as four 1MB and four 4MB SIMMs. At the cost of about $100, you could

Re: that IIfx RAM by wizard

2002-04-01 Thread Robert Gray
The specs are still on MicrMac's site: http://www.micromac.com/products/simmdoubler_ii.html They weren't for 30pins! Of course, nobody would go out and buy eight 8MB SIMMs to configure a 64MB memory. They'd buy the 16MB SIMMs at something more than twice the cost of 8MB units and then