Re: Mac II PRAM batteries Was: Mac II Hard Drive

2005-10-21 Thread Robert Patterson
It's been a long time since I've even SEEN an original Mac II, but I know there were two logic boards made, the first being Service Part No. 661-0374, and its replacement Part No. 661-0528. (Looking at my Apple Service Guide) I seem to remember that only the first one had a soldered-in

Re: Macintosh IIfx SIMMs/Information

2005-09-01 Thread Robert Patterson
I'm quite certain that the MacIIci was offered in a special government configuration which used the parity option. Yes, I just checked my reference. There was a separate logic board for the IIci with parity (service part #661-0583), available at extra cost compared to the regular one (service

Re: Broken LC

2005-08-19 Thread Robert Patterson
Sorry, I don't agree. I see it as a personal preference only. In most mailing lists, you see it equally both ways. And obviously, there is no way to enforce it. Even the list-owner here has only suggested it. I prefer top-posting, because I really hate scrolling through stuff I've read

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

2005-06-08 Thread Robert Patterson
Now all Macs are Vintage Macs. Wow, that really sums it up, doesn't it? I guess we're all orphans now. Rob -- 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

Re: Hack to Expand Screen Size on Apple 12 RGB Display

2005-03-12 Thread Robert Patterson
As I get up in age my memory is becoming hazier, but I seem to recall that someone once wrote a hack that would patch the Apple video drivers to enable use of the full screen size of an Apple 12 RGB monitor... [snip] As far as I know, the patch only worked on systems that used the original

Re: First help request: finding the best System 6 web browser

2004-12-16 Thread Robert Patterson
Allan, I almost hate to say it, but it seems that every six months or so, a brave soul comments that he would like to attempt to program a web browser for System 6, and then, once the person realizes the enormity of the project, it is never heard from again... [sigh] I'm not saying that there

Re: new toy

2003-08-22 Thread Robert Patterson
Jeff, I think the CD SC Plus had a 2x CD mechanism. Rob Not bad. Wonder what the Plus indicates? Jeff -- 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

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

2003-04-03 Thread Robert Patterson
Hi, Could somebody please explain what this thread is about, and how it relates to Vintage Macs? Thanks! Rob At 08:23 -0800 on 02/04/03, Joseph Davis wrote: Buy me a Holset HX35 with the 9 cm^2 exhaust housing, and get me the unobtainium data sheet for the OKI 6260 used circa 1990,

Re: Anybody know the schematic to build local talk cables

2003-03-08 Thread Robert Patterson
Yes, you can theoretically have a complete Mac AppleTalk (PhoneNet) network using your regular telephone wiring, but there are certain GOTCHAs... A Farallon engineer once told me that this was their original intent, to be able to use your existing home telephone wiring with their PhoneNet

Re: MOMMMM!, pickle's bullying the newbies again!

2003-02-07 Thread Robert Patterson
Well put, Flawed Jai! I couldn't have said it better! I've grown extremely weary of The Pickle's sour, bitter remarks, and his attitude that every newbie is stupid and deserves to be slapped around. This is a DISCUSSION list, and if we can't talk about issues that concern every one of us at

Re: MOMMMM!, pickle's bullying the newbies again!

2003-02-07 Thread Robert Patterson
There goes another one. [sigh] You'd think someone would wise up, and show The Pickle the door. I'm reminded of his oft-used statement, Don't let it hit you on the way out! This has to stop, or this list is history. Rob I guess I am just as much to blame as anyone for asking stupid

Re: Netiquette Was: My lil' LC to the Pickle

2003-02-07 Thread Robert Patterson
Yeah, I've probably been suspended by now, too. There is no justice. Mr. Sour Pickle starts a flame war, and gets off the stick, AS USUAL. Pretty soon, everyone will be suspended except him. Rob This was , or I thought, a matter between [someone] and myself. Wrong

Re: Netiquette Was: My lil' LC to the Pickle

2003-02-07 Thread Robert Patterson
Exactly! I know of at least three list members besides myself who answer questions off-list, rather than SHARING solutions on the list itself, because they are so sick of being ragged on. Each of us has complained to the Listmom, but there has been no apparent change. Rob it becomes

Re: Eudora 1.3.1 and Big Messages

2003-01-30 Thread Robert Patterson
Alan, I experienced the very same problem on my Mac Plus running Eudora 1.3.1, and since I couldn't get the email sent again, I had to follow a very circuituous route to get the file into one piece. I took the several parts and pasted each of them, in order, into a Word 5.1 document, and then

Re: stuffit on a LC III

2002-09-17 Thread Robert Patterson
Did you try dropping the binhex'd file on top of the StuffIt Expander icon? Rob help! i've just downloaded the nice games you folkx reccomended for my LC III... but didnt have stuffit, so it didnt recognise a .sit.bin file... okay so i download stuffit_expander_55.hqx (version 5.5)

Oops!

2002-09-17 Thread Robert Patterson
Ignore my last message. :-) Scott, of course, is right. Rob -- 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

Re: Performa 475's won't boot

2002-06-18 Thread Robert Patterson
You have to have a good PRAM battery for those machines to boot. Rob I actually have two separate Performa 475's that won't boot. One someone just gave me, the other I've had for a long time. With my first one, I took it out of storage, opened it, dusted it, then tried to boot. The

PRAM question

2002-04-06 Thread Robert Patterson
There has been a thread that implies that the battery-backed PRAM has two strengths; that is, it takes longer for non-powered PRAM to forget the board's manufacture date and hours-in-use than it does for it to forget standard settings like color-depth and mouse-speed. Is this correct?

Flash memory card readers?

2002-03-29 Thread Robert Patterson
Is there any kind of a reader available for vintage macs for Flash memory? That is, a Compact Flash Card reader, or Multimedia Card reader? I'm looking for something that would work with the standard Mac serial ports, or the SCSI port. Any ideas? Rob -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by

Re: where is 'Inside Macintosh' ?

2002-03-25 Thread Robert Patterson
I could be very wrong here, but I don't think they were ever published in electronic form for download or viewing. My local public library has 'em, though. :-) Rob Hi all, I went over to both Apple's ftp- and website, looking for the (older) 'Inside Macintosh' volumes. No result.