Re: MiniScribe 20MB disk, dead or not?

2002-04-20 Thread Sam Macomber
well it seems to me, if it was origionally *in* an SE than it would be set to ID 0, and I'm guessing the internal drive on the LC is also set for ID 0... So, in the first place I'd make sure they're set to different ID numbers. ;) -sam On Wednesday, April 17, 2002, at 01:01 PM, Gregg Esh

Re: Mac II fan

2002-04-10 Thread Sam Macomber
On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 04:46 AM, the pickle wrote: > At 08:49 +0200 on 10/04/02, Marten van de Kraats wrote: > >> Considering the fact that one can savely disable the fan in a LC as >> long >> as one doesn't use the hard disk (often), I wondered about the Mac II, >> which also has a 1

Re: Another IIci question

2002-04-05 Thread Sam Macomber
>> > > It'd be cheaper to get a 7100 mobo and cram it in there, which would > give > you a native PPC-based motherboard for about 1/10 the price of a Turbo > 601. > You'd need new RAM, of course, but everything else would transfer right > over... > o never knew anything beyond a Q700 mobo wo

Re: SCSI, DMA, performance: IIfx vs other Macs

2002-04-02 Thread Sam Macomber
On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 06:17 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: >>> Ah, yes. The high performance 6502 like I have in my pre-Macintosh >>> Atari 800? ;-)The speed gain was from relieving the CPU of IO >>> housekeeping. >> >> The 6502 also ran both the most successful '2nd generation' persona

(from rocket list)Re: [A] What happened to Radius (answered)

2002-03-29 Thread Sam Macomber
> > I will place this info to my website. I am curious though as to what > happened to them in the time period between the clone falling out and > Digital Origin. Didn't they merge/acquire SuperMac at some point, or > am I > confusing this with another merger... > > - Joaquin Menchcaca > I t

Re: Floppy Question

2002-03-28 Thread Sam Macomber
I remember trying a newer floppy drive in my mac II, and the drive started smoking. So, I really don't think they're interchangable... ;) > Can you swap an auto-inject floppy drive with one that isn't. No reason > really just bored. > -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by

Re: Neotech IG24

2002-03-25 Thread Sam Macomber
> At 22:52 + on 25/03/02, Phil Beesley wrote: > >> Can anyone tell me what quality of video image I should be able to grab >> with this card? I can grab a 24 bit grey scale image (which looks great >> after using the de-interlace option) but I thought this card might be >> capable of colour to

Re: not so zippy booting IIci

2002-03-25 Thread Sam Macomber
>> >> >>> Stodgy. 8 MB RAM, no cache card, no accelerator, System 7.1 at the >>> highest. >>> Nearly as stock as it came. (System 6 would be stock, along with a >>> big, >>> clunky, noisy 1/2 height Quantum hard drive at a maximum of 105MB). >>> >>> Jeff >> >> Not quite. My "stock" IIci from '91

Re: MicroTek E3 Scanner

2002-03-23 Thread Sam Macomber
I had one of those, and the 50pin connection stopped working, but it would work just fine on the 25pin connector... sold it to a friend of mine years ago, apparently it recently died, anything scanned just came out as blank white. -sam -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by