Re: Networking LCs

On 28/07/2005, at 3:46 AM, Kyle Koerner wrote: Thanks for the advice - everyone! I may eventually go with Ethernet PDS cards (but I understand you need a right angle adapter, which I don't have). The LC PDS cards do sit parallel with the motherboard unlike say PCI or NuBus cards, a s

Re: Best said reference yet [Re: Oh my....... Intel CPU's???]

Worth mentioning when it comes to who owns what part of the PowerPC arch, and what can be done with it -- Straight from IBM's page: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/newto/#3 "the architecture specifies an instruction set architecture (ISA) that allows anyone to design and fabrica

Re: Best said reference yet [Re: Oh my....... Intel CPU's???]

On 24/06/2005, at 2:13 PM, NODEraser wrote: Approximately when did IBM start making PPC processors? I thought the first PPCs were Motorola... A very long time: http://www.danaquarium.com/gallery/beige/ppc601?full=1 dana -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by and... Small

Re: Quadra 660AV question...

It works great, but only boots the second time I turn the power on. The first time I power it on I hear the hard disk spin up, but it never gets to the grey boot screen. The second time everything spins up and then it boots. Once booted it works flawlessly, it also complains about the clock

Re: Netscape 4.05?

If you install CFM68k, 4.08 will run fine on anything down to 7.1 I should note that even with cfm68k installed, NS4.08's installer will complain the OS version is too old, but you can still continue and install it. dana -- http://www.danamania.com/ -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by

Re: Netscape 4.05?

On 15/05/2004, at 8:58 PM, Andrew McCall wrote: On Saturday, May 15, 2004, at 06:36 am, Gregg Eshelman wrote: Olde Netscapes, unlike Olde Internet Explorers, are not so hard to find. Have a look at ftp://ftp.netscape.com I just downloaded 4.08, but it requires System 7.6, I am running 7.5.5 - do

Re: 30 pin simms

On 28/04/2004, at 7:54 PM, R. A. Cantrell wrote: I've just about Chipmunk'd myself blind and cannot get a definitive answer on some 30 pin simms. They all have 8 OKI 514100A-70SJ chips (20625069A9Z) I just need to determine the size (meggage) of each stick. Anyone got some of these or any ins

LC 'pizzabox' cases.

It seems that there were 4 cases used for LC-form-factor boards: original LC cases (with 2 floppy slots), the grooved type first used on the LC II (similar to the LC case in look, but with only one floppy slot), the manual-inject type with no groove on the front and the LC-type feet (the best-kno

Re: How about a 64MB chip in an LCIII?

On 25/02/2004, at 7:33 PM, Mark Benson wrote: Personally I've never sen an LCII in a new-style case! Photo please, I gotta add it to the archive. :-D I shall as soon as I'm back home and can take pics. In the meantime amuse yourself with http://www.akeara.net/~nezzie/beast/ =) or an LC V - htt

Re: How about a 64MB chip in an LCIII?

The separating factor is that these LC III + machines have the body of a normal LC III but the front is rounded. It looks like the front of a Quadra 605 but not the top, back, bottom or sides. The floppy opening is like the 605. Shaped differently and having the black plastic door. The badge

Re: Stupid Seller?

On 01/02/2004, at 1:52 AM, Mark Benson wrote: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItem&item=2779557850&category=16178 He claims it's not Mac Compatible. I looked it up on Seagate's site here: http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/scsi/st32550n.html And it looks perfectly standard... A

Re: dishwasher question

On 18/01/2004, at 6:40 PM, Terence Dennis Sherman wrote: just a real quick question -- after washing my IIcx's motherboard in the washing machine (It had progressed to the point that it could no longer turn on at all), how long should I let it dry? I know that at least a few days would be a good

Re: Mac IIcx removing power supply

On Sunday, October 12, 2003, at 12:56 AM, Ray Fryer wrote: whoops. on http://www.danamania.com/temp/psu_latch2.jpg the red arrow points to the PSU socket on the motherboard. that's also holding the side of the PSU down a bit. Still, wriggling bit by bit gets it out :) dana -- Vintage Macs is

Re: Mac IIcx removing power supply

On Sunday, October 12, 2003, at 12:56 AM, Ray Fryer wrote: There must be some trick to removing the power supply from the Mac IIcx. The manual talks about a latch but I do not see a latch anywhere. The side facing the mother boards seems to lift but the side facing the sides of the computer do

Re: LCII assistance

On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 12:20 PM, Gamba wrote: Open the LC II and remove the floppy drive. Flaps on the rear side spread, while the front is in a track, it pulls forward and up. There's a pin or light at the sides that pokes/shines up where you would normally expect to see the "holes"

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

On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 05:17:50AM +1000, Adam wrote: > > There's a huge reason *not* to make a ROM that only supports 10 MB when > it's > > clear that larger SIMMs are going to come into play within a few months... > > If this limitation is the the ROM thanks to our friends at Apple, and if it >

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

On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 04:06 PM, Dustin Rinebold wrote: > > 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. If not, let me >> know where you live. I want to get some of that utility company'

Re: 68Ks in non-mac mac-stuff.

On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 04:46 AM, the pickle wrote: >> Just completely off topic for this thread (but vaguely on topic in a >> wider sense :) An apple-branded HP Tape drive from a Q950 that I >> peeked >> into has a 16Mhz 68000. > > Would that be the HP drive that was in the WGS 95? I

68Ks in non-mac mac-stuff.

On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 04:02 AM, the pickle wrote: >> Real-Time handling by the OS. I seem to recall it had a complete 68000 > > Yep. Mac Token Ring cards often had 68HC000s on them. Not sure why > all the > computational power was required but whatever. Not that anyone really > u

Re: IIsi getting AirPort through iMac

On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 12:18 am, Ian wrote: > > What, exactly are you trying to do? Hook an ABS through Ethernet to the > > IIsi? How is the ABS going to get its TCP/IP connection? > > What does ABS stand for? Airport Base Station, I would guess :) -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by

Re: Q805 related --IIsx?

On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 10:39 AM, Alan O'Neil wrote: > My only question about such a design would be strength. Without the > supporting top panel of the middle cover, would the middle cover > threaten to lose rigidity under too much stress? If it were to be built in reality from the

Re: Amiga developers have much more initiative ;)

On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 01:20 PM, Terry Mathews wrote: > A lot of similar upgrades in the Mac world would have the CPU and RAM > on > their own circuit board and that contraption would plug into the CPU > socket. > Tricky stuff, but would allow faster RAM access, which is the only >

Re: Q805 related --IIsx?

On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 08:58 PM, flawed jai wrote: > or you could use two covers and one base, horizontally, and use the > middle cover as a spacer if you cut out the panel that ordinarily would > be the middle cover's top plane. > ,__, > I__I<- > I__I > I__I

Re: Signatures in case...

On Sunday, November 3, 2002, at 07:56 AM, Shane J. Wolfe wrote: > I know most of the compacts have them. I haven't checked the Color > Classic > that we have. The IIci has them, but I don't know about the other II's. > >> do you know a list of which macs have them? or when they stopped >>

Re: more A/UX

On Monday, September 30, 2002, at 04:03 AM, /dev/null wrote: > brilliant, i will give it a go - i have a friend who has a G4 tower > that > may be able to burn it for me if windows Nero fails... > > incidentally... is A/UX suitable for use on a Powerbook Duo230 ? > i gather it runs fine on 030

Re: A/UX...is free?

> witch kind of machine is fast enougth for a/ux? > and how much ram is needed? depending on what you want to do - most of the 030 and 040s with FPUs will run it fine. I have a Quadra 700 with 20mb that boots and runs it well, and runs macOS apps quite well also - however I haven't done a grea

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

On Thursday, September 26, 2002, at 06:00 PM, /dev/null wrote: > the connection with Macs, i believe (which i am *extremely* prone to > crashing) has to do with the light plastic casing on iMacs and G3/G4 > towers - i've never had problems with my beige macs. but i can sit at > an > iMac or G4

Computer names.

On Friday, September 20, 2002, at 09:22 AM, /dev/null wrote: > i agree with that one... > my computers have names (well, they're mostly linux boxen and have a > domain name... wembly.iriXx.org, hamish.iriXx.org, indigo.iriXx.org > ...) > all have various stories behind them... I name as many o

Re: Nearly a gross of IIci's Re: It's not hardware....

On Wednesday, May 8, 2002, at 02:54 AM, Teri Pittman wrote: >> Now less than 2 years after my first mac there are 36 of them being >> kept >> warm in my flat. Sometimes, a few of them do a little useful work :) >> > > Now, that is what I'm afraid of! I am starting to think of having > these

Re: Nearly a gross of IIci's Re: It's not hardware....

On Tuesday, May 7, 2002, at 08:32 AM, Teri Pittman wrote: > . .Will anyone ever want a 7100/66 board again? Ever? > > Ls see, I have a Classic, a IIci and next a Quadra. I figure I'll get a > PC and an iMac and I'll be set. I'd take a 7100/66... if they were free, which really isn't worth a r

Re: It's not hardware....

On Tuesday, May 7, 2002, at 12:18 PM, Eagle wrote: The 68k CPUs started life at mostly 32bit then went >> full 32bit and didn't change much except for >> integrating the MMU then finally the FPU and a small >> internal cache in the 040. > > That's a pretty good explanation of why I took 68k ass

Re: It's not hardware....

On Tuesday, May 7, 2002, at 07:25 AM, R.A. Cantrell wrote: > on 5/6/02 4:18 PM, Scott Holder at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> IIci or something > I passed up 100 IIci's at $0.40 each. No place to put em. Oh dear. my immediate thought is "but they stack so well...". Then I started pondering

For a laff...

Just cos a bunch of you thought some of these pics were interesting last time around, I've collated them all together in one spot. They're not real macs, names have been changed to protect the innocent, this is only a reenactment... etc. http://www.danamania.com/vhacks/ dana -- unnaturally ho

Re: Anyone up for a laugh?

> It almost certainly was a 5.25" 1/2 height like mine. They look huge. As > a good size gauge I stood the 3.5" 40S on the underneath and the four > corners of the smaller drive sat on the underside mounting screws of the > larger one! I'm not taking mine apart if it still works though, it's a > p

Re: Anyone up for a laugh?

On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 04:52 AM, Paul Tansom wrote: > You think that's big? A few jobs back I was working for IBM (1990 I > think) and > one of my jobs was testing hard drives (shock and vibration stuff for > those > figures that you see in the specs). Anyway, the first ones I worked

Re: Anyone up for a laugh?

> On Sunday, April 14, 2002, at 12:42 PM, Mark Benson wrote: > >> I found two hard disks in a box of stuff that I forgot I even had. one >> is a Seagate ST255 5.25" 1/2 height, the other a 1/2 height Quantum >> ProDrive 40MB. I know the Prodrive will probably work if it didn't get >> killed in the

OT, but a followup to the LC V

Saturday afternoon, photoshop, and a quicktake... http://dana.jaime.com/uniquemacs.html any suggestions on more? I'm kinda in a pixelly mood and thinking of flattening an LC630 into a pizzabox tonight... :D How about a multiple processor LC tower? it's real, this one! http://dana.jaime.com/lc

Re: LC V stuff

On Thursday, October 25, 2001, at 01:59 AM, the pickle wrote: > At 00:06 -0700 on 24/10/01, Alex Allee wrote: > >> I dunno, seen the Power Mac G3 AIO? Pretty fugly machine if you ask me. > > Aw, c'mon. It looks like a huge molar with a screen. It's got > character... ...and I want one, but a

Re: LC V stuff

>> >> a real mac - it's 2 real macs, an LC II case sitting on top of an LCIII >> and played with a bit in photoshop. > > The only real giveaways - and these are not only subtle, but not for > certain either - are the faint lines on the side of the case toward the > front (you must have cloned thes

LC V stuff

ook. well. yes. ok. Adam emailed me about the LC V - and here's a copy of the reply I just sent to him to clear things up! The short story: I met a mac-mad fellow online a few months back who thought a pic I did in photoshop looked terribly fake (It's at http://www.theapplecollection.co

Re: IIsi Motherboard

> --- John Kocijanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello. Will a IIsi accept a motherboard from any >> other Mac? Thanks. I think you could probably massacre a G4 cube enough to fit it in there... but perhaps that's a bit much. danabanana -- http://dana.jaime.com/ -- -- Vintage Macs is sp

Re: Hints from Rod Re: List Mom's Pet Peeve

> Here's a hint for quoting parts of messages when using Eudora. I just > learned it recently (somebody told me), so it's possible other Eudora > users don't know it either. > Select the part of the message you want to quote. > Hold down the Shift key while replying (Command + R or "R

Re: Is there a Mac Rehab facility out there??

> So, I guess my addiction is confirmed. Now the question is, do I spend > my > hard earned cash on rehab, or on that nifty new Mac thing I saw on eBay > the > other day?? I'm with you all the way tracy - and that's straight to eBay... not rehab no, no no rehab! danabanana (1 mac going into

Re: OS 7.6.1

On Sunday, August 19, 2001, at 01:26 AM, Marten van de Kraats wrote: >> At 5:15 PM +0200 8/18/01, Marten van de Kraats wrote: Anybody have a copy of 7.6.1 for an LCIII? I'm using 7.1, but want to move up to a version that has OT so that I can network it with a newer Mac.

Re: What's wrong with the 6214? (Was: 64MB SIMMs)

>> Can't get on the net unless you grease and beat it. >> Doesn't do more than 256 colors, 64MB limit, and it's >> slooow if it's doing anything but going out a >> window. >> >> William > > I've got an old 6200 and they are slow. I put 48mb of ram in it and it > helped alittle but not much.

Re: 6800, was Re: OT: Famous PC parts company does a funny. :)

On Wednesday, August 15, 2001, at 08:53 PM, Robert Poland wrote: >>> Did 6800's exist btw? I do tech support for state schools, and some >>> have >>> referred to them often enough for me to wonder if some special >>> educational version existed, however they've all been replaced and >>> seem

Re: OT: Famous PC parts company does a funny. :)

One of my coworkers is building a PC with an ASUS A7A266 motherboard. Visible as part of the box art is a corner of that PowerMac that had the floppy drive on the left side! >>> >>> You mean the 4400? >> >> or a 7220 here in oz (among a couple of other places apparently) > > No

IIcx's, floods, mouse houses and dishwashing...

just for the reading value and nothing else... I gave up smoking around 2 months and a bit ago, and seem to have turned to collecting Macs. It's a lot more fun and cheaper, and most of the machines I've found have been on eBay. Just recently I came across a IIcx, sold as-is but probably not wo

Re: OT: Famous PC parts company does a funny. :)

On Wednesday, August 15, 2001, at 10:30 AM, Sam Burrish wrote: > >> One of my coworkers is building a PC with an >> ASUS A7A266 motherboard. Visible as part of the box >> art is a corner of that PowerMac that had the floppy >> drive on the left side! > > You mean the 4400? or a 7220 here in oz

Re: just curious...

> When I was doing my usual thrift-store rounds, I happened to come > across > an "Apple Adjustible Keyboard", still in box; just not shrinkwrapped. Of > course, I snapped it up; it was only $5. I was wondering what it's > original > value might have been; according to the packing list, it's

Re: My List

On Thursday, July 26, 2001, at 04:07 PM, Steve Conrad wrote: > 512K > Plus (3 working, 3 non-working) > SE -> USS Reliant > SE FDHD > LC -> USS Oberth > IIcx > IIsi > IIci -> Utopia Planitia (my main machine) > Performa 40 5 -> USS Voyager > Performa 450 > Quadra 605 It seems a pizza LC or Q60

Odd Printers (was Re: IIsi still having problems)

>>> Please excuse my ignorance, who makes scsi printers? >> >> Alps made one or two different models. The Personal LaserWriter SC was >> SCSI-based, too, I think. They're the only ones I can think of off >> the top >> of my head. > Yep, > Pickle's right (again.. hohum ;-) > Saw an Alps 120x (ii