Re: LCII acquisition

2001-09-06 Thread Andrew W. Hill
Hello. I just bought an LCII for no other reason than because it was so-o-o cute! I think that it has a 60 MG hard drive and 4 MG of RAM, according to the ìget infoî and ìabout this macî folders. My 14-year old thought he would be able to play Escape Velocity on it. However, the game requires

Re: LCII acquisition

2001-09-06 Thread billy j
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 2:44 AM Subject: Re: LCII acquisition Hello. I just bought an LCII for no other reason than because it was so-o-o cute! I think that it has a 60 MG hard drive and 4 MG of RAM, according to the ìget infoî and ìabout this macî folders. My 14-year old

Re: LCII acquisition

2001-09-06 Thread billy j
06, 2001 4:06 AM Subject: Re: LCII acquisition Hello. I just bought an LCII for no other reason than because it was so-o-o cute! I think that it has a 60 MG hard drive and 4 MG of RAM, according to the ìget infoî and ìabout this macî folders. My 14-year old thought he would be able to play

Re: LCII acquisition

2001-09-06 Thread billy j
i run 7.2 OS. billy j - Original Message - From: Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Vintage Macs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 3:43 AM Subject: Re: LCII acquisition --- billy j [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve, i just got a LC II and a IIfx as noted on my

Re: LCII acquisition

2001-09-06 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Don't let the some folks scare you away from your cute lil' machine. I have done the Net on my LC and thats a slower machine. It really isn't that much slower than a LC II... Marten -- Check out the System 6 Heaven:

Re: LCII acquisition

2001-09-06 Thread billy j
PROTECTED] To: Vintage Macs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 4:23 AM Subject: Re: LCII acquisition Billy J You will need to install more RAM (30-pin 120ns) to bring it up to 12M total (it will see something like 10.2M total). You can look for a PDS card that lets you add

Re: LCII acquisition

2001-09-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- billy j [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yea, i know what scsi looks like 50 or 68 pin ribbons. what i can't remember is what did the older IDE look like? they didn't have ATA back then, did they? hell, i should know i'm 50 year old EE! IDE/ATAPI has always used a 40 pin dual row 0.1

Re: LCII acquisition

2001-09-06 Thread JakeCatfox
Most USB Devices would be too fast for the 68k macintosh .. a PowerMac maybe, though. There could be a NuBUS USB card out there SOMEwhere. Original Message - - - On to another pie in the sky project. USB for NuBus Macs, at least the NuBus PowerMacs. There probably are some stand alone USB

Re: LCII acquisition

2001-09-06 Thread Bill Judson
Scsi hard drive usually have a large 50 pin plug on the end.. if you know what an ide hard drive connector looks like, then you will know whether it is scsi or not.. the vram slot on the lcII is the big blue one. the LCII has a place for an FPU (68882) with solder pads.. you can solder a

Re: LCII acquisition

2001-09-06 Thread Marten van de Kraats
I also have a IIfx -- night day, speedwise. Save the FPU work for *that*7.0.1 on a IIfx compares favorably, I'd bet, with 9.1 on a G3...it seems the faster thay get, the bigger the software bloats up to slow 'em down...besides doing flashy new things like mp3s, which require the CPU power,

Re: LCII acquisition

2001-09-06 Thread the pickle
At 04:19 -0400 on 06/09/01, billy j wrote: how can you tell if the HDs are scsi or not? what does the Mac FPU look All Mac HDs are SCSI for Macs that are on-topic for this list. like? VRAM? where is it on MOBO? The FPU is a chip that looks a lot like the CPU. It says 68882 on it. VRAM

Re: LCII acquisition

2001-09-06 Thread JakeCatfox
Are my messages getting through to the list? I'm not getting any of my posts for some reason. or anyone else's .. -- Deven Gallo -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital

LCII acquisition

2001-09-05 Thread hart
Hello. I just bought an LCII for no other reason than because it was so-o-o cute! I think that it has a 60 MG hard drive and 4 MG of RAM, according to the “get info” and “about this mac” folders. My 14-year old thought he would be able to play Escape Velocity on it. However, the game

Re: LCII acquisition

2001-09-05 Thread the pickle
At 20:27 + on 05/09/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I just bought an LCII for no other reason than because it was so-o-o cute! I think that it has a 60 MG hard drive and 4 MG of RAM, according to the ìget infoî and ìabout this macî folders. My 14-year old thought he would be able to

Re: LCII acquisition

2001-09-05 Thread rlf9
Vintage Macs wrote... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LCII acquisition Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 20:27:11 GMT Hello. I just bought an LCII for no other reason than because it was so-o-o cute! I think that it has a 60 MG hard drive and 4 MG of RAM, according to the ìget infoî and ìabout