Re: IIfx vs 386DX/40

2002-08-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Chris McFadden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to agree with 3.1 on a 386. I've got an old laptop with a 486/25 that positively crawls with Win95. That's because it's only 25Mhz. ;P The 40Mhz CPU and bus speed that makes the IIfx wicked fast also makes the 386DX/40 wicked fast, for a

Re: Hi-Spec IIci finished

2002-08-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- rlf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pimped meaning what here, please? Bob F Like a 1977 Lincoln Mark V Coupe, lowered, gold wire wheels, velour interior, shag carpet Right out of a bad 1970's cop show. ;) All the bells and whistles, plus more. = http://www.junkscience.com All the

Re: Mac II entrails

2002-08-22 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- James A. Reible [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I opened it up and sitting on the left side is a strange looking . something... which I'll try to describe. Sitting at a shallow angle is a card that says: DayStar Digital Powercache. It uh, should be standing straight up. This

Re: Need help with an an Applied Engineering adapter card

2002-08-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
But is the Applied Engineering boar a PDS _extender_ or is it a _converter_ so IIci cache/PDS cards can be installed in the IIsi? DayStar did make an adaptor specifically for installing the 030 PowerCache in an SE/30. Bit of a bugger to find that adaptor these days though. --- J.S. Garrison

Re: Need help with an an Applied Engineering adapter card

2002-08-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To paraphrase the manual: The QuickSilver is a slot extender that raises the SE/30 PDS on the IIsi motherboard and rotates the connector. This enables a expansion cards created for the SE/30's internal slot to fit in the IIsi's confining case. In other

Re: Are there any programs that let you have desktop pictures in 7.6?

2002-08-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On an old hard drive that came with a Mac I had, there was a PICT file somewhere in the System Folder named Screen. (Ugly picture.) When I moved it out of the folder it didn't show as a desktop picture. The Appearance SDK can also do some stuff for 7.x. It provides the Systemwide Platinum

Re: 12 monitors

2002-08-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
They can be used as a second monitor to move Photoshop pallets onto or applications with small windows that you want open most of the time. The resolution is only 512x384 so you'll have to Think Different, small. ;) Some older games will work on one. Bolo, some games from Ambrosia, most of the

Re: Need help with an an Applied Engineering adapter card

2002-08-31 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, if I understand this correctly, the quicksilver card adapts the IIsi PDS slot to use SE/30 cards because the IIsi PDS slot is not like the SE/30 PDS slot. The IIsi and SE/30 slots are the same except the IIsi runs faster. Any ideas on how to adapt a

Re: Mac II couch

2002-09-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check this one out: http://www.krank.dk/newstuff/computer/MacII_Couch_600.jpg LOL! That's bizarre. If intended to be used (sat on) there would have to be plenty of bracing under the seat and in the back. Need cushions too. =

Re: Mac II couch

2002-09-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Terry Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very, very extremely bad FPU performance in 68k series chips. FP was always the one thing that Intel could mop the board with Motorola over. Why isn't there a Seti@home client for 68k Macs? Sure, it'd be slow but slow is better than none. The

Re: System 7.1 vs. System 7.1.1 (pro)

2002-09-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also incidently, 7.1 really flies on an '040 ;) 7.1 really flies on anything. :-) Anything it will install on... ;) = http://www.junkscience.com All the Junk that's fit to Debunk! __ Do You

Re: Performa 5260

2002-09-06 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Wayne Forland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best operating system to use on these computers? Probably OS 8.6 or 9.1. (9.1 runs decent on my Radius with the 110Mhz 601 and my 7300 with the 200Mhz 604e.) Max the RAM out and get at least a 2gig hard drive. But those Macs are well off

Re: Mac Driver Museum update

2002-09-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Bhavesh Patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Latest updates to the Mac Driver Museum: clip # Fixed Pioneer CD Changer info. Thanks Gregg! clip May want to add that the OEM version of FWB CD-ROM Toolkit available here http://www.lowendmac.net/daystar/download/software/upgrades_604/

Re: Monitor mystery solved!

2002-09-12 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interestingly enough - and this is probably why we were so confused - Apple made a monitor called the AppleColor High-Resolution RGB monitor, and I, at least, thought that's what you were referring to. It's a 640x480 fixed-frequency 13 monitor with

Re: 17 inch monitors

2002-09-12 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- dhill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have pretty much decided to stick with 15 inch monitors from now on. The 17 inch ones are just two big for my back to handle. When you get old, that is what happens. You can get free 15 inch monitors by standing on a corner in a big city with a

Re: MacOS 7.5.x

2002-09-12 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Brad Bobak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all.. I need to know if I can create a bootable os7.5.x CD, boot with that CD, and install the os.. I have a cd burner on my windows box.. It's supposedly possible, yet I've consistently failed to create one with Toast or Nero MAX running on a

Re: hmm... Re: uh-oh... more catch 22s Re: stuffit on a LC III

2002-09-17 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Hunt up TransMac. The demo allows you to work with floppy disks and files of floppy size or smaller. Use it to format a floppy in Mac format then copy the Stuffit Expander file to the floppy. Select the right option and it will decode it from binhex (HQX) or macbinary (BIN) and properly place

Why Mac files have to be encoded as HQX or BIN. Re: hmm... Re: uh-oh... more catch 22s Re: stuffit

2002-09-17 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- /dev/null [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no worries - i'll give this a try. i have a formatted mac floppy - so it should work if i just unstuff in windows and copy to the A drive?... Nope! Not unless the .bin or .hqx file is a stuffit archive, which would be indicated with a .sit.hqx or

Re: Mac II, Quadra Questions

2002-09-17 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip choose between a IIci and Quadra as second machine or fool-around-with-machine I'd take the IIci because of the following reasons: 1. more upgrade possibilities (up to powerpc). The Quadra can upgrade to PPC with the DayStar PowerPro,

Re: local talk from Powerbook Duo 230 to a G4 tower?

2002-09-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Scott Holder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Localtalk goes from serial port to serial port. That is, Printer Port to Printer Port. However, unless I'm mistaken, the G4s don't have the standard serial ports, so there is nowhere to plug it into the G4. The only way to use AppleTalk between a

Re: cdrom made on G4 unreadable on OS 7.1

2002-09-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what format do i need to make a CD in so it is readable for OS 7 ? can i get an old version of Toast or something to make it work? You need to make sure Toast is burning in HFS, not HFS+. (Mac OS Standard, not Extended.) = Work it harder make it better do

Adventure games. Re: thanks all! it works :)

2002-09-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
If you're running a PC emulator or card you could try out ZZT. http://zzt.the-underdogs.org/ The whole orginal package has been released as freeware. Since it uses ANSI graphics it's sorta like a fancy nethack type single player game. The site there has tons of different worlds to download and

Re: Computer names.

2002-09-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
For a person who plays Quake, the perfect name for a Quad(ra) would be Damage. ;) 'Course Quake won't actually run on a Quadra... (Which reminds me I need to look for a hack to increase the brightness in GLQuake. Can't see _anything_ _anywhere_ with the brightness all the way up, except when

Re: local talk from Powerbook Duo 230 to a G4 tower?

2002-09-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Clark Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:23 PM -0700 9/19/2002, Gregg Eshelman wrote: Or convince the officepeople they need a LocalTalk capable USB to Serial adaptor for the G4. :) It'll also come in handy should they have any legacy serial devices they still want to use with the G4

So he wanted the Daft Punk URL... Re: Real long life lightbulbs. Re: stopping computers Re: Don't g

2002-09-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- R.A. Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shoot me the DaftPunk URL if you've got it handy. Thanks http://www.virginrecords.com/daft_punk/ They do some weird stuff. Mostly techno, industrial. Some of it's just plain bizarre. ;) = Work it harder make it better do it faster makes us

Re: So he wanted the Daft Punk URL... Re: Real long life lightbulbs. Re: stopping computers Re: Do

2002-09-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- R.A. Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shoot me the DaftPunk URL if you've got it handy. Thanks http://www.virginrecords.com/daft_punk/ They do some weird stuff. Mostly techno, industrial. Some of it's just plain bizarre. ;)

Re: LC 520 and the CD Caddy

2002-09-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
The LC 520 and some of the LC 550 series used a CD-ROM drive that requires Sony type CD caddies. The Performa 550 used a tray load drive and the LC 550 also did after the Performa version was released. The caddies are about the size of a CD jewel box, have a flip open clear lid and s sliding

Re: Apple 21 inch monochrome monitor

2002-09-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Charles M Gascoigne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of them certainly works, I have it plugged into a powermac of some sort with a standard mac video to weird 000: sort of plug which is That's called a 13W3 connector. 13 pins and three coaxial connectors. Gives 19 contacts total.

Re: A/UX...is free?

2002-09-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- MaX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have see that here occasionally you discuss about A/UX. Well... but is free? can i download it from somewere? or a/ux is a copyrigt OS and i need to buy it? http://www.floodgap.com/retrotech/os/aux/ Other questions... witch kind of machine

Re: A/UX...is free?

2002-09-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- MaX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: witch kind of machine is fast enougth for a/ux? and how much ram is needed? Stick with an 030 system with an FPU. The best Mac it can run on is the IIfx. It will not work on an 040 or PowerMac. As for RAM

Re: A/UX...is free?

2002-09-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Smith Family [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to burn it on a Windoze machine. I noticed that Aladdin Expander can decompress gzip files. Once I do that, can Nero burn the resulting .image file and write the disc copy image to a floppy? Also, what should I do with the update?

Re: Mac Color Classic

2002-09-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, no. A Color Classic is an LC II. It wil only recognize 10MB of RAM and runs at a dismal 16Mhz. You CAN place another logic board inside. The Mystic Upgrade, Stuart Bell's baby, is a logic board from an LC or Performa 575. Much faster.

Re: printer cables???

2002-09-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Yvetta Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to set up the Apple laserwriter II NTX printer with the Apple IIci computer. The apple talk cable that I have on my other older mac doesn't fit on the IIci. Do you have the three wire AppleTalk cable? You'll need the 8 pin Mini DIN

Re: Sound and the LC

2002-09-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Spiritus ex Machina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You figure it out, 'cause I sure can't. insert puzzled Smiley here Most older PC soundcards with one speaker jack have one or two jumpers to select line level out or amplified output. :) E-mail me off-list and I'll see what info I can find on

Re: A/UX...is free?

2002-09-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Smith Family [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to download the ISO. Or do you know how I can burn Toast .image files with Nero? Click File Burn Image. Change the list to All Files so the .image files will show up. After selecting the image there should be an HFS

Re: Ethernet Card for SE/30?

2002-09-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Clark Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 4:42 AM -0400 9/30/2002, Steve Cunningham wrote: Did anyone even make one? I have an Asante external device which hooks up via the SCSI port (works with the older PowerBooks too) but the driver is incompatible with IPNetMonitor which I want to

Re: Sound and the LC

2002-09-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mike Mellor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cleaned the contacts with a pencil eraser - now the sound works great! Unfortunately, several innocent dust bunnies were also killed in the process :). Careful use of an electronic cleaner spray might take the corrosion film off the contacts in

Re: A/UX...is free?

2002-10-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Desert Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I'm wondering about System 7.1.1 Pro. Does that make an even bigger difference in performance when used with A/UX? According to the FAQs, you can't update the System with A/UX. Won't work. = Work it harder make it better do it faster makes

Re: Mac Color Classic

2002-10-03 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- THE ROCK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a related topic, what's the maximum amount of ram that a mac classic (not color) can handle? TIA. 4meg. Classic II is 10meg. = Work it harder make it better do it faster makes us stronger. More than ever hour after our work is never over. Daft

Re: Mac Color Classic

2002-10-03 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Scott Holder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4 megs. A Classic can be thought of as a Mac Plus Plus. It's essentially identical, right down to being able to run System .97, except it has ADB and a Superdrive. Not to mention the boot ROM. I personally rather like Classics :) It also has

Re: internet phone

2002-10-03 Thread Gregg Eshelman
See if www.dialpad.com is still around. = Work it harder make it better do it faster makes us stronger. More than ever hour after our work is never over. Daft Punk __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com

Re: Voice over IP with mac

2002-10-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- MaX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all i need to say if is possible to use my Color Classic to phone via internet to my wife. Very, very unlikely. There's no 68k software for it that I know of and any of the web services like Dialpad.com would require at least Internet Explorer 5 for

Re: Voice over IP with mac

2002-10-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- MaX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 04:52:28 -0700 (PDT) Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dialpad.com would require at least Internet Explorer 5 for their interface and Java stuff. ...sorry, but in my machines there are no site for M$ applications. :-) I

Re: can i hurt anything doing this?

2002-10-07 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- /dev/null [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi janet in a word, nope. if you put a floppy from a pc into a system 7.x mac, the mac will say 'this disc is not formatted, would you like to format it now?'. the only problem is you'll have 2 options, format or eject! likewise if you put a sys.

OT: Looks like an iPod ripoff. ;)

2002-10-08 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Anyone else seen the ads on yahoo mail for the Palm Zire PDA? Looks a whole lot like the iPod. Specs are junk. No expansion and only 2meg RAM, plus it's huge compared to other Palms. It's like Palm got inspired by the Mac Classic and gussied up one of their early models with a new case and Palm

Re: Looks like an iPod ripoff. ;)

2002-10-08 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Shane J. Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I must say that I love your signature! Thanks. :) I like some of their stuff, not all though. The Handspring Visor, while not being made anymore, is still a much better buy, even with Palm OS 3.1. Still being sold at handspring.com = Work it

Re: case mod IIci.

2002-10-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Shane J. Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll have to look at my IIci case when I get to work. I think it flows from the top to the back, so you'll probably want to stick in somewhere in the back, pulling air out, or in the top, pushing air in. The fan in the IIci power supply draws

Re: case mod IIci.

2002-10-09 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 19:13 -0500 on 09/10/02, Donn Haven Lathrop wrote: Those plastic covers on the drives actually make the problem a lot * worse* in my experience. I've got two of them--where do I send them? :-D Hopefully your local recycling centre or

Re: IIsi problems

2002-10-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Bryan Kattwinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another one turns on and off properly, but the sound is extremely weak. This IIsi has one of those ROM SIMMs. I seem to recall that the IIsi ROM SIMM has some value -- how much do you think it is worth? Some people have been able to swap

Re: IIsi problems

2002-10-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to recall that the IIsi ROM SIMM has some value -- how much do you think it is worth? Potentially a lot to an SE/30 owner. Perhaps you'd like to test the rumour that it makes an SE/30 32-bit clean, or lend it to someone trustworthy

Re: Macintosh SE stuff sought (Seattle, WA. USA)

2002-10-15 Thread Gregg Eshelman
If your ISP has a usenet (news groups) server, there's a Mac group dedicated to the Seattle area. If not, you can use http://groups.google.com to read and post to seattle.users.macintosh http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8group=seattle.users.macintosh = Work it harder make it

Re: IIsi ROM simm

2002-10-15 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Bryan Kattwinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 10/15/02 7:19 AM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: Some people have been able to swap them into an SE/30 so they could have a 32bit clean compact Mac able to take full advantage of up to 128meg RAM. Why is the IIsi ROM simm better than using Mode32

Re: Logitech Scanman

2002-10-15 Thread Gregg Eshelman
ftp://ftp.logitech.com/pub/techsupport/hand_held_scanners/mac/ ScanMan 2.2 software. Final version. Not for PowerMacs or 68k AV Macs. = Work it harder make it better do it faster makes us stronger. More than ever hour after our work is never over. Daft Punk

Re: FPM - Reloaded

2002-10-15 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a little teaser of what the new FPM will look like. I like it - I dunno about you :) http://homepage.mac.com/markbenson/fpm_teaser.jpg I need to know if there are any problems with Tables support in old browsers? For Netscape you must

Re: FPM - Reloaded

2002-10-15 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...or use .shtml and you can then not have to worry about updating the same information 3 times. Yep, there are ways to write your text boilerplate section then grab it for fancy use as well as having the same text used for text only browsing. =

Re: PowerMac 7200/120 PC Compatible

2002-10-16 Thread Gregg Eshelman
on 10/16/02 9:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should subscribe to the mac-n-dos list for that Mac. = Work it harder make it better do it faster makes us stronger. More than ever hour after our work is never over. Daft Punk

Re: Not really a Mac, but pretty cool

2002-10-16 Thread Gregg Eshelman
The old Commodore 64 monitor or the one TI sold for the 99-4/A would work great with the apple. = Work it harder make it better do it faster makes us stronger. More than ever hour after our work is never over. Daft Punk __ Do you Yahoo!? Faith

Mac-n-DOS list. Re: PowerMac 7200/120 PC Compatible

2002-10-16 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops, sorry everyone - inappropriate list. I didn't even think about it, since I only subscribe to the swap list and this one. I don't post to this list often either, so again, it was a mistake - shoulda posted to the PowerMacs list I guess. R.A. Cantrell is

Re: Invisible HD

2002-10-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Lo'oRiS il Kabukimono [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ah, the structure is this? external | | controller | | internal so, even if internal are well terminated, since controller is stupid i must also terminate the external? When NOT using any external SCSI devices, you don't

Re: Invisible HD

2002-10-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Lo'oRiS il Kabukimono [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so, TERMPWR is useless without external terminators? SCSI devices usually have three options for TERMPWR. They can provide it to the bus, to themselves or to both. It doesn't do anything to have the device provide its own TERMPWR if it isn't

Re: NuBus Video Card

2002-10-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
There are Mac to VGA monitor adaptors that will connect a composite or seperate sync monitor to a Mac that only outputs sync on green. Unfortunately those adaptors generally cost around $50! = Work it harder make it better do it faster makes us stronger. More than ever hour after our work is

Re: NuBus Video Card

2002-10-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Robert Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a 12 card in front of me. At one end it says 1999,90 Apple Computer 670-0310. At the other end, 820-0310-05 Macintosh Display 8*24*GC. It HAS two empty 68-pin sockets (for Global??? vram I think). Doesn't seem to be any better than a

Re: System 7.something for x86?

2002-10-19 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Ian Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This might be a little off topic, but I read a really big history or Apple and it mentioned an Apple project sometime in the early 1990s in which a team developed an Intel-compatible version of the Mac OS, codenamed Star Trek. Has anyone else heard

Re: System 7.something for x86?

2002-10-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd cheat, http://balder.prohosting.com/newtonip/mac.html#BIOS That's a horrible ROM file for Basilisk II. The Quadra 650 ROM works much better. :) = Work it harder make it better do it faster makes us stronger. More than ever hour after our work is

Re: System 6 on a Color Classic

2002-10-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- MaX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: System 7.1 is slow in this machine (10 MB ram + 68882). So the only way to boot the performance is to change the mainboard with a 575... but after i want to try the system 6 way. You can also use the board from an LC or Performa 550 and convert it into a

Re: System 7.something for x86?

2002-10-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Charles Shannon Hendrix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't know it was optimized for any specific ROM: which one works best? I don't know if it is optmized for a specific ROM, the Quadra 650 one just seems to work best. You can get lots of ROM files from this site. ;)

Re: Determining the amount of VRAM I have

2002-10-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the VRAM has 2 chips, its 256k. If it has 4, it's 512k. The 4*8 card needs a pair of 512K ones to become an 8*24, right? 'Course if I had an 8*24GC I'd put it in the Radius and the 24bit NuBus Radius card from it would go in the Power IIci. :)

Re: Fast text-only browser?

2002-10-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Charles Shannon Hendrix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still haven't figured out exactly what it is about browsers that takes up so many resources anyway. I would think that something like links would run very well on an '030, if it can be ported (it's a UNIX application). Do a web

Re: IIfx...keeper?

2002-10-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Kevin Quosig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --The OrangeMicro card--can it be upgraded to faster processors? Possibly. Is the 386 socketed? If it's a surface mounted 386SX there were some clip-on 486 upgrade CPUs. If it's a socketed 386DX you can plug in a 486DLC/2 which is basically a 386

Re: IIfx...keeper?

2002-10-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Scott Holder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My guess, if it's a socketted 386, the fastest you could put in there are some of the older Intel Overdrive processors and... I think it was Cyrix who made a 486-class chip that fit in a 386 socket. If it's not socketted... You're stuck unless you

Re: Vintage RAM Accelerators

2002-10-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Kevin Quosig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: QUESTIONS: RAM: --What other Macs can use the IIfx RAM besides the IIfx? None. But at least one of the Apple LaserWriters can use IIfx RAM. RAM found in that printer usually _can't_ be used in a IIfx because the printer doesn't require RAM as fast

Re: Vintage RAM Accelerators

2002-10-22 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Kris Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIfx ram is proprietary 64-bit. No other Macs use it. It's really expensive, though, sell it on eBay! 64pin, not 64bit. :) = Work it harder make it better do it faster makes us stronger. More than ever hour after our work is never over. Daft Punk

Re: optical mice and ADB...

2002-10-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Charles Shannon Hendrix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone found an optical mouse that uses ADB? How about a converter? Ideally... something that would work for a PowerMac 8100 as well as a IIci. If there was ever a KVM* that could use a PS/2 mouse on an ADB Mac, that might work

Flat Pack Macs. Re: Mac LCII

2002-10-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, Oct 24, 2002, at 01:10 Europe/London, the pickle wrote: Must remember to start mentioning that whenever someone asks about LCs... Yeh damn it, the amount of work I put into it I expect it to be mentioned at eery possible

Re: invisible hd still doesn't work :(

2002-10-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
OK, didn't you say it worked on a PC with a SCSI controller? If so, and that controller has its own BIOS, use it to see if the drive can be low level formatted. I've run into the problem many times where something happens to a drive on a Mac that fouls it up so bad no Mac formatting utility will

Re: Macintosh Case Modding List

2002-10-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
See http://www.applefritter.com for a bunch of hacks and mods on Macs. = Work it harder make it better do it faster makes us stronger. More than ever hour after our work is never over. Daft Punk __ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive

Re: variations on a theme [was Macintosh Case Modding List]

2002-10-12 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It can't be done in Mac OS. It CAN be done (I would have thought) in Linux/BSD. Don't ask me how - I'm a hardware jock. A Dual '040/33 would make a nice server :). Hmmm, if there was something to connect the PDS connections of two identical LC

OT: Apple prototype on eBay, wish it was mine!

2002-10-12 Thread Gregg Eshelman
There's a Power Express on eBay now, 3 days left. That's a 275Mhz G3 with 6 PCI slots and tons of other stuff Apple never had on any Mac they actually shipped. 'scuse me while I mop up the drool. ;) = Work it harder make it better do it faster makes us stronger. More than ever hour after

Re: OT: Apple prototype on eBay, wish it was mine!

2002-10-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a Power Express on eBay now, 3 days left. That's a 275Mhz G3 with 6 PCI slots and tons of other stuff Apple never had on any Mac they actually shipped. 'scuse me while I mop up the drool. ;) Wish it were mine too. Hope Tom

Re: case modding etc

2002-10-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all. I have a few questions of everyone I have a Performa 400 (aka LCII) and i have been inspecting the mobo a while. I can see the solder spots where a 68882 fpu socket could be added, if the socket and fpu could be had. Anyone know anything about

Re: Can BasiliskII run A/UX instead MacOS?

2002-10-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- MaX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as subject Nope. A/UX requires virtual memory, which requires an MMU. Basilisk II does not emulate an MMU. And that's only one of the reasons why it can't run A/UX, but it's enough. :) Basilisk II is more of a Macintosh _simulator_ than it is an emulator. The

Sharing new printers with older Macs. Re:

2002-10-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Ian Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you set that up? It sure would help me out with my Macs. Also, can a Mac with a non-USB OS like System 7.1 use shared USB printers on newer Macs if the older Mac has the printer's driver installed? Firstly, your printer must have 68k drivers

Re: System 7.something for x86?

2002-10-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
, but in the system.ini (yukky DOS terms, ugh) files, there should be a shell= line. Just change it from shell=explorer.exe to shell=[whereever your BasiliskII.exe is] Gregg Eshelman wrote: I've heard you can change the Windows shell to Basilisk II and have your PC boot right into Mac OS then shut down

Re: Mac IIci

2002-10-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Charles Shannon Hendrix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are some features I really like in later versions of MacOS, that I'd like to get 7.x to do: * tabbing windows at the bottom of the screen You can get a Win9x style taskbar using an app called Action GoMac. I don't know of anything

Re: 7.1 is 8.1, maybe, almost...

2002-10-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You list 4 things that make it more like 7.5. It's hardly the same. I'm talking about building a comprehensive list of extensions and CPs that work with 7.1 to make is better. You are the one constantly telling everyone to use it, here is a

Re: Rethinking I.E. Browsers

2002-10-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip card. In fact, the 6100 now has Netscape 4.76. IT clip FYI. 4.8 is out now. ;) Too bad they stopped work on the 68k version at 4.08. What's the last IE for 68k? 5.0? (MS did 5.0something for Win3.1x) = Work it harder make it better do it

Re: Sharing new printers with older Macs. Re:

2002-10-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All Macs support postscript printing over appletalk anyway. Postscript laserwriters have always been network printers in Mac networks, with or without a unix machine. You don't need a unix machine to share a postscript printer in a Mac

Re: Rethinking I.E. Browsers

2002-10-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip card. In fact, the 6100 now has Netscape 4.76. IT clip FYI. 4.8 is out now. ;) Nobody uses that stuff anymore. Mozilla is what is happening Not happening here until someone gets off

PowerPrint printer compatability list for older versions.

2002-10-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I have version 4.5 and 3.0.0 of PowerPrint and can copy the lists of compatable printers to HTML or another format if someone wants to host the files. Strydent only has the list for their latest version and only in a PDF file. :P Makes it rather difficult for people who want to know if some older

Re: Sharing new printers with older Macs. Re:

2002-10-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What if it's a new printer without 68k drivers and doesn't have LaserWriter emulation? (Or emulation for any other PostScript printer brand that had 68k drivers?) Every 68k Mac can print to any postscript

Adobe's prnter drivers download. Re: Sharing new printers with older Macs. Re:

2002-10-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
For Macintosh http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=44platform=Macintosh For Windows http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=44platform=Windows There you'll also find PPD files for Mac and Windows as well as a few INF files for Windows. For Mac the

Epson 640 printer. Re: apple's older software download

2002-10-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- flawed jai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what the H are they trying to tell me here? it's an epson color stylus 640. can I or can't I put it on my 68K mac II's in system 7.x? It has a parallel port and a USB port? Apparently no solution for 68k, even with PowerPrint unless the

Re: Adobe's prnter drivers download. Re: Sharing new printers with older Macs. Re:

2002-10-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For Macintosh http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=44platform=Macintosh For Windows http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=44platform=Windows There you'll also find PPD files for Mac and

Re: Sharing new printers with older Macs. Re:

2002-10-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
If you have a printer with 68k Mac drivers and an ethernet LAN, grab one of the HP JetDirect EX printserver boxes off eBay. You want to make certain to get the Ethernet version! There's also a JetDirect EX Plus 3 that can run 3 printers. Make sure you get the power supply because it uses a

Re: older macs with newer printers--different question

2002-10-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED], What, no old Mac inkjets? Stylewriter II, 1200, 1500 and color 2500's? Try 'em if you find 'em. Very low, if any, prices these days. Quality varies according to abuse received. Rebadged Canon printers with MacSerial instead of parallel ports. There's also the HP

Re: older macs with newer printers--different question

2002-10-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Current Epson printers have a chip snapped onto the ink cartridges which the printer updates as it's used. Going by the number of nozzle firings, it calculates when it figures it's out of ink. Some companies are getting rich selling devices to reprogram the chips and new replacement chips for

Re: older macs with newer printers--different question

2002-10-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Charles Shannon Hendrix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where did you hear this? I'm not doubting you, I just have not heard of it before. I mean, if that happens then it should be big news given how fast 3rd party carts sell at computer shows. Here's one company that sells the resetters.

Re: nubus ethernet

2002-10-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Kris Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a pile of Asante and Cabletron network cards (nubus 10baseT). For a Mac IIci, does anyone have an opinion on which one is the best? Asante. I think they have more accessable drivers. Well, until they were bought by Intel, that is. When did

Re: older macs with newer printers--different question

2002-10-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, Oct 30, 2002, at 15:52 Europe/London, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: IMHO, all of the companies rip you off on ink cartridges. The printers are cheap crap designed to eat carts. They should a leaf out of Lexmark's book. Their

Re: Replacement PSU for LC-series?

2002-10-30 Thread Gregg Eshelman
The plug looks like one of the two used on an XT/AT type PC motherboard. *reads spec sheet* Hmmm, looks like some bizarre custom, proprietary el-cheapo micro size, custom PC box power supplies I've run into. The type where The power supply is dead and the manufacturer wants $120 for a new one. So

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