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

2003-03-31 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: various people wrote What's the bet Connectix might have had something, but Apple didn't want them to release it and bought it off them? Conspiracy theory. I like it. :-) Another 200 mpg carburetor. Any company willing to write the ROMs

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

2003-04-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Give a competent programmer with proper equipment a ROM dump and financial incentive and if this problem is solvable, we'll have it fixed inside of a week. Finding the competent programmer is going to be the difficult (read: impossible) part. Naw,

Re: Eclectic Stuff; Was: LC Road Apple

2003-04-04 Thread Gregg Eshelman
From: Joseph Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 00:04:08 -0800 The M6260A is a support chip handling communications for the 8xC154D MCU. Try 64 pin DIP. If anyone has NEC Manual: Microprocessor and Peripheral - Data Book Volume III it probably contains what I need, from

LocalTalk JetDirect print server in a DeskJet 1200C/PS printer.

2003-05-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I just picked up an HP DeskJet 1200C/PS 300DPI inkjet printer. It has a PostScript Level 2 simm installed, leaving two RAM slots empty. 4megs RAM, expandable to 20 megs. (2 megs onboard + 2 megs in the PostScript simm.) Has 45 internal scalable fonts plus one font cartridge slot. It also has a

Re: Mouse Question

2003-05-31 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Steve Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the little black piece in the connector necessary? My cats knocked the keyboard of one of my machines to the floor and when the mouse was ripped free the black piece was broken off. It seems the mouse still works but I thought I'd better ask

Re: IIsi with memory issues

2003-05-12 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (from previous post: IIsi using 10 MB for System, not much left over for other apps) RE: recognising more than 8MB of memory. It appears that all 17MB are recognized, and I can use them. It just bites that I only have 7 MB available for apps other than

Re: OT: MacRoots

2003-06-12 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Ray Sleeva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All: I have a friend who needs some help. His case: I am missing the utility portion of the MacRoots 7.3 genealogy program, which is Macroots Exchange. The program came off an Educorp CD a long time ago. I've found these sites that have versions

Re: Question

2003-06-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Steve Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip HDs) a funny thing happened. After awhile the window opened to showNOTHING! However, it still said I had the same amount of data on the HD. Any ideas Some Mac hard drive utilities have an option to do a low level format on a drive. Of

Re: Changing the wallpaper in OS 7.1

2003-07-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have very little experience in macintosh, and recently got a Macintosh LC III, off ebay. I know how to change the pattern for it, but it had a homer simpson wallpaper on it, when i first turned it on. i want to put my own wallpaper on it. i cant find

Re: is it possible to have a screensaver in os7.1?

2003-07-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Underware byt Bit Jugglers. Download it here. http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/screensavers/#Underware It has the ability to run most After Dark 2.0 modules as well as Underware modules. I have the full module set for Underware, which was on the hard drive of some Mac I had bought a

Re: networking question

2003-07-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a macintosh lc III running system 7.1 I have a windows network. If i were to install a ethernet card, would it access the windows computers, and the internet?? At the jr. high i attended last year, there were two seperate sides of the computer lab.

Re: IIfx and 400mb hard drive

2003-07-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Powermac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to use a spare apple rommed Seagate ST1480N 400mb hard drive (out of a quadra 950) in my IIfx since it is larger then the stock 5.25 160mb drive that came with it (hopefully faster also).

Re: networking question

2003-07-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a microsoft wired base station. it has the network, and the internet router built in. could i just connect the ethernet card to it and be able to access the internet? Should be able to use the router with the Mac. Depending on what is required, you

Re: DeskPicture

2003-07-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm useing deskpicture to put a wallpaper on my mac lc III running os 7.1. it works. i still have no idea how to change the background useing it. anyone know how to do this? i created a PICT file like it said, but it says i need quicktime, and a jpeg

Re: Performa 550 help

2003-07-07 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got a lot of different memory sticks in it? Is there a bad slot? Remove them and reinstall in different slots. Or remove the oddball and don't use it/them. The Performa 550 (the Fat Color Classic II) only has one RAM slot. ;) = When you are

Re: SCSI hard drive woes-need help again!

2003-07-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Todd Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Gamba, When I try that, I get the following message: Drive selection failed. Unable to locate a suitable drive connected to the SCSI port. Apple System Profiler, however, still reports it as being present. The SCSI id is 0, and I'm

Re: AppleShare IP

2003-07-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Kyle D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you very much for your help. These files seem to only be updates, though. Will any of them work as full versions of the AppleShare IP software? (Because I don't have ANY of the original AppleShare IP software - I got my mac from a family

Re: SCSI hard drive woes-need help again!

2003-07-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Phil Beesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip be used internally and that auto motor start is ON I knew there was something I forgot in my other reply to this. Macintosh computers do not send a start unit command on the SCSI bus. What also does not work is an Autostart Delay. What that does is

Re: getting files off LC-II

2003-07-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jennifer Mosley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip I would like to transfer those files to a more permanent storage solution, ideally one that can be readable by PC's. TransMac http://www.asy.com/ The demo is limited to copying files of 1.4meg or smaller. You can't read 400K or 800K Mac

Re: PPP for Mac II si

2003-07-17 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I am feeling a bit uneducated right now. I have a Mac IIsi that I am trying to configure PPP to work over the network. So far all I can do is get it to look for a modem which I do not have. I have OT 1.1.1 installed and OT PPP, but still only can access a

Re: Wonder If She Gets Service Calls?

2003-07-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was testing browsers this morning. I put in the phrase, Macintosh Lisa into the box and hit go. In Overture, the first return was a font site. (huh?!). In Google, I got several returns for Macintosh Lisa. One was the following: Lisa

Re: New Mac User Seeks Networking Advise

2003-07-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Adam Cora Dietrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a LC520 running system 7.5.5. I got a pds ethernet card coming in the mail (probably tomorrow) and am looking for advice for connecting this to my existing 10/100 pc lan. i am currently running TCP/IP and NetBEUI on the lan, with

Re: New Mac User Seeks Anti- Virus Software

2003-07-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Adam Cora Dietrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also will need some antivirus software that will run on the LC 520. Any suggestion? Pop +free +macintosh +antivirus into www.yahoo.com (with the + signs!) and you'll get plenty of hits. Not much need since there weren't many classic Mac

Re: New Mac User Seeks Networking Advise

2003-07-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gregg Eshelman wrote: What make and model is it? Some of the older Asante cards don't correctly identify themselves as being only capable of 10 megabits and have problems with unmanaged 10/100 switches, routers etc. How many dud nic cards did Asante

Re: New Mac User Seeks Networking Advise

2003-07-22 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Adam Cora Dietrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got the card in and the mac acknowledges that i now have an ethernet card. However, on my 10/100 hub there is nothing lit up to acknowledge that the mac is there. Fiddling with the software will get you nowhere until you have a lit up Link

Re: New Mac User Seeks Networking Advise

2003-07-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam Cora Dietrick wrote: okay- its an asante card (Asante Tech, INC (c) 1993 MCLC Rev A) clip MCLC = MacCon LC, made for the LC PDS, as is in your Performa/LC 520. Call it the LC III All In One. ;-) While this link lists all of the cards I can find

Re: pc/mac net

2003-07-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Adam Cora Dietrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i ofund and installed the driver but didnt see any differenence afterwareds i installed PCMAClan on the PC and it claims the mac isnt send any packets. then again, should it be if it doesnt know the other computer is there? Get OT Tool

Re: alt-tab

2003-07-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Kyle D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure if it works in classic Mac OS but I'd assume that it does. Try Command + Tab for switching between programs, and Command + Tilde (without holding down the shift key) to switch between windows in a single program. They should work, but they

Re: doublers

2003-07-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ram Doubler can do well in many Macs. It uses a combo of virtual-memory-like swapping and software voodoo but DOES slow down everything you do. I don't know which version first had this, but when I used RAM Doubler I turned compression Off so it was

Re: 030 Direct Slot Adapter Card w/ FPU

2003-07-26 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip It is an (old) unopened box w/ a IIsi 030 Direct Slot Adapter Card with an FPU. Sounds like the NuBus adaptor which allows one NuBus card to be installed, plus adds the 68882 FPU. I can imagine what it is for; my questions is does this improve the

Re: turbo and powercache

2003-07-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip I noticed daystar made two types: powercache and turbo. I suppose the powercache goes into the cache slot and the turbo in the pds. What are the other differences? Daystar's main 68k accelerator/upgrade products were: 030 Power Cache.

Re: browser and email

2003-07-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Rusty Shackelford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can anyone suggest a faster browser and a faster email program for running on a lc520 running system 7.5.5. for those who dont know, the lc520 is powered by an 030. i am running netscape 3 (not gold) and it is like molasis, mostly due to the

Re: LaserWriter Select 310 problems

2003-07-31 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip I guess we must limit ourselves to the Apple printers because otherwise there would come no end to the amount of reviews we should have to write. Any ideas? Well there is a finite number of printers that will work with older Macs since

NuBus Mafia. Re: LaserWriter Select 310 problems

2003-07-31 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip If we are truly creative we could also add reviews and specs on the various cards available for the older macs and apple computers... That project has been started, but I dunno how far along it has gotten. Look up NuBus Mafia. ;) It's inspired by the MCA

Re: Hard disk refuses to mount

2003-07-31 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Rusty Shackelford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, both programs find the drive and both identify it as a pc drive. so how do i make it a mac drive? Quick thing to try if you have PC Exchange installed is to open that control panel then check the box to load PC SCSI drivers at boot. Then

Re: Need advice on Macintosh IIci

2003-07-31 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- S. Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a Macintosh IIci with a bad floppy drive. Can I replace the SWIM for FDHD superdrive with a regular old PC drive? I need this Mac for work, it integrates with the old machining programs we run. Nope, Mac floppy drives are Mac floppy

Re: IIci L2 cache, and other questions!

2003-08-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jeff Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to Designing Cards and Drivers for the Macintosh Family, 3rd Edition, Table 1-1 the ROM slot allows expansion to up to 64 MB of ROM. Anyone know if that's a misprint? Considering that the Classic has a stripped down System 6

Re: monitor focus

2003-08-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
The focus control is inside the monitor on the flyback transformer. That's the large black or brown plastic lump with the big wire connected to the CRT. Most of them have two knobs or recessed controls, one labled screen, the other focus. Focus is obvious. ;) Screen is the master brightness

Re: Mac IIci

2003-08-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other card is still a bit of a puzzle. It sort of looks like a modem, in that it has two phone jack sized outlets on the back plane, one of which has a black plug installed. Very few components on the card and the only nomenclature seems to be Tut

Re: IIci L2 cache

2003-08-02 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Bryan Kattwinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a Daystar Digital FastCache IIci card here, and I understand they made them in both 32K and 64K sizes. How can I tell what size this one is? The card has 8 motorola MCM6288P25 chips on it (along with 13 others) and appears to have a

Re: Mac IIci

2003-08-03 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Reply follows quote. On 02/08/2003 00:10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Any numbers and/or names on any of the chips? A socketed IC with a paper label: TUT NB256 V1.0 00C023-0002D6 That would be the ROM, version 1.0. So it should show up

Re: Mac IIci

2003-08-03 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Clark Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Google search on this last one reveals it to be a Coaxial Transceiver for ThinNet (10Base2). Before 10BaseT was introduced some people were putting 10Base2 through a transformer and connecting it with twisted pair and phone connectors. I'm

Re: Cabletron NuBus Ethernet Card?

2003-08-04 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jeff Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip So, does anyone have info on this card and/or Cabletron? That is a brand with which I am not familiar. Silkscreened on the end of the card is PN 9000343-05 Rev. B. The back plane plate of the card has a sticker which reads E6119-X

Re: What printer for a Mac Iicx?

2003-08-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
You can expand your old Mac printer horizon a whole bunch by digging up the PowerPrint serial to parallel cable and software. Version 4.5.2 was the last for 68k Macs. Might be some on eBay, just pop powerprint into the whole site search on the main page. = When you are wrestling for

Re: cute new purchases

2003-08-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/10/03 10:53 PM, Gregg Eshelman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that nobody on this list has ever seen a real live PowerCache adaptor for the Classic, Color Classic, SE or LCIII. All of those are on the front of the manual

Re: Radius Full Page Display Madness

2003-08-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip The Radius display runs at 640x870 at an unknown frequency. Its a TTL monitor, meaninng it doesn't support analog video like VGA or Mac color. Its interface is a DB9 connector (somwhat similar to the old Herculese displays for PC's). I suspect that most

Re: cute new purchases

2003-08-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Harbourmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip The problem is that nobody on this list has ever seen a real live PowerCache adaptor for the Classic, Color Classic, SE or LCIII. Huh? I guess I must be hallucinating every time I open up my CC

My latest apple find. :)

2003-08-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I picked up a very nice copy of the Infocom Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy adventure game. It has the box and manual with the snap in clear plastic lid, genuine fluff, microscopic space fleet, peril sensitive sunglasses, DON'T PANIC button, destruction orders for your planet and your house,

Re: Color Classic Adapters, Was: cute new purchases

2003-08-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jeff Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 15:30 -0400 08/11/2003, Vintage Macs wrote: Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 23:53:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] The problem is that nobody on this list has ever seen a real live PowerCache adaptor for the Classic, Color Classic

Re: cute new purchases

2003-08-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also won bids on a daystar powercache for my IIci What Mhz? I hope you got at least a 40Mhz with the FPU chip too. Next on my list is an imagewriter. For some reason it seems rather cool to get one of these. Get one with the AppleTalk card

Re: CDROM drive on an LCIII?

2003-08-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Jules Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip If I plug a drive into the external SCSI connector, how do I disable termination on the host adapter - or is it automatic on these machines? It's automatic. What SCSI ID does the host adapter live at, just to avoid any conflicts...

Re: Low End Mac's Financial Crisis

2003-08-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Dan Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip No big deal. None of them endanger anyone -- until now. The city has threatened to issue an arrest warrant and fine me because of some broken cement, Let me guess, you're required to have a sidewalk, which you are then taxed for having (on

Re: Serial Devices

2003-08-14 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Michelle Klein-Hass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS: I wonder if a modem cable can be used to adapt a serial Palm cradle to an old-school Mac serial port? Don't see why not, unless the TX and RX lines would need swapped, but that's not hard to do with a patch box or a double ended housing

Re: Printer profiles/reviews

2003-08-16 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip Here is a list of all apple printers ever made (the vast majority You left out the DeskWriters which were Mac versions of HP DeskJets. = When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins. Hiro

Re: vintage quality

2003-08-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip I use 68k macs because I just feel more at home with them. I am used to them. They same simple to troubleshoot, are dependable, I've found my Turbo 601 upgraded IIci to be a much less twitchy computer than my Radius 81/110, which itself

Re: New Hardware

2003-08-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just picked up a CD/Maxtet 700 CD ROM Tower. It's got 7 CD ROMS and is marked as a file server. A SCSI device, it hooks to any Mac from an SE/30 to an early PPC. Maybe newer, too, but it's got 4x speed CD's. LEM has an OEM version of FWB CD-ROM

Re: IIfx sound card

2003-08-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Powermac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whats a good cheap sound card for a mac IIfx? All there ever was in the cheap end was the Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16 or PAS16. The drivers fail to work right above System 7.5.3, IIRC. As for the much higher (priced) end, Digidesign was a big player

Re: New Hardware

2003-08-20 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ya Know.. I HAVE FWB, and couldn't get it to mount any CD in any slot even after following the maker's directions. I have TFM in PDF, and read it, and it makes it all seem like a walk, but it won't play with me. Try the CD-ROM Toolkit (with

eXodus? Re: vintage quality

2003-08-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It works using eXodus, requiring 8mb of mac memory and OS7.x or above, the program, soffice in this case, opens in a window on the mac desktop like a normal mac app. So eXodus is a Mac X window client for X running on a unix/linux box? Sorta like Citrix

Re: Unix O/S's for 680x0 chips.

2003-08-22 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Nightwing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip I'm limited to Basilisk II emulating a Quadra 950 [most of the time anyways]. I don't suppose anyone here would have a direct download link to binaries for Debian would they? Sorry, but Basilisk II cannot run any OS other than System 7.1 through

Re: Unix O/S's for 680x0 chips.

2003-08-22 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The MMU I understood was Memory Management Unit and is built into the 030 and above. Dont tell me Apple skimped on that as well as real 040's in some models? For the LC040 you can compile with FPU emulation enabled, but it's very slow. Some of the LC040

Where to find a SCSI CD-RW drive?

2003-08-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Does anyone know where I can find a SCSI CD-RW drive at a reasonable price? Does any company even make SCSI ones anymore? What I've found are older, slower models at double or triple the price of newer, faster IDE drives. Another item that would be handy is a SCSI CD-ROM that is able to read

Re: DHCP server and MacTCP

2003-08-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I set all my network stuff to fixed IP addresses. That makes things much simpler since I always know what IP goes with which device and I don't have to always boot the computer that hands out the addresses first, or at all. If I want to print something on the LaserJet 4 from the 7300 I only need

Re: Where to find a SCSI CD-RW drive?

2003-08-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm. I've got a 1x and a 2x that I'm now using from Smart And Friendly. They're both SCSI. Maybe there's a newer version? A 1x and 2x that write to CD Re-Writeable? = When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle

Re: DHCP server and MacTCP

2003-08-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Phil Beesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip Although MacTCP doesn't support DHCP, it will work with the earlier RARP and BootP protocols. RARP is more or less obsolete but many DHCP servers also support BootP so it will be worth asking. BootP can be set to assign a range of one IP to a

OT: A G6? Re: vintage quality

2003-08-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Steve Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip - I know Mac users who drool over each new speed bump of the Mac CPU. I know people who, despite the G5 being released recently, are wanting either a speed bumped G5 (an increase in MHz) or the G6 to be released haste post haste. Heh! There

Shreve Systems Re: Update on LEM finances

2003-08-26 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Dan Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip I'll be ordering copies of ClarisWorks 3.0 for some of these people -- just $1 through Shreve Systems -- so they have something better than SimpleText to work with. I thought Shreve Systems sold off 100% of their Macintosh inventory to concentrate

Re: Macs For Kids

2003-08-26 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Scott Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I just wanted to make it known to the community that I have started a program called Macs For Kids. Essentially what this is is a program whereby I take in donations of mostly older Macs, but, of Just be sure that for any Mac on which you

Re: slightly OT: i have a new toy too

2003-08-26 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On the Furby and a Mac interface. Do a search on +furby +autopsy ;) Someone had a Furby croak on them so naturally an autopsy was called for. The major find was that the animation can not be randomized. The expressions are all controlled by a cam wheel and gear aggangement in a serial fashion so

Re: just rejoined the list; have a few questions

2003-09-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip Kinda like squeak myself. This Squeak? http://www.squeak.org Runs on Mac OS 7.5 through 9.2.2 plus OSX with Carbon and Cocoa, Windows 95 and up, Unix, Linux, BeOS, NeXT, NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, DOS, OS/2, Acorn RISC OS, Sharp Zaurus, Windows CE, and DEC Itsy.

Squeak Re: just rejoined the list; have a few questions

2003-09-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip The 3.5 version might not be 68k compatible? Least I cant get it to work, error -192. Yep, that's the Hey, this app has no 68K code in it! error code you get when trying to run PPC only stuff on 68k. Squeak 2.1 is the highest 68k compatible version

Microscopic stork inside your Mac. :)

2003-09-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/storkcudadic.html Nested within the complex circuitry of a Motorola 68HC05PG microcontroller sits a silicon stork carrying a new baby. The chip housing the stork is known as a cuda integrated circuit, and was recovered from an Apple motherboard and

Re: LaserWriter IIf paper pickup

2003-09-17 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Bryan Kattwinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got 3 LaserWriter IIf units that have trouble picking up paper out of the tray. I know I can get a new part from fixyourownprinter.com, but it is $30. Any suggestions on a more economical fix for this problem? Try some ammonia based

Re: Need help with a CC's

2003-09-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Michael Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi thereI'm just re-subbing after a long tour in the Candy Graphite Mac world. I have a large horde of sharp-screened CC's (20) and a pile of 550 and 575 mobo's(40) and want to build a bunch of clip installed. Of course all 550 mobo's work And

Re: Mac II cx shows up as 26,000mb memory

2003-10-10 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Ray Fryer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I recently picked up a Mac IIcx and I was just playing around with it. Someone gave me a bag of 30pin simms to up the memory but after doing so my memory shows up as 32+mb and the system shows up as 26+mb. I've tried putting back the original

Re: Mac IIcx removing power supply

2003-10-11 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Ray Fryer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 doesn't lift. I

NuBus Media 100 cards

2003-10-12 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Where might I find the software for a two card NuBus Media 100 setup? There's no external breakout cable with the cards. Anyone ever do a schematic? The Media 100 website now has zero info on the old NuBus cards. :P = When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at

Re: old PB TFT display

2003-10-12 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Beniamino Cenci Goga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip Any ideas? Is the vapor thing just a legend or what? Moisture or air, whatever does it, there are places that can repair some types of LCD problems but the price they charge is nearly always insanely high. Much higher than the laptop is

Re: wwhat OS for LCIII?

2003-10-15 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- williamd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using 32mb ram and a 500mb hd. Just wondering what is the most recent OS I should use? I have 7.6 and have downloaded the update to 7.6.1. Is it my imagination or was there a 7.6.2 before the OS 8? Thanks for any info. 7.6.1 should run pretty decent on

Re: NuBus Media 100 cards

2003-10-22 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gregg Eshelman wrote: Where might I find the software for a two card NuBus Media 100 setup? There's no external breakout cable with the cards. Anyone ever do a schematic? The Media 100 website now has zero info on the old NuBus cards. :P

Re: LCIII. Enet arrived. How to get software on a floppy.

2003-10-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Christopher Shustak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip I believe that I need to find a copy of Open Transport 1.2.2 to run on OS 7.1. I have a cable modem, so I don't need PPP or modem dialing capabilities. You need to install OT 1.1.1 then 1.1.2. That's as far as you go on System 7.x.x.

Re: LCIII. Enet arrived. How to get software on a floppy.

2003-10-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- John Niven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So does it work to go from NO open transport to 1.1.2? Nope. You must download and install 1.1.1 THEN install 1.1.2. That's it, that's the only way on System versions which do not include Open Transport. It's a good idea to poke around here...

OT: Is business _that_ slow at the Apple Store?

2003-10-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
What I wrote to a friend who sent the URL below to me. ;) Sheesh. Apple will only let them (SmallDog) sell NEW Apple products over the internet to current customers. To become a current customer you have to travel to their store in Vermont to sign up, get a username and password. Then you can fly

Re: Daystar card for LC or SE?

2003-10-24 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That appears to be a Daystar for an LC, because of the 16Mhz. 68030. It's lying flat, so it HAS to be for the LC. If you don't have a spare LC around, I'd take it and test it out for you. ;^) The LC and only the LC. Might work in an LCII or III or

Re: 68-pin SCSI to 50/25 pin

2003-10-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
A 68 to 50 pin narrow adapter must include active termination of the high byte. The 68 pin devices then must all be between the controller and the 50 pin devices. = When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. __ Do you Yahoo!?

Re: booting from CDROM

2003-10-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Is there a website with a step by step guide to making bootable CDs with various System and Mac OS versions on them? A while back I tried and tried and made a pile of coasters that would not boot. I even tried copying the System Folders from CDs that would boot, didn't add anything to the folder

Re: booting from CDROM

2003-10-27 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Scott Holder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I screwed it up. It's apple-option-shift-delete. It makes it boot from anything other than the main startup drive/internal HD. Works well for making it boot off an external drive if you're having issues on your main drive, and can

Re: booting from CDROM

2003-10-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marco van de Voort wrote: I know there are some older MacOS versions downloadable. Is any of them in ISO format? There was a 7.5.3 CD image linked to this page http://www.graphixmad.plus.com/mac_troubleshooter/downloads.html 3/4 the way down but

Re: Odd 8.0/LC 475 behavior

2003-10-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip I decided to try Cmd-Opt-Shift-Del to skip booting the CD. This resulted in it booting normally into 8.0 FROM the CD. What gives??? If you only have the hard drive and the CD-ROM, that key combo would force it to try and boot from the CD-ROM,

Re: booting from CDROM

2003-10-28 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marco van de Voort wrote: Large or small is not a problem. I just need something that can be an origin, to format/partition a HD, install MacOS and get the rest of the utils (stuffit/booter/mac68k distro) from CD, without having to rely on a mac HD

Re: booting from CDROM

2003-10-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Kyle DePasquale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm is anyone else having trouble opening up the disc image? I have tried it on my mac in both classic and OS X mode. I've also tried opening it with mac os X disc copy and with disc copy 6.3 It just gives me an error code (code -199)

Re: booting from CDROM

2003-10-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 06:53 AM, Darren wrote: Gregg Eshelman wrote: --- Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the bit of info Gregg left out may have been this http://web.archive.org/web/20020620094428/http

Re: Gray Scale SE30

2003-10-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Marten van de Kraats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hundreds, Mikie. Hundreds.. I have two cards for the SE/30 to support an external color monitor and one for an external grayscale monitor. I bought the whole bunch for 5 euro some weeks ago. Seems I struck a good deal... The ones

Re: LC3 box - connecting it up

2003-10-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Chris Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is ADB the small connector with four pins and a locating hole? Yes. Do I need some sort of hub to connect both keyboard and mouse? Nope, they daisy chain. Most Mac keyboards have a port on each end and the mouse connects to the other. Some keyboards

Re: LC3 box - connecting it up

2003-10-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Chris Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I connect the unit to an ethernet? Yes. There is a slot in the back for that. LC ethernet cards are pretty easy to find. I've looked for the slot but am not clear what you mean. It's called a slot but it really isn't. The connector is

Re: Apple ColorOne scanner.

2003-10-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- John Niven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This list covers scanners? With the acquisition of a Wacom ArtzII tablet and pen, I'm having fun pretending I'm a graphic artist rather than a cack-handed chimp :-) Well if they can write Shakespeare then who knows what could happen? I just

Re: Gray Scale SE30

2003-10-31 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Gamba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip The auctions for grayscale stuff are usually won by Japanese or Korean bidders because, I assume, they have the advantage of a favorable currency exchange rate. Last week the Yen hit 112~114 to the $USD. Some economist quoted in the article (linked on

Re: Apple ColorOne scanner.

2003-10-31 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- John Niven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip I assume that some s/w came with the scanner anybody know what it shipped with? If nobody else offers it up, I do happen to have an Apple legacy CD from May 1999 which has most everything on the (formerly FTP) Apple download site plus some stuff NOT

Re: Loaded SE/30 with Daystar Micron

2003-11-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- J.S. Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's text snipped right out of the auction: The computer has a DayStar PowerCache 68030 33Mhz accelerator. I installed the card by making some minor alterations to the metal frame in the computer and used a IIsi adapter. Since I've done this

Re: LC3 box - connecting it up

2003-11-07 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Chris Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clip Now I have to get the Apple XX.sea.bin file onto a floppy that the Mac will read. All I get so far is a 'PC Exchange' file; it should be a self extracting floppy image. It is, but it's MacBinary encoded. The easiest way by far (if you have a PC

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