Re: 8 inch disk loading

2006-04-11 Thread James / Hans Kunz
thanks for all the responses, the problem was that i was thinking of a 8cm but writing of a 8 inch disk in the time between i could acces a manual in which i found a warning not to insert 8cm disks sorry that i caused a mixup with cm & inch cheers James

MS is driving me Nuts

2006-04-11 Thread Alex
Hi Muggians Can some-one please help me? When I type away in MS Word it will often format itself without my prompting it. An example would be putting in bullets or indents after one has been made, but I don't want the subsequent one/s. I have to delete the unwanted format about 10 times be

Re: USB what?

2006-04-11 Thread Mervyn & Giuliana Bond
Thank you Peter and Bob for your comments on this matter. The Epson C67 (not a young printer), works fine in OSX. I downloaded the OS9 driver, booted up in OS9 and installed it. Rebooted in OSX and there it was in Classic. All is well that ends well! Merv At 8:54 AM +0800 11/4/06, Peter Hinchliff

Transferring data from old 5.25" floppies

2006-04-11 Thread Barbara & Geoffrey Maidment
> Hi Everyone...I have a few of the old 5.25² floppy discs with some data that I > would like to transfer to a CD. I¹ve checked with my local dealer and he no > longer has any disc drives that will read this size. The discs were formatted > on an older version of Appleworks back when I had an Ap

Re: boot options key?

2006-04-11 Thread Rod
Michael Bradley wrote: hey guys, I've forgotten which key will give me boot options ...during boot. thanks Mike You've given the answer away - the Option key :-) Seeya Rod!

boot options key?

2006-04-11 Thread Michael Bradley
hey guys, I've forgotten which key will give me boot options ...during boot. thanks Mike

Re: 8 inch disk loading

2006-04-11 Thread Robert Howells
Hi James , Did you mean 8inch or8 Cms Bob hi guys can i load a 8 inch disk into my power book drive powerbook g4 17" purchased 2 years ago thanks James -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guideline

Re: 8 inch disk loading

2006-04-11 Thread Mark Secker
8inch that's positively Jurassic (invented in the 50's?). Last system I used (or even saw) with a 8" unit was way back early 80's on a IBM mainframe and a CPM based supermini computer. short answer would be no long answer would be "maybe but do you enjoy trolling for parts and low level hard

WTB: dual input DVI KVM switch

2006-04-11 Thread Mark Secker
Anybody know any shops in Perth has DVI (must be DVI) & USB KVM switches in stock - only need dual system model to switch between Mac and Windows systems. -- ~ Mark Secker Computer Support Officer ph# 61-8-6488 1855 (ECEL) University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provi

Re: 8 inch disk loading

2006-04-11 Thread Malcolm McCallum
For Heavens sake James what gives? Blind Freddy would know you cannot get a 8" drive into a laptop. let us into the joke PLEASE :-) On 11/04/2006, at 8:56 AM, Kathy Quinlan wrote: James / Hans Kunz wrote: hi guys can i load a 8 inch disk into my power book drive powerbook g4 17" purch

Equipment for Sale

2006-04-11 Thread Wilson Tony
I have the following for quick sale as am undertaking office renovations over easter 1. Epson 3000 Stylus Color A3 printer - No cartridges - New Print Head and Pads last year - has worked very well. Always serviced and maintained. $125 2. Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS. Has been maintained

Re: 8 inch disk loading

2006-04-11 Thread Kathy Quinlan
James / Hans Kunz wrote: hi guys can i load a 8 inch disk into my power book drive powerbook g4 17" purchased 2 years ago thanks James James Mate, is this a late April fools joke ? -- Regards, Kat. --- K.A.Q. Electronics We

Re: USB what?

2006-04-11 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 10/04/2006, at 6:21 PM, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote: I am running an "desk lamp" iMac version 2.1 on OSX 10.2.8 There are 5 USB ports. The age of the iMac would preclude these from being USB 2. The Apple System Profiler under Devices and Volumes just identifies USB ports but does not s

Re: 8 inch disk loading

2006-04-11 Thread Ronda Brown
On 10/04/2006, at 8:16 PM, James / Hans Kunz wrote: hi guys can i load a 8 inch disk into my power book drive powerbook g4 17" purchased 2 years ago Hi James, Only 120 mm round discs can be used in most models. Cheers, Ronni Car'n The