or a Ham license and packet radio hehe

You should AT LEAST get dial-up. 8-o

...but its better than my old dialup so im not complaining Click to expand... It's better than what I've got: I have to leave my home and drive 25 miles into town when I want t…

Oh and i forgot to mention that it's very unreliable... pingtest gives me an F and 5-10% of the time the connections down I cant wait till Insight, Sigicom, SBC, Comcast, Insight …

...but its better than my old dialup so im not complaining

I wouldn't be able to turn it into anything server-y as my isp has 1 ip for _everyone_ on each tower, so no incoming connections. Click to expand... Tower? You mean on each wir…

Office X is still decent, and less resource-intensive than later versions.

Open Office looks very very promising - may be just what the Doctor ordered! I got x11 installed yesterday from my Tiger disk and then got OO to open ok - interface seems very simi…

Looking at the Mac drive pinouts I just Googled there's a pin labeled "PWM" which says "Motor speed control". If you can find documentation as exactly what sort of signal is presen…

Floppy disks are like record players Click to expand... No they aren't. Floppy diskettes are like records. Floppy diskette drives are like record players. Also they aren'…

I wouldn't be able to turn it into anything server-y as my isp has 1 ip for _everyone_ on each tower, so no incoming connections. Click to expand... That is really stretching t…

Floppy disks are like record players Click to expand... No they aren't. Floppy diskettes are like records. Floppy diskette drives are like record players. Also they aren'…

For those interested my notes so far. I think I am going to go buy a printer, because I hate reading on the computer. Can't scribble notes on the pages that way. :-D Click to e…

I wouldn't be able to turn it into anything server-y as my isp has 1 ip for _everyone_ on each tower, so no incoming connections. Click to expand... Tower? You mean on each wir…

I think I'll just go back to "sneaker netting" w/HDDs! : I was trying to avoid spending $80, but Sonnettech has always done well by me! http://www.sonnettech.com/product/temp…

VIA cards are a problem because they use UHCI and not OHCI, or something like that. However I think starting with Tiger, UHCI is supported. Click to expand... That makes sense.…

VIA cards are a problem because they use UHCI and not OHCI, or something like that. However I think starting with Tiger, UHCI is supported. VIA is the only on who makes crap UHCI …

You need to turn on 32-bit addressing in the Memory Control Panel of that IIci in order to take advantage of your 20MB of RAM. Back in days of yore, of course, that was a LOT of RA…

Just looked at the box, it's Bytecc. Apple System Profiler recognized the card but I can't tell if you if was running at USB2 speeds. But it didn't crash the mac so that's a plus!

By chance I dropped a NEC based generic USB2 card in a graphite G4 running OS 9. Worked fine without drivers, it loaded a USB2 flash stick but I didn't test the speed, although it …

You need to turn on 32-bit addressing in the Memory Control Panel of that IIci in order to take advantage of your 20MB of RAM. Back in days of yore, of course, that was a LOT of R…

good selection of notes! and I use arduino quite a bit, the programing of it is pretty easy, you should have little issue picking it up (ps if you have any questions and the ardui…

For those interested my notes so far. I think I am going to go buy a printer, because I hate reading on the computer. Can't scribble notes on the pages that way. :-D http://www.…

I've done some embedded systems work before. In college my senor project was a 4'x2' display that showed the internal data flow of the pipe line of a MIPS process. I designed the …

Just joined here after acquiring my IIci. Click to expand... Because before, you wouldn't have been allowed. ;D Click to expand... In all fairness its been about 10 years…