Active matrix power consumption — #2
Further digging in the "PowerBook" sections of my ever-useful old copies of The Macintosh Bible and Macintosh and Power Macintosh Secrets has revealed that the commentators du jour…
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Active matrix power consumption — #1
Do the greyscale active matrix screens in the PowerBook 1xx series consume significantly more power than the passive matrix displays? I know that the early colour LCDs would quickl…
iMac G4 Flat Panel Won't Recognize Drives — #8
Using the "set-defaults" command with resets seemed to bring the FireWire back on a 12" G4 867 MHz for me. It was having a similar problem recognizing drives at the volume select …
iMac G4 Flat Panel Won't Recognize Drives — #7
I think it was boot-usb? I was actually talking about it to a friend saturday night, he couldn't remember the exact command but he remember his issue well. Two iBook G4s, one coul…
iMac G4 Flat Panel Won't Recognize Drives — #6
Well. ~Coxy, you were correct. I tried a USB hard drive, zip drive, and CD drive. No Luck. The Mac would see only the USB CD drive, but would not start the disk. I tried OS 8.1, 9.…
Apple II internet — #11
Correction to my post above: that should say desktop/platinum G3, NOT blue & white G3!!
Also, I tried ProTERM 3.1 last evening on the IIgs. It did not work! I must do more…
Apple II internet — #10
The //e can then run any competent terminal emulation software to login.
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If you're going that direction, you have lots of company:
http://dataswamp.net/appl…
Apple II internet — #9
If you have an OS X box that lacks serial ports, you can get USB/8-pin serial adaptors pretty cheap. Then all you need is an 8-pin Mac printer cable to go between.
Apple II internet — #8
Here's how I plan to get my //e connected:
I have a Super Serial Card and a b&w Power Macintosh G3. I've got the G3 configured with OS 10.2.8 such that its serial ports (p…
Apple II internet — #7
Not for MacOS... the free alternative would be to install some form of UNIX, but that's not exactly the easy way out ;-)
There's always the option of getting a dial-up shell acc…
Apple II internet — #6
Is there a free alternative to IPNetRouter?
Apple II internet — #5
That's what IPNetRouter does.
Apple II internet — #4
Wouldn't it consist of running some router app on the Mac and then connect to that with the IIgs? Sorry, but networking isn't my strong point, possibly I should call some local net…
iMac G4 Flat Panel Won't Recognize Drives — #5
Some PPC Macs are very finicky about USB booting. They won't work at all, or require you to drop into Open Firmware to force it to try USB.
266MHZ Beige G3 mini tower buildup — #35
ahh actually no. I have a rev a gossamer and it came with a SCSI drive and no IDE drive at all. we later added a 40GB IDE drive, but when time came to put OSX on it we had to buy…
iMac G4 Flat Panel Won't Recognize Drives — #4
You should be able to boot from a USB drive, as long as there is a known working OS 9 or OS X install on that drive. You will have to hold Option at boot with the drive connected. …
266MHZ Beige G3 mini tower buildup — #34
There were three revisions of the Beige G3 ROM: -A (LROG434-01/02), -B (LROG434-02) and -C (LROG434-03), and all with part no 820-0954. There are five subspecies of the Rev. A, but…
Apple II internet — #3
You may also want to look at IPNetRouter on the Mac.
http://www.sustworks.com/site/prod_ipr_overview.html
It's $89 and you need a lot of patience and a degree in network technolo…
Apple II internet — #2
is there any way I can route the internet to the IIgs via a LocalTalk cable?
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I think so, but I think it's probably going to be more work than you want to do …
266MHZ Beige G3 mini tower buildup — #33
ATA cards show up as SCSI devices to the system bypassing the IDE issues with OSX on a beige G3 (also means once they are formatted on that card they cannot be used on the built in…
266MHZ Beige G3 mini tower buildup — #32
To get OS X on an IDE drive, it must be installed on the first partition of the drive and that partition must be 8GB or less.
This can be overcome with the use of a Sonnet ATA/100…
Apple II internet — #1
As some may know by now, I have a Apple IIgs that I'm getting set up.
I already have my 3400c connected to the internet, is there any way I can route the internet to the IIgs via …
iMac G4 Flat Panel Won't Recognize Drives — #3
Thanks, Wackymacs, but I tried that, too. I get the screen with the refresh button on the left and the arrow button on the right, but no drives appear (with a good OS9 install disk…
266MHZ Beige G3 mini tower buildup — #31
Your USB card should be one with the NEC controller chip on it.
Then it will work in both Mac OS 9 (as USB1) and in Mac OS X (as
both USB1 and USB2).
I've heard, but not tested …
iMac G4 Flat Panel Won't Recognize Drives — #2
Power on the iMac, with a good known-working startup disc inserted, and hold Option. Wait, and a screen should appear showing the bootable options. When you can hear the hard drive…