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Trouble installing internal CD-RW — #6

Anyone know off the top of their head what flavour of SCSI is in the Rev. A G3 DT? ------------------ "No Brian! Those chicken wings are really spicy, don't eat those! I never se…
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Trouble installing internal CD-RW — #7

I just bought an EXTERNAL 6416 Yamaha CDRW. It has a very bad scsi problem with macos 8.6.Toast 3.5.7 crashes when attempting to access the cdrw, and the extension Toast reader cra…
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Trouble installing internal CD-RW — #8

Hi, me again... I fixed my problem... I turned my internal CDRW drive into a EXTERNAL device. This seems to work without any problems. It turns out that my internal SCSI has a ter…
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Older Powerbook - which should I buy? — #1

I am looking into buying and older powerbook for e-mail and word processing. I would also like to be able to network it with my iMac. I was wondering which model you would recomm…
MacNN Networking

Older Powerbook - which should I buy? — #2

I have a 540c in good shape which has ethernet, I think 20 meg of RAM (I'll check if you're interested). It's a good choice in that it was top of the line when built. Active color …
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Older Powerbook - which should I buy? — #3

Couple questions: How much RAM? 320 or 500MB hard drive? Modem speed? What software does it come with? Do you have all cords, and batteries? Has the processor been upgraded or…
MacNN Networking

Older Powerbook - which should I buy? — #4

The PB 500-series is particularly cool if you can find a PPC CPU daughtercard to pop into it. Otherwise you're ceiling is OS 8.1 and you're unable to run PPC-only apps (e.g. Office…
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Mac drivers for the HP4500 color laser? — #3

Yes, they most certainly do. You should have received the software on a dual-format CD-ROM, or the drivers should be downloadable from their Web site. ------------------ If you go…
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Epson ES-800 scanner and G3 B&W; — #1

Has anyone had any success interfacing an older SCSI Epson scanner such as the ES 800C with the new G3 B&W? I could not get Photoshop or Omnipage to recognize or find the scan…
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Epson ES-800 scanner and G3 B&W; — #2

I use Adaptec 2960U to connect two scanners and two 50-pin SCSI HDs along with an internal SCSI HD (used for backups daily) with no trouble. I don't trust any USB-SCSI and it can…
MacNN Peripherals

Epson ES-800 scanner and G3 B&W; — #3

I hooked up an ES1200c to a B&W. It too would not work with the twain drivers. Epson is not sure if they plan to update them either. The only way to get the scanner to be rec…
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Epson Perfection 636u Availability? — #1

Hey, I've had my order in at ecost.com for over a couple of weeks now, ever since this scanner started getting rave reviews from the Mac community. Needless to say, I haven't recei…
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Epson Perfection 636u Availability? — #2

I ordered a 636U from outpost.com 3 weeks ago, because they said I would have it in 2-3 days. Yesterday I cancelled the order and bought a 1200U at CompUSA. It cost me a little mor…
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Epson Perfection 636u Availability? — #3

Maine also took about a month, but now that I have it, I wrote the following (mostly-derogatory) review of it. Caveat Emptor. The 636U would be an excellent buy if not for its ho…
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Speaker Buzz with internal GV modem — #1

I have a B/W PowerMac G3 with a Global Village Internal 56k modem. I notice that whenever I use Remote Access to make a PPP connection with the modem, I get this very annoying spea…
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Which DVD-ROM drives can read DVD-RAM? — #1

Since Apple have choosen DVD-RAM as their writable DVD storage it would be nice to know which DVD-ROM drives can read such disks. While searching for this information I got several…
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Digital monitors (& FireWire?) — #1

Does it make any sense to expect I'll be able to drive a digital LCD monitor from the Firewire ports on my blue G3? Or do I need to wait for the appearance of ADP slots or ports on…
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Digital monitors (& FireWire?) — #2

It will not be possible to connect your Digital Flat panel to a firewire port until the flat panel has hardware to interface with Firewire as well as the software required to decod…
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Digital monitors (& FireWire?) — #3

Why wait? <a href="http://www.formac.com/">Formac</a> makes a mac compatable PCI video card which can support both VESA and SGI TFT's. It is called the <a href="ht…
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