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Trouble installing internal CD-RW — #5

Just to help on one issue: No semi-modern Mac has a SCSI bus, technically. They all have a SCSI-2, Fast SCSI-2, Fast & Wide SCSI -2, Ultra SCSI-3, etc. bus. SCSI has gone throu…
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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? — #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…
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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; — #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…
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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? — #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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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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Upgrading an old 7500/100 — #2

According to NewerTech you are in bizness: MAXpowr G3 Carrier Card will launch you into the current day with ZIF technology. ZIF (Zero Insertion Force) sockets are quickly becomin…
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Will ultraviolet damage a digital camera? — #2

I was planning on using my camera to take some pictures of arc welding in action. Of course, the arc emits many ultraviolet rays, which can damage the retinas of people in the room…
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Will ultraviolet damage a digital camera? — #3

<-------- this dude is too drunk to be posting It would probably be the UV requivalent of pointing the camera directly at the sun. And I would probably use the LCD, not the…
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Will ultraviolet damage a digital camera? — #4

If your camera permits, try a combo UV /polarizing filter. Anti-glare AND UV protection, Camera shop should help you with that one. Of course, it depends on what kind of camera you…
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Will ultraviolet damage a digital camera? — #5

just for the record, a UV filter won't prevent damage to your camera (since UV won't damage your camera), but it will ensure that the image you see isn't skewed because of the UV l…
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