If you want to save your PaperPort from extinction as you move up to Mac OS 9 and beyond, you want to join or at least visit the PaperPort Preservation Society http://clubs.yahoo.c…

I believe that someone was selling an adapter that went from Stylewriter to Ethernet. I'll look for it, just wanted you to know that it was possible... I found it! Farallon makes…

I have set up two original imac's to use Stylewriter II printers using Keyspan's USB to serial adaptors. If you're crunched for desktop space, the stylewriters can do very nicely, …

If you still have an old serial port Mac, connect the Stylewriter to the old Mac, and the two Macs together by ethernet. I did this with an iMac, and LC and a Stylewriter II. Works…

Hey SteveH, Your suggestion sounds like the best option for me. I have a Performa 430 which is based on an LC II. Can you tell me how to connect it to my new iMac as you have done …

you'd need an ethernet card for that 430, it has no enet built-in... PDS comm slot enet card, farallon makes a 10/BaseT for about $60-70 new, maybe you can find one used... then a…

Wow. I LOVED my old StyleWriter II. When I sold my G3 beige minitower and bought a B&W G3 I sold my SWII and got a Epson 740i -- and I LOVE IT MORE! Really, you're doing yours…

as noted on MacNN yesterday (in the sony announcement) , they are not due until November. see http://www.macnn.com/recent.shtml

It may be that you have touched part of the cartridge that doesn't like to be touched... (reminds me of the old r'n r band, the Tubes, they had a song titled "Don't touch me there…

First you must determine whether it is the drive or the fan that is making the noise: if it is the former, putting the drive to sleep will help, if it is the latter, then you might…

Its most definitely the drive. When I get up close to it I can hear 2 distinct sounds - the drive spinning and the fan. The fan noise is not bad but the drive has this constant d…

I got an email from a helpful user. He suggests placing the drive in a larger drive casing or piece of furniture with bubble wrap or styrofoam egg carton in between the two. Does…

Try taking the case apart and putting rubber washers between the the case and the hard drive. You might have to get longer screws. That will help isolate the drive from the soundin…

This is what I have done. Works very well for anyone interested. I cut out the back section of my desk which lies behind one of my drawers and removed the back end of the drawer.…

The best, cheapest, quickest way is PhoneNet...however slow it may be. They (any electronics/computer store) sell these kits (sure its a MAC kit) that have two plugs for your seri…

I don't have one but there are mixed reports that I have read... and the driver(s) seem to be suspect... ORB has something like the Iomega Tools package that is suspect I have also…

see http://www.macnn.com/contributions/orb.shtml

I have installed an Orb external SCSI drive on my Mac G3/266, OS 9. The driver (Castlewood Orb Driver v1.0.1) was installed from the Orb install CD that came with the drive. I down…

Anyone using an ORB drive with MacOS 9: After talking to Castlewood tech support this afternoon I was told that the problem I described in the earlier post over the weekend is a…

I have an ORB SCSI external running MacOS 8.6. I have found the drive good, but Castlewood's software marginal. However, a product called Hard Disk SpeedTools (v.2.5.1, Intech Soft…

I have had terrible luck with my ORB, until now. After months of suspecting bad hardware, the recently introducted Orb Tools 1.2.6 fixed *ALL* of my problems. All versions before…

Get the PowerPrint USB kit from Infowave. It includes drivers for all major printers and includes a USB to Parallel adapter. It costs about $99 and is widely available. drewman

Well, there is a network version of PowerPrint, which lets several Macs share a PC printer via ethernet, but I don't know if it lets PCs use the printer then. Check out www.infowav…

Too bad none of them are actually shipping.. wait the sony one is.. but that's way too expensive and people like MAlan are having MUCHO difficulties with their lousy support. Mike

So maybe a SCSI card (already have one) and a SCSI drive are what's best for right now. -jb