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Firewire CD-RW buying advice — #4

Ok, I want a nice Firewire CD-R(W) for my B&W G3 and my sister's new grape iMac DV. I know there are several choices out there on the market: Sony Spressa (which people seem to…
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Firewire CD-RW buying advice — #5

The mactell firepower cd-rw IS shipping and a friend just got one. Its got no problems and i have a few new cd's because of it
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Firewire CD-RW buying advice — #6

Firewire is great, I've been trying out some Hard Drives and the ability to hot swap them is great. But I can warn you of this...attempting to make a cd off of a firewire HD to a …
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Firewire CD-RW buying advice — #7

FireWire CD-RW's? Still tricky... Everybody claims to have it, but nobody is realy shipping. And those who are shipping are not reliable or not so fast as they should be. I've rece…
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Firewire CD-RW buying advice — #8

Well I intend to buy a Yamaha 6416-based SCSI CD-RW drive from APS (the 6x4x16), and a Formac ProRAID I UW SCSI card for my blue and white G3. Even with the SCSI card, this comes o…
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Satellite modem connection? — #2

Unfortunately, I believe that all the current systems like DirecPC which uses the same kind of satellite system as your friends Sony only support PCs. DirecPC 2.0 does have a USB …
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Satellite modem connection? — #3

This is a stretch, but... Is there any way to hook up a satellite dish (in this example, a Sony Mini-dish) as a modem connection? I'm asking for a friend who lives in a fairly rur…
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Wacom Graphire — #2

My school has iMacs and that same tablet (the art dep. just got it last week) i used it and there was no problems whatsoever and it was quite impressive.
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Wacom Graphire — #3

I bought one just the other day, I like it a lot. However, the current driver (v4.40) does not seem to work with OS9, they have a beta (v4.50) posted on their web site, which work…
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Firewire CDR part 12 — #2

hi, the thing that limits usb burners is the 12 megabit speed of usb. since firewire (ieee 1394) is 400 megabit, it's not a problem. you can record just as fast as an ide or scsi b…
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Firewire CDR part 12 — #3

I have a USB CD-RW and can burn audio CD's at 4x. It's a Freecom Traveller CD-RW, connected to an iMac DV SE, MacOS 8.6 and Toast 3.8.1 Freecom announced an upgrade to FireWire fo…
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Doctoring a SCSI Zip? — #2

Allow me to answer myself. No. Asside from the fact that internal drives have to be sealed, which the de-cased Zip is not (obvious in 20/20 hindsight: i forgot about that rather la…
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Doctoring a SCSI Zip? — #3

do you like the QUE! drive? i've been considering many usb cd-rw's for my lime wonder, but i think i've settled on the QUE!. I would apprieciate any thoughts, good and bad that you…
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Doctoring a SCSI Zip? — #4

hi, the que is okay for my needs, mainly backing up mac files/volumes and some mix cds. as long as you have vm off, nothing else going on, and don't mind the time (the usb bottlene…
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Doctoring a SCSI Zip? — #6

Ster: actually, the idea of ripping a zip drive from the blue shell is not as farfetched as you might think, despite the window. As you may have seen the external jaz drives have a…
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Doctoring a SCSI Zip? — #7

actually, i got the drive case open quite easily. there are three little plastic tabs that you have to pry open, that's it. to clarify a bit, the scsi connector is, of course, exte…
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USB CD-RW Drives, a good buy or not? — #2

I happen to have a USB Sony Spressa CD-RW drive and I like it a lot. You can burn a CD-R at 4x speed. The only time I had a problem was when I tried to copy an Audio CD straight …
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USB CD-RW Drives, a good buy or not? — #3

i have a QPS Que drive. for the money (~$300) it was a nice buy. i have made several backup discs, as well as a number of audio CDs. the main complaint that i - and many other Que …
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Ink Jet Printer Refills — #2

I dont know about that but why take the chance? Do what I do, I go to www.ink4art.com where I can get 3 NEW black and 3 NEW Color cartridges for only $59.99 total. Hope this hel…
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Ink Jet Printer Refills — #3

FWIW, Both manuals for my Epson 1520 and 750 state not to refill ink cartridges. I have also been told this by others "in the know" regarding Epson printers. Hope this helps. Fran…
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Ink Jet Printer Refills — #4

I use 3rd party carts from the Green Business Company (in the UK) for my Stylus 600, no difference in quality and no breakdowns in nearly 2 years, just half price carts. I'd be int…
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Ink Jet Printer Refills — #5

There are two good sources of non-epson ink cartridges - Amazon (not the .com company) and Rhino. Both are available at a lot of the mail order houses incl. MacWarehouse and MacCon…
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Ink Jet Printer Refills — #6

There are two good sources of non-epson ink cartridges - Amazon (not the .com company) and Rhino. Both are available at a lot of the mail order houses incl. MacWarehouse and MacCon…
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Ink Jet Printer Refills — #7

I have been told time and again to AVOID ink4art at ALL costs... they are very bad... don't deliever the goods, literally. Reliable resources such as ResExcellence and MacsOnly an…
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