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WANTED: apple lisa Keyboard

Fri, 09 May 2008 07:28:51 -0700

I was wondering if there is anyone with an apple Lisa keyboard and Apple Lisa mouse (not a compact mac mouse that will work but I want an original Lisa one) If you have just A keyboard I would be interested. please feel free to PM me!

Cleaning out the closet

Fri, 09 May 2008 07:26:05 -0700

I'm looking to move some stuff from my Misc. Mac Stuff closet into yours! ;) I've got 2 items im looking to send to a good home. [b]Apple Pro Speakers[/b] They work, i just don't use 'em (i never thought they sounded very good) In original box & packaging. They even have the ugly speaker guards included. [i]These are the speakers included with such machines as the MDD G4 and similar, that have the barrel plug[/i] [b]iBook keyboard w/ Lombard keycaps[/i] Keyboard from a clamshell iBook. Was purchased as a working unit. I purchased it for the white keycaps, which i used on my Lombard. I am including the original bronze lombard keycaps with it, unless someone wants just the caps or the board. (All of the keycaps are bronze, save for the function (F#) keys, which are the white iBook keys. I am not sure, but i think i actually have both keyboards lying around, so i may have 2 complete sets of caps (1 bronze, one white), i'll have to look. PM me, make an offer. Shipping is from 07070.

Dayna Serial Ethernet Adapter How rare is it

Thu, 08 May 2008 16:29:38 -0700

So I was rummaging around the MSU Surplus barn and found this Dayna Serial Port Ethernet Adapter.. Any Idea how rare these things are.. I cant find anything about it online. It came in its original box with the software floppy cables and manual. Seems it will work with SSW 6 up to 7.5.5. I managed to put my Mac SE online with it.

Applesoft on the replica 1 (Apple 1 possible)

Thu, 08 May 2008 13:14:45 -0700

Well, thanks to Tom Greene (AKA cowgod), Applesoft has been ported and tested for the replica 1. It resides in the area E000-FEFF in EPROM which is occupied by Integer BASIC and Krusader (on later replica 1 models). Simply replacing the current EPROM on your replica 1 gives you Applesoft! The graphic commands were removed but LOAD & SAVE commands were added to store programs in the CFFA1 optional board. MENU was also added to allow the user to go into the CFFA1 board menu to do other functions. This does not mean the replica 1 will change, Integer BASIC is the default BASIC but this is a very nice option to have. One the code is release it is possible to make a EPROM card with Applesoft onboard for the Apple 1 or clones. Here's Tom's page with the writeup: [url]http://cowgod.org/replica1/applesoft/[/url] And here's my forum about the idea and how it came to be: [url]http://www.brielcomputers.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=371[/url] Fun stuff! Vince

to anyone considering an sli-dual monitor setup

Thu, 08 May 2008 12:29:50 -0700

simply put it doesnt work. you have to disable sli every time you want information to be send to display #2. i am pretty peeved over this because nobody has ever mentioned it to me before and i just bought a second card to use sli. seems stupid to me that you have to loose estate for added performance. rumors of Nvidia fixing this with new gpu's surfaced 2 years ago and yet nothing has been done. anyone wanna buy an 8800gts?

Stupid Question about G4 PSU

Thu, 08 May 2008 11:50:36 -0700

Hi folks, So I recently got a Gigabit Ethernet Power Mac G4. I think the PSU is dead, and I'm trying to test it. As a first step Apple's service manual says to use a volt meter on two of the pins of the PSU connector. BUT, the manual also says the following: "For this verification procedure when connecting the volt meter leads to specific pins, ensure the power supply cable remains securely plugged into the power supply connector on the logic board." SO... my question is this - how the heck to I test the pins when the PSU cable is plugged into the logic board? I've tried sticking the voltmeter's pins in through the top of the Molex PSU connector, but the PSU wires themselves are blocking the pins from making contact with the pins. I feel so dumb - what am I missing here? TIA for any help! Best, Matt

IBM Thinkpad...

Thu, 08 May 2008 05:52:13 -0700

I've got an IBM Thinkpad for sale. I only got it to play a few games on. It's Pentium II, 389mHz, 192Mb of ram, really nice 14 inch screen, floppy, CD-ROM, and comes with powercord, age of empries I-II with the expansion packs. Asking $110 plus shipping. Thanks!

Emac 1.25Ghz logic board problem

Wed, 07 May 2008 22:43:38 -0700

i was in the middle of a headless emac project when I accidentaly crosses a wire or something and blew a piece on the logic board. It is number L11 on the opposite side of the blind connector. I have no idea what it was or how to fix it - I have done a lot of work up to this point and I don't want to scrap it. Does anyone know what this piece was and how I can fix it?

How would you improve the iPhone ?

Wed, 07 May 2008 16:05:16 -0700

The first thing I would do it make it like the Voyager with a "Real Keyboard" not the on-screen chicklet keyboard is it horrible! Two I would make it so the camera could take video I mean comon a 2.0 MP camera needs more uses. Third is SMS and IM'ing I would make sure it has an onboard Instantmessenger and SMS should be able to send videos and pictures. I've been reading and the iPhone seems flawed in my eyes.

Apple IIe/IIGS/III+ FPGA Platform with the works

Wed, 07 May 2008 07:05:28 -0700

Hi Everyone, Ive been busy experimenting with a few concepts on how best I could delve back into the good ol days of the Apple II. I grew up with Apple's and their clones, the IIe, the III and the IIGS. As most of us who had been introduced to the Apple II Designs may know, it dosent take long to develop a significant admiration for Woz's brilliant work. So whilst during my own work, developing the Nanoboard2 for Altium, I designed this little add on Apple II slot adaptor PCB to allow me to put together a proposal platform to develop any 8/16 bit Apple system using an FPGA as the hardware. The NB2 has only just been released, so this is the first chance I have had to assemble the "Slots" board and see if it all works. I still have a lot of code to do, so its far from being up and running just at the moment, but all the resources are there to make a pretty spekkie blast from the past Apple system of choice. I thought Id introduce what I have been up to to you guy's to get a bit of feedback on how the concept is received, and maybe to see if there would be anyone that would interested in helping develop a functional Apple system in VHDL. I know this has been done, but not with real Apple slots, not to a point where you can use a classic Apple in exactly the same way as how they're meant to be used. ie, floppy disks and cards, joystick etc. I am happy to share the schematics and source PCB's files (actually, I have quite a few spare PB10 "Slot" PCB's), and the Nanoboard comes with all its schematics and source docco's too, which you can download. As a bit of a run down, the NB2 is basically a big FPGA that allows the developer to "plug-in" their choice of FPGA, which is then connected to 3 seperate 50 pin IO connectors. These connectors allow altium peripheral boards (PB's) to plug up to the FPGA. One of these PB's is known as PB10, which is the Apple II's slots (only includes 6 of the slots, but wired as they are in an Apple IIe with 5v<->3v translators), another is PB02, which is an SD card, IDE drives (3.5"/2.5"&1.8" and a compact flash slot. And the third board is PB03, which provides ethernet, USB2 and IrDA. There are other standard peripherals such as a QVGA LCD, DRAM, SRAM, FLASH, PS2, DIPSW, KBD+MOUSE, RS232 port etc that reside on the main Nanoboard. Pretty much everything, which also includes a VGA interface. Ive attached a few pictures to give a better idea. Anyway, if anyone has any opinions or idea's, it would be great to hear them. rgds, steve.

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If Apple made iBooks in 1994...

Tue, 06 May 2008 17:22:47 -0700

They just might look [url=http://www.danamania.com/tmp/1994_ibook_left.jpg]something like this[/url] :D

2 older notebooks, WiFi cards, router, old Palm

Mon, 05 May 2008 22:57:01 -0700

$12 Cisco WiFi 802.11b PC Card, integrated antenna, just the card. 100mW power. Drivers downloadable from Cisco site. $12 Cisco WiFi 802.11b PC Card with PCI slot adapter. 30mW power. Card sits flush with edge of laptop if used in PC Card slot but then needs external antenna. $12 Generic-branded WiFi 802.11b PC Card with Prism 3 chipset, I think RaLink chips inside. Should be able to use RaLink drivers. Sits nearly flush with PC Card slot but needs antenna. Same type of antenna jack as on Cisco cards. $20 NetGear 54mbps WiFI 802.11g/b router with power supply, CD, antenna and removable stands. $50 Apple iBook G3/300, 'clamshell' style. No AirPort card but uses Orinoco Silver reflashed to Gold (for 128-bit WEP support) and stripped of PC Card housing, fitted in wher AirPort card usually goes. Works natively with AirPort drivers and utilizes stock antenna. Hard drive replaced with 4GB compact flash card and CF-to-IDE adapter, for lower power consumption, quieter operation, increased durability and less weight. Most of the interior EM shielding has been removed, mostly for aesthetic reasons. Lets you see all the 'guts' when the notebook is open. RAM upgraded with a 256MB chip added to the base 32MB. No good battery, but I've got three dead ones and a box of extra mostly-dead parts comprising most of another iBook clamshell. No charger included. Couple small cracks in plastic casing but doesn't affect operation at all. For some reason sound appears permanently dead but otherwise hardware works fine. CD-ROM does make some noise but no problems reading my discs. Also I've tried everything to get OSX to install but I couldn't swing it. Currently running 9.2.2. Price mostly is due to upgrades added. Also no power cord included. This would be great for a mobile internet browser if a battery were put in as I'm sure it'd get even better than average battery life running off the CF drive. $60 Apple PowerBook G3/233, 'WallStreet' model. It's the revision-2 version with the L2 cache. Upgraded with 10GB HDD, 256MB RAM, Zcomaz 300mW 802.11b WiFi card and clumsily integrated antennas. Standard battery and CD-ROM drive. Battery holds 1 1/2 to 2 hours usually. Also has large artistic piece on top cover of laptop. Rubber has been scrubbed off of top metal piece and etched with lotus patterns, and white apple in the middle has had the white removed and a radiating eye put in behind it. Comes with 'brick' style power adapter. Has following issues: When connected to power cord, starts up fine. When disconnected runs off battery fine. After shutting down, most times refuses to start properly. Sometimes ejecting battery and reinserting fixes this, or swapping battery to other side, but usually not. Sometimes after swapping battery around then plugging in to start, a bus error is generated requiring one additional restart. I thought it was a PRAM battery issue, so I replaced it with a supposedly-good one, but same problem so maybe the PMU? I don't know really but I'll include the old PRAM battery in case it's still good. Currently running 9.2.2 and OSX 10.2.8. Once in a while booting into OSX the screen is goofy and requires one additional restart. Sometimes ejecting PC Card causes a few lines, requiring either sleep and wake, or restart. Tried everything to get 10.3 to install under XPostFacto but no go on this thing, oh well. No case pieces are missing, all the rubber feet are on. This would work absolutely fine as a home laptop, or maybe for outside too with some tinkering. And oh yes I forgot to add, the WiFi card didn't come with its own Mac drivers, but has been registered for unlimited use under OS9 and OSX with the MacSense AeroSense 'universal' driver. $20 Palm m130 PDA with 16MB SD card. Runs Palm OS4. Comes with some apps and games and eBooks, cradle, cables, CD, power cord. Photos of everthing that's for sale up at http://jdmcz32tt.winkflash.com/ Shipping included on WiFi cards, padded envelope USPS, to USA only. $10 each on everything else, shipped USPS, and that includes tracking and insurance. Everything ships from 97224 zipcode near Portland, OR. I strongly prefer PayPal. Any questions about anything just ask!

Power Macintosh 9500 Upgrading

Mon, 05 May 2008 20:10:41 -0700

Hey guys, My current project machine is a PM 9500 that I got off ebay for $30. It came with a orangepc (i miss those guys) usb 2.0/firewire card, a powerlogix g4/800, ~1.4 gigs of ram, two hard drives totaling 11 gigs, and a ton of awesome software from the era. I feel that I have a pretty good basis already, but I want to upgrade this machine a bit. I want to give it ATA support, so I was looking at the Sonnet Tempo 66 and the 133 versions... is there any advantage with going with the 133 (other than slight speed boost) or should I save the $20 extra and put that towards a replacement IDE Combo drive? also, does where the graphics card is located matter on it? what slot would be best? I also plan to do the resistor mod so that the motherboard will not use its cash, but use the much faster cache on the upgrade... is there anything I'm missing? (other than a graphics card upgrade that will happen eventually) Thanks for your patience, Contradude P.S. I plan on using this as a dual boot 10.4/9.2 system.

Old Computer

Mon, 05 May 2008 18:47:57 -0700

I used to have an old computer, and am trying to figure out what kind it was. I think that I have narrowed it down to being an apple ii. Could someone show me a pic of one so i can see if its it?

Virtual memory turned off Mac doesn't work properly. nned advices.

Mon, 05 May 2008 08:00:20 -0700

Recently I purchased old version of cubase for my G3 running Mac os 9 . I read in cubase installing guide that virtual memory should be turned off before running cubase. So, I went to memory control panel and turned virtual memory off. Then I restart computer. Mac powered up, monitor lit up, I saw usual "starting up" but few seconds later on monitor appeared white rectangle with black bomb pictured on left side. Mac doesn't correspondning anymore with keyboard, mouse clicks...Is this kind of system crush? What should I do? Please, help! Thanks in advance .