Recent content by CJ_Miller

One useful trick I do in OS 9 (which Apple made far too difficult, for no good reason) is to put an alias of the desktop folder in the Apple menu.

I am installing a GeeThree Stealth port in my G4, and cannot for the life of me find the ribbon cable + mini-DIN connector which came with it. Not too much of a problem, since I have 10-pin DIL headers, ribbon cable, and mini-DIN jacks here anyway I can make my own. Except that I cannot find the...

They're not going to do that. Their lawyers would beat them silly for "giving away" intellectual property - whether they ever intend to use it again or not. That's why these things always seem to be a grey area. They probably don't really mind, but they cannot formally condone it. If pressed for...

Yes, I methodically tried tried quite a few IDs. In the IIci, it was the only device on bus 0, and the CD-ROM was the only device on bus 1. So there should have been no conflict anyway. As I was saying, I tried to run some diagnostics on the drive in a working system, and it (the drive) seems...

Oh! And when I left the CD in by accident, the 8600 did boot from 7.5.3, although I don't know if the install scripts would run. Just mentioning because I read that 7.5.5 is the earliest these can run. Although, in practice, of course - one would almost certainly want the improved PPC support of...

Mystery appears to be solved! It appears that the problem all along has been my target drive - a 4 GB  Seagate 15150N. It worked fine last time I used it, but now it seems to have borken. I tried connecting my other little SCSI drives to the external bus of my 8600 and they are detected just...

I did what you suggested, trag, and booted with the original HD and the 600i on the external connector. And it worked! In fact, it booted from the CD automatically. So... it turns out that the problem somehow is my target drive. When it is connected, the IIci suddenly can't see the CD anymore...

I know... BUT - I really want to install 7.5.3 on it, not 7.6.1. And the 8600 won't boot 7.5.3. I just pulled out the 7.6.1 CD as an extra thing to test with once I ran into problems. AIIIEEE!!! I've got to meditate upon this while I try doing something else for a few hours, too many tech...

Yes, I did use the same drive and jumpers. I didn't want to! But it seemed properly methodical since I knew for a fact that the drive and CD worked together and were bootable on the 8600. Are bootable CDs any different in 7? I was guessing the boot block could be fussier somehow. I don't know...

Yes, thanks, Unity - I had tried this combo also. Again, with every possible combination of jumpers. To the same effect.

I am having a crazy time trying to set up a IIci. First I tried the external SCSI - with three different drives, in combination with three different cables, on every possible combination of jumper settings. I have tried two different CDRs, one of 7.5.3 and one of 7.6.1. The 7.6.1 image I can...

The 64MB RAM limit that Elfin mentions is also a good reason to not make the 1400 as current as possible. Later versions of MacOS with more features use a larger memory footprint. I have run OS 9 on a 1400, it was fairly slow and not running within comfortable margins. Installing 8.6 instead...

I agree with johnklos that people's investment in Old Apple is huge. I was just looking up info on the IIci I am working on and trying to fathom that they charged around $6k of 1990s money for this. But tech companies - especially larger, image-conscious ones - tend to have a backwards approach...

I have always struggled to do any media work, so if I simply assumed that things were "incompatible" when they didn't work straight away, I would never get anything done. Nothing has ever "just worked" for me, ever. I have found one way around the 730.1MB barrier - I was recording as MPEG 1...

The easiest way to recycle anything is through reuse. So if you don't need them, you could give them to somebody who does. Just keep in mind that somebody who needs an SCSI scanner or phone modem can't likely afford to pay a lot for them. Perhaps you could try to sell them at a nominal price to...