Recent content by Syntho

I have a 9600 machine. I’d like to add a 5.25” drive to it. Is there a certain make and model that a Mac requires? I’m not even sure a 5.25” drive will work on it at all but I thought I’d try.

The wikipedia page is very very detailed, much more so than I need, and I come away from it still wondering about the most commonly used types of these disks. There seems to be 180kb, 360kb, and 1.2mb disks, some of whom are double sided, and I'm not sure if the aforementioned sizes are both...

Two and a half years later, I pulled out my old 3400c and I STILL have a white screen. I get a chime and the screen comes on, but it stays at that white screen no matter what I do. HALP.

Should I try recapping it?

I was there in 2018. I think there are multiple locations and it slips my mind as to which one I was at. (Edit: After looking at pics of the building, I was at the Tukwila location). At the time I wasn't looking for one, though. Hopefully someone here with a spare will be willing to sell it to me.

Yep, that's it. These things are hard to come by. If anyone reading this has one, shoot me a PM :)

Willing to part with it? ;)

As far as I know, Apple never released an official Zip drive for the Powerbook (I'm using a 3400c). The laptop's documentation says that it can accept 3rd party Zip drives though. I took a look on Ebay and I've only seen these 'VST' brand Zip drives, but they appear to be made for a G3 laptop...

I get a chime, yeah. I've tried every trick you mentioned but I still get a frozen white screen, sometimes with a cursor, mostly without. Not sure what in the world is going on. I didn't see any corrosion either. Maybe I need to take a much closer look...

I bought a 3400c and it's giving issues. When it boots, it won't get past a frozen white screen. Sometimes I see the cursor, sometimes I don't. I replaced the battery in it but that didn't help. I really have no idea what to do to diagnose it. Any thoughts on how to fix this up?

I've been on the hunt for an audio dictionary (or in other words a dictionary with pronunciation examples). I found one on the Garden, the Collin's dictionary, and while it's a real gem, I have one problem with it: the audio is British English. If that were ever released in American English...

What if I have a web server and domain? Could I configure something in cpanel so that I could access email without all the ssl settings?

I have a Synology nas so I wonder if that could be what handles it. I know very little about that a stuff. Gonna do some reading.

I got email working on os8.6 using classilla but in netscape 4.8 on 7.6.1 it doesn't work. How are you using email on system 7? I happen to have a Synology nas that could help with this problem.

There was once some software called Keystrokes that did exactly what I needed it to do but they don’t sell it anymore. I emailed the company asking if they could sell me a license but they just plain don’t deal with it anymore and consider it abandonware. I’ve looked everywhere and there doesn’t...