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    5.25 Drive in Powermac

    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.
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    5-1/4 floppy disks

    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...
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    PowerBook 3400c Repair Stories

    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.
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    3400c booting issue

    Should I try recapping it?
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    Zip drive for Powerbook

    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.
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    Zip drive for Powerbook

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

    Willing to part with it? ;)
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    Zip drive for Powerbook

    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...
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    3400c booting issue

    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...
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    3400c booting issue

    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?
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    Audio Dictionary

    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...
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    Email on 7.6.1

    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?
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    Email on 7.6.1

    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.
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    Email on 7.6.1

    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.
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    Onscreen Keyboard

    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...
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    PDF files looking horrid

    It looks absolutely beautiful printed. And the same pdf files opened on other systems look perfect. Even in Acrobat 5 on the same system looks great. That “smooth line art” setting which seems to be in version 5 and up really does the trick.
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    Desktop printer icon moving to desktop

    Actually, I think it’s something to do with booting into OS8.6 from System 7 and selecting a printer. Hmm...
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    PDF files looking horrid

    On my OS8 machine I have Acrobat 5. There’s a setting in there called ‘smooth line art’ that makes vector graphics (like sheet music pdf files) look MUCH better. On my System 7 machine I have Acrobat 4, and unless I’m mistaken there is no smooth line art setting, so things look godawful in terms...
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    Desktop printer icon moving to desktop

    Is there a way to get the desktop printer icon to stop being moved to the desktop upon startup? I store mine in a folder on my system drive, but when I boot into 7.6.1 , the icon in that folder has an X through it and a new, fresh one on the desktop is created. This doesn’t happen in OS8, only...
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    OS7.6.1 vs 7.5.5 for 9600

    I have a 9600. After some investigation, I read that 7.6 isn’t compatible with a bunch of PowerMacs including the 9600, but 7.6.1 is. Not sure why. So it got me thinking about the earliest OS a 9600 can run, 7.5. From what I’ve seen, people have said 7.6.1 is better for PowerMacs compared to...
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