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Ok, I went in and poked around 3 of my Lombards, and after switching RAM in and out, found out a) I had one stick of bad RAM B) my new, whizzy Addonics compact flash adapter drive thingee does *not* support switching out the batteries. It just dies mid-swap. So, now I can switch batteries...

Hi, In the old days, when my Lombard was much younger, when I would swap out batteries with my Lombard in sleep mode, my green light would keep on blinking, and I could then wake up from sleep without missing a beat, and especially without having to restart it. Flash forward several years. My...

Thanks! Well, duh! I hadn't noticed that thread...I thought it was suspicious that I would be the first to notice something!

Hi, Just traveled to Low End Mac, and found out about this: http://www.floodgap.com:80/software/classilla/ Somebody is updating WamCom, to enable browsing under OS 9, and they hope, OS 8.6. This leaves the 68k's out, but is awesome news for a luddite like me, who still can't bear to part with...

Apparently I am arriving in the middle of a long conversation. Are "we" back up? Could somebody PM me the details? I picked up an old LC from ebay, and it had some interesting old MIDI software that runs in system 6.0.7. I thought others might be interested...

Well, one thing I can do is I can follow directions. If it is an algorithm of sorts, then I'll just start at the top. Of course, I won't neglect to make a visual inspection first... Coincidentally, I finally unboxed an LC I got off ebay, and upon start up it sounds like I am tuning in a radio...

It looks like nobody bought it, even after he listed it again for $100. FYI, as a former owner of a 5300 (plain 5300, greyscale) and a 1400cs, here is my advice: Stay away from passive matrix displays (those with the -cs). They are just too dim. At age 27, I thought I was losing my vision...

Thanks! Let me know when /smpsfaq.4dullards.htm is posted!

Out of curiousity, is there a way to fix a dead power supply? I'm sure there is, the question is, is there a way to teach an electronics dullard like me how to fix a dead power supply...

No, he's doing it ... hard to say correctly ... but many's the time I had blood on my hands when getting my ol' 8500 motherboard out. The cure is simple ... simply take it apart again and again, until it slides out nice and sweet! I recommend 3 times in the morning before breakfast, and again...

Hi, Regarding the FPU, I can only think of a handful of math-intensive software titles that used an FPU, stuff like hardcore statistical programs...this morning, I ran across an "Orbital Tracker" program, that would compute satellite orbits, circa 1992. It had two versions, an FPU version, and...

Hmmm...what kind of DVD-RAM is it? I have a Panasonic (well, Matsushita) LF-D101 SCSI that works in OS 8.6 and up. I have a LF-D111 IDE that works in OS 9 and up. DVD Tune-up will write to DVD-RAM in Classic, and I have Toast 5 that will as well, but I haven't used it. I have to say, I have...

It seems an ignoble thing to say, but the best thing about the 6200 is the case. Really, Apple built it so crippled that as Trag remarked, it is a wonder it works at all! So enjoy it...I think the advice about turning off Virtual Memory is the best advice; if you can install as much real...

For working on single documents at a time, I love 640x480. If I want to work with multiple windows, then 800x600, or (even better) 832x6?? is even better. My opinion is that higher resolutions is only so marketers and advertisers can fling more ads at you while you are surfing. If you are...

Yeah...it won't work. As others have said, the LC PDS slot was totally different. The idea at the time was that the schools that bought Macs would be able to run all their old Apple IIe software (regular consumers and hobbyists were *not* the market). The Quadra 950 was *not* the type of...

Hey, Did you solve the problem? If not, I don't have time to research this, and it is 4am where I am, but another thing to look at is if the WaveLan Silver is a regular PCMCIA card, or if it is a Cardbus card. Cardbus will not work in the Newton...the Newt is too old (like me!).

I have several Lombards, and my experience has been that the heat and locking up issue usually seems to precede the cache dying. Of course, other things can be at issue...my experience has also been that it acts weird and locks up once or twice, and then the cache dies, and then the heat and...

I'm curious to hear the outcome; I have several Lombards and was thinking of trying the same thing (i.e., video display swap). Now, I'm not as eager as I was before to try this.

Are you using any particular program to do the cataloging for you?

I'm familiar with Kaleidoscope, but what is Tiger Lights? I am happily running Tiger on one Lombard, and OS 9.04 on the other. I really enjoy using OS 9, and I'm on the Wacom browser right now typing this. The battery life, and bays are killer (I still use floppies, so it is nice to slide out...