I've begun to see numbers of old Mac's in the various thrift stores. Which models are particularly interesting? I've never had much of a taste for the things, but at $6-$10 each it might be worth snagging the things just for the disk drives, or some such.
Today I ran into a classic, a ii-lc or some such and iii-si or something like that. These latter are both those recent-looking low-profile thingies. Do they have anything of interest in them?
Dick
--- Sean Caron <sean(a)techcare.com> wrote:
> There was also a slick little series of devices made by Cayman called the
> GatorBox. They would bridge pretty much any protocol (TCP/IP, Appletalk,
> and even DECnet) over LocalTalk to Ethernet and back.
I helped the science technician at Scott Base with one a few years ago.
Slick little boxes. Wish I had one.
-ethan
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--- Mike Ford <mikeford(a)socal.rr.com> wrote:
> If you want TCP/IP and want to support IIgs as well as mac, the only
> solution I know of is the FastPath 4 made first by Kinetics, then Shiva.
> The downside is that these boxes are not trivial to figure out how to setup
> (then again they to a LOT of tricks). I have a dozen or so of them, with
> one waiting to ship just as soon as I figure out the setup just a little
> better. (I found a manual last week, which should help). The upside is that
> nobody knows about them and they sell pretty cheap (around $25 to $50
> used), and they do stuff you wouldn't even guess at like Ip tunneling. The
> Fastpath 5 is newer etc., but the 4 seems from what I have read to be more
> friendly to Apple II clients.
I have a Fastpath 4. I think we may have spoken of it in the past. I still
have no docs and think I might need a ROM upgrade. Are there any web resources
out there for these?
Thanks,
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This is OT but I thought everyone would get a kick out of it.
Joe
>Subject: Computer Humor.....
>
>Subject: Computer humor with a
> twist...maybe a slant...
>
>Jesus and Satan were having an
>ongoing argument about who was better on
>his computer.
>
>They had been going at it for days, and God was
>tired of hearing of the bickering. Finally God said,
>"Cool it. I am going to set up a test that will run
>two hours and I will judge who does the better job."
>
>So down Satan and Jesus sat at the keyboards and
>typed away.
>They moused.
>They did spreadsheets.
>They wrote reports.
>They sent e-mail.
>They sent out e-mail with attachments.
>They downloaded.
>They did some genealogy reports.
>They made cards.
>They did every known job.
>
>About ten minutes before their time was up,
>lightning flashed across the sky, thunder rolled,
>the rain poured, and, of course, the electricity
>went off.
>
>Satan stared at his blank screen and screamed
>every curse word known in the underworld.
>
>Jesus just sighed.
>The electricity finally flickered back on, and each of them
>rebooted their computers. Satan started searching frantically,
>screaming, "It's gone! It's all gone!
>I lost everything when the power went out!"
>
>Meanwhile, Jesus quietly started printing out all
>of his files from the past two hours.
>
>Satan observed this and became very irate:
>"Wait! He must have cheated. How did he do that?"
>
>God shrugged and said, "Jesus saves...."
>
>( Dats 'cuz da devil made me do it ! )
>
>Attachment Converted: "C:\ATTACH\Compute1.htm"
>
> However, be forewarned that ViacomSoft apparently knows nothing about
> Appletalk Bridge software. I have an extremely small network
> consisting of my PowerComputing clone and my wife's Quadra 650. We
> also have three different Appletalk printers. (PLW NT, HP Deskjet and
> Color Stylewriter) I have to use the Bridge software to communicate
> with the printers. I use ethernet and a x-over cable to connect the
> Macs. SurfDoubler would not allow access to the printers. Their tech
> support had no experience with it.
While I suspect that they share some code, from the description on the
web site, SurfDoubler isn't the same as SoftRouter. I may have to
experiment a bit here...
> After a month of trying to make it work, I tried Sustainable's
> IPNetRouter. Plug and play. Well worth the additional $50 if only
> for the lack of agravation factor. ViacomSoft's final answer was, "
> If you figure it out, let us know." I figured it out. The answer was
> to drop the ViacomSoft product and replace it with IPNetRouter.
>
> Told 'em what the fix was too! If you do not have to have a mixed
> network, ViacomSoft's product will probably work just fine. It just
> wouldn't work for me.
Well, I have one printer that's localtalk-only, so I have something
to test with. I do also have a Shiva box that allows sharing a single
localtalk peripheral amongst a localtalk workgroup, but I've never
messed with it.
-dq
If you want to know more about spiders, I actually took several entomology
classes at the University of Kansas. I know some weird information about
fleas, chiggers, spiders, pore mites, and other small insects. We used to
hunt spiders, not to kill them but to observe them, at night, our professor
would buy the first pitcher of beer after we were all done. You could buy
3.2 beer at age 18 in Kansas in 1971.
The brown recluse spider injects a cytotoxic saliva when it bites. The
saliva actually breaks down the cell wall, i.e. cytotoxic, liquefies the
cell contents and then the spider is able to "slurp" up the contents. Some
people are highly allergic, then can end up with scars the size of 50 cent
pieces when the site heals. Bites on faces and exposed body parts are a
problem. They like to feed on dust mites under furniture. I heard a
story/rumor that one of the football coaches at KU had a large scar on his
butt from a brown recluse bite.
Reference on spiders
http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~ohioline/hyg-fact/2000/2060.html
Off topic, The chigger injects an anticoagulant when it bites, which has the
same effect, and also itches. Otherwise their proboscis, "stinger" would
clog up with clotted blood.
University of North Carolina reference to residental pests
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/notes/Urban/house.htm
Reference of pesticides and pest control
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/notes/Urban/pests.htm
Pore mites are the tiny bugs that live on the sebacous secretions and skin
flakes on your skin. Mostly they live in skin pores. Our professor used to
take a scraping from the skin on a student and show them what was living on
them. He theorized that people with clear skin actually had more pore mites
that kept the skin's pores unclogged. I doubt if anybody wants a skin cream
with live pore mites.
Mite reference http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/notes/Urban/mites/mites.htm
I actually learned something in college.
Mike
mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu
Hello,
I have a PET 2001-16N with the graphical keyboard, but it is
missing the left uppermost keycap. It's been missing so long, I
don't even recall what character it is any longer! It's the key
located right next to the '!' key though. Would anyone have a spare
cap or even a spare keyboard assembly? It is a plastic cased 2001
with the 4.0 ROMs.
Thanks
Jeff
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> There are at least two products that will perform TCP/IP
> "encapsulation"
> into Appletalk using a Mac:
>
> 1. A current product called IPNetRouter. See:
> http://www.sustworks.com/site/ipr_guide/localtalk.html
> It will run on all current Macs.
>
> 2. An old Apple product called "Apple IP Gateway". See:
> http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n16705
> This product will not run on PCI Macs or on Macs running
> "Open Transport".
Another product is Vicom Internet Gateway... it's been
split into two products now, one carrying the same name
includes the ability to block access to specific web sites
and has CyberNot filter capability.
A more stripped-down version is called SoftRouter. Both
products allow you to multi-home the Mac, and it then
routes Localtalk to TCP/IP and vice-versa.
Nice product; we use it on a Mac to connect our entire
office to the Internet over a measly V.90 link.
-dq
> >Speaking of PB's, I might be inheriting an '040 520c soon. 8.1 does run
> >on the 040, yes? Does anyone have personal experience (not "Apple claims
> >it does")?
>
> Like the LC475, my 520c has the 68LC040 processor, not the full 68040 - I
> assume your situation is the same. If I'm wrong, we can set about
> installing BSD. Linux will also run on this machine, but from what I read,
> the FPU emulation is not reliable yet.
Some of the LC models (e.g. the Quadra 605) have an expansion slot
into which you can put either a NIC or a FPU card.
I have a couple of the FPU cards, although I may not still have
the docs. I'd be willing to part with them for US$20 each.
Regards,
-dq
