Table of Contents for this issue:
Where to Get Emailer 1.1v3
Oops--Emailer 1._0_; Mac II?
Duos and Internal Modems
CQD on 68000 Macs?
The Mystery PB 170 Socket
Where to Get NetscapeDefrost
PB 170 Socket Could Be This
Starting to Use an SE.. Keyboard, Mouse, OS
Upgrade vs Full versions of 7.6
Make 800k Disks From 1.4 Meg Disks
Where to Get a Mac Plus?
Ethernet Connectors for a Mac Classic II?
HELP, classic-post!?
Classic Mac Web Page Resources

Was MacOS.com treating the full-featured but timed demo version as the
"off-the-shelf" version simply due to its full functionality? Or was
there really a full, unlocked version that was previously downloadable
that is now gone? If so, does someone have a copy of the old freeware
version salted away? Please try to clarify this for me!

You can download a FREE full featured Claris Emailer 1.1v3 from:

http://tucows.phx.cox.com/mac/mail.html

They are giving it away now since they came out with Claris Emailer 2.0

T.J.

Hello, Mac fans:

Well, I goofed. Claris Emailer 1.1 was not what I should have asked for.
In actuality, I need Emailer 1.0. Something happened between versions 1.0
and 1.1 that made Emailer incompatible with my SE. In any case, I can only
find Trial Software download sites for Emailer 1.0 (which seems bizarre to
me, since why go crazy over 1.0 if you're giving 1.1 away? :-|). So, my
question: Can I download the full version of 1.0 somewhere? If not, where
can I buy it? If it's no longer being sold, does anyone have an old copy
that they'd be willing to sell? If no one has a copy, where should I hit
my head several times on the desk?

I hope to forego that last one.

Also, I was wondering if anyone knew where I could get a Mac II (no
letters) really cheap. It wouldn't have to have keyboard or mouse or hard
drive, and although upgraded memory or a monitor would be a plus, they
aren't a necessity. I just want something a tiny bit more modern with CQD
so I can use some more modern programs than those that run on my SE.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer,

Nathan Marler

Subject: Duo and International (?) Modem...
From: pedro

Hi,
I need a pinout scheme for Duo's internal modem (Int'l version with DB-8
- not US with RJ-11). I need to connect this Duo to standard RJ-11 socket
but I can't buy an adaptor cable.

TIA
pedro

Pedro,

I am using a Duo with Int'l modem. Attached to de DB8 port on the right
side is a "Apple Express Modem DAA" model number M1413 partno. N826-1556A.
However, I do not have a pin layout for you and I wonder if that is
sufficient looking at the above. If you are not able to obtain this part
please let me know, maybe I can find one in Holland for you.

Bert Meijvogel

1. No version (NOT even the Alpha .001) of Netscape Navigator will run on
ANY Mac without CQD in ROM.

When you see "68000 machines, Power Macintoshes, or a FAT binary", it means
68K chip machines (late `20s, all `30s, all `40s), not SPECIFICALLY a 68000
chip machine (no release 68000 chip machine ever had CQD in ROM, nor can
you add it).

2. There are NO ColorQuickDraw emulators for 68000 machines (the CQD
extension supplied in some releases of System 6 allows those machines with
CQD in ROM to have the system recognize the ROM).

When I purchased my Mac Portable (I call it the Hernia) I seem to rememeber
something about it having CQD in ROM. Am I in err?

-Erick

Classic Posts wrote:

could be a socket for an external video?

PBJ

It is. The 170 had a number of external cards that were used in this way.
They wern't very successful, I'm afraid. You may find a name/number on
the card, but good luck finding a company that is still around to help.

Jeffrey D. Bipes

Classic Posts wrote:

Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 17:05:44 -0700
To: Classic Posts
From: Uncle Roger
Subject: Where to get NetscapeDefrost?

At 03:27 PM 4/27/97 -0700, you wrote:

I am running NN version 2.01 on my Mac LC (68020) very successfully. Ver.
2.01 asks for 4296K but I give it 5296K and have the extension
NetscapeDefrost ver.0.9b2 and have no "freeze" problems. I even ran version

What is this extension, and what is the problem it solves? I ask because my
girlfriend has Netscape 2.something on her powermac (8500/16MB) and every
now and again it locks up the system (error 12, I think). Perhaps she needs
NetscapeDefrost? Thanks!

Go Here:
http://204.184.201.1/Utilit/NetscapeDefrost.sit

Jeffrey D. Bipes

To: classic-post
From: D. Buchner
Subject: PowerBook Socket--Neat; what is it?

I just got a big ole' PowerBook 170. When I bought it, the guy said it
doesn't have an internal modem, but now I get to looking, and it seems to
have *something* installed where the modem would be. It's not an RJ11
connector like you'd expect, more like a standard round serial port, but
with more (and squarer) pins. Does anyone have a suggestion about what this
might be? My first thought was some kind of ethernet or othernet connector,
but that doesn't make this plug any more familiar. . . Perhaps it's a rare
and wonderful and extremely valuable thing I could exchange for an internal
modem?

If it is square and has about 30 pins, it is probably the SCSI port. You
have to get an adaptor to use it, but that is where you would plug in your
external hard drive, cdrom drive, scanner, etc. etc. If that is indeed what
the port is, you won't be able to remove it.

Try finding a friend to actually take a look at it (perhaps the technology
guru for the local school system?)

Tom Rule
http://www.seagull.net/tomrule/

I have been a PC user for six years now and I have never had to spend
money, always getting PC parts secondhand from friends who upgraded, or, my
personal favorite, by finding stuff in the trash behind a wonderfully
wasteful computer store near me. I recently aquired a Mac SE from a friend
who had recieved it free from Binghampton College when they upgraded, but I
need a keyboard, mouse, and OS and maybe hard drive for it.

I have always obtained free stuff for my PC, and though it may sound
distasteful to Mac people, I'm wondering if anyone knows of ways to get
free hardware/software for old Macs, from my Huntington, Long Island
hometown. If any of you have old or broken leftover stuff lying around
from upgrades/repairs/etc, let me know please.

Also, I would like to know.. every day or so I see someone saying "you can
download older versions of System from Apple" but I have searched the site
far and wide, done a Yahoo search, etc and I cannot find for my life a
downloadable version of System 6 or 7. Can someone email me a specific
(complete) URL of a page/FTP site and directory where I can get the
software? Email to jratch

One last thing. I have a few SCSI drives lying around, which I haven't
used on my PC for lack of a SCSI card. If I reformat it in a friend's
PowerMac (or off a boot disk) can I use my IBM 40meg SCSI, my Iomega
Bernoulli scsi, or any other SCSI drives that happen to be lying around for
my SE? Any info is appreciated. Thanks for your time, my apologies for
your annoyance.

Jim
Huntington Station, NY

I purchased the full version. A friend purchased the upgrade.
Apparently the CD-ROM is the same. He can do a full install. The
packaging was different. I got a manual, the Internet Connection Kit
CD-ROM and the neato looking box. Scott paid $69, I paid $129 :(

IIci's are 030's, are 32 bit clean.

Mike

[MODERATOR'S NOTE: True, but the person who wrote the original post said
he had 7.1. The 7.6 Upgrade requires proof of ownership (Xeroxed owner's
manual title sheet; Xeroxed label of first install disk) of System 7.5 or
whatever in order for you to get the upgrade price (at least in _my_
catalogs). If you have System 7.1, you don't have any of these required
things, unless you do something rather underhanded. So the full price of
$129 would stand for him.]

[MODERATOR'S NOTE: Alan: If your IIci is 32-bit clean, has 8MB of RAM
(minimum--16's better), and at least a 68030, then you can upgrade it to 7.6
by buying the _full_version_ of 7.6. The "upgrade" version, which installs
on top of, rather than completely, will most probably only work on 7.5
machines.]

From: ribcage
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 14:15:01 -0600
To: Classic Macs Digest
Subject: 800k Disks: The Call of Desperation?

Does anyone know where I can order some 800k disks for my MacPlus?

ribcage

If you need a newer Mac to think a 1.4 meg disk is really an 800k disk,
just take some tape and cover the hole in the disk which tells the disk
drive on newer Macs that the disk is a 1.4 meg disk. Not the hole with the
sliding tab, the "other" hole :)

Mike

I'm looking for Mac Plus for my kid's first computer.
If you have any idea where I can find it.
Please kindly advise me.

P.S.
I was advised that I'd better ask you about this matter by Mr. Jeffrey
Bipes

Would someone point me to some information about putting my Mac Classic II
(running Syu 7.01) on a LAN (either 10baseT or 10base2). What kind or h/w
do I need and where might I get it?

Thanks for you time and trouble!
cs

Carol Sue Cain Miller

Dear moderator - I've got small mailbox space so I can't subscribe, but I do
have a problem with my ORIGINAL Plus. An Iomega Zip installer lobotomized
my Rodime external HD. I've sucessfully reformatted it connected to my PB
52 using a Rodime HD Utility; but I cannot get it to connect successfully to
the Plus SCSI bus: using the Rodime utility, it locks up the Plus. I just
tried the Apple HD SC, and it reports that no suitable device is connected
to the bus. I have already replaced the motherboard thinking that the SCSI
chip or something went bad (got one from Shreve).

How can I check this out? I have an active terminator adapter; I could
connect it & the Zip possibly, and watch the flashing LEDs for the various
lines. DOn't have a digital multimeter, but could use an analog if safe or
borrow a digital to check for power on the bus/board traces...

I'd really like to give my wife her Magic Keyboard back again, she was
getting pretty good at playing the piano.

TIA
Doug

[MODERATOR'S NOTE: When you all read this, please limit your posts to the
Digest only and don't send CC's to his mailbox, since I'm not sure how
small it is, but I'm sure that if he can't take the Digest, he can't take a
bunch of replies. Please post them here, and I'll give him them in small
increments. Thanks a bunch! :-) --Nathan Marler]

Author's note--I appreciate the notes about the compatability of Netscape
with older macs. This Digest is working as it should--providing accurate
information and making corrections as needed.

Web Page Resources from the World Wide Web

Here are a list of sites where one can download for free gif artwork that
can be of use in designing web pages.

http://www.ncsa.ninc.edu/General/Internet/www/HTMLPrimer.html
--a beginner's guide to HTML

http://www.stars.com/vlib/providers/Images and Icons.html
--This is a place to get icons ("buttons"), lines, and others bits of free
artwork.

http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/4524/index.html
--This site is called Pammi's Graphics Page. Say hi to Pammi while you are
over there and be sure to give her your URL for your page.

http://www.halcyon.com/godlbaum/backclrs.htm
--This site has background colors in gif form.

http://osiris.colorado.edu/GIF/colors.html
--gif artwork (lines and bars)

http://the-tech.mit.edu/kpt/bgs.html
--Macintosh graphics (definitely a site to see)

These sites came from a list that I compiled in the fall of 1996. I have
done my best to verify that these URLs are correct. Use your favorate
search engine to locate additional sites that have useful tidbits.

Manuel Mejia, Jr.
Tampa, FLA.