Table of Contents for this issue:
1.44M Floppy Drive for Plus & Up?
MacWeb 2.0 and Images on Pre-CQD Macs
No Lynx on a Mac...Yet
Western Digital "Preference" Drive?
Classic Parts For Sale
StyleWriter Problems: Never Ignore the Obvious
StyleWriter: What the Fuzz Was
Mac Lynx: Soon; Very Soon
NCSA Telnet, the Plus, and the Control Key
Eudora Light 3.0.* on 68000 Macs?
Intricacies of the 512K and its Drives
SuperMac Graphics Cards Circa 1992?
Energy Saver Monitor?
Possible Reason for the Sad Mac SE
Mac SE: The Infamous Blinking Question Mark?
AppleTalk and Networking?
ImageWriter I Weirdness?
The Dead Mac SE Codes
Mass Micro Quick Image 24--What About This?
Lynx on a Mac: Fine; What Now?
68030 and the 'Net: So Happy Together

Que Computers lists the following:

"Applied Engineering external 1.44 floppy drive for Plus, SE and all Macs = with floppy drive port $125"

This description reads like no other upgrade is required to use this 1.44 = drive with a Plus, or un-upgraded SE.

The site is - http://quecomp.com/misc.htm.

Mark Waller

diegesis wrote:

The other day, I deceded to upgrade my parent's Mac Plus from verson 1.1a3 to version 2.0 of MacWeb. This cleared up all their freezes/crashes, but I ran into a problem. Version 2.0 will (understandably) not view JPEGs without Quicktime installed, but for some reason, their Mac+ chronically requests a post-processor application for GIFs as well.

Does MacWeb 2.0 not display graphics *at all* on pre-CQD macs?

Andrew,

Yep, no version of MacWeb can display any graphics without Color QuickDraw. There's a partial workround for this which takes a bit of setting up, explained on my web page:

http://www.edprint.demon.co.uk/se/macweb.html

Meanwhile, you need to set up the preferences to avoid problems.

In General prefs, click on the underlined words "Home URL". Internet Config will launch and you can delete any entry there for "WWW Home Page". This stops MacWeb opening a default page every time it launches. Save changes and quit Internet Config.

Back in MacWeb go to Format prefs, uncheck "Autoload images".

In File-map prefs, click on the underlined words "File Mappings". Internet Config launches again. Find the entry for the file extension ".gif" and click on Change. Now uncheck the box that says "Post process". You could do the same for ".jpg", ".jpe", and ".jpeg" to stop MacWeb trying to find a helper for JPEG images too. Save and quit.

That should do it.

If your parents click on a link to a heavily-formatted web page, they may think their freeze/crash problems are back. MacWeb 2.0 is very slow at paginating things like HTML tables, especially on a Plus. It will get there in the end, if their patience lasts.

Chris Adams, Birmingham, UK.
The Mac SE Support Pages
http://www.edprint.demon.co.uk/se/

Jag:

Does anybody know where (or IF) you can get Lynx to work on a Mac?

[...]

She has screen shots of it in her book, so I know it'll run on a Mac

AFAIK, there is no Lynx for mac at the moment. I guess the screenshots were taken from a mac telnet-session running Lynx on a UNIX-system.

I have heard that a mac port of Lynx may be coming in the future, though.

p.s. I have 68000-mac-faq at:

http://www.walli.uwasa.fi/~mhaveri/68000.txt

Matti Haveri
http://www.walli.uwasa.fi/~mhaveri/

Dear Classic Mac Masters,

I have been given an external drive (20MB) and cables which would be a Godsend for my over-stuffed Classic II configuration. The model name is "Preference" and the manufacturer is Western Digital.

Unfortunately, it won't launch. Norton Disk Doctor can find it under Missing Disks, correctly identifies the SCSI port, and has even recovered a couple of files. However, after it has completed about three-quarters of its "examination" without locating problems, it then tries to launch a driver, and I get a system error message ("no floating co-processor installed"...something like that).

Would someone please tell me whether there is any way of getting this badly-needed drive to work, or is it a complete write-off? Can anybody recommend alternative (cheap!) solutions to Classic II storage needs?

All helpful comments very gratefully received!

Thanks in anticipation,
Dave

Sorry for "commecial" posting but I'd like to sell this parts to anyone who could use it. I don't want to throw it away... I've got for sale (very good conditions):

Macintosh Classic logic board
RAM Expansion card for Classic
Power supply/video board for Classic

Anyone who would buy those goods please contact me at <pedro

TIA
pedro

Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 15:31:04 +0101
From: Nathan Marler
Subject: StyleWriter Funkiness?

I just got a StyleWriter and it worked great for about a week--ultra-crisp text and all. Then, the text would intermittently be streaked with lines where the ink would not hit. After a reprint, all would be well. Eventually, nothing at all came out, so I decided to buy a new black ink cartridge, since the one that came with the printer was apparently drained.

So I went to Staples and got one. I put it in, and it put out one fuzzy gray character and nothing else. No amount of attempts could get any ink out.

Nathan, I hope I'm wrong on this, but here's my experience: I purchased a cartridge for an inkjet printer a while back and followed the instructions carefully to install it, and it would not print. There were a few marks on the page that looked like the cartridge had leaked or something, but no characters.

I returned the cartridge, and the salesperson tried it in another machine. It did not work in their machine either. The salesperson looked at the cartridge for a moment and then smiled, and removed a tiny piece of orange colored cellophane tape that was covering the cartridge's jets. I felt like an idiot, but nowhere in the instructions did it say to remove this tape nor did it show the tape in the diagram.

If you actually got "one fuzzy gray character" out of your printer, then this may not be your problem, but for anyone else who may be having a problem, I hope this helps :)

Andy Skuse
http://execulink.com/~askuse/bgcross/
http://execulink.com/~askuse/ravengar.html

Hello all,

As I reported earlier, I had an incredible amount of difficulty in getting my StyleWriter to print. I would to thank you all very, very much for your advice; you all responded promptly and thoroughly and offered every alternative. Thank you again.

Here's what it was: I bought the original cartridge from Staples; it was stored on its back and didn't work. I returned it; then, got one that was on the shelf in the upright position. I was certain that this one would work, but it didn't. Argh! I waited a week, though, with the cartridge just sitting in the printer, and suddenly--surprise!! Everything worked. All that I can figure is that, without the ability to clean the print head on user demand, one has to wait for the ink to make its way down to the print head. This took a week for me, so next time I'll buy a new cartridge and store it in the full upright and locked position for a while before I REALLY need it.

Live and learn ;-)

Thanks again to all of you,
Nathan Marler

Jag says:

Does anybody know where (or IF) you can get Lynx to work on a Mac? Preferably a classic Mac. It's a text only browser that Laura Lemay mentions often in her book "Learn HTML in 14 Days" (by the way an EXCELLENT book! {Sams Publishin I beleive}). I d/l a copy of it, but there was no application in the folder, only a bunch of Unix gobbledy-gook.

There is someone currently porting Lynx to run directly on the Mac, to be called MacLynx. His name is Franck Brunel and his homepage URL is: http://www.panix.com/~perceval

The program is still in alpha though, and is not yet on his home page. I've sent him a message asking about the status.

Other than that, one usually telnets to a remote host, and runs Lynx there.

Hello,

This is the response from Franck Brunel on MacLynx,

=========
The first public beta version of MacLynx is going to be released soon. In the meantime, you may ask the developper regarding MacLynx roadmap and poiner to alpha releases.

Thanks for your interest :-)

Franck -+- Tel: + 33 1 44 92 37 45/46 -+- + 33 6 60 62 37 45
=========

Regards,
Richard

From: Amitai Schlair

snip

NCSA Telnet works fine, but the Mac lacks a control key and the program's workaround (command for control) doesn't appear to work.

snip

I think it *used* to work (the control key thing), but then a later version was released and then it didn't work, or didn't work the same way. Maybe 2.5 to 2.6? This is just a vague memory from working in the writing center at the university. Some nice guy went around updating all the net software, but he was from the big computer lab where they had new macs, and wasn't thinking about the limitations of our little fleet of Pluses. I went around and reinstalled the old version and then had a control key again. This is a vague memory of something that happened a couple years ago.

- David

I've been using Eudora Light 1.5.5 on a Plus and PB100 with no problems.

Has someone experiences with Eudora Light 3.0.* on 68000 macs (Plus, SE, Portable, Classic and PowerBook 100)? Does it work? Is it much slower than v1.5.5?

I've also heard that Claris Emailer 1.0 works - any experiences about that?

p.s. 68000-mac-faq at:

http://www.walli.uwasa.fi/~mhaveri/68000.txt

Matti Haveri;
http://www.walli.uwasa.fi/~mhaveri/

Hello Robert.

bought an old 512. that sounds good. i love the sound from those machines: no hum, no cooler fan.
give it lots of space whilest running, to make it live longer. The problem you have with your drives is grease, old grease that has changed into mud. if you are a handy, you could fix it yourself. remove the old grease in the mechanics with gazoline or som other solution but not with thinner. grease it again afterwards with bearing-grease.

now about the discs. The 512 came in two flavours: the original 512k and the 512ke (extended).
the original had 400k floppy's, the 512ke had new ROM's (128k) and a 800k drive. if a tiny red glow comes from within the drive, it's a 400k drive.

Now the problem:

there is something funny about those 400k drives,

I try to boot a 512k with system 1.0 but the bootprocess hangs just after the "welcome to Macintosh" message. the same happens with sys. 3.0 and 5.1.

Sys. 1.0 worked earlier without problems. but while changing with option/command to a newer system that didnt boot rightaway, I think sys 1.0 got corrupted. :-(
all systems work fine on a 512Ke and a SE, but the fat mac is giving me problems (I tried to use a downloaded version of the systems, but it failed to work.

has anyone experienced the same problems?

please contact me at simski or in this newsgroup.

(ps I'm allways in for old system-stuff up to 1989. send me a list with what you got, not the software itself.)

Simon Claessen
Amsterdam, Holland

I have a SuperMac Nubus card with a 15 pin female connector. It is a long card (9"?) and the only identification on it other than the SuperMac label is the following: Spec/24 1V SuperMac Technologies 1992. I really don't know what it is capable of. There are a few long numbers on chips and on the circuit board itself indicating voltages and frequencies but I don't have them at the moment.

Anyone familiar with the SuperMac line from back then and what type of card this might be? I was hoping it might be a high resolution graphics card that would work in a IIci. Any idea what software would be needed to support it?

Vince Salupo

I just switched a 15" Apple Multiscan monitor and adapter from a Mac IIsi to a Mac IIvx. When I try to turn on the energy saver that installs as part of the monitor's software, there's a message saying that energy saver cannot be used with this Macintosh. What is the difference between the two computers that makes that feature unusable? (I had thought that it was a feature of the monitor, not the computer.) Or is there an extension turned off on the IIvx that should be on?

Bob Tymoczko

i had a similar problem when i tried to put in a set of ram in my se. apparently
it was bad ram. maybe this is your problem.

Casey Antoncich

Hello fellow Mac fans.
I am having trouble trying to revive a Mac SE for a friend. When you switch power on, you do not hear the startup ding, the picture immediately has the sad mac icon with the error code 0000000E over 00002000. The machine seems to access both the hard drive and the floppy, but will not boot from either. Any ideas?

I am a pc user who was given a mac se with no software. When I power it up all I see is a blinking question mark. What do I need to do to get this to work? I guess that it doesn't have a hard drive. I can download system software from apples ftp site but I don't know how to get it on a floppy because I'm using a pc to download it. Also does anyone know where I can get the tools to open the case up to install more ram and a hard drive.

Thanks for your help.

Allen Redmond

http://pwp.starnetinc.com/allen/redmond.htm
http://www.clearlight.com/midwestcomposites

I know it's probably in the archives, but I am too lazy I guess to search for it.. sorry

On my SE and IIfx, which ports are for the appletalk? Where can I buy cables?
Eventually, I hope to network my IIfx to my mother's SE and hopefully eventually my powermac, performa, quadra, or centris. Question: How long can the cords be? It's almost fifty feet between the two computers, but I'm more than eager to add a machine every ten feet or so to boost the signal if neccessary and possible. Also, on appletalk, how many macs can I link? Is there anyway to link a PC into it, like by etherneting or serial porting it to one of them and them somehow patching it into the network? Any ideas/help are appreciated.

By the way, I'm looking for a good used and cheap Nubus video card for my IIfx. I will accept whatever you have provided it's cheap.

Jim Ratchford
Huntington,NY

Hi ! I have got a 13 years old ImageWriter I connected with a Mac Plus with an Hard Drive. (System 6.0.3, 1 Mb of RAM).

The Mac works well and the printer too, but sometimes, without any reasons, the printer bugs. So instead of printing normaly, it prints silly ASCII caracters like this example.

(Normal printing)

ddsd ff

f
g

hhj

(normal printing)

Does anyone knows what happen ?

Thank you,
David Rinsveldt

I am having trouble trying to revive a Mac SE for a friend. When you switch power on, you do not hear the startup ding, the picture immediately has the sad mac icon with the error code 0000000E over 00002000. The machine seems to access both the hard drive and the floppy, but will not boot from either. Any ideas?

Near as I can tell, here's the deal:

$000E Failed Data Bus test. The Z (00002000) field indicated the bad bit(s) as a
32-bit mask for bits 0-31. This may indicate either a bad SIMM or data bus failure.

This comes from Apple's TechInfo article "Sad Mac" Error Code Meaning, from
til.info.apple.com/til/til.html

Peace,

Edmund A. Hintz
Web page: http://www.hintz.org

Subject: Mass Micro Quick Image 24--Not a Monitor
Date: Fri, 9 May 97 23:05:06 -0400
From: hilal
To: Classic Mac Digest

i bought a used mac II, and found a nubus card in it that i can't figure
out. it is labled 'mass micro systems - quick image 24'. anyone has a
clue as to what it is? thanks for the help, you're a great bunch!

I don't have any firsthand experience with the card, but it sounds like a
24-bit video card; you can check because you should be able to plug your
(color?) monitor into the connector at the back.

the card has four connectors in the back! none looks like it can accomodate a monitor. two appear to be adb ports, one looks like a serial
port, and the fourth a co-axial ethernet?. all are circular plugs ?!?!

how about
S-Video in and out - 'ADB sockets'
NTSC out - 'Co-Ax'

Maybe a controller card for LaserDisc player, or some sort of Video Editing?

PBJ

Thanks for the info on Lynx. I have accessed my isp via Zterm and Telnet many times. The question is: where do i go from there? How do I SURF web sites as LeMay did? Do I need to know some cryptic code commands or what? I bought my Mac to get away from all that stuff.

Jag

Could a 68030 processor with 8 Meg RAM and a 160 Meg HD handle internet communications these days?

Regards,
Ken

Yes, a 68030 and 8 megs ram *will* get you on the 'net. I currently use a Mac IIvx, 8 megs ram, 68030, 230 meg HD and run Internet Explorer 3.0.1, Fetch, Claris Emailer, a few *big* adobe programs, and much more.

Your MacTV should have no problem as long as you have MacTCP, PPP & ConfigPPP. I used to use an old SE with a 40 meg HD and 4 megs of ram, and it worked fine except the graphics looked like heck on the SE's black & white screen.. Your color screen should look good.

T.J.