>Wow, ok. She had me convinced that it "always worked" in this
>configuration, but that's clearly not true. She must've forgotten all
>about the Mega-Dongle.
Well... there is a chance she is right. If this was the "Houdini" card
that worked with the 610 (or the Reply branded version)... of if this was
the 7" or 12" 586 or Pentium cards that work with MANY of the PCI
powermacs... then I could speak with much more certainty.
BUT... I have never personally worked with (nor own) the card that works
with the 630 and 6100. I have heard rumor that they in fact do not need a
dongle, but the problem you are describing, fits with what will happen on
a 610 if the dongle isn't present... so that makes me think that you DO
in fact need a dongle for the 630/6100 card.
Anyone have one of those cards they want to give me? (hopefully including
the dongle if it is needed). It would round out my DOS card collection
nicely.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
Who was looking for HP-IB cards? I found three genuine HP 82335 cards
(8-bit ISA) this morning. Condition unknown but they're almost mint out
of the box visually. Available to whoever wants them for postage ($3.50
each in the US).
--James B.
I have a commodore tape drive from a Vic 20, it may also work with a C= 64
it's available for postage if anyone is interested, I need to know if
there's interest in the tape drive by this Friday, the 15th, otherwise it's
off to goodwill for it.
IIT is around 33rd Street, near the White Sox ball park; MSI is at 57th
street, 3 miles to the south and just east of the University of Chicago (8
hundreds, e.g. 32nd Street to 40th Street, is a mile) The MSI is about 2
miles _east_ of Michigan Ave. Best way to get there is by Lake Shore Drive.
You can get to IIT from the Dan Ryan Expressway.
Neither area is that safe at night. During the day, the IIT campus itself is
OK, but the area around it has a number of housing projects. The area north
and west of the University of Chicago/MSI is a bit dicey, also.
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Wright [mailto:dtwright@uiuc.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:48 AM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Interesting places in Chicago area?
Russ Blakeman said:
<snip>
>
> On the BW map you'll see where Ill Inst of tech is (known as IIT) - that's
> the general area where MSI is at - it should be just east of IIT on 55th.
Of
> course there are other ways too, like going downtown when you dome into
the
> city on I-290 then going south on Michigan Ave (less of "the hood" to to
go
> thru, a lot longer trip)
Yeah...but don't go visit IIT. seriously. the museum is on the museum
campus
by the lake, which is pretty safe and nice, but you REALLY don't want to go
much west of there, especially if you're not from the area...
<snip>
>The 26 pin connector is for an Apple AV monitor. Kind of like the
>Commodore 1084S, only with Apples usual proprietory greed it has a
>different connector. Cant remember the name but it is possibly HDI-26 or
>maybe HDI-45. Most of the AV Power Macs also had another card which
>would take the Apple 15 pin monitor as well as having 4 S-Video ports.
>
> With the AudioVision monitor this would allow you to use 2 monitors at the
>same time, as well as sound systems perhaps. No I've never tried it.
You are describing a different thing that I was talking about.
I was referencing the DB 26 on the back of the DOS card. You are talking
about the video connectors on the Mac itself.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
On March 13, Bill Richman wrote:
> As previously posted, I recently finished building a Mark-8 computer
> (8008-based). It works great - in fact, I just added an EPROM board so I
> can run demo programs and eventually bootstrap from paper tape last night.
> The problem is, I only have 256 bytes of RAM. I would like to find 3 more
> banks (24 chips) worth of 1101 RAM chips. If anyone has any they'd like
> to trade for a brand new Harris 1802 microprocessor (build your own ELF!)
> or other chips, or cash, please let me know.
Hey! Let's see some pics of that Mark-8!
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
>The video dongle looks like a simple cable, but it must have some sort of
>electronic switch in it as well.
>It switches the monitor between the PCs video output and the Mac's video
>output.
>
>As a workaround, however, I remember that you CAN plug in two monitors
>simultaneously -- one that shows
>what is going on on the PC and another, the Mac...
I don't think there is a switch in the cable, but rather I think it loops
some signals back to the PC card, which causes the switch over.
And yes, you can plug two monitors in, and run both at the same time...
BUT... you still need the dongle to do that... as the dongle is the only
way to get the video OFF the older DOS cards. If you want to run two
monitors, you just don't plug the loopback portion into the Mac's video.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
On March 10, Chad Fernandez wrote:
> Not really. "I Dream of Genie" was a popular show way back when. I
> used to watch it in reruns in the afternoon when I was a kid in the
> 80's.
Me too. Mmmm, Barbara Eden. She runs around in that little skimpy
outfit calling that guy "Master"...what do YOU think is going on
there? ;)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
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