Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / May 2004

Does anyone know where I can find a cheap copy of the Windows 2000
Professional software?  I am looking around and no luck so far.
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Can somebody please tell me what is the difference between these three
connecton methods.
I have been given an old 5500/225 upgraded to G3/500 but don't know
which connection I has to get a convertor for my USB items.

I am looking for a replacement adapter within Australia for an item of
equipment I have which was originally designed to run on a Mac via the old 8
pin serial connection but which I occasionally need to connect to a PC via
its 9 pin serial port. The adapter needs to be female both ...

Hi I have a farallon iprint adaptor for connecting appletalk devices
such as printers to ethernet networks. You can use it to connect your
old printers to an iMac/eMac network. No software or drivers needed
includes 240V to 12V adaptor.

do u need a firewall with cable?..
i'm hearing conflicting views about it.
ps. i'm on classic, not OS X

Ok, i just got cable and all seems to be working fine.
i'm getting various speeds from 3 KB to over a 100KB.
are there any sites i can test my speed? or is this just normal stuff?
Also there's 2 things i miss with dialup.

Yes, I had to do it, from scratch.  Somehow I missed the option to set a
non-QWERTY keyboard configuration as default (Dvorak), which I did the
first time around.  Can anyone tell me if there is a way to set that
default without having to completely redo the installation.

My Powerbook G3 series, (bronze keyboard) has a memory problem that I need
help with.
I received the computer about 6 months ago. It had been sitting in a draw
for approx 1 year.

I have an old 7600 PPC running system 8.6 and it is now crashing on boot
up. It starts to load the extensions and then I get a bomb saying "Device
Manager system error"
I have tried booting with extensions off and the same thing happens. I have

I ma looking for copies of 2 old Stats programmes. One is Statworks and
the other is Statview. I have a lot of data files in both and with moves
between several continents and multiple updates, the originals are not
available. Any help would be most appreciated.

Ok,
Here's an odd one. I just installed a brand new Pioneer A07 into my MDD
dual 1 GHz G4. It went in the top bay, with the bottom bay having the
standard Apple combo drive. Both drives are on "cable select".

Greetings all,
Has anyone done it?
I need some advice on set ups etc, jumpers and pin settings.
Regards

Hello to all,
I am soon to move into an inner city apartment ( West Perth ), and will
need to go back to a broadband connection.
Now if I have the opertunity to get either cable or ADSL ( its a big if

I have a 400mhz iMac running 9.2.2, with 256 MB of RAM.
It has a 20GB HDD, which according to "Get Info", has a capacity of 19 GB,
of which 18.5 GB has been used (mostly by my kids MP3s).
Thus there is only about 500MB free.

Scored (maybe) a $5 Powerbook 145B today.
It turns on, chimes, and from what I can tell goes to the finder ok.
Problem is, I can't see anything, as the screen seems to be... burnt?  As
in - it looks maybe like its had severe sun damage.  There is "color"