Re: II GS monitor question

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"Scott Brown" <browns@mackay.net.au> wrote in message
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> Hi
> Thanks for your help.  I priced an adapter to use an IBM monitor on a Mac
> form our local apple dealer and they are $50.  I then went to the dump,
and
> once again they had no Mac monitors, so i asked the resident electrician.
> He said that he doesn't test Mac monitors, but that i was welcome to take
> them untested for $2 each.  SO i got two near new perfect Mac monitors for
> $4.  Pretty cool or what.
>
> I have now started to use my Mac LCiii, and they Hard drive is starting to
> play up.  It won't boot.  SO i took the top off of it and the arm won't
move
> properly when booting, i have to adjust it by hand.  Than ionce the
computer
> does actually boot it works fine, and will restart, but if you turn it off
> it just won't start back up with out dismantiling it.  Is there a way of
> fixing this.

Time for a new drive. Opening an HD is a BAD thing since you have
now contaminated the HD operating environment with microscopic
dust. These things are made in clean rooms where there is no dust
and you violated that.  Time to find a new SCSI drive.  If you don't
find an Apple branded drive, you will have to locate HD formatting
software too.

> I would also like to use the Mac on the net.  It is using system 7.1, so i
> need a browser i guess, but do i need any dialing software.  Also what
about
> a modem.  It only has the PS2-like ports.  Can you buy a cheap adapter so
a
> normal serial modem can be used with it.

Netscape 2.0 works on an LC III.  You would need to install PPP,
MacTCP and SLIP extensions. There is also a Remote Network
extension that you would need.  To connect to a modem, you need
the Mac 8-pin mini-din to RS-232 cable which are fairly common.
I have a box of them.

> I know this was long, but thankyou very much for reading and helping.
>
> scott
>
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