SuperMac S900
From Michael Brugh
Hello Charles,
Maybe you can
help me with a problem. I, too, have an S900 running OS 9.1. It has experienced
some of the same symptoms you have described in your articles.
What I'm running on:
- A Newer Technology 275 MHz G3 upgrade (the original speed of the
CPU is 200 MHz)
- 160 MB RAM
It worked fine for about 2 or 3 months, then it would behave more or
less like this:
- I boot up to a flashing question mark or
- After hard restarting 4 or 5 times, I boot to the desktop, the
mouse works, but I can't click on anything. Nothing is
highlighted.
I've downloaded the latest driver from the resurrected Newer Tech,
located here:
<http://newertech.technojunkie.org/software/drivers/archive.html>
It actually made it work again (for a while). Like you, it
eventually reverted to freezing up.
Then only thing I have done is replaced the power supply and the
2 GB Quantum hard drive with a Seagate 18.2 GB Barracuda drive,
with 4 partitions.
Any suggestions?
best regards,
Michael
P.S. I enjoy your "Misc Ramblings" column very much!
Hi Michael,
That does sound like the sort of symptoms I
experienced.
Since I replaced the Seagate Barracuda hard drive I
originally had in my S900 with a Quantum hard drive, the problems
disappeared and haven't returned. I have to suspect that there is
something about those Barracuda drives that the S900 doesn't like.
Charles
Freyasland Mail
From Gabriella Torsander
Hi,
I just read your Miscellaneous Ramblings column about Free POP3
Email, the update. Since I'm the one
who started the Freyasland email, I'd like to point out that whatever
problems you've been experiencing must be temporary. My family and I
have been using the service for years now, and apart from some
unavoidable downtime (like iTools, for instance, seems to have been
subject to lately), it's been working fine for us all the time. As far
as we know, no one else has been having problems with Freyasland.
Gabriella
Hi Gabriella,
Freyasland worked fine when I first signed up, but it
quit responding for no apparent reason. My ZapZone address kept working
fine (different account in same email client). I kept trying for two
weeks before giving up and deleting the account.
However, weird thinks happen in cyberspace.
Readers can give Freyasland Mail a try at: http://freyasland.zzn.com/email/english/login/login.asp
Charles
Free POP3 Email Update
From Chris Malanga
Charles,
Enjoy your columns. One free email service to note is at FastMail. It offers IMAP and Web access
to everyone, and it is completely customizable. There are varying
levels of paid service (I use the $14.95 one-time plan), and there is
even a forum in which the developer participates. It is really fast
because there are no ads and little graphics.
Just thought you might want to investigate.
Thanks!
Chris Malanga
Hi Chris,
I had a FastMail account, but the POP3 service is no
longer free. Otherwise, a good service.
Charles
Hockey puck mice search
From Bon
Hi Charles
If that reader still needs one, there are several blue or whatever
color hockey puck mice here at the Austin Goodwill computer store
Yup, that is a fun place. Never can tell what you will find.
I love it!
Well, forward her my email if she needs help (or post it to the
mailbag). I have heard similar reports of folks that actually
like that mouse.
I think they were $5 or so.
I go by there every few days so would happily send it out for the
cost of shipping and the mouse.
Or she could find one on
eBay easy.
I am awaiting a PowerBook
2400c 
from your listing of Baucom
Computers on the 'Book Review.
Thanks for the heads up. He seemed a pretty good guy on the
phone.
Yes I am excited, even though I have a 400 TiBook.
I will soon get rid of a Power Mac 9600 (downsizing to a
7600) and give Mom the old
iMac.
I am moving back in time and down in size. :-)
Keep up the good work.
Bon V. Davis II
Hockey puck for Mary G.
From Mike Etun
Hi Charles,
I have a brand new hockey puck [mouse], still in whatever it came
in, in the big box. I'm in Mesa, AZ. Probably there is someone closer.
I didn't know there was a market. You give good writing.
Mike Etun
Thanks Bon and Mike,
I've forwarded your emails to Mary.
Good luck with the 2400c, Bon, and congratulations on
going all-PowerBook. Glad the 'Book Review was helpful.
Thanks also for the kind words about my writing,
Mike.
Charles
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