🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1dacmpi.1ktmdpv8j274tN@p12.nas1.is2.u-net.net>,
real-address-in-sig@flur.bltigibbet (Rebecca and Rowland) wrote:

Thanks for your help - I've found out some answers since yesterday!

>> There *is* a switch with no apparent function.
>
>Well, if it's small and has got two positions, it's most likely the
>switch for the terminator.  Other possible functions: on/off switch for
>the CD-ROM drive, or maybe the selector switch for the SCSI ID.

It turns out to be the switch to lock the base of the device into place.
The thing doesn't have a terminator - my friend found the manual...

>> But there's not only no lead, there's no place for the lead to go into on
>> the device. The only input place is the 50-pin socket where the SCSI cable
>> goes.
>
>That is very odd.  Well, assuming it's not running off vacuum energy,
>doesn't have a nuclear battery, or a perpetual motion machine inside it,
>I suppose it really must be meant to get power from the SCSI bus.  I
>feel that this isn't right myself.

You're right...... when I asked my friend he laughed guiltily + said that
there *is* a power adapter. The socket isn't like any other computer socket
I've ever seen though - it's more like a keyboard input socket, but even
smaller. Now I've got the power adapter I have at least got lights showing
on the device!

>> >If you've not got an extension called `Apple CD-ROM', it's probably as
>> >well to try re-installing the OS.
>> 
>> I definitely have no such extension.
>
>Well, that'll be why it's not working.

I've now found this extension + installed it, but it still doesn't work -
it turns out (according to the manual) that I need (a) Power CD extension;
(b) Foreign File Access extension; (c) Apple Photo Access extension; (d)
High Sierra File Access extension; (e) ISO 9660 File Access extension; (f)
QuickTime extension.

Of these, I only have the last one (and, now, the Apple CD-ROM one). Not
sure how many of these are just for reading PhotoCDs, but in any case I
think I'll have to wait till my friend can find the original PowerCD Setup
Software disk. 

>> Question: if it's *not* on my system disks, is there anywhere I could get
>> it online?
>
>Not legally, no (at least, not that I've heard of).  But if you drop me
>an email (rebecca@astrid.u-net.com), I can email you a genuine System
>7.1 version of the Apple CD-ROM extension as well as the version that
>came with 7.6 (if I can find it) which is the only one that'll work with
>non Apple CD-ROM drives.

Thanks for this - may yet resort to this if Adrian can't find the installer
disk.....