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filter@firthcom.demon.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote:

>> Anyone got a copy of QuickTime 2.5 around?

>Yes, but it's 2.5Mb. Are you sure you want it emailed?

If you've got decent bandwidth at your end, yes please. If you email it to
my work account, I can choose a suitable time to collect it:

ben@rdsopenmind.co.uk

Thanks,

Ben

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In article <B2AD17519668188D95@tvsystems.demon.co.uk>,
ben@lovejoy.demon.co.uk (Ben Lovejoy) wrote:

>If you've got decent bandwidth at your end, yes please. If you email it to
>my work account, I can choose a suitable time to collect it:

Ben; if it's not too late, QT 2.5 is still on almost every cover CD in the
land, and on the latest Demon Dispatches CD too. I can't remember whether
or not you have a CD-ROM player, but I thought you did...

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Peter

peter@cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote:

>Ben; if it's not too late, QT 2.5 is still on almost every cover CD in the
>land, and on the latest Demon Dispatches CD too. I can't remember whether
>or not you have a CD-ROM player, but I thought you did...

I have, but in the latest in a long line of PB3400 faults, the CD-ROM died
on the 23rd. It's a delightful machine, but boy is it unreliable. It's now
had *two* new logic boards, a new power board, a new trackpad and a new
hard drive!

I also got an internal zip drive for it - faulty installation s/w (didn't
install the CP despite claiming to have done so), but wonderfully
convenient.

I also hit the sales today and bought a 56k card modem, relegating the 33k
one to a travel modem, and a Sony Mavica digital camera - that's the one
which uses a floppy disk for storage, so no messing about with cables and
slow uploads. Pix are stored as JPEGs, so should be web-ready. Will report
back when I've had a play. :-)

Ben

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peter@visage-wigphoto.demon.co.uk (Peter) wrote:

>Scott Law sent me 5 CDs with QT 3 for Mac & windows to distribute. Why
>don't you give apple a try, it must be at apple.com surely.

Ah, you must have missed the start of the thread - QT3 is crashing the
machine on startup, some weird glitch that needs to be solved in the new
year by a low-level format and complete re-install (a clean re-install of
the system failed to cure it), so I was seeking a temporary solution in the
meantime.

Been playing with the Sony Mavica, BTW, and it's absolutely superb for my
needs. :-)

The res is plenty high enough for web purposes, and it's such a doddle to
transfer the pics via floppy. List is �549, but January sales plus doing a
deal on the display model meant that I got it for �350 with a spare battery
thrown in. :-)

Ben

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Ben Lovejoy <ben@lovejoy.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> I have, but in the latest in a long line of PB3400 faults, the CD-ROM died
> on the 23rd. It's a delightful machine, but boy is it unreliable. It's now
> had *two* new logic boards, a new power board, a new trackpad and a new
> hard drive!

I've had a bit of trouble with mine, 8.5 & 8.5.1 don't work properly,
8.5 decides my disks are empty, 8.5.1 crashes when waking from sleep,
have you tried either?

Also, for the 2nd time, today it refused to start up from battery, I
hadn't used it for a week or so, 3 of 4 battery lights were active so
the power was there, it wasn't until I plugged it into the main that I
could get it to start and then it took about 30 seconds of an odd
electrical clicking sound before it started up.
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{$PW$}@pwomar.demon.co.uk (Paul Womar) wrote:

>> I have, but in the latest in a long line of PB3400 faults, the CD-ROM died
>> on the 23rd. It's a delightful machine, but boy is it unreliable. It's now
>> had *two* new logic boards, a new power board, a new trackpad and a new
>> hard drive!

>I've had a bit of trouble with mine, 8.5 & 8.5.1 don't work properly,
>8.5 decides my disks are empty, 8.5.1 crashes when waking from sleep,
>have you tried either?

Haven't dared. I upgraded from 7.6 to 8.1, but have had so many hardware
faults that I haven't wanted to complicate things further by messing with
the system.

>Also, for the 2nd time, today it refused to start up from battery, I
>hadn't used it for a week or so, 3 of 4 battery lights were active so
>the power was there, it wasn't until I plugged it into the main that I
>could get it to start and then it took about 30 seconds of an odd
>electrical clicking sound before it started up.

Ah, the first symptom of a dodgy power board. Get it replaced if it's still
under warranty - it gets much worse rather rapidly. Mine started exactly
like that, and within a fortnight you could only switch it on with mains
power, battery out, and by a LOT of coaxing (eg. holding the power key down
for over a minute).

If it's no longer in warranty, email me for a possible solution.

Ben

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filter@firthcom.demon.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote:

>Sent to that address this evening as a stuffed copy of the 2.5
>installer.

Cheers, Steve.

Ben

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Ben Lovejoy                    | 'To see tomorrow's PC,
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peter@visage-wigphoto.demon.co.uk (Peter) wrote:

>> Ah, you must have missed the start of the thread - QT3 is crashing the
>> machine on startup

>Yes I missed that bit, sorry Ben.

And for some reason, 2.5 isn't recognised even after junking QT prefs - it
claims QT isn't installed.

Ah well, low-level format when I get back to work.

>> Been playing with the Sony Mavica, BTW, and it's absolutely superb for my
>> needs. :-)

>I'm afraid Santa won't let me have one ;-)

Nor me - stingy bastard made me buy my own!

Ben

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Ben Lovejoy                    | 'To see tomorrow's PC,
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http://www.lovejoy.demon.co.uk |  -- BYTE, Oct 1995