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The Joy of Mac
Sep. 29th, 2004 02:52 amWell, I have 2 less fewer* Macs than I did!
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reddragdiva & redcountess have a new one, complete with transplanted-at-the-last minute motherboard so they get an Ethernet card they can use. The machine that was stored in my garage, the one destined for them, proved to have a dead HD so at the last minute I had to strip it down, find a spare drive, format it, remove the drive from the working machine, copy the clean system across, fit it into the dead machine... Which involved stripping my own Mac. During which, of course, Roger arrived to take them away. Once we'd determined the working drive and that Apple uses the red core to determine pin 40 not pin 1, I left him reassembling them while I typed up some hasty notes.
And of course, one died when we reassembled it. Opening andwiggling cables skilled adjustment soon got it back on its foot though.
I have a feeling that resurrecting the other older machines will not be trivial.
Heartstoppingly, when I reassembled my own G3, it wouldn't boot first time, either. It was fine 2nd time, but I'd forgotten I'd been in MacOS 9 to format and copy the hard disk. I never normally use OS9 any more. It's still much quicker than OS X, even Panther, but it looks somehow so old-fashioned - in a clean, elegant sort of way. So, for a laugh, here I am online with OS9. I'm typing this into a fresh copy of Phoenix, a Classic LJ client, I'm on all my chat services - one client app each - I've installed MS mouse drivers so I can right-click and use the scroll wheel... And it's only crashed on me twice. Once when trying to get Classic iTunes to import my umpteen-gig of OS X music library.
There's a reason I quickly came to prefer OS X...
All this and only 636MB out of 768MB left free. :-)
Since Classic downloads are getting hard to find, here are some links.
Browser: IE, Opera, Mozilla and Netscape all have stopped supporting Classic MacOS. However, iCab is still being updated.
Chat...
AOL US offer a newer version of AIM (4.7) than AOL UK, who still only offer 4.6.
Yahoo's own download link for Messenger doesn't work, but Download.com's does.
ICQ 3.4 is the latest but the site doesn't work completely in iCab, be warned.
A new version of MSN Messenger for Classic has just been released - 2.5.1.
Phoenix is a Classic LJ client. Works, altho' it fired up iTunes to see what I was listening to even though I wasn't listening to anything. 8-) Er, right... No idea if there are others or better ones; I found an old, no-longer-functional copy already on my machine & just updated it.
But still... All these, plus WordPerfect 3.5, and you have a fairly complete suite of appications, for free. Web, chat, mail, music, multimedia, WP, a few games. Roger, being Roger, wants Perl. Anyone know about Perl for Classic MacOS?
Anyway, I'm continuing to plug the other old Macs I have. Put an announcement on CIX today and have had one bite, from the formerpugwash. It's strictly 1st-come, 1st-served, so if you want one, make some noise - or better still, arrangements to collect!
Wonder how many of these I can find & install for 68K-based MacOS? That'll be fun...
* Thankyou, Annemarie. Grrrrrrrr.
reddragdiva & redcountess have a new one, complete with transplanted-at-the-last minute motherboard so they get an Ethernet card they can use. The machine that was stored in my garage, the one destined for them, proved to have a dead HD so at the last minute I had to strip it down, find a spare drive, format it, remove the drive from the working machine, copy the clean system across, fit it into the dead machine... Which involved stripping my own Mac. During which, of course, Roger arrived to take them away. Once we'd determined the working drive and that Apple uses the red core to determine pin 40 not pin 1, I left him reassembling them while I typed up some hasty notes.And of course, one died when we reassembled it. Opening and
I have a feeling that resurrecting the other older machines will not be trivial.
Heartstoppingly, when I reassembled my own G3, it wouldn't boot first time, either. It was fine 2nd time, but I'd forgotten I'd been in MacOS 9 to format and copy the hard disk. I never normally use OS9 any more. It's still much quicker than OS X, even Panther, but it looks somehow so old-fashioned - in a clean, elegant sort of way. So, for a laugh, here I am online with OS9. I'm typing this into a fresh copy of Phoenix, a Classic LJ client, I'm on all my chat services - one client app each - I've installed MS mouse drivers so I can right-click and use the scroll wheel... And it's only crashed on me twice. Once when trying to get Classic iTunes to import my umpteen-gig of OS X music library.
There's a reason I quickly came to prefer OS X...
All this and only 636MB out of 768MB left free. :-)
Since Classic downloads are getting hard to find, here are some links.
Browser: IE, Opera, Mozilla and Netscape all have stopped supporting Classic MacOS. However, iCab is still being updated.
Chat...
AOL US offer a newer version of AIM (4.7) than AOL UK, who still only offer 4.6.
Yahoo's own download link for Messenger doesn't work, but Download.com's does.
ICQ 3.4 is the latest but the site doesn't work completely in iCab, be warned.
A new version of MSN Messenger for Classic has just been released - 2.5.1.
Phoenix is a Classic LJ client. Works, altho' it fired up iTunes to see what I was listening to even though I wasn't listening to anything. 8-) Er, right... No idea if there are others or better ones; I found an old, no-longer-functional copy already on my machine & just updated it.
But still... All these, plus WordPerfect 3.5, and you have a fairly complete suite of appications, for free. Web, chat, mail, music, multimedia, WP, a few games. Roger, being Roger, wants Perl. Anyone know about Perl for Classic MacOS?
Anyway, I'm continuing to plug the other old Macs I have. Put an announcement on CIX today and have had one bite, from the former
pugwash. It's strictly 1st-come, 1st-served, so if you want one, make some noise - or better still, arrangements to collect!Wonder how many of these I can find & install for 68K-based MacOS? That'll be fun...
* Thankyou, Annemarie. Grrrrrrrr.
