On Aug 15, 2005, at 4:38 , Antonio Rodríguez wrote:
Hi again, Geoffrey.
Excuse me for taking so long to reply - I have been out of town all
weekend (today it's holiday here in Spain).
Oh that's Ok, I have had too many things to do and too little time to
do it in. Most Americans spend 2 to 4 hours a day in their car
commuting to a job they hate, making house payments and car payments.
I am lucky to not be in that, but approximately 5% of the U.S.
population controls 95% of the wealth. Leaving 5% of the money for
the 95% of "we the people". I fall in that category That is not urban
legend.
Geoffrey Loeffler escribió:
I upgraded the original 128 to the the Bill Gates stated maximum
a person would ever need 512 with in year or 2 after buying it
new right after the super bowl ad, you mention the 512 ke. Do you
know if this would this be normal in a upgrade to from a 128 to a
512.
Just for the records, the sentence is "640 Kb must be enough for
everybody", referring to the limit of 640 Kb of RAM the original
IBM PC had. Many people (me among them) think this is only an urban
legend, but it really doesn't matter too much... Well, back on
topic. If you upgraded just the RAM, then the computer stayed with
the same 400 Kb drive and 64 Kb ROM. At all effects, your computer
is a 512k (not "e"), which only supports MFS.
Thanks, I wish I could quote the source where I read it, but I can
not, IMHO it's not urban legend.
There are three solutions in this scenario. The easiest one is
getting a SuperDrive compact Mac [...]
Probably the best, although I have the original 128 to 512, it
sadly gave up the ghost a couple of years ago, some mention a new
Mother Board some say power supply,
Oh... What are the symptoms? It may be fixable. You may want to
join the Compact Macs list (http://lowendmac.com/lists/
compact.shtml) so we can discuss its fix there :-) .
Really I thought this was the basement of the older Macs and the
other list was for Lisa and things made in garages. That sounds like
a good idea and I will do so
Either fix that, preferable or buy an old. Your idea ?? and if
buying old what would you recommend, not a whole lot of $$. It's
some hermit guy who has this property and no way to get a hold of
him, tried everything.
I would try to *both* fix the 512 and buy another compact. The 512
is a piece of history, but even fixed won't solve the problem,
because it's palinly incompatible with the 6100. So you will need
another compact. A Classic is a good pick - many people disregard
it because its lack of expansion, labelling it a "road Apple", but
for data transfer operations (their internal 1.44 Mb SuperDrive and
40 Mb hard drive are very handy) or basic word processign it is a
very nice machine, and goes very cheap in eBay. Other options may
be the SE and the SE/30 (make sure they have a SuperDrive!), but
they are more expandable and "capable" machines on other areas, and
ussually go more expensive.
Do not want to collect more computers, BUT if it would solve the
problem, I guess that's reason enough, like to get mine going again
for historical purposes, that puppy worked for me till 1994, the
screen was small but made you concentrate!! In reality. So both
routes sound good
My wife says no more collecting till I build a bigger room or
house ;/
Well, you are going to get the Classic in order to recover all
those old disks, aren't you? It isn't for your collection ;-) .
Ya that's right..exactly correct and makes cents anyway she just got
a new iBook so can't complain
The second solution is to downgrade the PowerMac to OS 7.5 or
7.1 (the latter requires a system enabler). [...]
That 6100 G3 runs almost 24/7 when I am there and is amazing, the
old Apple 10 years old, yes some upgrades and oh yes the pram
battery. I have 8.6 running and will not tempt the electrons
I do have stacks of 190s and 5300 PBs
Well, if you depend on the 6100 but have other machines, then do
not touch it ;-) . Many of the pre-G3 PowerMacs are compatible with
at least System 7.5, I think, but you would have to check. Anyway,
System 7.5 retains compatiblity with MFS and 400 Kb disks. So it
would also solve your problem.
A hearty thank you and appreciate any thoughts on the above.
And again, you're wellcome! I hope to help you to solve your (our)
problem :-) .
I am sure we will as it snows in Buffalo see you on the lower list
Greetings,
Antonio Rodríguez (Grijan)
<ftp://grijan.cjb.net:21000/
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