Yo compacters everywhere, Our Joe askz:
> does anyone know of any CDROM that would work with a Mac SE, I want to > upgrade it to system 7.5.5, but I have the OS on a CD, I could copy the > CD to my Power Center Pro and hook it up to the Mac SE using the Printer > ports and apple talk I think, will try, but a CD would be nice ;-) The Apple CD-ROM extension will drive any Apple external CD drive just fine. The patched version available at Gamba's site is supposed to drive most any marque of CD drive. On my SE Macs, I've been using the CharisMac CD-ROM Extension V1.10t which both drives and boots from any CD drive I've tried including an ancient Denon 1x. And, yes, the SE with all 4 MB of RAM will run System 7.5.5 with about 300k of RAM left over. No real point in that unless you like using Stickies as your word processor and playing Missle Command a lot, so don't bother. The choice between some flavor of System 6 and System 7.1 is between "speed" and "features". If you want real speed, do MacOS 8.1 on a fast G3. If you want real features, do MacOS 8.6 on a fast G3. On your SE, try both the 6 and 7 and suit yourself. Bill -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
