> Remember if you are looking for diskettes to reload your System Software
> (a.k.a. Mac OS) for your PowerBook Duo 210, 230, 250 or 270C.
> The Mac 512 User Group has System 7.1 available now at
> http://www.mac512.com/ssdl.htm
For TWENTY DOLLARS! This is why I don't like Mac User Groups.
Money is their top priority, not education. They only things they teach
are what they want you to know - not the things that will make you as
competent as they are. For example, The Mac 512 User Group
won't teach people the simple procedure to make a 7.1 Installation
Diskette set specific for the Duo out of any 7.1 set that may be lying
around the house.
I never got much out of the The Mac 512 User Group. To begin with,
the website would crash my Netscape 2.02 browser as would the Jags
House vintage Mac website. Incredibly, the owners of these vintage
Mac websites fail to make their websites compatible with older browsers!
Actually this is not too surprizing considering one finds the owners of
these vintage Mac websites really don't spend much time on the web with
the vintage Macs they purport to love - they are using G'3 & G'4 and
system 8.6 or 9.0.4 at home with Netscape 4.x or IE 5.x!
Then there are other fustrations galore. I once went to the Mac
512 User Group site to find Stuffit Expander to use on my 7.1 Mac.
All the site provided was version 5.x of Stuffit
Expander which is incompatible with system 6 .x 7.0 or 7.1! (as
I learned the hard way since they don't tell you).
Then look at their "how to get your vintage Mac on the web" mess.
Instead of teaching the step by step procedure of how to get
a vintage Mac on the web they force you to download a
"package" deal of connection software and browser or email client
THEY FEEL you should use. So you really don't learn how to
download, install and configure your own internet setup.
In a nutshell, you don't learn much because what they teach
is guided by underlying business agendas. Fortunately, there
are a few, unglamourous web sites out there that won't
crash your older browser and WILL teach you the insider
tricks and are completely free of underlying agendas. My
favorite is Gamba's site: http://www.accesscom.com/~gamba/.
This site is nothing but pure help - manuals, boot disks,
systems, browers, you name it plus hold your hand step
by step procedures. All for free and the web site owner uses
a IIci with system 7.1!
Paul Cherubini
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