On 6 Mar 2006, at 22:53, Macolyte wrote:
Hi there
Just wondering if anyone else uses a classic compact mac for
messing around with.
I have a Plus with an external 80MB Hard disk sat on my bench. I run
System 6.0.8 on it and find it's pretty versatile (I think people
forget just how much early stuff ran on System 6!!). I run a star map
program on it that I was given called 'Voyager', as well as Word 5.1
and MacDraw 2 (still possibly the greatest vector drawing package
I've used). Alas the only hope of networking is via LocalTalk, or a
SCSI Ethernet unit (I don't have one).
I also have an SE/30 that decked out with a few more of the 'mod
cons'. It's got a 50MHz accelerator in it, an Ethernet card, and a
500MB hard drive. It's running 7.1 with additional later extensions
and will happily talk to anything on my network. I use that as a
terminal for my server. Due to a config problem I haven't debugged in
OS X it's actually faster to switch in the SE/30 and use it to SSH
than use the terminal in OS X!!
Also 'knocking about' but not currently set up I have a Colour
Classic 'Mystic' system running a full 33MHz/040 and a 601 PowerPC
upgrade (great add-on board to look at but a total waste of
time! ;o). I also have a Classic that someone gave me. It's not
really all that useful and it's slower than the Plus (believe it or
not - it's true!!). It's also a non-network machine.
I don't fire then up that often these days but when I do I never fail
to enjoy using them.
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