Pardon the cross-post, but I'm dealing with this issue with many generations of machines
Is there a Tutorial on which softwares are needed for erasing, zeroing out, and re-formatting the 68k models (68000, 68020, 68030, 68040) and/or Mac OS 6.x.x through Mac OS 7.5.x for the 68000 models, Mac OS 7.x through Mac OS 7.6.1 for the 68030 models, Mac OS 7.x through Mac OS 8.1 for the 68040 models, etc.? And for Power Mac and Mac OS 7.x through 9.x.x, including the Power Mac 'clones' from UMAX, Power Computing, etc.? I own Norton Utilities version 6.0.3, but that doesn't work on 68xxx machines, and doesn't seem to work on all the 'clones' either. -Martin Totusek Martin A. Totusek wrote: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Macintosh donations - Seattle area (non-profit) Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 16:05:46 -0800 From: "Martin A. Totusek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Martin A. Totusek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: seattle.users.macintosh This is a Seattle-area non-profit effort: On a volunteer basis, I find homes for older CISC CPU Macintoshes, and older Power Macintoshes, and external gear with seniors, low-income families, grade school through high school students, college students, local musicians, etc. On a volunteer basis, my fellow dBug (Seattle Macintosh "Downtown Business Users Group" <http://websig.dbug.org/>) member Mr. Chris Matzen is helping find homes for older donated Power Macs in particular, to persons now enrolled in programs for drug abuse and alcohol abuse recovery. Chris Matzen states: "Many persons who develop addictions dropped out of school. These persons are now often penniless and only some are able to work reliably. Most, but not all, of the people I am reaching are enrolled in programs run by the Agap� treatment people." So, while neither of us rarely can find a home for a Mac PLUS, we can find homes for SEs (that have the 1.4 MB internal floppy drive, not the 800K internal floppy drive), Classics, and for some Performas, Quadras, and many Power Macintoshes. I'm still looking for a few old but good 15-inch or 17-inch Apple color monitors to go with some of the PowerPC machines that have arrived at my home sans monitors, so that I can give functional systems (kind of hard for folks to use one without a monitor). Macintosh Donations - Information requested Questions about each system when donated; Makes it much easier for Chris Matzen or I (or anyone else doing this), to do things with the donations: 1) What model of Macintosh (including if it's 680x0 or PowerPC)? 2) Is it a complete system, or sans monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc.? 3) If it has an internal floppy drive, does it's internal floppy drive function? 4) Does it have an internal Apple-branded (and therefore bootable) CD-ROM? 5) If it has an internal CD-ROM does it's internal CD-ROM function? 6) If it does come with a monitor, how large/heavy is the monitor? 7) Does it have Mac OS system install disks with it, if so what version, and are they on Floppy Disks, or CD-ROM Disk, etc.? 8) Do I need to zero out any internal or external Hard Disks? Sincerely, Martin A. Totusek (dBug member) c. FILE. P.S. I also realize that I need to find a external SCSI APPLE-branded (and therefore bootable) CD-ROM drive (24X is best, 8X is a minimum), as not all machines being donated to dBug and/or delivered to my home have had functional CD-ROM drives, and being able to boot up off any external disk and check what is in the machine, and if it's worth finding a new drive for, or if it is better to have it parted out for use in other donated machines (RAM, hard disks, etc.), would be quite useful... -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> 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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
