As an aside, I just set up my 3400c with an Orinoco silver card and, after following the README instructions (which I never do) , the thing is pretty cool and pretty fast on the 'net. Goodness, wireless is fun!
A lot of people are shocked at how responsive a seven-year-old 3400c is when they first get their hands on one. You can see why it was a $5,000 piece of hardware back in 1997.
Can anyone explain to this Windows guy what exactly Finder is? Like what is a windows counterpart to it? The kernel? I know the finder is always running so I assume it is like Explorer (not the internet one) .
Yes, the Finder is roughly the equivalent of Windows Explorer. Apparently, Apple did something to the Finder in 9.2.x that made it somewhat more responsive than in 9.1, which is why the third-party hacks exist for installing 9.2 on unsupported systems.
What I did, and be aware this doesn't work for everyone, either, is boot to a Zip disk with a barebones 8.1 on it, then go onto my hard drive and remove the Finder, Open Transport and TCP/IP stack from a de-blessed 9.2 System Folder. I put them in my active 9.1 folder, then rebooted the 3400 to the 9.1 folder. The transplant was successful in my case.
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