Hi all. I was looking for info/help, and it looks like this might be it. A little background: I used to use Mac's in school, in fact we had the first Mac network in my school district back in 1989/90. It was a SE/30 as a file server and Mac II's as workstations (about 20 of them if I remember correctly). I've always been into computers and loved working with Macs in particular.
I've recently (the last year or so) been wanting to get back into Macs but money is quite an issue. But imagine my suprice when I found a LC 580 on sale for $12! Needless to say, I didn't even hesitate. I managed to find my old disks from high school and figured I'd see what I could get working. Here's the stats on this LC 580: 040 CPU with 8 MB Ram, IDE 346 MB HD. MacOS 7.6.1 is preinstalled (but no disks for it). It's does not have a CDROM but it does have a Network Card. Since I'm very rusty on Macs I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction on getting the most out of this. A couple of things I've run into (but to be expected) is many of the programs and such do not actually work. Some programs hang, forcing me to do a hard reboot. I remember back in school we had and optional "switch" mounted on the side of the Mac, but my search on the web for such for this has not turned up anything. I'm sure I just don't know the proper name for it, and was wondering if anyone knew what it was, and if it's available on this Mac. Looking inside the Mac I did find a reset button of sorts, but it's a bit hard to get to while the Mac is on. In the disks from school I have MacOS 6.0.3 disks so that tells me most of these programs are from that time frame. The other thing I've found that some of the programs that do work, run incredibly too fast (mainly some old games). I've not really looked into this yet, but is there a way to slow these down? I have one final question. Since it has a network card (and my hub sees it when plugged in) I figured I could find a way to get it on my home network (2 WinXP boxes with 5 port hub). However, everything I've found so far require me getting some thing over to the Mac first. As I only have the disk drive (SuperDrive, I believe, since it can read PC disks), How can I transfer a program to the Mac? I've tried all kinds of variations for conversion, etc., but no luck so far. This Mac has MacLinkPlus 8.1 pre-installed, but it appears that this is designed for documents only and not programs. I found StuffIt 1.5.1 (shareware, expired by about 10 years, lol)sit on my old disks, but this will not even see .sit files that I transfer via a PC disk. I think it may be a hidden extention since the icon is generic with letters "PC" on it. Not sure though. As you can see, I've VERY rusty woring with Macs and would really like to put this computer to good use. Eventually I'd like to max out the ram, get a larger HD, and be able to get on the internet. And pointers, info, or what not would be appreciated. Also, is there a achive of messages sent to this list? I would imagine there's a lot of good info in there. Thank you much in advance for any information. -J Watson -- Quadlist is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Quadlist info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> 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/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
