At 20:55 -0600 on 15/10/02, Justin Watson wrote: >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.
Might wanna think about dropping back to 7.1 on there. >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 The LC 580 doesn't have a reset switch that's externally accessible, at least not that I recall. However, cmd-ctrl-powerkey ought to restart it. >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. I bet 32-bit addressing is on, and they probably don't like 32-bit addressing too much. With 8MB RAM, you can safely turn it off without any ill effect, but if you ever upgrade the RAM, you'll want to turn it back on. >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? Not in most cases; those are typically rather poorly programmed games that only work really well on the SE and/or Plus or earlier. >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 How 'bout the PC-to-Mac transfer info in the FAQ and at Gamba's place (also linked in the FAQ)? -- the pickle FAQ <http://macfaq.org/index.shtml> Software Archive <ftp://download:[EMAIL PROTECTED]//Users/thepickl/Sites/Archive/> <http://www.members.jmug.org/%7Ethepickl/archive/> _________________________________________________________________ -- 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
