Good news on the 520, that was the first portable I ever purchased back in
1996 and I still have that machine. Below are a few answers
On Monday, April 1, 2019 at 10:38:34 PM UTC-7, Charlie Eddy wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I have a lot of questions.
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> 1. Are there online resources on this
This reminds me that I still need to get back onto repair of our 520
that my son has taken to...thanks for the info.
Mark
On 4/2/19 10:08 AM, Jeff Hubatka wrote:
Good news on the 520, that was the first portable I ever purchased
back in 1996 and I still have that machine. Below are a few
I just looked the other day and AAUI boxes are available on eBay. I like
the rectangular ones from Apple just coz they're kind of cute. :-) Other
vendors made them.
MacOS 8+9 wasn't based on the Mach Microkernel so there is no "Terminal."
There was a version of Yellow Dog Unix available for
> On 2 Apr, 2019, at 7:21 pm, Thomas Pfaff wrote:
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> There was a version of Yellow Dog Unix available for it that maybe ran on top
> of MacOS... I can't remember how all that worked.
I recall Yellow Dog Linux was for PCI PowerMacs, and ran natively using the
OpenFirmware bootloader, never
At the time the 520 was on the machine list for Yellow Dog Linux. But only
with the PowerPC accelerator upgrade.
I believe the "then upcoming" release did not which was part of why I
didn't end up buying it.
It was a struggle finding a practical use for the 520 so I sold it and went
back to
> MacOS 8+9 wasn't based on the Mach Microkernel so there is no "Terminal."
I've never used a system without a shell. Is there one?
On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 9:21 AM Thomas Pfaff wrote:
> I just looked the other day and AAUI boxes are available on eBay. I like
> the rectangular ones from Apple
