While this ought to be over on the mac-n-dos list,
I'll tell you anyway. ;)
Ditto but it's list traffic and I've been trying to build that up
recently so I've been relatively lenient (what with all this
copyright discussion and all) with OTs as the list has a habit of
grinding to a halt
He's educated all of us. Stick around. The best is
yet to come . . .
It is?
There it was!
Indeed: wow.
¬mart
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I spent alot more time than that locating the Silverlining which now
apparently has me all screwed up.
I usually carpet bomb hard disks with weird drivers.
I put them in the tray, connect the wires and then start up from a
floppy with Lido or the Micronet Utility (the patched hdsc is also an
Mark Benson, our list-nanny wrote:
... I've been trying to build [list traffic] up
recently so I've been relatively lenient (what with all this
copyright discussion and all) with OTs as the list has a habit of
grinding to a halt without them ;)
The copyright discussion was very much on topic. It
I've already replied off list, in case Steven managed to unsubscribe
himself, but there are issues that impact the list.
Steven writes:
Evidently my request to the digest list wasn't honored.
In which case, send an email to the list manager.
10 hours later I
get this nonsense again.
What
Mark Benson:
I've been relatively lenient (what with all this
copyright discussion and all)
Marten:
The copyright discussion was very much on topic. It is beyond me that
you can't see that. Vintage Macs isn't only about hardware but also
about the (copyrighted) software without which the
Can anybody tell me how I can check what type of installation was chosen,
for a certain OS?
Suppose I have a HD with 7.5.5. that works with my IIci and LC's and I want
to take it out to somebody who has a PowerMac without a HD. I wonder if it
will boot. Any chance of checking that?
¬mart
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Hmm, this got way longer than anticipated. :) Even
busted the list's 10K size limit. Next part in next
message. :) If Dan thinks it's good enough for
my much neglected Trailing Edge on Low End PC
(or even *gasp* good enough for a spot somewhere
on LEM) be my guest, I think it's a bit long and
Part 2 in response to why Macs use disk drivers and
PCs (generally) don't.
Here follows a history of the PC platform's
trials and tribulations with the hard drive through
the years. Reading it is optional.
Since the IBM PC was introduced in 1981 and the Mac
in 1984 (and the PC was in
--- mart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anybody tell me how I can check what type of
installation was chosen,
for a certain OS?
Suppose I have a HD with 7.5.5. that works with my
IIci and LC's and I want
to take it out to somebody who has a PowerMac
without a HD. I wonder if it
will boot.
Gregg Eshelman wrote:
--- william ahearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
He's educated all of us. Stick around. The best is
yet to come . . .
It is?
Well, maybe not. But one can always hope . . .
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At 05:45 AM 08/03/2002 -0700, you wrote:
Hmm, this got way longer than anticipated. :) Even
busted the list's 10K size limit. Next part in next
message. :) If Dan thinks it's good enough for
my much neglected Trailing Edge on Low End PC
(or even *gasp* good enough for a spot somewhere
on LEM) be
From: Visionary [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do I tell if a version is hacked or not? Simply by whether it works or
doesn't?
The unhacked Apple version is titled Apple HD SC Setup 7.3.5.
The hacked version is titled HD SC Setup 7.3.5 (patched).
I've never seen a download for the hacked version.
It's
Gregg Eshelman wrote:
--- mart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's a little util that will check a file, even
the System file, to see if it has FAT code in it.
If it does then it will boot a Vintage Mac and
some PowerMacs. (Depends on which Mac OS version
which PowerMacs it would boot.)
--- mart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anybody tell me how I can check what type of
installation was chosen,
for a certain OS?
Suppose I have a HD with 7.5.5. that works with my
IIci and LC's and I want
to take it out to somebody who has a PowerMac
without a HD. I wonder if it
will boot.
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From: Gregg Eshelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vintage Macs)
Subject: Re: More about the Whiney Drives
Date: Fri, Aug 2, 2002, 10:17 PM
We were discussing HARD DRIVES, nothing else. There
is no special driver installed on the hard drive.
The OS supports the hard
Gregg Eshelman wrote:
--- mart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's a little util that will check a file, even
the System file, to see if it has FAT code in it.
If it does then it will boot a Vintage Mac and
some PowerMacs. (Depends on which Mac OS version
which PowerMacs it would boot.)
At 05:51 -0700 on 03/08/02, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
--- mart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anybody tell me how I can check what type of
installation was chosen,
for a certain OS?
Suppose I have a HD with 7.5.5. that works with my
IIci and LC's and I want
to take it out to somebody who has a
Thank you very much for your clear and thorough explanation, Gregg.
With some pictures of distressed guys like me and my housemates, around
1994, in the middle of the night, floppies and coffee mugs all over the
place, approaching a deadline, trying to figure of what on earth were heads
or
A pair of mating Kudos to Gregg.
That one goes in the archives.
That little lecture was the best I've run into since factory school on
my first computer--no HD, 8K mag core memory, 1 Mhz clock, and all the
A. Gold (1964) you could handle.
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Donn Haven Lathrop wrote:
A pair of mating Kudos to Gregg.
That one goes in the archives.
I'll withhold mating kudos but it should be on LEM.
Thanks again.
William
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I've got one called PowerPCheck FAT v3.2. Should be
easy to find.
I knew it was Bob F who mentioned it! Thanks.
Before I left to pick up a dirt-cheap 7300 without HD, hence the question,
the guy told me on the phone that he'd found a OS 8 CD from which the Mac
booted nicely. That was enough
Most early PowerMacs will boot from a 7.5 boot
disk.
7.5 through 8.1 have two boot disks, one for 68k
and one for PPC.
If you have a 601 upgrade in a 68k, the 8.1 PPC
boot disk will work as-is. (Maybe 8.0 too, never
tried it.) 7.6 PPC boot disk requires an enabler
for a 601 upgrade but 7.6
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