I have a working classic here (except for the diskette drive). [p.s.--will trade pile of classic macs for reading a few floppies and a Macportable hard drive in vegas, bsan jose, san diego, or phoenix, but the disks have client data and cannot be shipped or leave my posssession)
Anyway, the boot from ROM was a near miss--somewhat useful for recovery, but it was absutely unable to load etensions from disk when doing so, limiting its usefullness Hawk On Oct 11, 2009 8:00 PM, "Clark Martin" <[email protected]> wrote: Dr. Hawkins wrote: > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Gregg Eshelman < [email protected]> wrote: >... Well the Mac ROMS in the earlier Macs had routines in them for supporting the serial port. But to fully do something you still had to you use routines loaded from disk. The Classic had a way to boot from a ROM Disk and you could from there use LocalTalk. But it never amounted to much. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a m... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
