Umm so who are you calling stupid ;-)
On 14 Mar 2005, at 11:57am, jonbjorn wrote:
Hi all,
Isn't the 580 an older generation mac, pre PPC. If so that could put
severe
limitations on the system and software you can run
cheers
You're right of course. What was I thinking? Low end mac says
• LC 580 introduced 1995.04.03 at $1,300; discontinued 1996.03.02
• Performa 58x introduced 1995.04.13 at $1,300; discontinued
• requires System 7.1 (with Enabler 065) or later; highest version
supported without a PPC upgrade is Mac OS 8.1.
So I might just say it's not really feasible, although I could follow
Onno's suggestion and install OS8 on an empty drive but I think I'd run
out of disk space for any apps. It only has 500mb to start with and the
OS8 update needed an additional 120mb over existing 7.6.1. There is
only 108mb currently spare.
I think the good teacher will need to stick with existing OS7
compatible software and wait until her classroom full of 100 Schools
Project Windows machines arrive later in year!
Reg
