![]() From inside the emulator, I copied the downloaded files to the floppy drive which was mounted in the emulator at launch time. There is a classic Macintosh 68k CPU emulator called Basilisk II that uses a ROM from one of these old machines. I needed a different approach that did not require a UNIX file system as an intermediate step.Īfter many different tries and google searches that revealed nothing, I figured out the right approach. In Debian, they can be installed with the Apt packages hfsprogs and hfsutils, but after several failed attempts, I gave up. There are utilities for doing this in Linux. Though Linux has the ability to mount, read, and write HFS file systems, it does not know how to handle this resource fork and only can copy the data fork. When copying from a UNIX file system to a Mac file system, the UNIX file system ignores the Resource Fork, a crucial part of the Mac’s executable files. But I ran into a big problem that I had forgotten about after all these years. When I stopped in Part 1, the Zip and floppy drives were working and I was able to read and write to them from the Linux laptop. The chassis and all of its connectors are in very good condition. The machine was worth it, in my opinion, because it came fully loaded with RAM and VRAM, (20MB and 4MB respectively) and has an original and working hard drive. I got this old Mac from eBay for a price that is higher than I care to admit, especially for a computer that probably has less than 1/100th the processing power of the cell phone I used to take its picture. This machine was a top-of-the-line computer that cost $6000 in 1991. Nuff said.In the previous post, I installed Debian Linux on an old Dell laptop so that I could use its floppy drive and network connection to get files off the internet onto an ancient Apple Macintosh Quadra 700. That's the only way that I can see them making a comeback and taking some of the Microsoft market. I would pay 250.00 for a full version of Mac OS X that I can install on as many computers as I want. There going to keep on losing market share until they do something dramatic to get OS X on many more peoples computers and the only way I can see them doing that is by going to Intel or x86 (Intel and AMD) processors with the option of buying the software and installing it on your own. As much as I would like it too since macs are very cool looking computers apple just has to face reality. Just my opinion hardware only sales are not going to keep Apple in business. That's why I would like to see Mac OS X dual-booted with Windows XP on the same machine. It is a pain for some people who do not have much room to have a Mac and a PC setup even tho it's not much of a problem for me it is for a lot of people. It's just little things that keep me from switching. For some reason I just can't go all mac or all pc for that matter. I first used an Apple II mac in middle school and in high school they had the iMac and since then I've bought a Power Mac G4 and I have my Sony Vaio PC. Sorry for the timeline thing but it brought me back memories lol.and back this summer was my first experience with osx and wow, some ppl say its slow but i havent seen an os faster than that yet :D. Gr 9 - 12 not much went on but we got imacs in the library n used those most of the time now days n mozilla is fasssst on them compared to netscape 4 atleast ). Then in gr 8 the computer room got all new macs (well back then) and all of them had access to the internet (most of the same macs are in there) and we all had to use netscape 4 (no access to ie 4x) Gr 7 i remember going on a few of the macs to search the web Gr 6 there were only a couple computers still.but i did get to go on the internet back then on netscape 3 Then in gr 5 we had mac II's and one or 2 macs from back then that had system 7 and os 8.0, and in late grade 5 our school got the internet, even tho there was only a few computers that had access to the internet at the time. ![]() I was about 4 or 5, i can remember in kindergarten useing one of the OLDDDDDD macintosh computers that had the dos like os or whatever.and we used those kind of machines till gr 4, in gr 4 we used old macs still but it had mac os (with gui) and we used to play games on them n a couple of the computers had screens that looked like tvs (and had the huge floppy disk slots) So how old was everyone when they first used a mac?
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