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Hardware / What is the oldest Mac you use daily
July 21, 2012, 06:04 |
I use a PowerBook 3400c and a desktop PowerMac 5500 pretty much daily. They are both configured with the same software and Mac OS 7.6.1. I also have partitions with 8.6 and 9.1 installed for the rare times when I want to use some software that won’t run on 7.6.1. I also have Sheepshaver with the same 7.6.1 configuration running on my Dell Latitude PC. (I also had it running on my MacBook Pro at work at my previous job.) I love the old software that simply does what you tell it to do much better than the modern stuff that always guesses wrong when it tries to help me out. People continually ask me how I am able to create this or that on my computer hoping that they also can learn how to do such things. They are usually shocked (and disappointed) when I tell them that I made it on my ancient Classic Mac using software that came out in the early 1990’s. |
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Operating System / Sharing Trouble....
May 09, 2011, 22:34 |
Quote from: "massi13" So i need a Iomega Zip reader or they can be read by a normal floppy disk reader? So i need a scsi Iomega reader and an USB reader... ? Zip disks are bigger than and quite different from normal floppy disks. So to use Zip disks to transfer data between your Quadra650 and your MacBook, you would need a SCSI Zip drive for your Quadra and a USB Zip drive for your MacBook. Both zip drives are frequently sold on eBay and many are sold along with a few zip disks. (The Zip 250 drives can read and write both the 100MB disks and the 250MB disks. The Zip 100 drives only work with the 100MB zip disks.) Your MacBook knows how to read a USB Zip disk without any additional software. (However, it can't write to a Mac formatted Zip disk unless you write to it from inside your Classic Emulator. You MacBook can, however, write to PC formatted Zip disks.) Your Quadra should also be able to read and write to the SCSI zip disk if you have a formatted Zip disk in the drive when you start it up. In order for your Quadra to be able format zip disks, you will need to install Iomega software which you can download from their website - www.iomega.com. |
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Operating System / Sharing Trouble....
May 07, 2011, 05:10 |
Quote from: "massi13" Thanks, but the sum of data is about 70 MB, and with a floppy disk it is impossible to transfer... I was not referring to a traditional floppy disk. The Iomega Zip disks that I use hold 100MB. They also come in larger sizes. If you want to be able to use these files inside of a Classic Mac emulator such as Basilisk II, you should archive those files first using something like Aladdin Drop Stuff or Apple's Disk Copy. That way when you expand them inside of Basilisk II all of your files' various Classic Macintosh attributes (such as type, creator, resource fork, etc.) will remain intact. Quote from: "massi13" I can use all type of cd or i need formatted disk for os classic? and i need a program like Toast to read the CD? If you want to be able to create a CD from your Quadra650, you will need a program like Toast to write the CD. Once created, virtually any computer with a CD drive will be able to open it including your MacBook Pro. |
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Operating System / Sharing Trouble....
May 05, 2011, 21:23 |
I will leave it for others to help you resolve your network issues. There are, however, some alternative ways to transfer your data. To transfer large amounts of data from my classic computers, I use an external LaCie SCSI CD writer on my Classic Mac OS 7.6.1 Macs with Adaptec Toast 4.1.2 CD writing software. The CD produced can be read by virtually any computer with a CD drive. (Your CD writing software might not recognize your CD writer drive if the drive is newer than the software.) For smaller quantities of data, I frequently use Iomega Zip disks to transfer data between a MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard - Mac OS 10.6.x (or any other modern computer) and Classic Mac OS 7.6.1 computers. I use an external USB Zip drive on the MacBook Pro. I use a VST Zip drive module in my Classic PowerBook 3400c and a SCSI external Iomega Zip drive with my Beige Desktop Classic Macs. (All of these Zip drives are frequently available on eBay.) Snow Leopard can read and write files on PC formatted Zip disks but it can only read Classic Mac formatted Zip disks. You do not need to do the following for what you want to accomplish, but there is actually a way to run a Classic Mac emulator on Snow Leopard (such as Sheepshaver) that allows you to both read and write files on Classic Mac formatted Zip disks from within the emulator. To do this, each time you insert a Zip disk for your MacBook Pro to use, you have to unmount it with Disk Utility and then launch a classic emulator that is able to work with Zip disks. With the Sheepshaver emulator, you have to use one of the older versions of the Sheepshaver preferences program that lets you type in /dev/disk1 for one of the volumes that Sheepshaver is to use. After doing this, when you launch Sheepshaver, the Zip disk shows up on the Classic desktop and you can then read and write files on the zip disk from within the emulator! |
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Operating System / Views Control Panel Settings
May 05, 2011, 01:44 |
Regarding what the PRAM does contain . . . There is a freeware program available from several sites called PRAM Inspector 1.1. I just ran it on a Powerbook 3400c with System 7.6.1. It lists the following PRAM settings: Clock chip validity status, Node ID hint for modem port, Node ID hint for printer port, Serial port use, Modem port configuration, Printer port configuration, Alarm setting, Application font, Auto-key threshold, Auto-key rate, Printer connection, Caret-blink time, Double-click time, Speaker volume, Menu-blink time, Preferred system startup disk, and Mouse scaling. |
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Operating System / Views Control Panel Settings
May 05, 2011, 00:44 |
Yes, ovalking, it is true that I was not able to determine the storage location of the Views Control Panel settings. I just now zapped the PRAM on another PowerBook 3400c to again confirm that doing so does not affect any of the settings in the Views control panel that I had previously changed from their default state. I believe that this means that the views settings are not stored in the PRAM. So I do not know where they are stored. |
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Operating System / Views Control Panel Settings
May 02, 2011, 23:36 |
Two of my seven PowerBook 3400c laptops have had this battery leak onto the circuit board beneath, several months after I ignored the fact that they were no longer working. I did not replace them when I first noticed that they were not working for two reasons. (1) the first replacement PRAM battery I bought from eBay never did work (even after letting it charge for a few days) and (2) it did not seem worth it to me to pay from $20 to $40 for a new battery just to keep the clock running and hold the PRAM settings during the rare moments when I might remove the main battery without the AC power adapter plugged in. So now when these batteries fail, I just remove them. As long as the main battery is charged or the computer is plugged in, the clock keeps running and the PRAM settings are safe. |
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Operating System / Views Control Panel Settings
April 30, 2011, 04:03 |
I solved the VIEWS control panel setting problem by re-imaging (restoring) the hard drive using Apples Software Restore (ASR) with a disk image I previously made with Disk Copy. This means that the problem was not hardware related after all. For those who would like to know, here is what I discovered prior to coming up with this solution. Now originally I wondered if the VIEWS control panel settings were stored in the PRAM (Parameter Random Access Memory). If so, I was wondering if the actual PRAM (the actual memory module and not the associated battery) could go bad. (A Powerbook 3400 service manual indicates that the PRAM settings are stored somewhere on the logic board but it never says exactly where.) In any case, it appears that the VIEWS control panel settings are NOT stored in the PRAM because when I reset the PRAM on an identical working computer with the same OS (Mac OS 7.6.1), the custom VIEWS control panel settings were not changed back to the defaults. The problem was also not with the VIEWS control panel itself because it was byte for byte identical to the VIEWS control panel on the working computer. So then I wondered if those settings were stored in a visible preferences file in the Preferences folder inside the System folder on the hard drive. If so, perhaps the file in question was corrupted, which perhaps made it impossible for the VIEWS control panel to save the new settings in that file? So I deleted all of the visible preferences files in the preferences folder (not something you should do unless you have a way to restore them as I do). Then I set the clock ahead one day and used the VIEWS control panel to make some changes. I was hoping the VIEWS control panel would create a new preferences file and stamp it with this unique date. Unfortunately no such file was created in the preferences folder. In fact, no visible file on the entire hard drive was found with this unique date. So I still do not know where the VIEWS control panel settings are stored. Perhaps they are stored in an invisible file somewhere. In any case, at this point I decided to just restore that entire partition on my hard drive as described above. Now about the PRAM battery mentioned in a response to my initial post. This little green battery apparently goes by several names including PRAM battery, CMOS battery, Clock battery, and Back-up battery. In any case, it appears that the only time this battery is of any value is when you remove the main battery at a time when the computer is not powered by an AC adapter. Leaving this little green battery in a vintage laptop creates a major liability, however, as it will eventually leak all over the circuit board beneath it (as it did in one of my Powerbooks) which can cause a variety of problems until you manage to clean all of the residue from that board. If you remove this battery (as I have done) you won’t lose your PRAM & clock settings as long as your main battery holds a change and you plug in an AC adapter whenever you change the main battery. |
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Operating System / Views Control Panel Settings
April 29, 2011, 15:50 |
I need to know where the settings that are made using the Mac OS 7.6.1 VIEWS control panel are stored. I have a Powerbook 3400c that loses those settings every time it is restarted (even when the AC power adapter is plugged in). The clock settings are NOT lost during these restarts (or during extended shut down periods without the AC power adapter), only the VIEWS control panel settings are lost. Are the VIEWS settings stored in the PRAM? If so, do any of you know where the PRAM is physically located in a Powerbook 3400c and if faulty PRAM can be replaced? |
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Software / Compare Text Files
June 28, 2010, 02:10 |
According to the BBEdit Lite 6.1.2 User Manual, one of the advanced features that the commercial version of BBEdit has that BBEdit Lite does not have is "Compare and find differences between individual files" (page 16). I am hoping to find a free program that compares text files. |
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Software / Compare Text Files
June 25, 2010, 06:08 |
I am looking for a System 7 program that can compare text files. I have a really nice program called CompareFiles (by Simon Hartel, Am Hang 38, 33824 Wether, Germany) but it requires Mac OS 8.5 or later. It displays the two files side by side with the differences highlighted. I would like to find something like this that will run in System 7. |
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Off Topic Discussion / MPEG-2 Video Files
March 03, 2010, 03:28 |
Could you tell me how you managed to play MPEG-4 video on Classic OS? Did you use Quicktime to play the video? If so, what version of Quicktime did you use? For the video file, what were the file type and creator codes? |
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Operating System / Playing Video CDs (VCD) on Mac OS 7.6.1
November 23, 2009, 06:34 |
Thanks for the tip to check out VCD player applications. The "Read Me" file for the application called "Simple VCD" mentions that QuickTime Pro and QuickTime Movie Player version 2.5 (which is free) can be used to save VCD DAT files as QuickTime movies. The resultant QuickTime movie is only slightly larger than the original DAT file. So this answers my question of how to save a DAT file from a VCD on to a Mac OS 7.6.1 hard drive so that it can later be played using Quicktime. |
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Operating System / Playing Video CDs (VCD) on Mac OS 7.6.1
November 16, 2009, 11:32 |
I made a 4-minute Video CD (VCD) using NERO on my XP computer. Just out of curiosity, I tried to play it on my Mac OS 7.6.1 computer using Quicktime 3.0.2 by opening the MPEGAV folder on the VCD and dragging the file called “AVSEQ01.DAT” on to the Quicktime Movie Player icon. Surprisingly, Quicktime made a small file called “AVSEQ01.DAT (Converted)” in the Translated Documents folder inside the Preferences folder and then played the video. Even though Quicktime can read and play the video, I cannot copy the “AVSEQ01.DAT” file from the VCD onto the Mac’s hard drive using Mac OS 7.6.1 (a disk error was reported). I can, however, use my XP computer to copy the “AVSEQ01.DAT” from the VCD on to its hard drive. I can then transfer that file to my Mac’s hard drive. After doing this I changed the type and creator settings to TEXT and hscd which is what I see when I look at this file on the VCD. When I then drag this copied file on to the QT Movie Player icon, a Quicktime extension dialog comes up which says that it is translating “AVSEQ01.DAT” from an unknown document format to a Quicktime movie. The progress bar moves very slowly and after awhile, a message comes up that says that it has run out of memory. So my question is, does anyone know how to convert the "AVSEQ01.DAT" file from a VCD to a file that can be saved on a Mac OS 7.6.1 hard drive and played by Quicktime 3.0.2? |
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Software / Word 5.1a and 7.6.1
October 29, 2009, 01:40 |
I have been using Word 5.1a with System 7 for years. There are two solutions for this memory problem detailed at: http://myweb.cableone.net/rmaxon/mp_news_897.html (1) an extension called “FixWordSystemMemory” (2) "Word 5.1a patch" I used the extension until I found out about the patch. You may have to search for these names to find an active download site. If I remember correctly, I think you can also get around this problem by launching another application before you launch Word. |
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