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Operating System / sys enablers, the option to debug, etc.
July 02, 2008, 00:23 |
I was in 8th grade when the bondi blue iMac was released. i remember BEGGING my parents for one for christmas...thankfully they aquiesced and i got one that year. i can recall my mom telling me how difficult it was for my dad to get the words "i'm here to buy an iMac" out of his mouth at CompUSA, as he was an ardent PC user. anyways, i was quite young at the time and had had much exposure to macs cuz my friends and some relatives had them. i knew everything. i could use ResEdit. I knew all the hidden OS shortcuts and secrets and how to fix everything. Years of being a passionate advocate and user of apple products have taught me a lot. however, once the OS 9 and under systems began vanishing, so also the need to know all this behind the scenes stuff seemed to vanish with them. OS X is excellently stable and intuitive. But I miss the days of yore with programmer's switches the debug console and the simple grace and fun of the chooser. so...for someone who's forgotten so much of what he once knew, does anyone have any resources to offer or random things they remember from the system 7 days? i've poked around here a bit but the information seems a little unconsolidated. Thanks! |
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Hardware / ????
December 12, 2007, 21:47 |
what's a cuda switch? |
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Hardware / runninf OS 7.x on newer machines
December 11, 2007, 11:44 |
What's the word on running OS 7.x on machines as recent as the blue and white G3s? what's the newest hardware you could run the OS on and still have full functionality (i.e. FIreWire, USB, etc)? |
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Hardware / performa 6300CD
December 11, 2007, 11:27 |
i recently found my OLD P6300CD in a closet at my parents' house and brought it home with me. Last time i used it I apparently was trying to put OS 8.0 on it because when i turned it on it booted in to the CD which was still in the drive. The internal HD mounted as . and only had the Finder on it. I tried initializing the disk as I wanted to put 7.5.3 on it instead. After numerous attempts, it always returned a message telling me initialization failed. so i had a PM5500 whose HD i removed and placed in the P6300CD. when i turned on the machine, nothing happened. all it displays is a blank screen with the mouse pointer. i thought perhaps it was trying to boot from the transplanted HD (which has 9.0 on it) so i put the OS8 CD in the drive and restarted. still nothing. then i tried booting from the OS8 disk tools floppy. no dice. additionally i transplanted the motherboard from the PM5500 into the P6300CD. before i did that the startup chime on the P6300CD didn't chime; now it does. however before the transplant, although it wouldn't chime it would boot from the floppy or CD; with the new motherboard it does not. i know that both the chime and boot instructions are housed in the ROM. is this a ROM problem? any help would be appreciated as i'm anxious to get this comp off my dining room table and onto my desk for use. thanks. |
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Hardware / SCSI HD transplant into Performa 6300CD
December 10, 2007, 13:08 |
My internal ATA HD in my Performa 6300CD has apparently crashed as whenever I try to initialize is to put a fresh OS install on it it always says it failed (it doesn't even get past creating the root directory). I have an old internal Apple SCSI HD. Since it's an internal drive, it should already be set to SCSI ID 0, correct? Furthermore, if i attach it to the internal SCSI bus to which the CDROM drive is also attached will there be any SCSI termination issues? I assume the HD is self-terminating. |
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Operating System / Mac OS 7 boot CD
December 10, 2007, 12:28 |
I've downloaded the MacOS 7.6.1 images (all 19 of them) from apple's older software website. I'm running OS 10.5 however, and have no idea how to join them together as one image that i could then burn to a CD to essentially create an OS 7.6.1 CD to install on my powermac 5500/220. any suggestions? thanks! |
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