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Yersinia
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on: February 11, 2011, 21:31
While packing to move a few months ago, I turned on two of my old Powerbooks (a 5300c running OS 8.6 and a 190 running 7.5.5) to make sure they still work. Yes, they do, and yes, I brought them all with me (I have a Lombard on OS 9.2.2 also, but that one DOESN'T boot, it's gonna be a 'project'). But while that 190 was booting, I actually got teary-eyed nostalgic. Yes, my present everyday use Macs are all "modern" -- er, um, well not REALLY, but I run OS X on them....but I didn't start using OS X until the fall of 2006 when the G4 Quicksilver 867 I had just purchased came with Tiger 10.4.7 already installed on it. (http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n132/Meieth/Signature%20Rats/CuteAnimatedRattie.gif)....I fell in love with the first Mac I saw and used in 1986 -- a Macintosh Plus on System 6, at my then-workplace. I got so spoiled rotten on that Mac (and its buddy the LaserWriter), that while all my friends and acquaintances were buying Radio Shack, Commodore 64 and Amiga computers, I went computerless because I couldn't afford my own Mac but anything else (even though one friend's Amiga was semi-cool) was not worth MY money. (http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n132/Meieth/Signature%20Rats/xnhzcl.gif)Nine years later, I was able to buy a Mac. It was a Performa 475, demonstration model -- took it right off the shelf, and it was running 7.5.3 (I upgraded it to 7.5.5 soon enough) -- three weeks later found a Personal LaserWriter 300 in a Staples. About a year later, I ended up giving the Performa to my then-husband and I bought a 7200/120. It came with 7.5.5 on it. We networked the Performa and 7200 to the LaserWriter (ahhhh those were the days...the Chooser, REAL Appletalk...). The first fight my ex-husband and I had was over him wanting to "ruin" my 7200 by upgrading it to OS 8.1! I held fast to my beloved 7.5.5 until he bought me a CD of the Encyclopedia Brittanica and a Star Trek trivia game for Christmas, minimum system requirement OS 8.1...so I gave in finally. Well, me and my 7200/120 still lasted longer than my marriage which ended in 1999, even though six months prior to our split, I gave him what was then a brand new Beige G3 for our 2-year wedding anniversary present. Didn't get Beige G3 of my own till the spring of 2003, but a few months before I got the G3, my then new boyfriend presented me with a Powerbook 190 -- and it was NOT my birthday or other special occasion associated with gift-giving. (http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n132/Meieth/Signature%20Rats/lovestruck-mouse.gif)Yes, I'm still with this guy (and not gonna ruin it with marriage). The 190 came with 7.5.2, which I'd been hearing on the Powerbooks LEM list described as "unstable," but it wasn't giving me any problems. Still though, amongst all the floppies of original software was a set of installation disks for 7.6, but something was wrong with one of them (I can't remember the error message it gave, though). So as it happens, I never got to try 7.6 -- I did download the 7.5.5 update from Apple's "old software" support area though, so that's why it's running 7.5.5. Now I don't remember what possessed me to buy the Powerbook 5300 when I saw it on the LEM Swap List, but I did, and both these Powerbooks saw a lot of use as companions to my 7200/120 and Beige G3 respectively. The Lombard was like the 190 -- a surprise present from my boyfriend. Anyhoo.....even though now I "need" my G4s (the aforementioned Quicksilver 867 and a Mini 1.5 GHz I picked up from the Swap List summer 2009) and their companion G3/800 iBook, plus :::: sigh :::: OS X , when I packed up my old Powerbooks, well I just can't let go. I've been planning to reacquaint myself with them (and also investigate the Lombard not booting up issue), but of course busy busy busy with the moving and settling in...their box is right here in my beautiful "new" computer room and accessible, yes, deliberately, so I don't "lose" them again -- I just haven't had time to open it -- YET. But I know I will, and I'm so glad I found this place (thanks to a post by Cameron Kaiser at the LEM Mac OS 9 list). OK, thanks for having me. This place looks so cool! :-) |
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Lichen Software
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128 MB Posts: 252 
Reply #1 on: February 12, 2011, 12:49
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Welcome The first thing you want to do is go to the updates page: http://main.system7today.com/updates.html Dan (and who knows who else) has put in an incredible amount of work on this. Note that the updates for the most part are also good for your 8.6 machine. Just check the versions methodically. It is the ultimate update to 7.5 or 7.6. If you are going to use Netscape 4.8 in System 7, go to this thread: http://forums.system7today.com/viewtopic.php?t=1538 It tells how to revise the about::config file for netscape to open up more connections and get greater speed. From there, Browse, Browse Browse... and have fun
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Yersinia
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2 MB Posts: 3
Reply #2 on: February 15, 2011, 21:51
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Quote from: "Lichen Software" Welcome Thank you so much! I have the links open in tabs already! :-)
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