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joshc
8 MB  Posts: 9 System 7 Newcomer! 
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on: October 04, 2023, 15:46
Hello everyone. I'm a regular poster on the 68kMLA forum since ~2007 or so. Before that, I was on AppleFritter under a different nickname. I've been collecting old Macs on and off since 2003 or so. I've been through more Macs than I really want to remember. I run the website Mac Hut (machut.net). My current collection (including a modern daily Mac) includes 21 computers. My favourites are my 650 (inside a modified IIci case), clear case SE/40 (SE/30 with crazy upgrades), 45MHz 475, my 1.6GHz Sonnet Sawtooth G4 and my IIfx. My favourite Mac OS? 7.1, of course. |
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #1 on: October 04, 2023, 17:07
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Welcome to S7T and thx a lot for the PDF manuals on your wonderfully organized archive site. I hope they are readable with 68k. 
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joshc
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8 MB Posts: 9 System 7 Newcomer!
Reply #2 on: October 04, 2023, 17:34
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They should be - the site works over HTTP and the PDFs are hosted on a HTML3.2 page that renders great on 68k machines. The PDFs should open up fine in something like Acrobat 3.0.
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #3 on: October 04, 2023, 17:51
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Thx a lot again - also for the System 6-7 boot floppies, which should work fine on my vMac Mini.
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB  Posts: 2023
Reply #4 on: October 04, 2023, 17:55
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Hi and welcome to System 7 Today, joshc! Yet another European Macintosh fan in our forum. With the exception of our regulars cballero and wove (well, and a handful more irregulars  ), this is pretty much a space for Europeans :-)Well, we hope you'll visit our friendly little community from time to time, preferably with iCab on System 7.1 :-)
Last Edit: October 04, 2023, 18:01 by Bolkonskij
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Knezzen
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Administrator 512 MB Posts: 608 Village idiot
Reply #5 on: October 04, 2023, 18:45
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Welcome, joshc!
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cballero
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1024 MB Posts: 1176 System 7, today and forever
Reply #6 on: January 30, 2024, 00:30
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Where are my manners?? Welcome and Happy New Year Josh! System 7.1 has also been one of my favorite OSes, tied with 7.6 and 8.1 on newer 68k Macs, which is where I began my Mac journey (besides a few Macs running System 6 in school!)
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ShinobiKenobi
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256 MB Posts: 362 System 7 fan
Reply #7 on: March 06, 2024, 03:17
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Hello! The reason I love System 7 is nostalgia. That was the first OS version I remember on Macs in school. The Mac out in the shop had Dino Park Tycoon, and whenever the teacher left the shop building I'd go into the room it was in and play it hahaha  That was the reason I actually bought the legit CD of it, cuz of the memories hehehe.I love hearing about how people take care of their old Macs and how they drastically upgrade them. HTML 3.2? I learned HTML on my own on the Mac computers in high school, on the site angelfire.com. It was the first free website hosting company I found out about. I don't know what version of HTML it was, but after I graduated I bought an HTML 4.something book. Times were so much simpler back then XD Although my first computer was a 100 MHz Pentium computer running Windows 95 on it. Made in 1995, but I got it used in 2000.
Last Edit: March 06, 2024, 21:39 by ShinobiKenobi
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cballero
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1024 MB Posts: 1176 System 7, today and forever
Reply #8 on: March 06, 2024, 13:11
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Nice flashback, ShinobiKenobi! You just reminded me of something I discovered long ago with the first Mac I owned: it could boot from an internal OS found in its ROM! The shocker in all this is while most people are aware that the Macintosh Classic has that capacity built-in, my Mac was actually a Classic II, and on a hunch, I tried the startup keys needed to load the OS on a Classic, and it booted right into the OS on my Mac as well! To do so, one holds down the Command, Option, 'X' and 'O' keys and you're in System 6.0.3! From it, I believe I could run my Mac's repair tools, I just don't recall if any were present in the ROM disk (I believe it did?) or if I had to access those via floppy or the Classic II's internal hard drive. I'll also add a tiny word of caution to my tale: anyone trying this shouldn't fiddle with any of this special System 6's Control Panel settings since it could mess-up this special boot disk up (I should know, I tried it and it messed mine up!)  I haven't seen this particular hack documented elsewhere, but I know most Classic Mac enthusiasts are a very clever bunch, so I can't claim to be one of a just few out there who stumbled into this early on, or maybe later on if they didn't own this particular model back then.
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ShinobiKenobi
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256 MB Posts: 362 System 7 fan
Reply #9 on: March 06, 2024, 21:40
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That's really cool, thanks for that wisdom!
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