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Classifieds / Looking for a PB2400
December 17, 2007, 00:41 |
Good luck with this. The best thing to do is to watch eBay, and be prepared to bid aggressively on whatever comes up. They get quite expensive, and if you really want one it's best not to be too picky because they are so rare. I love this machine, it's really one of the best products ever to carry the Apple logo. I gave up trying to acquire one, however, because the price doesn't reflect their utility very well. They're much better than other Apple PowerBooks, but not several hundred dollars better. I'd rather spend the cash on a 20th Anniversary Mac. |
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Hardware / Just got a 9600!
December 16, 2007, 05:08 |
I just brought home a 9600 I bought on Craigslist, complete with... - (2x) 4GB SCSI hard drives - 32MB ATi Nexus card (VGA) - FireWire card - 10/100 ethernet card (the on-board ethernet might be broken) and... - 1.5GB of RAM! The guy I bought it from said it was a 9600/350, overclocked to 400MHz. It had a Sonnet sticker covering the model number and when I peeled it back it said 9600/300 underneath. I trust he is correct, though, as to what is under the hood. I paid $50 for it, and got a keyboard and trackball thrown in as well. A pretty good haul, if I may say! I don't get to try it out yet, though. I moved just a few months ago, and all my old Mac stuff is in storage in another part of the state. I have a System 7.6 disk image with me, but no VGA monitor (just a 20" Apple cinema display), so no video. In a few weeks I'm going to try to retrieve what I can of my old stuff and get this machine whipped into shape. My goal is to turn it into a platform that I can throw any legacy Mac software at, and be able to run it very, very well; that is, in addition to using it for the System 7 programming I want to keep tinkering with. Since lately, I've been writing all my school papers in plain text using WriteRoom on OS X, I think I might try to switch to using BBEdit or similar on System 7. Plans: - Take out the noisy SCSI drives, add 40-80GB of quiet IDE drives. - Partitions for System 7, OS 8, Mac OS 9, Rhapsody DR2, and Yellow Dog Linux - Add WiFi, somehow. - Add a Jaz drive (I have no idea what for, but I love these things!) - Add my Voodoo 5 5500 (from storage) for Mac OS 9 - Add my Radeon Mac Edition 32MB (from storage) for DVI, so I can try my Cinema Display with System 7. - Upgrade the processor, eventually. - Ultimately, acquire a first revision 15" Apple Studio Display... I really, really, want one of these. Along the way, I'm probably going to purge as much of my old Apple hardware as I can. If I have anything good to sell, I'll be sure and post about it on the forums, here. |
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Software / Mailsmith
December 13, 2007, 19:11 |
I'm returning to my System 7 project after a long hiatus. I'd really like to get my hands on an old copy of Mailsmith, but it seems impossible to find. I even emailed Bare Bones about it some time ago, but apparently I'm not the only one who has asked them for an old copy. Apparently, they have some sort of deep philosophical dogma from the top that "Old crap sucks." and they refuse to be helpful. Does anyone know what the last version of Mailsmith to run under System 7 was? Does anyone have a copy? |
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Software / mounting .dc42 files?
June 28, 2006, 05:18 |
I think this will do the trick, but I haven't tested it: ImageConverter Let me know how it goes! |
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Software / mounting .dc42 files?
June 27, 2006, 21:41 |
Quote from: "ido" While we're on the subject - what would be the correct values for .dsk images? A .dsk should be a type of 'DSK5' (or try 'dsk5') with the creator of whatever application you're using to open them. For Disk Copy that'll be 'dCpy' but I don't know offhand if Disk Copy can handle them, they're really old. From Googling around I see that some Apple II emulators support them (Bernie IIgs) -- but I'm not sure about mounting it under 7. What is on these old disks, anyway? |
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Software / mounting .dc42 files?
June 25, 2006, 02:29 |
The only thing I can think of is perhaps the Type/Creator code of the file is borked. My recommendation would be to download ResEdit -- from the File menu select Get File/Folder Info, navigate to the image and select Get Info. On the window that comes up, make sure the Type is "dImg" (case-sensitive) and the Creator is "dCpy" (also case-sensitive). Close the window and save changes. If these weren't correct before, Disk Copy should see your disk image now. Hope it works! |
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Software / mounting .dc42 files?
June 24, 2006, 11:34 |
Quote from: "dpaanlka" Why wouldn't Disk Copy 6 open this? It should be able to. The Disk Copy 6 Quick Reference suggests that it can, but I haven't been able to test it. |
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Software / mounting .dc42 files?
June 24, 2006, 09:41 |
Au contraire, Dan! DC42 is a very old Apple disk image format from "Disk Copy 4.2" and it absolutely runs on System 7 (you can get it here). The image is most likely a floppy image from the System 6 era. If Disk Copy 4.2 fails you for whatever reason, you might want to try converting it to a newer format with the command hdiutil on Mac OS X. Good luck! |
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Software / Math Software
June 23, 2006, 05:29 |
It's great to see Graphing Calculator getting props from Dan. I was wondering if anyone knows of any other math-related software that runs on 7 that's worth mentioning? Mathematica version 3.0 runs on 7.6.1 but I'm not sure where or how to best obtain a copy. I'm also not sure what the very latest version that works is, though. One program I discovered that seems very powerful is CoCoA (no relation to Apple's Cocoa framework.) It's a robust (and free) commutative algebra package, and I can confirm that version 4.0 runs on 7.6.1, but its intended audience is pretty narrow. Does anyone know about Maple or SPSS or any other heavyweights? What about any less well-known but useful math programs? |
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Software / AIMM
June 21, 2006, 05:06 |
AIMM is a REALbasic application, it might be more stable on System 7 if it was migrated to an older version of RB before compilation, but that's just a thought. It broke with AOL's TOC->TOC2 'transition'. I contacted the developer and was able to obtain the source code, but the code isn't very tidy and it might not be worth the effort for me to figure out how to update it to support TOC2. I know (theoretically) how to do it, I have the necessary code, and I'm familiar with RB but I don't enjoy working with it enough that I really want to figure out what all is going on under the hood with AIMM. This is in no way to disparage AIMM as an application, it was a pleasure to use back in the day, and the developer did an awesome job making it tick. However, there is something else... The author of bsflite (a cross-platform command-line AIM client) wrote compatibility for System 7 into the communications library that bsflite uses (called 'imcomm'). I haven't made it compile yet, but when I last tried I was lacking appropriate versions of CodeWarrior (I just got my hands on 4, 5 and 6) -- I'm not sure if there are any more technical hurdles. If it compiles, that seems to be the more promising basis for a System 7 AIM client that doesn't suck. I'll investigate this further in about five weeks, and probably start writing my own AIM client around that time, but I can't guarantee my success or any sort of a time-table...but if anyone does want to nudge this project along, they can send me lots of juicy 3400c batteries -- the sooner I get my 3400c off my desk and out into the world, the sooner I'll feel compelled to do something about replacing that atrocious AOL client. 
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Hardware / PowerBook 3400c Battery Li-Ion or NiMH?
June 19, 2006, 18:58 |
I'm no longer using the battery but I can confirm that it did charge under 7 although the system was pretty lousy about reporting its charge accurately. The machine was flaky on battery, and it would sometimes power off and not recognize the battery when attempting to power it back on. When it did work, battery life was pretty good, it usually went into 'low power' mode within a few minutes off the charger, but after that it was good for about an hour and a half. I swapped a bunch of parts with a broken 3400c last night and that included a Li-Ion battery (which is pretty dead, but I took it anyway) so I suppose that's the battery I'll leave in the machine until I can find some that actually work (for cheap). |
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Hardware / PowerBook 3400c Battery Li-Ion or NiMH?
June 16, 2006, 21:39 |
I want to add that by "fits the machine just fine" I mean that there is no physical indication that it is not the proper battery for the machine, not that it merely fits the hole. |
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Hardware / PowerBook 3400c Battery Li-Ion or NiMH?
June 16, 2006, 21:29 |
I fired up BatteryAmnesia on my 3400c and got an alert which read "This model of computer uses a Lithium-Ion battery, which is not susceptible to the memory effect. Running BatteryAmnesia won't harm it, but it doesn't provide any benefit either." I checked the battery, and it is a "PowerBook Rechargeable Battery" marked NiMH (with a copyright 1995 Apple Computer, Inc toward the bottom of the sticker), but everymac.com and MacTracker both report the battery should be a 32Wh Li-Ion. The battery I have fits the machine just fine, and it works, but the machine has behaved oddly when on battery ever since I bought it a few weeks ago. Do I definitely have the wrong battery? Should my machine long since have exploded? What's going on? |
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Software / Natural Order
June 02, 2006, 03:46 |
You're right, I didn't mean to suggest the Mac OS sort algorithm contains a bug, only that the algorithm it applies is inelegant in its treatment of numbers. Whether that algorithm is appropriate or dumb is, perhaps, a matter of taste. However, one of the points I wanted to emphasize was that this is actually a small patch of two quite simple functions, written by a supremely talented Apple programmer. The chance of instability being introduced by this patch is very small (and I've experienced none). But your leeriness is understandable. |
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Software / Natural Order
June 02, 2006, 02:36 |
I am someone who works with many numbered files, both digital and physical, and I simply disagree that listing a file named "File 10" after "File 1" but before "File 2" is correct. You can say that it's correct according to the intended algorithm, which is one that you may prefer, but it drives me batty and violates my expectations. Mac OS X does not behave this way and it's something that always irked me about the Classic Mac OS, which is why I find Natural Order so pleasant. Leading zeros have the effect of right-aligning the value in a list, for readability, as well as communicating the magnitude of a sequence. There are plenty of circumstances where this is useful and expected. The trouble with leading zeros is that you have to know roughly how many files you expect to have, and if you overrun that number, you have to revise everything to keep it neat. And, in my opinion, they just don't look as nice (but that's just my opinion.) Luckily, Natural Order doesn't interfere with how leading zero lists sort. And if you like what it does (a fair conditional) it'll order your other lists according to the reasonable expectation that 10 comes after 9, not 1. I'm not trying to convert anyone, I just think it's a really useful extension that's very solidly implemented. (Also, it's worth mentioning, it does its magic when the number is at the beginning of the file name, as in, '1 - My Song.mp3') |
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