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Post #19 by Comodín
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Amy, very awesome! I upgraded my PB to Mac OS 8.0 and looking at System Profiler I'm pretty sure I have the non-PPC: 68LC040 at 33Mhz and total memory of 20MB. I tried to write the images with RawWrite for Windows to a floppy (is there a way to write to floppy's from OS X I have a external floppy drive?), but the 540c won't accept them. It first wants to initialize the floppy and then I get a message that the floppy might be defected, which is very probable.

Another question if I may: this PB has a lot of software on it from its former user, lot of programs don't work anymore, corrupted etc. I was thinking a fresh install would get rid of all this programs but they're still there. What is the best way to get rid of them without making the PB unoperational? Would a fresh install of 8.1 do the trick?

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