Oh, well... i knew he would nuke it sometime... ...Which is why I kept a backup!

Because it's easier just to nuke it, rather than weed out what ever's not PD, freeware, or shareware. :-/

It looks like ~tl deleted the "Macintosh Software" wiki page!

I have often heard the claim that the Apple /// was intentionally crippled, usually for marketing reasons and always with the implication that it did not have to be done. But is t…

well I check the firm ware and its the newest verson, I was just stating i hade 10.5 install I have put a coppy of the disk on a fire wire hard disk, but it gives a gear and no log…

reported the bug and the workaround to Epson. To no avail Click to expand... This was last year, right? Click to expand... :lol:

While the amount of PC related stuff is annoying, instead of creating a lounge thread for each one, perhaps a sticky thread for the whole she-bang and we can get back to talking ab…

reported the bug and the workaround to Epson. To no avail Click to expand... This was last year, right?

I have often heard the claim that the Apple /// was intentionally crippled, usually for marketing reasons and always with the implication that it did not have to be done. But is t…

Is it a case of the firmware not wanting to boot from the DVD? Typically firmware updates can be done from MacOS 9. What has 10.5 got to do with the issue?

I have the installer dvd for a g4, 10.4 server It will not pot or mount, unless i stick the disk in after os 9 has loaded, the only way i think i could install it is to install 10…

Apple used to brag at the time that the /// was a 16-bit machine because there was a state machine appended to the 6502 to handle 16-bit words and the data buss fetched 16 bits at …

[i'll make a scan of it. Click to expand... May you live to be a thousand years old, sir!

I second this - hopefully we can find someone with enough spare time to scan the entire book. Click to expand... "Macintosh Hacker's Bible" is apparently available from a libr…

As for dates, Apple sent us a prototype a few months before release. There were other developers who were seeded with prototypes much earlier. Click to expand... PICTURES

I guess I'll have to dig the old Mac out of the closet and put the 64K ROMs back in it. I was under the impression that the 1.4 drives only worked with the SWIM chips, and didn't r…

It's been a while so my memory may be fuzzy, but I got my first Mac at work in Nov '83, and bought my own Mac in May '84. A bit later Apple came out with the first 3.5" Apple][ dri…

It's been a while so my memory may be fuzzy, but I got my first Mac at work in Nov '83, and bought my own Mac in May '84. A bit later Apple came out with the first 3.5" Apple][ dri…

The original Classic was released as part of a line-up which also included the LC and the IIsi. All three of the machines were intended for the low-budget market: Classic as the ch…

I find it odd how Apple went from expandable SE/SE30's to a Classic 2 with no expansion whatsoever. Click to expand... Maybe stupid, but not odd. There's a simple explanation w…

A 128 can read & write to an 800K external drive. A 1.4 drive won't work. When I got my Mac in 1984, one of the first upgrades I made was to stick an 800K mechanism from an…

A 128 can read & write to an 800K external drive. A 1.4 drive won't work. When I got my Mac in 1984, one of the first upgrades I made was to stick an 800K mechanism from an…

The two major issues with compacts is capacitors dying and screen burn/focus problems. I find it odd how Apple went from expandable SE/SE30's to a Classic 2 with no expansion what…

The Classic II is a great little unit. Very sleek looking for a basic box. Very usable for a lot of writing jobs. Adding a newer harddrive will speed things along. When you d…

Well, I'VE got a PB100 trick up MY SLEEVE too! It seems, in their infinite idiocy, that Epson left out support for the 68000 when they wrote the drivers for the original Epson Sty…