OS 9 on my 1.25GHz MDD dual G4 screams, even though it is effectively only using one CPU under OS 9.

i don't have a laptop but i can tell you that if you are only going to do text editing or things like that, on my 450mhz G4 desktop OS 9 is very fast for things like that.....also …

I am now the owner of a 1GHz TiBook. What I'm curious about is, it has a 1GHz G4 and can boot into OS9 (pretty nifty), although I hadn't played much around in OS9 (just got it and…

Ah.... so it's actually the paper copies before (and including?) Vol VI that are worth picking up, assuming you want to do any development for System 6 or lower? The hardware info…

I've got the opportunity to pick up the paper edition of Inside Mac vol. VI - the huge one. Click to expand... It contains all the System 7 introductions, eg process Manager, A…

Just as a whiney aside, I'd love to find PDFs of "Inside Macintosh" volumes IV and V, IV particularly. My Google-Fu has failed me miserably on those... no, wait, I'd never just Goo…

While we're on the subject: I've got the opportunity to pick up the paper edition of Inside Mac vol. VI - the huge one. Is it worth it, compared to a PDF? Yes, I do prefer to re…

I'm going to be putting some old Mac tech notes which had been posted in comp.binaries.mac on my site later this month, but there's probably all of them on Apple's site already. Th…

Try http://developer.apple.com/legacy/mac/library/navigation/index.html

I used to have the URL for where Apple keeps the PDFs of Inside macintosh and the tech notes. I can't find my bookmark and my google-fu is failing me. Anyone have it handy?

The second post mentioned "The device I saw looked much like a VT-100 (same form factor)" which at first I took to mean the Macintosh, but now that I am looking at some pictures of…

Speculation about an unannounced Apple product. Some things never change.

Thanks for the tip. Works perfect!

Here is my Mac 128k connected to retro-net.org using MacTerminal. It runs lynx to browse the web and I can get email using pine. Very nice free service from them. The lack of arr…

Here are a few final things: You can do file transfers back and forth from MacTerminal (I still use v 1.1) to Mac OS X with a few command line utilities (macutils) available on Ma…

it looks like it only has F keys and a numeric keypad. weird.

MacTerminal .......... The lack of arrow keys on my keyboard appears to be an issue though. Click to expand... Doesn't the keypad menu drop down to give you some?

Here is my Mac 128k connected to retro-net.org using MacTerminal. It runs lynx to browse the web and I can get email using pine. Very nice free service from them. The lack of arr…

Thanks. Got it. Also, Apple has an article on how to check firmwware version: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2568?viewlocale=en_US (Now I found out I don't have the latest firmw…

Try running Apple System Profiler. It should show you the firmware revision on the first screen. John

I have a iBook G3 Clamshell Special Edition ( 466 MHz with Fireware port and DVD drive), running OS X 10.3.9. Is there a way to check which version of firmware I have on it? Accor…

What about a Localtalk-Ethernet adapter, like the Farallon Etherprint? Click to expand... On a 128K? No room for MacTCP.

Just as an aside, well... I was fuzing with this out of curiosity, and I never was able to make a USB serial adapter spawn a console out of /etc/ttys automatically. The oft-quoted …

Wonderful blast to the past. Sounds like a stealth recon mission. GOOD JOB!

Google gets it wrong. According to their 20 Year Usenet Timeline, the first post mentioning Macintosh and Lisa was made on August, 1982. In fact, the earliest post mentioning Maci…