My LC 575 (well, Performa 578 if you want to get technical) gets daily use. As beachycove said, it's practically silent. I love it! From an aesthetic point of view, it's one of my …
I think they were great machines. Some do not like them from an aesthetic point of view, but in the flesh (plastic?), they actually look a great deal like the Color Classic. The sc…
How big of a room would a Macintosh 128k fill if you expanded every single microchip so that each circuit path is the width of a thin piece of wire? My estimate would be that each…
How big of a room would a Macintosh 128k fill if you expanded every single microchip so that each circuit path is the width of a thin piece of wire? My estimate would be that each…
"Lonely Mac Syndrome" was a phrase I coined, tongue-in-cheek, to describe this machine's odd behavior (also in initial post).
Essentially, as long as I was working in a program, e…
68kMLATroubleshootingby cseals3Tue, 25 Aug 2009 - 17:16
Oops! It just "burped" at me - a short, low (not bong) beep, and the cursor locked up, so still a problem with "Lonely Mac" syndrome. Maybe memory as Phreakout suggested earlier?
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68kMLATroubleshootingby Mac128Tue, 25 Aug 2009 - 03:48
SUCCESS!!
Thanks all (Phreakout, Mac128, LCGuy) for your advice, here's how I finally got things to work. Using a 7.0.1 Disk Tools disk, modified with Ramdisk 3.2.3, I booted the …
68kMLATroubleshootingby cseals3Tue, 25 Aug 2009 - 01:32
Two LC 575s for $5/each. Average condition...stickers, some yellowing, some sticker removal ghosts - but no cracks or missing plastics. Best, they both have network cards. Got t…
Two LC 575s for $5/each. Average condition...stickers, some yellowing, some sticker removal ghosts - but no cracks or missing plastics. Best, they both have network cards. Got t…
take the empty Mac Mini case and see if the Disk II innards would fit in it
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I've seen a Mini, and I've seen a Disk II, and this ain't gonna happen, no way no…
VideoWorks is the first name of what later became Macromedia Director, now Adobe Director.
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Interesting, they do not credit either VideoWorls or MusicWorks to…
using an external drive. I have considered that, but doing so would partly take away the "all-in-one," compact nature of the machine - one of its attractions to me...But you did pi…
68kMLATroubleshootingby Mac128Sun, 23 Aug 2009 - 18:02
I found the floppy I was thinking of. The app is called MacroMind VideoWorks II. A liitle googling pointed me to MacroMind Wikipedia page, where I learned that that MacroMind later…
68kMLA68kby superpantoufleSun, 23 Aug 2009 - 13:16
There's 8088 Corruption, a guy got full screen, full motion video working on an original IBM PC, with the 4.77 Mhz 8088.
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AHA! That's the one! Cheers [] ]'&a…
There's several removable storage drives available for SCSI Macs on the used market, such as Zip, Jaz, MO, SyQuest, Bernoulli, etc drives. If you're really loaded there's also the …
68kMLATroubleshootingby LCGuySun, 23 Aug 2009 - 07:44
Thanks for the tips on hard drives in the SE, Mac128. I guess that it hadn't occurred to me that they were the first with internal hard drives. Makes sense that it probably require…
68kMLATroubleshootingby cseals3Sat, 22 Aug 2009 - 23:23