Are you sure MacOnMac is not an emulator. It says it is on it's own site. http://maconmac.bastix.net By the way the site is down. I used the Internet Wayback Machine to view it. ht…

You can try MacOnMac or MOL on Linux, but it will not run nativly. Click to expand... On the other hand ... MacOnMac and MacOnLinux are not emulators. In the same way that WI…

No problem! It was even difficult for me to install 8.6 on my Sawtooth G4. People here helped to make it happen. [] ]'>

OK. Thanks for clearing this up for me.

No, only on Jikes and Sawtooth G4's.

Thanks for the quick reply. I know some early G4s shipped with what they call a Borg 8.6.1 disc. I guess this was basically a disc that only came with certain iMac G3 and the first…

It is just impossible. It's missing drivers and makes wrong assumptions on the hardware. You can try MacOnMac or MOL on Linux, but it will not run nativly.

You need an LS-240 drive to enable 32meg magic. The first-generation (LS-120) superdisk drives will not do this. Plus, you'll need the utilities that shipped with the drives to all…

I think you have that backwards, Bunsen. So 32MB on a floppy huh? Interesting. I have a few LS-120 disks laying around so that wouldn't be an issue. So how does one go about f…

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Brilliant, Bunsen -- that may very well be true. It is quite possible that these drives would be able to read damaged floppies that are unreadable in ordinary drives. I'll have to …

On the other foot, might they be able to successfully read otherwise departed 1.4MB floppies? What with all their ultra fine headiness.

Pretty amazing achievement, I agree. These drives squeeze many more tracks onto the disk by using narrower heads (much like the ones used in hard drives), and laying down a track b…

Tom: Really? How does that work? :O And is it reliable? :O

And if it's one of the late models (LS-240), it has the interesting ability to squeeze 32MB onto an ordinary 1.44MB floppy disk.

I have an Imation USB floppy drive, for 1.44 MB disks, that I used on an iMac G3 with no problems. It will read, write, and format floppies in either Mac or PC 1.44 format and in …

The imation super disks read and write 1.44MB disks and their 120MB superdisks. Then USB ones have drivers for the Mac. I have a PCMCIA unit that is PC only, plus an internal drive…

Yes it will, I have the 100GB version in my PowerBook Pismo(was in my dual USB), it works fine.

Exactly. The G4 put a lot of power for a little money on the table. Traditionally that kind of CPU performance was only found with "The Big Boys". You know them as SGI, Sun and I…

Yeah. Crazy feds. But at least we've got a chance for some improvement coming up in the next couple months. On topic, what other systems marketed at regular consumers ever had thi…

Multiprocessing on the PowerPC 7xx-series chips was difficult because, like the 603 they were based on, they lacked the proper cache coherency protocols and the like to support pro…

I've wanted one of those ever since I first saw them reviewed in MacAddict magazine so many years ago. If I had the opportunity to pick one of them up, I'd do it in a flash if the …

...I wonder though, whether the 1400 even has the Adapter Sense circuits mentioned. Click to expand... Excellent question. As I write this I have a PB1400 running and charging…

Got it, thanks. I wonder though, whether the 1400 even has the Adapter Sense circuits mentioned.

Note that refers to the Powerbook G4 15" and 17", which I believe take the newer, smaller (but similarly shaped) power connector. So it may not be relevant to a 1400. By "outer se…