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I've got a Mac!
Calum:
i've never owned a mac, and always wanted one, because they're cool but i don't have any money
now i own one! i found it at the side of the road. somebody had thrown it away, complete with peripherals (all minus the kettle lead). they had even taped a note saying "working" to it, helpfully. anyway, i got it home, dried it out (it had been rained on overnight) and now it appears to work fine. it is fifteen years old though, as it is an Apple Classic II. Here's some info on it, i am sure you will be riveted to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Classic_II
http://www.machine-room.org/computers/395/
http://www.lowendmac.com/compact/classic.shtml
i have no idea even what the specs are of this machine really, though i plan to go about learning its ins and outs before i take any software related action. at the moment it appears to have MacOS of some sort with M$ Word and Eudora (and some other stuff) installed. It does not have a serial port or a PS/2 port so i can't use my own mouse in it (which is a bit crap, but tolerable) it doesn't seem to have a parallel port either, in fact that first link above has photos of what it does have, but i have no idea how to make it use my existing printer (a samsung ml-1210 which i also need to use with my real computer, running FC4) or anything. Also, i have no idea what sort of disk size it has, but i suspect its 40MB in total, i know it has 4096k of memory because that's all it says in "about this macintosh". it has an actual button on the side of the machine which brings up what appears to be an onscreen command prompt but whatever i type i can't even bring up any error messages. i would LOVE to get a dual boot with some sort of linux going on this machine but it has only a floppy drive, and i have no idea what i would need to install a CD drive for it. i do have a zip drive, but it is USB, not parallel, so this is not an option for this mac as it predates USB. i really don't want to hose its existing setup and i don't have any install disks for it, so there it is.
now, i haven't really asked any proper questions, but my aim is to have fun with this mac and learn about it without screwing it up in any way along the route, anybody got any helpful suggestions? i did use these machines in high school, but cannot remember anything at all (except how to use good old M$ word of course! :-) )so, suggest away.
noob:
Damn why cant that happen here :(.
Laukev7:
You could try installing NetBSD on it.
Calum:
the macos is 7.5 and ms word is word 4. eudora appears to have been uninstalled though, and so far i can't get fedora to see the floppies i save stuff onto with the mac, but i think fedora is completely shit at floppies anyway so i don't think it's the mac's or the floppies' fault.
i still know nothing else about it though, isn't there some sort of manual or something?
that's an idea, i'll search for a manual, and i might try searching for macintosh classic on ebay to see what sort of peripherals people are saying it's compatible with.
Aloone_Jonez:
Shame OpenOffice is far too bload to run on such an old machine, have you tried Abi Word?
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