Re: What do you use your vintage mac for

2016-02-04 Thread Louis Ciotti
Very cool. I have wondered if anyone used an old mac for schematics, I am a an electronics geek, and I have wanted to atleast make on schematic and PCB layout using vintage mac hardware. On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Robert Hesson wrote: > What don't I use them for...

Re: What do you use your vintage mac for

2016-02-04 Thread Doug McNutt
On 02/04/2016 04:44 PM, Louis Ciotti wrote: Very cool. I have wondered if anyone used an old mac for schematics, I am a an electronics geek, and I have wanted to atleast make on schematic and PCB layout using vintage mac hardware. I use a G4 to run VectorWorks, which was once called MiniCAD.

Re: May 1999 Software Recovery discs?

2016-02-04 Thread Dark_Mac
On Feb 4, 2016, at 3:06 AM, 'Gregg Eshelman' via Vintage Macs wrote: Two of my discs for the May 1999 Software Recovery set have developed unrecoverable errors just sitting around. :( p/n: 691-0391-E Apple Application Software p/n: 691-2363-A Apple System Software For Power Macintosh G3 and

Re: What do you use your vintage mac for

2016-02-04 Thread John-Robert La Porta
Pretty much one thing: play the games I grew up with! I need to maintain a fairly large spread from System 6 to early PPC versions of OS X. On Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 6:44:49 PM UTC-5, Louis Ciotti wrote: > > This is just a random question, but I am wondering what people are > actually

Re: May 1999 Software Recovery discs?

2016-02-04 Thread 'Gregg Eshelman' via Vintage Macs
On 2/4/2016 5:54 PM, Dark_Mac wrote: On Feb 4, 2016, at 3:06 AM, 'Gregg Eshelman' via Vintage Macs wrote: Two of my discs for the May 1999 Software Recovery set have developed unrecoverable errors just sitting around. :( p/n: 691-0391-E Apple Application Software p/n: 691-2363-A Apple System

May 1999 Software Recovery discs?

2016-02-04 Thread 'Gregg Eshelman' via Vintage Macs
Two of my discs for the May 1999 Software Recovery set have developed unrecoverable errors just sitting around. :( p/n: 691-0391-E Apple Application Software p/n: 691-2363-A Apple System Software For Power Macintosh G3 and iMac computers I've tried various disc imaging tools but all failed.

Re: What do you use your vintage mac for

2016-02-04 Thread Robert Hesson
What don't I use them for... That list is smaller My Quadra 650 is my page layout machine - complete with 17" multiple scan display. Has 136mb ram and a 10gb disk. Runs PageMaker and a ton of other titles. This machine is going to need caps soon I suspect because it occasionally has "senior

Re: Copying OS 8 from CD to floppies

2016-02-04 Thread Lee Kolb
I set out to move the LC475 hard drive to the Quadra, expecting this was the most straightforward way to load an operating system (via the Quadra CDROM drive). Found I don't now how to remove the hard drive from the Quadra. It looks like is should slide out to the rear when a plastic lever

Re: What do you use your vintage mac for

2016-02-04 Thread James Zeun
I recently used my Classic to design a vector for laser cutting. I was building something and needed it doing. Had my Classic sat on my coffee table, as I'd been using it for writing. Illustrator 3 made it a painless job. My Mac of choice and the one that is in regular use, is my 8500. Which I

Re: What do you use your vintage mac for

2016-02-04 Thread Angelo Danio
> This is just a random question, but I am wondering what people are actually > using their vintage macs for. > I was using my G4 mac running OS9 for quicken, but recently stopped. what you mean for "vintage"? I still use my G4 ibook for general computing, libreoffice, tenfourfox, vlc and