Yo compacters everywhere, I've been messing a lot lately with seeing just how much I can get a Classic II to do. And I've hit a conflict. Can anyone shed a bit of light to get around the conflict? Perhaps even suggest why the conflict?
About my project. Up at the senior center, we have received some Classic IIs. So I am seeing just what I can do with these charming little Macs. Well, actually, I am trying to push the 'ell out of them. While many on this list will find fault with my direction, remember, my goal with old Macs at the senior center is to achieve the closest I can to an out of the box features set of an early iMac. An early iMac is the average Mac our seniors possess and what I try to heard all older Macs towards; always. And, I said features of an early iMac, not speed. My trial horse Classic II is currently running all 10 MB RAM on MacOS 7.6.1 and a whole batch of added features items and sillynesses. The online suite is Eudora Light 3.1.3 along with the 68k version of the iCab web browser. Sure, it is no sterling performer, but it is working like newer Macs rather than like older Macs albeit dirt slow. Yup, I can get all that OS, Eudora, and iCab going inside of 10 MB with room to spare. Now for the conflict in two parts. This Classic II hangs, as in all things on the desktop freeze but no bomb, when iCab is launched while any piece of any CD-ROM extension suite is enabled. I have trialed both the Apple CD-ROM extension and my trusty CharisMac CD-ROM suite. Even just the Foreign File Access file enabled will hang this Classic II when iCab is launched. The second item which results in the very same hang when iCab is launched is After Dark version 2.0. Turn AD off in the AD control panel and iCab runs fine. My fix is easy. When online with a Classic II, who needs After Dark or a CD-ROM anyway? So I turn 'em off. At the senior center, this means not even having them on these Macs at all. The funny part here is that I have found a bazillion other extensions, control panels, and wholly unnecessary stuff that causes no grief at all with iCab running on this Classic II. And AD and CD-ROM software causes no grief on any other Mac. So why here and what do I do about it? Bye the waye, Eudora works fine and so does iCab as long as no AD and no CD-ROM stuff is enabled. This combination gives you lots of coffee breaks. Bill -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
