>Hello,
>
> I am a list newcomer as of about a month I think. I recently bought
>a Duo 270c off a friend for 60 dollars. I am a PC tech so the quirky little
>computer became a project of mine. It had been neglected and had had no
>software updates since it shipped. Therefore it had OS 7.0.1. Using many
>floppy disks, a PC, and an LC III I managed to upgrade the OS to 7.5.3 but
>the 7.5.5 upgrade didn't work. I figured the update might have the internet
>connectivity stuff. I have an internal 14.4 modem and am now hell-bent on
>getting it to the internet. The modem works because I tried it out with
>some old apple-link software still on the drive.
> Now for the hopeless part, I don't know how to install anything,
>or maybe
>I do and its not working. A friend knew enough to know that I needed
>stuffit-expander. But when I put the stuffit installation file
>(Aladdin_exp55.sit) on the machine and double click it, it either says that
>the program that created the file cannot be found or opens it in WORD one of
>the two I haven't decided which one. I get a similar response upon trying
>to run it on the LC III.
> Some sidenotes
> Neither of the macs hit the net the duo's trying to get set up and the LC
>only has an INOP NIC
> All of the mac files are first downloaded on the PC then translated onto a
>MAC formatted disk using
> A program called MacTrans. This might explain the missing program that
>created it error.
>
>Please Please help
>
> Joshua rieff
Joshua, this may sound roundabout, but the easiest thing to do is get a
duodock (one with a color lid). This will allow you to attach a CD-ROm to
the dock, and then the duo (when you put it in a dock) can read the CD-ROM
and the internal hard drive (if the dock has one) from the dock.
THen , I would suggest wiping the duo (the one inside the actual duo, not
the dock) drive and installing 7.5 or 7.6, and then upgrading (thus the
need for the CD). Using floppies is an exercise in frustration.
Furthermore, the Duo dock has an ethernet port built in (although I think
it uses a AAUI adapter - those are pretty cheap) so you can network it
quickly.
I also thought all Duo 270c shipped with some form of 7.5 or 7.1. 7.0.1
was before the duo s time I think.
As for Aladdin file, the .sit extnesion means that the file will not auto
uncompress, you need Stuffit Expander, which you should be able to download
as uncompressed.
As for the LC3, you should be able to find a cheap modem on ebay for it if
you really wanted to get it on the ne.
thanks,
Mad Dog
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