--- Allan Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 5:32 PM -0600 5/18/05, mailbox 1 wrote:
you have got to tell me how you got a file system
to mount on
removable drive like a zip!
That's not unusual. Macs will boot from damn near
anything that has a System and a Finder on it.
The Mac
At 5:32 PM -0600 5/18/05, mailbox 1 wrote:
you have got to tell me how you got a file system to mount on
removable drive like a zip!
That's not unusual. Macs will boot from damn near anything that has
a System and a Finder on it.
I've booted a Mac from a 21 MB Floptical, a SyQuest, a CD in an
On May 19, 2005, at 0324, Allan Hunter wrote:
I know someone who on a lark decided to boot his Mac from a Travan
backup tape cartridge. After half an hour of squeaking and
skwonking, the screen showed the smiling Mac but she didn't have
the patience to see if it would go all the way to
and expense, but it will keep the machine in
one piece unless it gets run over by something big.
- Original Message -
From: John Niven [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Vintage Macs vintage.macs@mail.maclaunch.com
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: free Mac SE (sort of)
Bubble wrap
Hi everyone,
I was trying to rehab my Mac SE by putting a 1.4 floppy into it
but figured
out the ROMs are too old (86 or so). In the process I went and dropped the
20 MB
internal hard disk so much for those data files!
anyhow, I got the data I needed off my 100 MB hard drive and
Man, I'd love it, but I just coaxed myself out of giving up my old Mac SE.
It's a great computer, and ran super-fast when I ran the system off an external
Zip 100 drive!
I should recommend that you wrap the entire computer in large bubble wrap and
pack with bubble wrap or packing peanuts (if
Bubble wrap - Yes!
Packing Peanuts - NOO!!
The peanuts just move around in the box until they end up all on one
side and then the box gets dropped.
Lost an SE/30 that way,
John
On May 16, 2005, at 7:41 PM, Joey Sager wrote:
Man, I'd love it, but I just coaxed myself
