Well, I guess I was wondering what variety of software was available for Mac OS 7–9. Word processing probably isn't running with the big dogs on one of these, but I think the lack of distractions might actually be beneficial… (for example, not being able to log into Google Groups or Gmail or Facebook every few minutes). ;)
On Feb 27, 6:54 pm, Scott Holder <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/27/2010 7:37 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: > > > --- On Sat, 2/27/10, Austin Leeds<[email protected]> wrote: > > <clip> > > >> Anybody know what's the coolest stuff these things can do? > > > Run Linux? ;) > > > Well the answer for the Duo 230 is not much. It's slow, has a monochrome, > > 640x480 screen, a small hard drive and little RAM. 500 meg was the largest > > 2.5" SCSI hard drive, huge for a Mac of that vintage, more likely the Duo > > has somewhere around 40 meg. There's been some bigger SCSI drives for > > PowerBooks, but they're IDE drives with a very small SCSI to IDE bridge > > attached, they don't fit all PowerBooks due to the extra length. > > Hmm, I have a Powerbook Duo 280c with a 1 gig 2.5" SCSI drive. I'll see > if I can dig it out of my stuff and get more info on it. > > Scott -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
