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lenegade

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Off the top of my head:
Powerbook 2300c
Macintosh 128------ not working, need OS and mouse
Macintosh SE------ 2 floppies and 80mb HD
Macintosh LC630
Macintosh 8500
Commodore C=64c
2 CoCo 2s
Tandy 2500 sx/20 hard drive
and I just scored a Tandy model 100 with disk drive!

Other things:
Tandy DMP 210 printer
Imagewriter II
Personal Laserwriter 300
External Apple CDrom
External HD for Apple, not working due to a horrible accident
the CoCo's came with 2 floppy drives and a number of cartridges
I have 2 Fujitsu dot matrix printers DL 3400 and DL1100 which save me money on ink
that's it for now....
 
Terry Yager said:
You could login to Apple's site with the 8500 and d/l the OS of choice. The 8500 is capable of writing out the images to a 400K floppy, usable in the ol' 128.

http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html

--T
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Unfortunately, Apple doesn't offer for download any OS that works on a 128!

MacKiDo is the best place for older Mac OSes. "System Software 2.0" (aka System 3.3/Finder 5.4) is the latest version that will run in 128 KB of RAM. If your 128 has been upgraded to 512 KB of RAM (quite a few were,) then you can run up to "System Software 2.01" (aka System 4.0/Finder 5.4)
 
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Druid6900 said:
Gee, does that mean I won't be able to download an operating system for the Apple Messenger 130 I found when I opened a box today?
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"Messenger 130" You mean "Newton MessagePad 130"? It has its OS built into ROM, no download needed (or even possible.)

lenegade said:
I believe the 128k can only run a max of OS 4.5, if it were any higher I'd be stylin'!
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As my prior post mentions, the 128k can run up to System 3.3 with Finder 5.4. This is sometimes called "System Software 2.0", but Apple didn't really use combined "System Software Version" numbering until 5.0; and the System file and Finder file main version numbers didn't match until 6, and they didn't match sub-versions until System 7. ("System Software 5" was actually System file 4.2 with Finder file 6.0.)

P.S. There was never any version of any system file at 4.5. The System file went from 4.3 to 6.0, Finder went from 4.1 to 5.1, and "System Software" as a whole went from an unofficial 2.01 to an official 5.0.

P.P.S. Until "System 5.0", there was no official overarching OS version. The System file and Finder file had their version numbers referred to separately. From System 5.0 through System 7.5 were called "System x.x", and Systems 7.5.1 through 7.5.5 were officially "System 7.5.x", but also used the "Mac OS" terminology. Starting with 7.6, it was officially "Mac OS x.x" (And Mac OS X is officially "Mac OS X version 10.x.x", so "Mac oh ess ten, version ten point one point five" or "Mac OS X <codename>, version 10.x.x" starting with 10.2/Jaguar so "Mac oh ess ten Leopard, version ten point five." The "X" in the name is part of the name, not the version number, and is pronounced "ten". AND, if there is no sub-sub version (x.x.x), then you leave off the last .x. So Tiger is on 10.4.10 right now, but upon Leopard's release, it will be just 10.5, not 10.5.0. But you DON'T leave off just plain sub-versions, so 10.0 was really 10.0, not just 10. And to make it even MORE confusing, before the version of OS X we think of now, they had "OS X Server" versions 1.0 through 1.2 that had the same core underpinnings of modern OS X, but looked more like the "Classic" Mac OS. Again, they were not version 10.x, but 1.x.)
 
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"As my prior post mentions, the 128k can run up to System 3.3 with Finder 5.4. This is sometimes called "System Software 2.0", but Apple didn't really use combined "System Software Version" numbering until 5.0; and the System file and Finder file main version numbers didn't match until 6, and they didn't match sub-versions until System 7. ("System Software 5" was actually System file 4.2 with Finder file 6.0.)

P.S. There was never any version of any system file at 4.5. The System file went from 4.3 to 6.0, Finder went from 4.1 to 5.1, and "System Software" as a whole went from an unofficial 2.01 to an official 5.0."

I knew this info was somewhere but I didn't bother to go get it, my point was rather that I don't have any version of system/finder that would work on my old mac. :(
 
lenegade said:
I knew this info was somewhere but I didn't bother to go get it, my point was rather that I don't have any version of system/finder that would work on my old mac. :(
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Check out the link in my first post, (okay, here it is again,) for download links to all the old Mac system software versions. You'll need an older beige Mac running OS 9 or earlier to write 400k disk images, since USB drives (or any PC internal floppy drive) can't read or write older Mac 400k or 800k disks, and OS X can't use internal floppy drives on the few OS X-supported machines that have internal floppy drives.
 
OH! So close!

I hate missing the delivery guy. In my area there is no UPS office, so deliveries go through a company called Muskoka Deliveries. They have an office 2 hours away, and only come here once a week. I left for work on thursday and saw the van downtown. I knew he was going to my house but there was nothing I could do. Yip there was a note on the door when I got back. Now I have to wait until next week, and hope the same thing doesn't happen again. I informed them of my schedule.

So what has this to do with my collection? Well my Tandy Model 100 and TPD were in that truck, sitting right outside my house! Whaaaaa! :(
 
Well my model 100 arrived on Monday. Without me telling him, the delivery dude dropped it off at work. Now that's service.

The TPD had a bad belt (Jelly!). I can't get it to work (after replacing the belt) and think it may be the cable.
 
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PS:

Lots of things happening in the M100 world; check out the rest of the club100.org site and bitchin100.com; maybe even join the mail list.

mike
 
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