Re: Just wondering, any vintage Mac experts resident here?

[gids.rs@sasktel.net]

On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 1:45:31 PM UTC-6, Tony Cianfaglione wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, Stephen Thomas Cole wrote:
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> > I do, however, have a PowerMac 9600 sitting on the next desk and I've
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> > started buying upgrades for that too. In particular, I have a Apple PC
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> > Compatibility card that I'd like to talk about with someone who has
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> > experience of the thing.
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>     I had a PC card for a Mac 6100/66 (the pizza box Mac) and it made a 
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> great stove.  After a couple of hours, it started to melt anything plastic 
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> in the Mac.  The 6100 was a terrible Mac to use for this, as it was 
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> tightly packed as it was.  It didn't need a super-heated PC card added to 
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> the mix.  It was pretty neat, however; a 486 card which used a partition 
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> on the Mac's hard drive, used the Mac's ram and various ports and monitor.
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> You used a couple of keystrokes to switch from the Mac side to the PC side 
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> and back again.
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>    I've always had a Mac to interface with my II's.  I curently use an iMac 
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> (the 1995 version) running OS9.2.1.  I never went over to OSX as it seemed 
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> to much of a learning curve for my tired, old brain and took even more 
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> compatibility away with my II's.  So that Mac will be my last, as I 
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> treasure my II's more than OSX.  I also have a Powerbook G3 OS9.2.1), 
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> running Bernie, although I'd liked to find out to how to get the hard 
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> drive image for that, running properly.  It keeps giving me the old back 
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> and forth sliding Apple.


To see the sliding apple, bernie must be recognizing the ROM you have in the same folder as the Bernie application.  The only other thing I can think of is to check the control panel control-apple-ESC and check the boot slot.

Also, maybe try changing the ProDOS version on your boot disk.

Rob