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I know about the 19 disk images for 7.5.3, but is there a way to reformat my PB520 HD, move them over via ethernet, and then install clean?

Spoke too soon. Still there. :( Just not as bad.

Well, I do notice that if I go through AppleShare in the chooser, everything seems to work okay. Still slow, but I suspect that's normal when considering that 68k Macs had slow-ass ethernet. The frequent pauses when nothing is going on are gone at least. I guess the solution is to NOT mount...

Switched to Open Transport on the PB. Same problem. Verison is 1.1.

It turns out I'm using Classic Networking (MacTCP) on the PB side. Is this okay, or should I switch to OpenTransport?

1. Technically, yes. At the moment, no. 2. I pretty sure I'm using classic networking. All I do on the Powerbook side is activate AppleTalk, switch to EtherTalk, and turn on file sharring. Once that's done, the iMac sees the PB through the Network Broswer and can mount its hard drive on the...

This question covers a lot of territory, but I'm sticking it in software because I suspect that's where the problem lies. I have managed to get System 7.5.3 (PB520) and 9.2.2 (G3 iMac) to talk to each other using an AAUI transceiver, a Cat 5 crossover cable, turning file sharring on on the PB...

I *think* the connector on the back is called DV-14, but I'll be damned to know where to get one. Anybody know?

You used to be able to play YouTube on the VERY last build of Flash 7 for OS 9. Without hacks. I think it was "r73," released around 2005, or something. You have to hunt around for it, as it wasn't well known. I posted this info on the LEM OS 9 list about a year or two ago. I never tried it in...

Keep in mind that your EULA, as a legal contract, may have been superceded by another. Or no is longer in force. This did happen with Corel Wordperfect 3.5e, where Corel basically said "ignore the EULA with the software, it's now freeware." Ditto with a couple of other things like Sim City 2000...

Just an addendum to this: Wikipedia is claiming that all versions of System 7 were always free to distribute. Now, I dunno if that's true, Wikipedia can be full of crap... but I thought I'd bring it up. I do recall reading, in the book Apple Confidential years ago, that Apple didn't consider...

What if somebody is (arguably, at least) legally entitled to the software? For instance: I purchased a Powerbook 520, and I'm pretty sure that it came from the factory with 7.1 and restore floppies. These floppies have been lost to time, since I purchased it second hand. I also believe that the...

Have you tried hooking it up to your other Mac via a crossover cable? That would rule out a hardware problem.

That's about what I thought. Funny how the older tech is better in this regard. Then again, I have always suspected that keyboards are really regressing. I purchased my 520 with the intent to use it as a easily movable word processing machine, but I'm kinda put off by the keyboard (but...

Based entirely on keyboard quality and nothing else, what one was better? I know people rave about the keyboard on the 1400, but I've heard the Wallstreet was good too.

I would most definately recommend *NOT* running Tiger on a stock B&W. Especially a 300Mhz Rev A like you seem to have (see my thread on this forum as to problems Rev A B&W Macs have). Yeah, you can technically run Tiger on a 300Mhz G3, but you probably won't be happy with it. Were it...

I am totally comfortable with DOS, but unfortunately don't have a PC. Thanks for the suggestion. The PCI SCSI or IDE card totally seems like the way to go with these things. Assuming I even get one.

The "faster disk access" thing advertised in 8 seems to be BS. If you go over to System 7 Today, they reached the same conclusion when benchmarking a PM8600. The minor increase in FPU might be a fluke. There's almost always minor variation between benchmark runs, even under the same conditions...

Did the G5 iMacs have VGA or DVI video out? Because if they did, there's no reason you couldn't put it in a custom case and use it something like a really piss poor excuse for a PowerMac G5 (piss poor in the sense that expansion opportunities are limited). I have seen this done with a G3 iMac...

Yes, the Kanga had the 512k backside cache that was standard for the 750. I'm just pointing out to Bunsen that there were a few cacheless G3s (and that they generally suck). The 601, and early 603 (not e), had some known performance issues with 68k emulation. There is some dispute over the...