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Golly, Batman, A clockwork easter egg! :p

I do! That was the first computer I ever bought and it's still chugging along. Great investment. Upgrade the RAM and you'll have a perfectly good machine to run Tiger on...

The noise issue is a common complaint... I used my 700MHz eMac for occasional recording and solved the problem quite easily by hanging a thick fuzzy towel on the wall behind it.

I'm experiencing Déja Vu again ;)

You can test the printer by typing PR#1 at the Applesoft prompt (assuming the printer card is in slot 1)... after that all output should be redirected to the printer. Type something and hit [RETURN] and the printer *should* print the line if the hardware's set up properly.

Another option for making real floppies is DiskDup+ I've found it works much better than Disk Copy for making Apple II disks... might be better for Lisa too.

I think it's safe to say that OS 8 and the beige PPCs represent a fairly dull period in Apple history... personally, I tend to see 6, 7.5 and 9 as the major releases with 7 and 8 being "transitional", but that's based on nothing more than my own preference...

Thanks for the abridged version... I'm totally with you on points 1, 2 and 5. Don't know about 4 (I thought DVI was current technology), and I'm not going to say anything about Linux since I'm perfectly happy running Tiger, which IMHO is the best modern OS I've ever used.

That's fine, I didn't have time to read it anyway :p

You can specify text/binary transfer mode in Fetch. In 4.x there's a dropdown menu under the "get" and "put" buttons... not sure about 3.0.3.

Last time I moved my office I dutifully locked my scanner before packing it... and then completely forgot about it. I spent the better part of a day trying to figure out why it wasn't working before remembering to unlock it. Fortunately it didn't explode, but the time wasted was probably worth...

If you can figure out the serial connection to OS X part the you could just sign up for a RetroNET account (type "telnet retro-net.org" at the prompt), that will give you access to to PINE (email and usenet) and LYNX (internet) and a few other nifty things without having to mess with the UNIX...

I really don't mind the mighty mouse (my mother-in-law has one), but to be honest I'm still living in a one-button world, so everything other than the scroll nipple is lost on me.

Just bought a dual G5 to replace a 700MHz eMac, so obviously I'm far from the bleeding edge... I don't see myself needing to upgrade in the next 3-5 years (unless I get filthy rich in the meantime).

Such is the difference of the Macintosh experience... don't forget that tinkering was strictly discouraged in the early days! But getting back to the original topic... it most surely is possible, but as others have said it will require a journey into the unknown. Contiki OS would seem the...

egads! The thing was expensive enough to begin with...

Lately I've come to the conclusion that the aluminum Apple keyboard is the be-all and end-all... I've seen a noticeable increase in speed and accuracy. Just wish I could get one with black keys so it didn't look so grubby all the time ;-)

Me too... the stakes have been raised a little, as I was really only expecting to get half a dozen fps to play with.

I prefer trackballs... I use a ADB Kensington Orbit on my 68K machines and a Kensington Expert Pro Mouse on USB stuff. If I had to pick a conventional mouse, it would be the original Apple optical mouse... comfortable shape and only one button! I also don't mind the puck mouse or the ADB...

Twitter definitely gets abused, but it can be a very useful medium. For example, I use it to push status updates to RetroNET users and we also used it as a running commentary of sorts for the last RetroChallenge event... I wouldn't, however, be inclined to use it a means of social interaction.