Mac os 6.0.7 for powerbook 140/170

[jimbauwens]

Quite some time ago I got a powerbook 140, with a dead hardrive. I managed to get it working again by putting the harddrive in a fridge. This was however temporally, after a couple of days it stopped working. xx(

The only way to boot a system was with a floppy, but System 7 takes so much space in that you can't include any program.

So I went searching and found that there was a Japanese version of Mac Os 6.07 (mac os 6 is so much smaller) that ran on the powerbook 140 and 170.

The only problem was that it was in japanese. But I spend some time with mini vmac and resedit, and successfully translated the system English.

I had enough space to include a couple of games, and it ran perfect on my powerbook (and still does).

Today I found the image again, and was wondering if someone of you might be interested in it.

 

[beachycove]

Yes.

 

[jimbauwens]

I pm'ed the link to you

 

[mx-v]

I am too. Would like to try it on the 165.

 

[jimbauwens]

I sent you the link, but I'm not sure if it will work with the 165.

 

[mx-v]

Well, it doesn't boot a 165.

It does boot a Classic tho, for what it's worth. (proves my floppy is good)

Thanks anyway, it's nice from you to share.

 

[Strimkind]

I'd love a copy for my 170

 

[basalgangster]

would definitely like to have that too.

 

[CJ_Miller]

Cool project, I didn't even know that one could run 6.0.x on any powerbooks, apart from the "portable".

 

[jimbauwens]

@basalgangster and Strimkind, I send you guys the link

Tell me if it works out!

 

[beachycove]

Before I go a-downloading, does this version have the Resedit hack already done, or is it the original Japanese language software?

 

[jimbauwens]

It's the tweaked version, all the work is done.

 

[beachycove]

You are a gentleman!

 

[basalgangster]

Worked like a charm in my PB170. Very cool that you left the Japanese Welcome to Macintosh message in place. I guess I knew it couldn't work in my PB180, but I had to try. No luck. Thanks much for that.

 

[jimbauwens]

I'm very happy that it works for you

 

[closeddoors1559]

I'd also like to try it.

 

[beachycove]

Actually, I couldn't get it to work on a PB170. Procedure was:

d/l in OSX.4 -> .dsk file not recognized, and gave up.

d/l in OS9, forced file recognition in Stuffit Expander -> disk image, from which I made floppy via DiskCopy. All seemed well.

However, the PB170 will not boot from the floppy. Have I missed something?

 

[jimbauwens]

You're floppy must be a 1,4 mb one, not smaller. Maybe this is your problem?

 

[basalgangster]

Dialog -15904, the General Control panel dialog still has the KanjiTalk name.