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Subject: Re: Old Mac System

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 20:23:57 07/06/99

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On July 06, 1999 at 18:32:07, Zachariah Amela wrote:

>Wow!  You have a treasure trove.

More like a junk trove.  Nothing more useless than an old computer.

>Would you know of a source of how to upgrade
>the Mac to system 7.x (does apple still do that?)?  I think it has 6.0.x...or
>something.  That way I could maybe run MacChess.  Perhaps the creators of
>MacChess would mail it on diskette to me.
>

Don't know about that.  I personally liked sys 6, thought 7 came out before it
was ready or needed.

>What is a fat mac?  I know what a Lisa is.  That was is REAL old.  Do you have
>any old UNIX boxes?  Those are my most favorite 'puter antiques.
>

I don't know what unix is. :~=  I'm a mac-only hobbyist, though I like my Dell
450 for games.  "Fat-Mac" was the term used to describe the 2nd Mac, which had a
whopping 512k ram, 4x greater than the original 128k mac.

Will





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