Well, glad to see someone else still has a IIsi. Until I can afford a PowerCenter 150, I'm stuck using it and a real PC for internet (and even the PC is old - 75MHz pentium). I love my IIsi, and my PowerBook 140 - both running OS 7.1. I also found, with the help of a program called "Desktop Textures" you can install backgrounds on OS 7.x machines prior to 7.5 by pasting any tilable image into a library and installing it. I made some for B&W Macs and have Volumes I, II, and III that came with the app. It's freeware...so if you'd like a copy - let me know. I have a nice bluw background on the IIsi and sone neat looking black-and-white dithered rings....really impressive to anyone, especally those with Wintel notebooks - when I tell them it's a 1992 laptop - they are amazed at it's abilities. OS 7.1 on a 16MHz 030 really is amazing - OS 6.x isn't runnable...7.0.1 is..but 7.1 is much more stable and runs quite well on the IIsi and PowerBook.
On 2/21/99 11:53 PM, Macstar wrote:
>Since I have Macs of several vintages here, I use different OS's on all >of them... > >Currently: > >On PowerCenter Mac clone: Mac OS 8.0 (I have the 8.1 upgrade but haven't >bothered to update the thing)... I also run the Be OS off an external >volume. > >Macintosh IIsi: This is what I am using right now, and for years I have >been using System 7.1. I have another IIsi that also runs with 7.1, but >I hardly use that one since some of the ports doesn't seem to be working >(like modem and printer)....probably a hardware problem on that thing. >Oh.. I also can run System 6.08 booted off a Syquest 45 MB cartridge >drive hooked up to my main Mac IIsi. The thing kicks and is a blast to >fool around with, especially my older games... > >Mac SE: I bought this thing from some guy for $40 about a year ago.. I >updated it to Mac 7.01 downloaded off the internet. Runs nicely. > >Mac Plus: Strictly System 6.08 on this machine and once in a while with >some older floppy only games, the thing runs with System 3.2 or whatever >is on the games disc. > >As a rule the older operating systems take up way less space than Mac >OS. 8.x... or even Mac OS 7.6... I think with all of the internet stuff >and color management files and other stuff dumped into the extensions >folders, today's OS's are invariably big, huge bloat hogs on current >Power Macs... I think my OS 8.0 takes up about 150 MB or more of hard >disc space and requires about 12MB of ram to run. > >Of course the thing can do a lot of things that the older OS's can't do >I guess... > >As a comparison, Mac OS 6.08 on my Mac Plus takes up about 1.5 MB of >space on the hard disc, and this includes a bunch of fonts and some >goofy extension files that I can't rmember what they do... > >Of course Mac OS 6.08 while functionally pretty much the same as newer >OS's, lacks a lot of features that we take for granted today like better >font management, running more than 1 app at the same time, desktop >pictures and patterns, support for millions of colors, etc.... > >Depending on what Macintosh you have, you may want to opt for a newer OS >or stay with the old, if your Mac is like really old... 68030 or older I >guess. > >MEL > >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >||| Stop by MEL'S INTERNET UNIVERSE * http://www.lava.net/~macpro >||| Home of the Hawaii Radio & Television Guide * Mel's Hawaii * & more! >||| macpro@lava.net | Melvin__Ahching@kailuahs.k12.hi.us | NO NEW TAXES! >||| Posted from a 1990 vintage Apple Macintosh IIsi runningt at 20mhz >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -Chris Browder "I'm Completly Operational, And All My Circuits Are Functioning Perfectly."
