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| As I am in the Mac forum, I will say I once had the pleasure of re-installing the OS on a Mac Performa, (OS?) using the Performa Software. This wasn't to bad, but to connect to the internet I had to use the Internet connection wizzard from a CD, then I had to drag AOL software, open transport, IE5 onto the HDD etc. I eventually got on the internet with AOL , originaly there were many problems with the Mac all sorted with the re-install the owners were over the moon and could use it better than before. Although compared to Windows I found the procedure a little long winded. I can't complain as I had never worked on a Mac before this and still not done since. Long Live Mac Is todays Mac OS as good as Windows with less hasstle. This came to mind when thinking about installs with Linux. I felt the Mac OS (then) was a little in comparrison to Linux now.
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Hi John
Procedure and protocols to get online is exactly the same now with OS X as it is with XP or Vista. Only problem is if you have a USB modem rather than using a wireless/Ethernet router. Drivers can definitely be a problem with these!
Would think that a Performa would be using a version of OS 7 but am not too sure on that, it would probably upgrade to OS 8.6 but not sure if OS 9 would run which is the point where Ethernet would work without too much hassle. Have managed to get my 10 year old G3 PowerMac online via Ethernet without any grief or setting up using OS 9.2 .......
I'm sure those who are a bit more savvy would be able to enlighten me on this.
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| Thanks BA OS 07 sounds familure and I think it was a 56k modem, I never got to the USB stage not sure if it had USB ports. The owners did move to PC and said I could have the Performa, I never had it though. It's nice to know that if I went Mac the OS is less hasstle than it used to be.
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I think the last machines in the Performa range were out in 1996. Assuming the OS hadn't been upgraded it would probably have been running System 7.5, an OS that predated Windows 95 by a year or so.
That's before home internet connections were mainstream, so it's not surprising that getting connected was a bit more tricky. Bear in mind that Windows 3 didn't even have TCP/IP support included and was a lot more hassle to get online than Mac OS at the time. As you'd expect things have moved on since then; the Mac OS in use more than a decade later has little resemblance to it.
Personally I always found Mac OS 7 quite a lot less hassle to configure and troubleshoot than Windows 3 or 95. One of the nice features was that you could make a bootable backup of the OS simply by dragging the system folder to a zip drive or CD-R. Restoring a messed up system was as simple as booting from the backup copy and dragging across one folder, no drive imaging software necessary.
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Steve_Y (27/08/2007)
Personally I always found Mac OS 7 quite a lot less hassle to configure and troubleshoot than Windows 3 or 95. One of the nice features was that you could make a bootable backup of the OS simply by dragging the system folder to a zip drive or CD-R. Thanks for the info Steve. I never had the pleasure of Windows 3 or 95 and the dragging sounds like I used to do with Amiga Workbench to another partition. The Performa I worked on a couple of years ago was said to be old but I didn't realise OS 7 / 7.5 was that far outdated. It seems that although OSs are better to operated they have lost the ability to dragg and drop (for backup) Not sure if Windowa ever had that ability?
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Hi John
The biggest problem with internet access with OS 7 through 9 was the availability of a decent web browser. An early version of M$ Internet Explorer for Mac was thrown in with the Apple OS but I found it buggy - I preferred Opera to this. Safari never appeared for these pre-OS X releases.
Regarding drag n drop, this appeared fairly early with Apple OS. Certainly today, you can easily make a copy of your internal HDD to an external one and make it bootable. So if you have a problem with your main OS you can simply boot from the external one and copy everything back to repair the corrupted one. This feature isn't quite drag n drop but there is some nice free software like Carbon Copy cloner that make it very simple indeed.
If you ever do dip a toe into the Mac water, the latest Intel ones will run Windows XP or Vista either as dual boot with OS X or run in a window on OS X using Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion virtualisation software. I'm currently running Vista as a dual boot alongside OS X 10.4 on my new Macbook quite happily. Apple's Boot Camp Beta provides all the necessary tools to partition the HDD and burn a drivers CD = all you do is provide a copy (retail for licensing purposes) of XP or Vista and off you go.
Best of both worlds.......
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| Thanks again BA for the info, it sounds interesting. I had heard something on Windows working on a Mac. Maybe one day I wil venture, I keep messing with PCs and need a new venture.
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