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#458142 - 02/15/05 11:07 PM Re:PowerBook 520c [Re: itreporter]
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I love it. There's something about the OS interphase that I have always loved.
Right now it has OS 7.1.1 an 12MB of memory. I wonder, would updating it to 8.1 (which I think it's the highest it'll go) make that much of a difference? What would change?

I downloaded that jpeg software, but I can't open the hqx file... or any sit files either...

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#458143 - 02/15/05 11:29 PM Re:PowerBook 520c [Re: itreporter]
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Update: Download Stuffit and I'm gonna install it now. Hopefully that will allow me to check it out.

I saw that I needed 8.0 to install 8.1 and that 7.5.5 needed more memory that I had. 14mb I think. But I only have 12MB.

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#458144 - 02/16/05 12:46 AM Re:PowerBook 520c [Re: itreporter]
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Ahg... you need stuffit to install stuffit!

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#458145 - 02/16/05 11:33 AM Re:PowerBook 520c [Re: itreporter]
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Hmmm makes me wonder what i could do with my Powerbook 100......


Not much. You will be constricted to the size drive that is in the machine right now because it is a 2.5" SCSI. Not the easiest hard drive to find, so you will need to consider that. You may be able to do a picture frame, but the display will not do those pictures any justice.

I'd make a stand to do simple word processing and extend the wiring out. If you are a person that types a lot, or a writer, this would be something cool to do. The typewriter for the 21st Century.
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#458146 - 02/16/05 10:14 PM Re:PowerBook 520c [Re: itreporter]
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New problem... everytime I add something to a floppy from my PC, it ends up currupting the disk as soon as I eject it. I think it's that floppy drive, (that's REALLY old) though.

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#458147 - 02/16/05 10:43 PM Re:PowerBook 520c [Re: itreporter]
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Most likely. With the ammount of magnetics involved to write to a floppy, it could be that the drive is whacked out. A lot of ZIP drives succombed to that fate.
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