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Posted by: chris on 2007-12-19 02:47:28
I was at Computer Hardware club at my school and the teacher who hosts it has a giant back room filled with computer parts(and occasionally whole computers) He's an awesome teacher and more or less if we find something there then we can use it(people donate stuff to him so almost all of it is free to him)
Anyway, in a box on the very bottom level of a layer of strata that I swear could have been used as "History of the Modern Printer" all by itself, I found a Macintosh Powerbook 3400c.
It works perfectly, as far as I can tell, aside from the fact that the hinges are loose and let the screen flop back and forth, and it had Mac OS 9.1! I'm going to wipe the hard drive and install a fresh copy of 8.6(better suited to the limited stats)
It has a very strange extension(or something) that makes the OS have a Start menu and indeed look almost exactly like windows aside from the menubar at the top. Does anyone know what this is?
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Posted by: bluekatt on 2007-12-19 02:54:47
i forgot the name of the application but basically it does what it says it give the mac a windows like start menu and task bar so you can park windows in the taskbar
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Posted by: Byrd on 2007-12-19 03:38:35
GoMac I think? That was the commercial app, I think there were a few others too.
JB
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Posted by: bluekatt on 2007-12-19 03:50:28
thats the one
it came with my imac a book by andrew gore jill baird and chris breen
oddly enough my version doesnt have it
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Posted by: Cory5412 on 2007-12-19 14:35:43
GoMac! I used to love GoMac, it's pretty nice for switching apps, and as an app launcher, and most people who use Windows are more comfortable with GoMac than with icons laying about on the desktop.
Later versions of it were commercial, but earlier versions could be used indefinitely for free.
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Posted by: bluekatt on 2007-12-19 15:10:17
GoMac! I used to love GoMac, it's pretty nice for switching apps, and as an app launcher, and most people who use Windows are more comfortable with GoMac than with icons laying about on the desktop.
Later versions of it were commercial, but earlier versions could be used indefinitely for free. why do you think i like it ? ;p
or liek mac os x over 9 for that matter
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Posted by: Temetka on 2007-12-19 22:56:20
3400's are nice.
I would like to get mine working someday.
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