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The year is 1993, it was either a car or Macintosh PowerBook, so here’s me taking the metro with the latter.
(Haha, new #MARCHintosh acquisition! PowerBook 145B, with an intermittent display, TBD, but it was $50, very pristine and en canadien français).
My first 68k PowerBook!
#retrocomputing question: I'm trying to boot my #macintosh #powerbook 170 from #floppy . So i used a #linux machine with #dd to write a known good #system7 disk image onto a known good #floppydisk .
But dd exits reporting an i/o error while writing. Note that I can create working #msdos floppy with the same drive and same floppy. Also tried other floppies, same error and every time at the same place (44kb from the start).
As expected, the mac won't boot, but for a little while I see the happy mac icon, so it seems the first part of the disk is correct.
Is there any mac-specific parameter to pass to dd? Any other hints?
But dd exits reporting an i/o error while writing. Note that I can create working #msdos floppy with the same drive and same floppy. Also tried other floppies, same error and every time at the same place (44kb from the start).
As expected, the mac won't boot, but for a little while I see the happy mac icon, so it seems the first part of the disk is correct.
Is there any mac-specific parameter to pass to dd? Any other hints?
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QuickTime was one of Apple's crown jewels in the 90s, yet, here is the same binary running on both Mac and PC.
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Stickies, a classic MacOS app from the days of System 7.5, running in yellow box on a PC and Mac.
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Find by Content--a derivative of Sherlock 1--running on PC. Sherlock was one of the big headliners for the release of MacOS 8.5
It's pretty bonkers when you think about it--in the late 90s, Apple was rewriting their apps in Yellow Box (now Coaco) not just for the Macintosh, but the PC too! It's no surprise that Apple killed Rhapsody for PC in the end, but it's surprising they developed it as much as they did!
If I can hit 2,000 YouTube subscribers by the end of #MARCHintosh, I'll give away a #Macintosh #PowerBook 145B to one lucky winner!
https://www.youtube.com/@RonsCompVids/
(boots appreciated)
YouTubeRon's Computer VideosRon's Computer Videos is a retrocomputing repair and exploration channel with a focus on Apple II, early Macintosh, and MS-DOS era PCs. If you enjoy classic computers, sometimes funny jokes, and the glory days of 1980's and 90's computing, then you've found the right place!