Outbound Laptop; Was: Mac OS vintage - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

4 Jan 2007

Jeff Walther wrote:

...
  	Last OS *my*
68000 Mac Plus has run is MacOS 7.1. MacTracker
 claims 7.5.5, I can't dispute that as I haven't tried it but I expect
 it might not do much good (no RAM left for applications). Same is
 claimed for the Mac SE and Classic and PowerBook 100. MacTracker
 doesn't report the Outbounds (Jeff?) but since (I think) they used
 motherboards from the above systems, 
 The Outbounds used motherboards designed and built by Outbound but 
 with Apple ROMs installed which were scavenged from Apple Macs.

 I can't speak to the  Notebook series but the Laptop (a much cooler 
 machine, IMHO) will not run past Mac OS 7.0.1.    However, this is a 
 limitation in Outbound support. 
Mac OS 7.5.5 runs on any Mac except the 128K, the 512K and any Mac released after 7.5.5
was current. I have run it on a 2 MB PowerBook 100, and found it performs surprisingly
well. More RAM is recommended, though, I wouldn't have put up with it for daily use on
a machine with less than 4 MB RAM.

However, I always felt that System 7.1 is a better choice for machines that support it
than 7.5. After all, 7.5 is basically 7.1 with a bunch of shareware goodies thrown in.

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