[PB] OSX for Wallstreet

T L artsncrafts88 at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 2 12:18:45 PST 2010


Agree, OS 9 will work okay with Classilla  OS 9 browser and Orinoco Gold cardbus for wifi

Or you can go XPOSTFACTO OS X Panther and Tiger work fine, I like Panther best I think difference is browser and some program compatibility but minor issue

TL

--- On Sat, 1/2/10, H F <pantry at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: H F <pantry at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [PB] OSX for Wallstreet
> To: powerbook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
> Date: Saturday, January 2, 2010, 11:49 AM
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> If it's for homework and light browsing, etc, just how much
> OS does she need. If you can find old browsers to install,
> the other software shouldn't take much OS to work. Unless of
> course she wants as many bells and whistles as she can
> get...and it sounds that way
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> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > I have a friend who runs a non-profit organization for
> kiddies who wants a bunch of machines for her charges to use
> for help with homework, some light webbing, etc. Trouble is,
> she wants LAPTOPS (I have about 3000 iMac G3 -- but Nooooo!)
> and she wants them, gulp, for FREE!
> >
> >
> >
> > Between my dayjob at Daystar Tech and my hobbying, I
> have several good-condition, working Wallstreets, and I am
> trying to workout something where I can give about 20 of
> them to my friend for use in her organization. I figg'r I
> can do them all with small (10-20gb) HDDs, cd-roms, wifi B
> cards and maybe even a usb pc card.
> >
> >
> >
> > The question I have is: what OSX works best on this
> machine?? I know up to Tiger can be installed using
> xpostfacto, but how does it operate in real life?
> >
> >
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> > My Wallstreet uses 10.2, which is officially
> supported, but I *also* have to press the screen bright/dim
> buttons at startup or else I will have a dark LCD. That is
> something I would like to avoid having the lil' cherubs to
> do ....
> >
> >
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> > Any thoughts?
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> >
> > Craig W.
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