chavez@ucbvax.ARPA (Thomas M. Chavez) (04/15/85)
Here is a fun little set of programs that a friend of mine created recently.
Many of you probably follow Bloom County in your local paper, and know of
Oliver Wendall Holmes and his Banana JR. PC 6000, a mac look-a-like. Well,
with a little help from the Resource Editor (also on this board), he made a
few changes to the system and finder and voila! A Banana!
There are four files in all: banana.system.hqx, banana.finder.hqx,
banana.desktop.hqx, and banana.startup.hqx.
They take up about 220k, so you might want to do the transfer at night to
speed things up.
The finder is currently version 1.1g but since 4.1 was released recently, I
will either update it or let Dan (the original artist) do it all.
Any comments can be sent to me and I will pass them on to the creator, or you
can call him: his name is Dan Wood, and his phone is (415) 848-8560.
Have fun!
Tom Chavez
chavez@berkeley
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Here is a set of instructions to use to get the Banana PC Jr. 6000 System run-
ning on your Macintosh!
1. Initialize a nice new disk and put a system and finder on it.
2. Download all of the banana files onto this disk.
3. Change to another disk's System and Finder by option-command-double-clicking
on the finder of another disk. This will allow you to delete the system
and finder from your banana disk. Do this now.
Note: It may seem a waste of time to put a system and finder on a disk
and then to delete them, but it doesn't seem to work any other
way!
4. Run binhex4.0 on the startup and desktop files. Yes, you want to replace
the desktop file. The converted file will NOT appear on your desktop.
5. Now run binhex4.0 on the remaining two files--the finder and the system.
6. Go ahead and delete all of the document files. Remaining on the desktop
should be the finder, the system, an empty folder (or empty file cabinet)
and maybe binhex4.0 (if you transfered it to this disk).
7. Now reset your system, sit back, and enjoy the show!
Good luck on finding all of the changes! There is little that was left as it
originally came! No cheating by using the resource editor!!
Tom Chavez
chavez@berkeleyiltis@ucsbcsl.UUCP ( ) (04/16/85)
> uses Finder 1.1 instead of 4.1 which was released recently....
Uses Finder 4.1? This is real news if apple recently released it.
Is 4.1 available to the "rest of us"? How do we get it? Any comments
on speed, etc.?
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All opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily
those of my employer
Ronald A. Iltis
UCSB Dept. ECEbill@crystal.UUCP (04/17/85)
At least in Bloom County as it appears here, it's a Banana PC Jr 9000,
not 6000. Perhaps this is a reduced version? (:-)
bill
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William Cox
Computer Sciences Department
University of Wisconsin, Madison WI
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