mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus) (11/02/88)
Well, today was the big day. We installed our largest (25 station) AppleShare File Server. Everything went pretty smoothly, except now we cannot use the spell checker with MacWrite 5.0. When we try to install the dictionaries, MacWrite just beeps at us with no explanation. Does anyone know what this means? We figured that this means that we do not have enough memory. The machines that are having the problem are 512Es; the Pluses is the same room work fine. Maybe we should use a different system version? Right now we are using 6.0. By the way, what version does Apple recommend on a Mac 512Es? Maybe we need to back up. Everything else seems to work fine. Suggestions, comments... Michael Niehaus Ball State University Lab Management Office
kevin@hal6000.UUCP (11/03/88)
> Well, today was the big day. We installed our largest (25 station) AppleShare > File Server. Everything went pretty smoothly, except now we cannot use the > spell checker with MacWrite 5.0. When we try to install the dictionaries, > MacWrite just beeps at us with no explanation. Does anyone know what this > means? We figured that this means that we do not have enough memory. The > machines that are having the problem are 512Es; the Pluses is the same room > work fine. Maybe we should use a different system version? Right now > we are using 6.0. By the way, what version does Apple recommend on a Mac > 512Es? Maybe we need to back up. Everything else seems to work fine. > > Suggestions, comments... > > Michael Niehaus > Ball State University > Lab Management Office Apple is still recommending system 3.2/Finder 5.3 for 512E's. The reason has to do with memory, as you have surmised... the new System's require a megabyte, minimum, in order to do much of anything. Dove Computer, among others, sell memory upgrades for the 512E, making all the new software runnable again. Wish I had better news... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer: I don't have an employer so opinions expressed are mine. Kevin Dack ...!killer!ninja!hal6000!kevin -- or -- ...!decvax!microsoft!trsvax!hal6000!kevin