harrow@exodus.dec.com (Jeff Harrow, NCSE BXB1-2/E02 DTN=293-5128) (05/06/87)
Does anyone running an internal 20 megabyte Hyperdrive on a Mac-Plus have any experience transitioning to System 4.0/Finder 5.4? I'm just a bit wary of "touching" the hyperdrive system software... Thanks, Jeff Harrow Work address: ARPAnet: HARROW%EXODUS.DEC@decwrl.ARPA Usenet: decwrl!exodus.dec.com!harrow or {allegra,Shasta,decvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-exodus!harrow Easynet: EXODUS::HARROW Telephone: (617)264-5128 USPS: Digital Equipment Corp. Mail stop: BXB1-2/E02 85 Swanson Road Boxboro, MA 01719
merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant) (05/08/87)
In article <9726@decwrl.DEC.COM>, harrow@exodus.dec.com (Jeff Harrow, NCSE BXB1-2/E02 DTN=293-5128) writes: > Does anyone running an internal 20 megabyte Hyperdrive on a > Mac-Plus have any experience transitioning to System 4.0/Finder > 5.4? > Jeff Harrow Be afraid. Be very afraid. I tried it. Apart from an occasional bomb here and there, it seemed to run fine. Then I noticed the Macintosh was really having memory problems. Big time. I could mount maybe one drawer and then I would get an out of memory problem when I tried to mount the next one. Went back to the old system. No dice. Backed up everything. Great. Reformatted the hard disk. 20 meg free. Put in the old system. Fine. Went to my backups. They refused to read. Exit, about 17 megabytes of applications and documents. The Mac almost got used as a gravity test device that night. Really. Wait until GCC gets it's manure collected and says it's okay. -- "I don't want to be rich Peter Merchant (merchant@dartvax.UUCP) I just want to be wonderful."