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From: vnend@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (D. W. James)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Systems for older Macs
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Date: 21 Sep 90 21:00:43 GMT
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I recently added a scsi port and a harddisk to my 512KE.  (Magicscsi from
MacProducts: I'm not impressed, but it does seem to work.  Shoddy construction
though.  Ehman 60+ from their summer special.  It seems to be ok, though it
acted a little funny.  When we got started.)

On the HD was a copy of 6.0.4, and, to my amazement, it worked!  Sort of.
The machine booted from it, but under it, as well as under the system I
usually run (5.4?) I couldn't copy anything to or from the HD (defined as
SCSI device 1.)  Today I reset it to #6, and it lets me do things under
5.4 (I removed 6.0.4.)  

My question is, I know that Apple has published guidelines for what
systems software is best for each model, but does anyone out there have
any advice about running later  versions than they recommend?  I'm
aware of the problem or running out of memory (it is a little scary
to have Multifinder available on a 512.  I was too chicken to run it 
though.)

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