Newest Apple Macintosh 7.5.2 img file

This is a working image file that can be dd to sd card, via command line.

Example:  dd=if/home/user/AppleMacintoshsys753.img.img of=/dev/sdc (sdcard)

Now you have a working sd card with working system for your scsi2sd v.5 with a working disk drive or not.

SCA 80F/IDC 50M Hard Drive Adapter with Active Termination

                                                                

So you have a Macintosh Classic and no hard drive.

Here is the cheapest way I know of to get your Mac up and running.

SCA 80F/IDC 50M Hard Drive Adapter with Active Termination-SCSI U320,U160,LVD,SE P/N:S8050AT

IBM OEM p/n 25L1930 DNES-309170 SCSI LVD/SE Server Hard Drive 9GB.

Just by chance I found the right eighty pin scsi HD.  Cheap as dirt.

SCSI2SD with floppy emu makes it easy.

In the land of Read Only Memory you are King.

With command line you can transfer downloaded files to a diskette and in turn place it on a blank disk on your Floppy Emu.  So you wont have to worry about a diskette going bad some day.  So I finely figured out how to get my usb diskette drive to mount, and format, here’s what I did.

In the disks utility on Ubuntu 16.04 I changed the mount point to /media/paul/disk1.  After making a new directory.  (sudo mkdir disk1) I’m using a cheap usb drive form eBay.

In terminal cd to disk1 you can copy (cp -v)  a file to diskette after formatting diskette to FAT (msdos) and you should have PC exchange on your mac to read it. Then you will be able to make a permanent copy with floppy emu.

With command line in linux you can create new blanks, rename them and move them.  It’s a round about way of doing it, but it works!

 

The MT 7601u wifi dongle driver problem solved!

I found instructions and a driver for the MT 7601 wifi dongle.

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential git
git clone https://github.com/porjo/mt7601.git 
cd mt7601/src
make
sudo make install
sudo mkdir -p /etc/Wireless/RT2870STA/
sudo cp RT2870STA.dat /etc/Wireless/RT2870STA/
sudo modprobe mt7601Usta

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Yes, it works.

Linux for real old laptops

So what is the minimum spec’s for old machines.

Well the 32 bit 64 bit argument aside.  You want at least 1 gig processor and

512 of ram.  Anything less and yes it will work but, painfully slow.

Do all Linux distro’s work on all machines?  Well….

Pretty much, you may have to know what force pae means, or find

a distro with the right CPU architecture, (32/64 bit)  most will tell you if it will or won’t.

Increasingly more Linux distro’s have the option or

what is called a Net-install,  you still have to download and burn a disk,

but with net-install your o/s is tailor made to you hardware.

So you have been given an old laptop with no charger and a dead battery.

Maybe you bough one at a yard sale, or from the Goodwill store, what we usest to call a second hand store.

What to do?

Well ebay.com is still a good choice, unless you have that guy in your town,

you know, he has every part know to man, in his basement.

Note: Don’t go in his basement, you will leave with ten old computers because you couldn’t beat the price.

Linux for real old computers and laptops.

First choice would be Knoppix 6

Second choice would be Tiny Core

Third would be Lubuntu

Fourth would be Puppy (slacko) Linux

Another good choice is Simplicity Linux

And what list would be complete without Debian.

Cool old terminal

Here is a bash script I put together with several different bash app’s.

• cowsay sudo apt-get install cowsay
• say or espeak sudo apt-get install say
• https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

PirateBoxManager/Ubuntu~10.04

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Ubuntu ISO Pirate Box

If you want the real step by step you have come to the right place.

This is a way to set up a simple wireless access point for file sharing.

This was written in the simplest manner, even an ex-mac user like me can understand.

Any laptop with a Atheros chip set wifi card.  I use an Acer Aspire 7730z circa 2008?

Setting up your own public anonymous file server.

This assumes you know how to burn a disk or a thumb drive.

Download ISO from Here.  https://github.com/terrorbyte/PirateBoxLive

Distro information can still be found at

http://piratebox.aod-rpg.de/dokuwiki/doku.php/script-package_for_debian_based_systemes

http://ubuntuhak.blogspot.com/2012/04/piratebox.htm

Next do not update!

Open terminal and type: sudo su, then password, then PirateBoxManager

You will be given a list of choices, start with “Just download scripts”

and reboot.  When done rebooting, reopen terminal type: PirateBoxManager (hit enter)

Then select 1) First Setup and away we go!

Your will see a line that says, rm: cannot remove ‘ /opt/piratebox/share/tmp*’ : No such file or directory.  You can ignore this.

This means of course you will have a second computer with wifi

select piratebox:freeshare form second computer wifi menu (this may take a minute)

Disconnect your Ethernet from menu (wired connection) and connect to piratebox:free share only.

Open your browser, and you should see this.  Yes it works!  

This is a new year. (2016)

Playing around and learning new things.  Here is my own website, with bad grammar and misspellings.  Teaching myself old apple software.

As of June 2016 I’m on a Apple Macintosh SE/30 binge.  Restore and mod.

It’s now August I have six mac’s all of them working.