[Ham-Mac] Are you running OSX on your Mac ?

[Chris Smolinski]

>Hello:
>	I just moved to Macintosh 8.1 from Macintosh 7.5.5.  My PC is
>an Apple 7500 with an IBM Power PC 604 / 117 MHz upgrade.  I guess
>that would make it roughly equal to a 7600.  I do not think that I
>can run Macintosh ten (X) with this old processor.  I am curious
>about putting Macintosh 9 into my PC and I just bought Macintosh 8.5
>so I will be installing that very soon.  I am also looking at paying
>150$ to upgrade the processor card to a Power PC 750 (G3) or maybe a
>G4 so I can run Macintosh ten.  I wonder how long the upgrade
>download from Mac ten to Mac 10.1 would take.

I'm not sure that you'd be able to install OSX on that machine, it doesn't
take kindly to CPU upgrades. For a little bit more (say $400) you can get a
used iMac that you can install OSX onto.

>	If a computer has the capability of having a TV tuner card
>then why do we not have amateur radio tranceiver cards for the same
>computer?

Market size (or lack thereof)

73
Chris
N3JLY


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Chris Smolinski
Black Cat Systems
http://www.blackcatsystems.com
Macintosh Software
GM-10 Radiation detection system