Talk:Macintosh Classic

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[edit] Misleading link

The simulation is not "running system 7" or anything vaguely close - it's just a bunch of web pages made to look like a an old Mac.

Are you refering to the webpage or the Flash simulation? The Flash simulation wouldn't load in my browser, so I can't comment on that, but if you removed the link solely based on the website's apperance, I would appreciate it if you could go back and check the Flash simulation and decide from it whether or not the link warrants inclusion.
Darrien 23:37, 2004 Sep 5 (UTC)
Neither the website nor the flash animation (which loads for me) look or feel anything like a real Mac with System 7. The link was labelled "For a virtual mac SE running System 7, click here". This is misleading, it's not an emulation, not even close. The "simulation" is actually pretty inadequate in the way it works - icons don't highlight, the menu items are there to serve the animation and do not match a genuine system 7 installation, and they don't work correctly, where they work at all. Alerts are wrong. Other messages and things appear that you would never see on a real System 7 install. The overall look is based on System 7, but that's about all you can say for it. If anyone who had never seen the real System 7 came to this article (or one of the many others where the link had been added) and followed the link in good faith they would get a completely false impression. WP stands for accuracy so such links are not encyclopedic. Besides, the guy added it to so many pages with minimal relevance one might draw the conclusion he was doing it to promote the site (maybe his own). That's also something WP isn't for. Graham 04:11, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Fair enough, I just wanted to make sure you weren't removing it based solely on the website as your edit summary indicated.
Darrien 08:38, 2004 Sep 6 (UTC)

[edit] Boot from ROM disk ...How?

"One unique feature of the Classic was the ability to start from a ROM disk by holding down the ⌘⌥XO keys during the boot process." Could somebody please supplement those symbols by spelling out what they are, in case their system isn't showing those characters? Like mine, for example. Castlan 13:53, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Command (Apple key) + Shift + X + O on a Macintosh keyboard. — Wackymacs 14:52, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Command *option* X O. Also, I just fixed the statement about the machine's heritage - it's more like an SE than a Plus. 70.225.163.11 22:09, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
The version of the System in the ROM disk was 6.0.6. This System version was not released for other Macs, but the only reason for that is that after the ROM images were finalized, the decision was made internally to continue to fix a bunch of bugs before doing another incremental System release. Hence the System version released on disk jumped from 6.0.5 to the long-lived 6.0.7; the only 6.0.6 version that was released was in the ROM of the Mac Classic. And that version was never a recommended version; it would always be better to use 6.0.7 instead because of the bug fixes. Tempshill 18:42, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Screen

Even though the Macintosh Classic had no brightness knob, you could still change the brightness and contrast of the Classic. How? Through a control panel named "Screen".

AppleMacReporter 17:57, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External Links

I removed a link that advertises someone's Mac repair business and another one that was broke. At the time of writing, the remaining links don't seem to add much other than repeating the information already here. Is it really worth having these links? --Kesfan 19:58, 27 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] VIDEO CARDS

you can have a video card in a classic i have one it clips over the 68000 and allows the monitor to do greyscale


[edit] Features section

I had a couple of small notes about this section as I left it. First, I put in (ROM) and (CPU) after the spelled out words. Does that seem like a possible help for the reader, or is it more likely to be insulting? Also, the sequence of keys that must be held when booting to get to System 6.0.3 is long and likely to span lines (as it does right now, at least on my screen). Is this OK, or should non-breaking spaces be used anywhere here? --AnnaFrance (talk) 16:11, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Looks good, I added non-breaking spaces to the keyboard shortcut. One little thing: I think the SmartBundle thing was only sold separately, and not with the computer. — Wackymacs (talk ~ edits) 16:19, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Question about Random Access Memory. In the features section it is only referenced as memory. In the specifications it is only referenced by its technical name. Do people ever use the technical term, or do they use and better understand the term RAM? Would the average person have to pause to think about the technical term? Should the term memory be linked to Random Access Memory or followed by (RAM)? Either way it should be consistent throughout.--Mac128 (talk) 23:56, 29 May 2008 (UTC)