Booting a Macintosh Classic from the Boot ROM
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Mac classic is still better than my shitty dell.
2 years ago 16
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Thats nearly 20 years old and still works. You cant say that about most pc's.
3 years ago 13
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@DawVideos My 23 year old PC still works.
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How come the original IBM PC's still work?
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Man, that boot speed makes my 2009 laptop look like such a piece of crap.
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@DawVideos Depends on the PC.
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@iSquishy89 OS X. They basically dumped the entire Classic OS (Mac OS 9 and earlier) and one of the casualties was the on-board ROM-boot Classic.
In fact, that's why Mac OS X doesn't load as fast as the Pre-OSX brethren, as now the OS has to load the same way as the rest of the OSen.
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MAC's are used in movies to show an old room with old equipment. PC's are used in movies to show a new room with new equipment. Thats silly. MACs should be in every Movie regardless. But i must say that a lot of programs aren't availible for the MAC, usally user built programs.
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It's alive, IT'S ALIVE!
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How do people get these things???
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i belive the reason they put this in here is because the Mac classic didn't sell with a hard drive at first. if the user didn't have the boot floppy, the computer would be rendered useless.
kargaroc386 2 years ago
Actually, the Classic did ship standard with a hard drive. However, if that hard drive were to fail or the System Folder become corrupted *and* you didn't have a boot floppy, the ROM-boot would be a great backup.
retromaccast 2 years ago
@retromaccast Why did Apple remove it on later Macs?
iSquishy89 11 months ago
@iSquishy89 I don't know - perhaps it was too expensive to implement and seldom used.
retromaccast 11 months ago
Do you like 'Kon"?
shafty1968 3 years ago
What is that?
retromaccast 3 years ago