A PC Guy Needs MAC HELP! HELP ME PLEASE!

[AaronP]

OK,

I bought a Mac PowerPC (100 mhz, 16 megs of ram, 800 mb HD) from a school auction. (Price was $6 bucks)

Anyways, it has a clean install of System 7.5.5 operating system and NOTHING else on it.

All files I try to put on it are in like .bin or .hqx format, and I can't run them.

So, I learned that I need to install STUFFIT Expander on there to get them working.

No problem, except, every fricken version of stuffit expander I find is itself compressed, so I can NOT get this stuff going!

Can anyone give me some tips / info or point me to a site for Mac beginners so I can learn how everything works!

 

[BDawg]

Any version of stuffit you d/l should be in .sea (self extracting archive) format. You should be able to double-click it like anything else.

 

[kgraeme]

Weird. I know Apple has been shipping the OS with StuffitExpander installed for some time, but I can't remember when that started. Give me until tomorrow, and I'll PM you with where to dl it.

 

[KeithP]

One problem you may have is finding a version of Expander that will work under 7.5.5. I have a set of 7.6 install disks at work, I will look and see if they have anything on them of use to you.

Also, to get the most out of that machine, check out http://www.lowendmac.com/

-KeithP

 

[AaronP]

thx guys

 

[Goodgeek]

Go to the bottom of this web page and you will have what you are looking for. I have been a long time MAC user and have a Dual Gig Power PC. Macs are great machines and last a long time.
Link to what you need: http://home.planet.nl/~pulle071/firemac/util.htm
Good luck

 

[Eug]

Hmmmm... What can you run with System 7 anyway? It seems most software these days want OS 8.1 or OS 8.6 or later. Can't argue with 6 bux though. Anyways, have you tried the StuffIt website? They have something about it there.

[EDIT] Ah yes, see here. It doesn't really help you though, since it requires OS 8.1 anyway. [/EDIT]

In the meantime I feel your pain. I have a free 8500/120 with a dead drive, I can't for the life of me figure out how to get my new SCSI IBM drive to work with it. See here. (I have been trying to initialize it with the OS 9 install disk.)

 

[kgraeme]

Okay, I have a file for you that might work. YGPM. As Eug mentioned, IE should be able to automatically decode the .hqx and .bin formats. I think Netscape can do the same which is probably what you're using.