🚀 go-pugleaf

Steve Rogers <listbox@thebeast.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> adrian mason <ade@craftmcr.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Ive just been given an old SE 20m HD 2m Ram  sys 6.0.1 and I want to try
> > to run sys 7 and clarisworks plus a network to a LC475 Any body rate my
> > chances?
> > 
> > Can you tell me whether an se will run sys7 Will I need more ram? or
> > shall I try to run C/wks under sys 6
> 
> You will definitely need more (4MB) RAM to run System 7.  Maybe a bigger
> HD too - 20MB is unlikely to have any room left for applications or
> documents!

It's not as bad as you might think.  Claris Works 1 can run off floppy
disc.  I've got an SC 20 hooked up to my 4MB Mac Plus, and the lack of
disc space isn't a problem.  Admittedly, it is networked to my 475 which
has a 1GB external HDD.

You don't *need* more than 2MB to run System 7; 4MB is of course much
more useful.

> Any version of System 7 will run slower than System 6 and use more RAM.
> 
> Don't bother with 7.0; it's too slow on a 68000. 7.1 is pretty quick,

I've not noticed much difference between 7.1 and 7.0.1 on my Mac Plus;
both are painfully slow.

> but I would recommend either sticking with what you've got or possibly
> upgrading to 6.0.7 or 6.0.8 (which include TrueType).

Most Mac software *requires* System 7; there's some which'll work under
System 6, but not much these days.

> The latest version that will work on an SE is 7.5.5, but I haven't tried
> it on anything that old.  I would guess that it would use even more RAM
> and more than 20MB hard disk space.

It certainly does use more RAM, but I've heard that it's possible to
trim it down so that it doesn't use much more than 7.1.  The big problem
is that it's much slower than 7.1 (or so I've heard).

> BTW, I would recommend WriteNow [v?] or MacWrite II v2.0 rather than
> ClarisWorks for word processing on a 68000 Mac.  ClarisWorks is more
> suited to an LC or better.

Claris Works has several advantages over MacWrite II etc., such as
including a drawing, painting, and database application.  Claris Works 1
works very nicely on my Mac Plus.

Rowland.

-- 
Remove the animal for my email address:   rebecca@astrid.dog.u-net.com
Sorry - the spam got to me.                       PGP pub key A680B89D
UK biker?                    Join MAG and help keep bureaucracy at bay
                          http://dredd.meng.ucl.ac.uk/www/mag/mag.html