Welcome to Macintosh.
There are three Macintosh computers in the computer room: a
Macintosh IIci, a Macintosh Quadra 660av, and a Power
Macintosh 7100/66.
- Overview
- Equipment
- Operating Systems
- Applications
- Names and Faces
- Printing
- Frozen Macintosh!
Equipment
- The Mac IIci and the Quadra both have 13" displays that can
display 256 colors at 640x480. The PowerMac and the Quadra
can display up to 32768 colors at a time, but unlike the Quadra's
Macintosh Color display,
the PowerMac's
MultipleScan 15" display
can do so at 832x624.
They all have 3.5" floppy disk drives that can read PC diskettes,
8 MB of real RAM, and internal hard disk drives that range in
capacity from 80 MB on the IIci to 230 and 250 MB on the Quadra
and PowerMac, respectively.
Additionally, there are external SCSI hard drives attached
to the Quadra and Power Mac of 140 and 150 MB, respectively,
primarily for the storage of user files, and internal CD-ROM
drives on the Quadra and the PowerMac.
Operating Systems
- The IIci is running System 7.1. The Quadra and Power Mac are
running System 7.5.
Names and Faces
- Yakko
- 131.215.6.196
- PowerMac 7100/66
(click for picture)
- Dot
- 131.215.6.197
- Quadra 660av
(click for picture)
- Ruddock IIci
- Not currently available.
- IIci
Applications
- Microsoft Word 5.1a and Excel 4.0a exist on every Macintosh.
They can import files from MacWrite II and other programs.
- Mathematica (version 2.2.2) and Maple (Version 5 release 3)
are on both the PowerMac and the
Quadra. Mathematica is also on the IIci.
- There are two telnet programs that are available on the
Macintoshes: NCSA Telnet and MacIP 4.0. MacIP
sometimes fails to switch text colors after doing a more
command (the More... at the bottom of the screen is in
inverse color, and all the rest of the text is, too).
Printing
- The Quadra and Power Mac can always print to the HP on the
table next to them, as long as their ethertalk wires are connected.
For general instructions, it would do you well to read the
Macintosh manuals, but quickly, and specifically,
here is a summary of the basic motions.
What to do if the Macintosh freezes
- You can:
-
Force Quit,
or
-
Reboot,
or
-
Interrupt (advanced/interested users only)
For general information about Apple Computer and
Macintoshes, please refer to Apple's World Wide Web pages,
at
http://www.apple.com.
James Dooley /
jdooley@ugcs.caltech.edu