Sign of a broken Mac
Written 03 Oct 2005
Today I've worked on getting an old iMac fucntional. My wife purchased it rather cheap ($25 at a garage sale). Perfect for those projects that need to be cross-platform since previously I had no Mac. There is only one problem: the MacOS install is totally borked!
Here's the situation I found myself in. I need to perform testing in IE for MacOS (don't ask!). To install IE 5 requires Stuffit Expander 5.5 or later (this is for MacOS 8.x). Ok, goto the Allume's website, downlaod a version for MacOS 8.1. Umm, I don't have a browser on my Mac, so I'll download it on my Windows box, copy it to a CD and install it. That seems to work, until I double click the Stuffit file on the Mac.
Apparently to install Stuffit on Mac OS, you need to have Stuffit installed!
Thankfully a friend had a spare MacOS 8.5 isntall CD available. There are still problems, but I think I got stuffit installed now.