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Macintosh Powerbook 140 - 2009/06/25 06:32 Hello!

First I wanna say, that I'm Hungarian, so my English is not perfect, but I hope, that You will undertand me. Thanks.

So, I bought a Macintosh Powerbook 140, it's working, it as just one problem: it doesn't have an operating system. But what is the problem, I have Internet connection, so 'google it'! I found an operating system for that Notebook I think: Apple Macintosh System 7.5.3! (Is that a good operation system for that computer?)

After that, I wrote the image files to my floppy, to install to the Powerbook, but when I put it into the computer, it didn't like it, and the floppy was out of the computer.

I think, that maybe it was happened, because the floppy was formatted by IBM, or by my Windows PC...

Do You have any ideas for that problem? How can I format the floppy for the Powerbook? Or the problem is not with the bad formatted floppy?

Please help! I like this Apple Powerbook!!!

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krowmagnum
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Re:Macintosh Powerbook 140 - 2009/06/25 23:43 Welcome to EveryMac and your English is fine ;-)

Your Powerbook 140 can use any of the following OS's:

7.0.1-7.5.1,7.5.3-7.5.5

You should check this page for more info on how to use a PC to make Mac install floppy disks:

http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/index.html

I would suggest System 7.0.1 as a good OS for that machine unless the RAM has been upgraded. You can download images of all of the System 7 releases up to 7.5.3 from Apple's Legacy download site.

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Re:Macintosh Powerbook 140 - 2009/09/13 13:13 system 7.0.1 won't run on PowerPC prosessor

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Re:Macintosh Powerbook 140 - 2009/09/13 13:56 pepper147 wrote:
system 7.0.1 won't run on PowerPC prosessor

The Apple Macintosh PowerBook 140 features a 16 MHz 68030 processor, 4 MB of RAM, and either a 20 MB, 40 MB, or 80 MB hard drive in a compact portable case with a 9.8" monochrome passive-matrix display.
Thank you Brock!

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