Been waiting a week for the 123 FSM to arrive, finally gets here and the darned thing's not Mac compatible. Now I gotta spend hours digging thru a million pdf's with no index....first non Mac compatible issue I've run into in years. I can, but prefer NOT to do Win-doze.

Be advised if you're buying one.

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84 Euro 240D 4spd. 220.5k sold
04 Honda Element AWD
1985 F150 XLT 4x4, 351W with 270k miles, hay hauler
1997 Suzuki Sidekick 4x4
1993 Toyota 4wd Pickup 226K and counting

VM-Ware Fusion is an excellent virtual desktop app for Mac. There is a home-made indexing app built by a forum member out there somewhere for the FSM's, but I think its windows only.

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327K on 1986 W201, 602.911, 722.414 2.5 190D ("The Red Baron")
139K on 1993 W124, 104.942, 722.433 2.8 300E ("Queen")

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4081/...0bb92d3c_m.jpg http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/o...g?t=1325284354

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
- Albert Einstein

take a walk down memory lane...

Yup, I hate that and I refuse to install any type of winblows on any of my macs.

This is why the paper copies are much better.

Here is the index I put online. http://people.oregonstate.edu/~lindgrea/DIY/123manuals/main.html
I have a mac and can't use the CD index either so I uploaded the index so I could riffle through the index and figure out which PDF I needed.

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The last near complete paper manual set that sold on eBay that I can remember was $360 something (there is a thread).

I have a feeling that owning a MAC is somewhat like owning a Mercedes. I has both have their unique qualities that can create unique problems in use.

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84 300D, 82 Volvo 244Gl Diesel

And both get the job done, when working properly, so much easier, faster, and smarter, and with less stress to boot, that a little down time once in a while still seems worth it

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~Michael S.~
Past cars:

1986 300SDL
1987 300SDL
1982 240D
1982 300SD


Current:

1987 300SDL

Yeah, the epc from MB is not mac compatible either. My cd-roms used to open here on the pc, but just crash it now. A word of warning. MB really needs some worthwhile IT people.

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83 SD

84 CD

Rumor is that after the whole rodbender 3.5L incident, MB moved the guys responsible to the IT department.

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

LOL, wouldn't surprise me!

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83 SD

84 CD

you can download a set of indexes that are a good work around for this. I prefer them, actually.

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1985 300D cali 190K

http://mercedes.thatchermathias.com/mw300d.jpg

Nothing here on the mac.

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84 CD

Have you tried Steve Nervig's indices? Steve's a Mac guy so I'm sure his work is Mac compatible.

http://web.me.com/dakota/Mercedes/Indexes.html

::matthew, was this what was in the document you posted?

Sixto
87 300D

Program directory contains all htm, avi, swf files
(Drop the leading... All other directories are as typed & probably case sensitive.)

So we have:

Program/
..Chassis
..Climate
..Engine/
....103
....602_603
....617
..ETM
..images
..Maintenance\
......My81
..OM

Subdirectories are all pdf files. I have the Program & associated files in multiple places (Hard drives, thumb drives, CDs) & on XP and Ubuntu machines. matrix.htm is the browser file with the menu.

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85SD 240K & stopped counting painted, putting bac together. 84SD 180,000. sold to a neighbor and member here but I forget his handle. The 84 is much improved from when I had it. 85TD beginning to repair to DD status. Lots of stuff to do.

I had access to a set of FSMs for all of the MB chassis. I only needed the 123 and 126 (should have copied them all, dammit!) but they work fine on my mac mini and 10.4 and 10.5. PM me and maybe we can work something out or figure out what's going on with your system.

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mjk

'84 300SD 119KMi (Liesl der Diesel)
'84 300D 326KMi when the oil left (former parts car)
'82 300SD 253KMi (new parts car)

I dont know if it will work for yall running macs, but on my linux machine i just made a shortcut to the "matrix6.htm" document, and that is the very first opening screen that will navigate just like the with the cd in, i first had to copy the entire cd of course.
Andrew