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Article #12342Re: MacPlus question
From: pedro
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 15:06
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 15:06
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Zaphod B wrote: >pedro <pedro@nowhere.com> wrote: > > > >>The hardware is: >> >>MacPlus with 4mb (I think) RAM and internal 800k drive >> >> > >Select Apple m enu --> About this Macintosh (could be named About Finder >or some other wording, normally the topmost item), and you'll _know_. > > Yep, 4 mb! :) >:-) > > > >>SCSI hard drive connected to the SCSI port >> >> > >To me it could sound like this one is having a problm since you say it >stopped working, and sometimes works again after switching on and off >again. Don't like the sound of that... > > :( >>external 800k drive >> >> > >Did you try the floppies in both drives? > > I did now. Same thing- only the utilities disk will work as a system disk. >One other thing: >You say you made copies in your G3's floppy drive. I'm just shooting in >the dark here: When - if ever - did Mac floppy drives stop making true >HFS 800 K disks? Did they ever? Was there ever a G3 model that only made >DOS-style 720K disks? If so, that could explain parts of this - maybe. >As I said - wild guess. > > I'm not following this bit. -- rgds, Pete ----- http://pedro.spyw.com The time here is- http://tinyurl.com/6sfgd 'Get a Life? Cool! Where can I download it from?'
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