Article View: demon.tech.mac
Article #1403Mac Portable
From: andy the pugh
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 00:00
17 lines
1159 bytes
1159 bytes
I have come into posession of a Mac Portable, unfortunately it doesn't work. I had some luck booting it up when I first got it, getting as far as 'Bienvenue a Macintosh' (it has french system software and an AZERTY keyboard), but after looking at the power system more carefully it appears that it was booting from the 9V PP3, which didn't have the juice to spin up the disc drive. When that PP3 ran down I got another, but that won't do it at all (it looks like Duracells have less ooomph than Panasonic) Anyhow, I have renewed the lead acid batteries in the battery pack, and it still won't boot, it is getting less far than it did before, A random pattern appears on the screen, the floppy drive goes 'bong' and that is it. Any ideas where to look for problems? -- ap
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<6gigqg$ae3$2@bignews.shef.ac.uk>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mailShow Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b5a2,e566fdaffd8db53d,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5a2,public From: A.C.Pugh@shef.ac.uk (andy the pugh) Subject: Mac Portable Date: 1998/04/09 Message-ID: <6gigqg$ae3$2@bignews.shef.ac.uk> X-Deja-AN: 342400489 Organization: Mech Eng, Sheffield University Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac