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Re: Old Macs

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From: Paul Durrant
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 00:00
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In article <7pr9f5$e9i$1@m2.c2.telstra-mm.net.au>,
"Paul Connolly" <pconnoll@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

>I found an old mac in a cupboard at work.
>It is model IISE.
>I started it up to see what it could do.
>However it only gets as far as the smiley mac and shows an image that is
>presumably a floppy disc with a question mark on it.
>I guess it is asking to be booted up from a floppy disc - but maybe I'm
>wrong.
>There is no sign of any old discs to boot from.
>Any thoughts or advice as to what to do next to get it going?
>
>I later found a Quadra - but I have not had time to try to start it up.
>PJC

There was no IISE. There was an SE - upright box with built-in 9" mono
monitor, and a IIsi - large pizza box with separate monitor.

It certainly sounds like it needs a system disk. You can download Disk
Images of System 7.0.1 or 7.5.3 from the Apple web site, but you'll need a
working Mac to copy them to floppy!

Perhaps the Quadra has a working system disk.

regards,

Paul
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