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Article #201Re: Old Macs
From: Paul Durrant
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 00:00
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 00:00
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In article <7pr9f5$e9i$1@m2.c2.telstra-mm.net.au>, "Paul Connolly" <pconnoll@bigpond.net.au> wrote: >I found an old mac in a cupboard at work. >It is model IISE. >I started it up to see what it could do. >However it only gets as far as the smiley mac and shows an image that is >presumably a floppy disc with a question mark on it. >I guess it is asking to be booted up from a floppy disc - but maybe I'm >wrong. >There is no sign of any old discs to boot from. >Any thoughts or advice as to what to do next to get it going? > >I later found a Quadra - but I have not had time to try to start it up. >PJC There was no IISE. There was an SE - upright box with built-in 9" mono monitor, and a IIsi - large pizza box with separate monitor. It certainly sounds like it needs a system disk. You can download Disk Images of System 7.0.1 or 7.5.3 from the Apple web site, but you'll need a working Mac to copy them to floppy! Perhaps the Quadra has a working system disk. regards, Paul
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b5a2,5c1f4fa5b301b2a0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5a2,public From: paul@durrant.co.uk (Paul Durrant) Subject: Re: Old Macs Date: 1999/08/23 Message-ID: <B3E71B1896683D81F7@g3.durrant.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 516182174 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: durrant.demon.co.uk:158.152.17.81 References: <7pr9f5$e9i$1@m2.c2.telstra-mm.net.au> X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 935419162 nnrp-01:8387 NO-IDENT durrant.demon.co.uk:158.152.17.81 Organization: Durrant Software Limited Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net