On Wednesday, April 17, 2002, at 12:01 AM, Marten van de Kraats wrote:
> I am playing with my 512k (it says 512k on the back and Mac ED on the
> front and has 1 MB ram). I noticed that this machine shows the floppy
> with flashing question mark right after being turned on. With my plus
> (4MB) it takes quite some time before the floppy with flashing question
> mark show up. How come? Something to do with the amount of RAM?
> Something else the matter?
No, probably just the RAM test taking longer. On the oldest Macs as
little as 4MB of RAM probably takes a while. Have a moments sympathy for
people running 128MB SE/30s, they tale ages apparently. I know from
power-on my 840av (there it is again ;) ) takes a good 2 mins to check
all 104MB....
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