on 12/18/03 6:39 PM, Matthew Muelver at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > My name is Matt, and I'm a Mac Addict. :-) > > I just got my first Macintosh 512k and I'm dying to get it up and > running, but it seems to be having problems. The fact that I don't > really know what I'm doing with such an old machine probably doesn't > help. My first Mac was a Performa 6300CD in my Sophomore year of high > school, so I'm not used to this no hard drive booting off a floppy > stuff. > > My 512k came with an external floppy drive and a whole bunch of > accessories. > When I turn it on I get a flashing ?-disk icon. I have a floppy > labeled "Macintosh System Disk" with a date of 1984 on it, so I stuck > that in and it ka-chunks and whirrs and tries to eject, over and over, > while flashing an X-disk icon. It seems that the floppy drive is > having trouble of some kind because disks are difficult to put in and > it can't eject them on its own, I've got to grab them at just the right > moment and pull them out. The external floppy is even worse, disks go > in easier but they don't actually click in and nothing really happens. > I can see little red lights in both floppy drives, but I don't know if > that's a good thing or a bad thing. > > Its also got something rattling around in the case.
> Any help, advice or recommendations that you guys may give will be > appreciated. > > Thanks! > > Matt Muelver As it is with ALL old Macs, you gotta take it apart and clean and lube the drives. About half of them will be defective after the lube job, but the other half will survive to read the good disks. Bear in mind that these Macs may read only 800k disks, while some older drives read only 400k disks. Ratlles aren't a good thing. Another motivator to take it apart and do the KP thing with it. Jeff -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
