Thanks for the advice. I attempted to take apart the machine, but I don't have a torx screwdriver long enough to reach the screws under the handle, talk about a proprietary tool! So, I took apart the external floppy to see if I could get it to work. Good news! I was successful! This is the first floppy I've ever disassembled, so I wasn't exactly sure what I should be looking for, or where I should oil it, so I took my time and did a thorough inspection. After a while I figured out which pieces have to move to make everything work correctly and a little firearms oil (the only suitable lubricant I have handy) loosened things up well enough that it would accept a disk.
So, moment of truth time! I turned the machine on and upon seeing the flashing ?-disk icon I inserted the system disk into the external floppy. Woohoo! Its booting! Not much to play around with here though. I'm going to try booting off my "System and MacWrite-MacPaint" disk next. That should be more fun.
So, to shut down you just throw the power switch? Gee, I'm really not used to this. I'm lovin' the 2 second boot-up time though!
Ok, so I tried out MacWrite, tons of fun! MacPaint won't boot though, it says that the disk is too full. I guess I'll need to get the internal floppy working before I'll be able to play around with it.
Interestingly, the screen is flickering every few seconds, looks to me like maybe a power supply issue, but for all I know it could be something else entirely. The video is handled entirely by the CPU on these machines, right? No video chip? Maybe its just a bad outlet, I'll try moving it later to see if that helps.
My brother is going to freak out when he sees this!
Anyone know where I can get a cool game to play? Like solitaire, or gomoku or tiles?
Oh, another question. I put the system disk into the floppy drive on my PowerBook 540c and it couldn't recognize the disk as valid, it asked me to initialize it or eject it. Which machines will I be able to use floppies back and forth with? I've got an old Duo with a Duo Dock, I'll try that one out later (I'll have to drag it out of the closet).
Thanks guys!
Matt
On Dec 18, 2003, at 9:42 PM, J.S. Garrison wrote:
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
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