On 19 Dec 2003, at 05:17, Matthew Muelver wrote:
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.
This page may help the cleaning task:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010625033401/http://www.lowendmac.com/ macdan/2k0314.html
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.
More likely either a dying capacitor or bad solder joint on the analogue board of the Mac. You're going to _have_ to take it apart. Here's where to get the tool:
http://www.macfaq.org/hardware/misc.shtml#Q2.8.3
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?
Try http://www.jagshouse.com/
Ideally, source some blank 800Kb floppies. (Staples?) The 540c should offer to format them. Earliest versions of the Mac OS will offer to format single sided or double sided. There were two 512Kb Macs - the 'Fat Mac' - 512kb with 400Kb floppies, and the later 512ke with double sided 800Kb drives. Check the back panel!
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).
Stuart
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