Hi, Tim. Welcome to the list! My replies follow your quotes.
Tim ha escrito: > I was at a library book sale this morning, and found, among a few "yard sale" > items there, a Mac 512K (Model # M0001W). Good luck! :-) > So my first question is: Are there any keyboard > shortcuts that are universal, and should be responded to no matter what > software is running? What I need to figure out is if the keyboard is dead, or > just being ignored. At least in the classic Macs there wasn't any universal keyboard combination. The keyboard is probably just being ignored. > Secondly, am I in danger of damaging the filesystem on the floppy by just > turning the Mac off with no other interaction? No, you aren't. Don't worry. It's too improbable that the tutorial ever writes anything to the disk, and a read-only disk can't be corrupted in any way (as you know, disk corruption happens when you power off the computer without letting it to dump all data from RAM to the disk). Furthermore, in the first Systems, there wasn't even a "Shutdown" command - you just returned to the Finder and then powered off the Mac. > Last, can an old PC serial mouse be interfaced to the Mac? No, it can not. They use far too different ways of communicating with the computer. You can interface some PC "bus mice" to a pre-ADB Mac, but nowadays bus mice are far more difficult to find than Apple mice, so IMHO there isn't any point on that. Ask on the Swap List or search eBay for "apple mouse" - you can get one easily for a few bucks plus shipping. By the way, you will be able to use any mouse from the Lisa, the Mac 128, 512/e and Plus, and the Apple ][ series (NOT the //gs! It was the first ADB-enabled machine). They all are compatible between them, varying only in the color (the //c's and the Plus' mice were grey, where all others were beige) and in the design (the Lisa's mouse looks a bit different, more 'archaic' if you want, with a smaller button and a more square casing). > I remember sitting in another library 20 years ago and reading about the > introduction of the Mac in Byte, and it's only taken me that long to finally > own one. Better late than never! You can bet on it! :-) Greetings, Antonio Rodr�guez (Grijan) <ftp://grijan.cjb.net:21000/> -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
