On 23.03.2005, at 03:43, Jeffrey Bergier wrote:
And unfortunate no go.... i used rawwrite.... it said it was successful. Flipped the switch on the floppy disk and popped it in. Sucks it in, spins the drive, and spits it out. then an x replaces the ? for a few seconds. I have to say that now I believe the floppy drive is just no good anymore. And I am done spending money on this. I am on a very limited budget and can't spend money on getting a cool old computer running again.
if anyone has any other free suggestions feel free to share.... also, how on earth do you remove the floppy and its plastic holder properly? I can't for the life of me figure out how to remove the power supply.
The IIci is obsolete. It's not worth anything. You should not have had to pay anything to get one, nor should you have to pay anything to get replacement parts for it. Sure, if you look on eBay or ask a Mac service center, you'll get some ridiculous prices. But people throw out machines more valuable than that every day. Keep an eye out at the side of the road on trash pickup days. Look near dumpsters, especially those near schools, especially between the end of one schoolyear and the beginning of the next. Ask other friends, teachers or neighbors if they might have an old Mac in the garage that they don't need anymore and that you could use for parts. In exchange, you could offer to burn its hard drive's data to a CD for them; could be that they still have old data on there that they might want to see again. Or you could see if there's a local (non-chain) Mac repair shop whose Mac tech you could befriend. Maybe you could do some chores around the shop, or spruce up their web site for them, in exchange for which they might be able to give you some worthless old floppy drive that nobody else would want. When you're on a limited budget, you have to find things that you can do easily that others would appreciate that you can exchange for things they have that you want.
For assistance working inside the IIci, or any Mac, your best bet is to consult the Apple service manuals. These are only officially available to Apple service technicians, but Googling for "quadra_700.mac_iicx.iici.pdf" might turn up something. It did for me. The service manuals do assume a certain amount of knowledge about proper procedures for working inside a computer -- taking proper measures to ensure that static electricity is not a problem, for example -- but these are also explained in other sections of the manuals. If you're not familiar with such procedures, spend a bit more time with the manual first before fiddling around inside the case.
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