At 21:15 -0600 1/29/10, Abel Ortiz Monasterio wrote: Looks like you are missing the OS, not sure of how to get it on a 800K disk to install it on your hard drive.Your HD is probably bad otherwise it would boot from it, you can get a hard drive with system 6 on e-bay (I've seen them go for pretty cheap, a 20 or 40 mb (sic) That's 20 or 40 MB as opposed to the unit of atmospheric pressure, the millibar.)
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Mac-Chemist <<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote: Hi everybody, Welcome. I'll bet you know about DHMO. this is my first e-mail to this e-mail list. Here is the reason. Recently, I was able to get a Macintosh SE that was ready to be disposed. I was in love with the little one so I took it home. I cleaned it, opened it and un-dusted it. This is what I know so far: It has 1MB RAM, one 800 K drive and a 20SC hard disk. The keyboard and mouse are original. I turned it on and the speakers worked, the screen turned on, and the mouse worked. The monitor shows the disk drawing with the question mark blinking. As above, the question mark on a disk is saying "I can't find an operating system." A fairly common failure of those hard disks was called stiction. It was a case of lubricant, or something else, that keeps the platter from spinning after it sits in stopped mode for a long time. Have a close listen and see if you can hear the disk spinning. A fix was to hold the disk in your hand and twist it around a bit. The idea is that the platter has inertia and the sharp motion can get it off center. Unfortunately I don't think you'll get anywhere spinning the whole SE. But then you'll eventually need to take the back off with that special long torx screwdriver anyway. Hmm . You did say you opened it. Are you quite sure the disk drive is still plugged in. There are two connectors, a 50 pin two row job and a four pin Molex that provides +12 and +5 volts to the disk. You didn't say if you had a floppy disk that came with the baby. There is such a thing as a bootable floppy which can be used to start up and install a system on a blank hard drive. -- -> The US of A is getting pelloreid <- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
