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Mac Classic II issues
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Mac Classic II issues
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Mac Classic II issues
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I have Iomega Driver version 4.2 System Extension, this worked great in my Mac Classic and PowerBook 180. It is in a zip archive, which expands to a HQX file. Open that with StuffIt expander and the .sit file will have the driver inside. The reaso...
Yeah, you need a minimum of System 7.0.1 to boot the Classic II. If you want, I'll make a batch of floppies with System 7.0.1 on it for you and send them to you in the mail. Just send me a private message with your address and I'll get them out pr...
The mac plus will run a System 6.0.x, a Classic II needs 7.0.1 at least, that may be why.
i also have a mac plus, james was so kind as to send me a boot disk for that but when i tried those disks on the classic II i just got the x inside the disk icon
I agree :-)
You don't need a driver then; if the system is on the zip-disk, press shift-opt-cmd-DEL to start !
Russell, what other Retro Macs do you have available? Any that have a 1.4mb floppy drive and are on the Internet? If so, you can download the disk images of System 7 from Apple's web site and use Disk Copy to write the disk images to new floppies....
i do have a scsi 100mb zip drive but no way to get the driver it needs on the computer
I second the idea about running from removable media. I had two hard drives fail last week a 40mb and a 80mb. I think the best way to go is Zip, they are fast and quiet. The 100mb of storage should be sufficient for the system and a good selection...
Since a Classic II doesn't absolutely need an internal, many other external SCSI drives will do,
Most elegant is something as in Damian Ward's wonderful combination here:
http://retromaccast.ning.com/photo/photo/show?id=1672786%3APhoto%3A45968
The...
what could i replace it with or where would i find something that isnt equally as old and likely to fail?
I know what you mean. That will usually do.
But I don't think the original disks are really worth keeping (in there), so why not replacing it ?
Classic II's are notoriously bad in my experience. I think you'll find you hard disk may be OK, does it "spin up".
Drives suffer an issue called "stiction" after old age and not being used. The common repair method i use it to remove the drive an...
If this were an SE with a FDHD, this would work. But the Plus only had an 800k drive, and it had/has a special characteristic that modern USB drives do not: variable spindle speed based on what track they're on (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoned_...
Russell, you can do all this on your Intel Mac, but you'll need an external USB Floppy drive to do the job.
Step 1: Hook the drive up to your Intel Mac via usb.
Step 2: Go to Apple's web site and surf around in the support area for the old softwa...
Strange. You might delete it in iTunes and download again. I have had no other reports of problems and it works fine on my iPhone.
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- When did you get your first Mac?
- 2006
- How many Macs do you own?
- 5
- Where do you live?
- boston
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