At 09:42 PM 6/24/98 -0400, you wrote:
>'original' style of apple mouse. My question is whether this will work
DE-9 connector? Won't work with the classic. Ya need on with a round,
4-pin connector, about the size of a PS/2 keyboard connector.
>BTW - another question -- when the Mac Classic boots, it shows the smiley
>disk and I hear the internal HD working. The screen goes light grey with
>a pointer on it. This is displayed for a few seconds and then I get the
>'Welcome to Macintosh' screen.
So far so good. Sounds like the machine works.
>This remains this way for as much as 10
>minutes (I didn't wait longer). Is this normal? Have I simply not
Not normal at all. Most likely, you have a drive with a missing or
incomplete operating system on it. Your best bet is to find a local Mac
user group (or friendly mac user) and get them to make a copy of the OS
disks (v. 7.0 or 6.0.8). You can then boot from those disks and reinstall
the OS.
>allowed the system adequate time to boot to a user screen? (I'm used to
>an RT system which boots in about 30-45 seconds, depending on amount of
>memory).
The Mac should do about the same, again depending on the amount of memory
and the number of plug-ins it loads.
>one causes the 'Welcome to Macintosh' screen to go away and be replaced
>by one which lookes the same (banner background) but with a '>' sign...
Debugger. Dunno any more than that, I'm an applications programmer. 8^)
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Received on Thu Jun 25 1998 - 12:27:41 BST