Mac Portable SadMac

From: Michael Maginnis <celt_at_chisp.net>
Date: Fri Aug 25 14:38:11 2000

I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction with this one...

I recently picked up this beast at a local yard sale. The owner said it
had been sitting in his attic for the past seven or eight years; when I
powered it on, all I could get was the blinking question mark in a disk
graphic, indicating that the machine couldn't find an operating system (I
believe).

After a few hours of net-research, I learned that the internal battery
needed to be charged up before the hard drive (Conner 40M drive) would spin
up. So, after charging for several hours, I tried again, only to be
greeted almost immediately with the 'Sad Mac' icon and the following code
below it:

0010 1B10
0000 1FFA

A visit to Apple's Tech Info Library turned up an article on the codes
(number 7748 for those interested), but was clearly meant as a general
overview rather than to address specific failures.

Once the internal battery charged, I could hear the whine of the Connor
spinning up, but that's as far as it gets.

/mpm
Received on Fri Aug 25 2000 - 14:38:11 BST