Macintoshes... - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

25 Jun 1998

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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