Sounds like a hard drive failure.
I'm on my second Classic II, which runs continually to turn on and
off my lights in various rooms. It can turn on my stereo if I so
wish. I've been doing home automation since 1998 and the first
Classic I had back then I paid $100 for it, just to be able to do the
home automation. We have birds and when we're gone it's nice to have
it so they have some light. Is it worth the money? Well, it's fun to
do so I've continued to do this. And yes, I could do the same thing
on my G5, or buy the timers for every light I want to come on
automatically, but..... I chose to utilize the Classic II.
Nanc
On Oct 22, 2005, at 10:35 PM, Kichigai Mentat wrote:
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Hello. I currently own a partially functioning Mac Classic II. When
I say "partially functioning," it boots until I see the Happy Mac,
then it's a disk with a blinking icon.
However, before I even attempt to repair this thing, I'm wondering
if there is some kind of purpose I could put the Classic II to. If
I can't come up with a use, I might as well find some collector or
someone who actually knows what they're doing, rather than
investing my rather inexperienced effort, time and money, into a
project that has a high probability for failure.
I am currently running Mac System 7 on the Classic II (or was), and
was, for a while, quite interested in attempting to run Linux on
the machine. Aside from experimenting with Linux 68k, I really
can't come up with many other purposes. Anything I could do with my
Classic II, I can do with much less pain on my iBook (when I say
pain, I mean getting things on and off the Classic, as I have no
USB floppy drive, and only the family computer has a floppy drive).
So, can anyone suggest some purpose or reason that I should risk
attempting to revive this relic, aside from nostalgia? Thank you
for your help.
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