At 7:16 PM -0400 5/5/02, Scott Holder wrote: >At 12:06 AM 5/6/2002 +0100, you wrote: >>I have just aquired one of these machine's and can some one please help me >>as I have only ever dealt with pc's >>When booting up all that comes on, is an icon of a computer with a smiley >>face, this eventually turn's into a disk with a question mark. >>I guess there is no os installed but the machine came with no disks. > >Since you get the Happy Mac (technical term for it) first, there's probably >something there, just not functional.
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