On Tuesday, 17 July 2018 10:37:59 UTC+10, Pete wrote:yeah it was
512x364...also just tried all 15 variations.
Did you turn the Mac off while changing the DIP switches?
The Mac only "reads" the type of monitor connected when it is turned on.
If you change the switches on the fly, or change
On Thursday, 21 June 2018 10:28:59 UTC+10, Clark Martin wrote:
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> Check the PRAM battery or try simply removing it.
>
Yes. The Macs of that era were known for doing exactly what yours is doing
when the PRAM battery is on the way out. Just disconnect the battery and
the Mac will probably
On Wednesday, 16 May 2018 20:42:44 UTC+10, superstar64 wrote:
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> It's not necessarily just an SE thing. I wouldn't recommend anything later
> than early System 7 on any 68000 Macintosh...
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Yes: I've run 7.0.1 on my Mac Portable (68000, but Mac SE clock speed x 2)
for over 25 years. For the
I agre with superstar64. System 6.0.7 (or 6.0.8) would be a sweet spot for
a Mac SE. Pretty stable and nice snappy performance. System 7.0.1 would
work well, but is a bit "laggy" on the SE.
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I quite liked the Centris 650 back in the day. It was reasonably quick for
its time and had (IIRC) 3 x Nubus slot. I used one as a server back in the
day - a job that it did very capably (File server + FileMaker Pro).
The IIvx was one of those machines that looked great in the pre-sales
Pull your internal drive out. Take a photo of the jumpers with your
smartphone in case you change the wrong ones and need to put it back.
It should have a group of jumpers to set the SCSI ID. The PCB screen
printing will say something like ID0, ID1, ID2 or AD0, AD1, AD2... you get
the idea.
Open the "Startup Disk" control panel and select your regular boot drive.
Reboot.
On Friday, 30 March 2018 05:33:23 UTC+11, Tim Slot wrote:
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> Hi guys,
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> I'm still getting to know the inns and outs of my newly acquired Mac
> Classic. I tried booting it from ROM via the cmd-opt-x-o combo
