So you all agree that reformatting the hard drive can definitely help. You also agree that I need to use another Mac to connect via LocalTalk, download the operating system, write the 800k floppies, and put them into the SE. But what if I just connected the SE to the internet?
But I probably won't do anything to the SE for a while, not unless I encounter an actual problem. I'm sure that reformatting the drive and doing an OS re-installation would get rid of all the 'software junk' and I'll definitely look into that, but it's really not a problem for me to wait a minute and a half for Microsoft Word to load up. I will, however, try and gradually gather up what is needed to get an OS re-installation. And in the meantime, at the top of my To Do list is looking for 800k/720k floppy disks. I know that they're not quite as common these days, and it might be wise to get them in abundance now to avoid going to extra trouble later.
But thanks for all your help, since I know that it would probably be a good idea sometime to do a re-installation to make it easier for the SE to load programs.
-Apostrophe
But I probably won't do anything to the SE for a while, not unless I encounter an actual problem. I'm sure that reformatting the drive and doing an OS re-installation would get rid of all the 'software junk' and I'll definitely look into that, but it's really not a problem for me to wait a minute and a half for Microsoft Word to load up. I will, however, try and gradually gather up what is needed to get an OS re-installation. And in the meantime, at the top of my To Do list is looking for 800k/720k floppy disks. I know that they're not quite as common these days, and it might be wise to get them in abundance now to avoid going to extra trouble later.
But thanks for all your help, since I know that it would probably be a good idea sometime to do a re-installation to make it easier for the SE to load programs.
-Apostrophe