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Post #5 by Dog Cow
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateTue, 24 Mar 2009 - 20:40
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/a-notable-apple-ii-mac-donation.16951/
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The IIe has a built-in self test. One website suggests that you access it by pressing control, solid-apple, reset (though I thought it was solid-apple, hollow-apple, reset). I'm not sure how indepth it is, but it may help you find the problem.
It fails. It's supposed to print something like KERNEL OK, but mine doesn't. It says

Code:
RAN:
and just stops.

Quite frankly though, the Apple gear sounds boring. (And yes, this is from an Apple II enthusiast.)
I don't know. I haven't really gone into big detail about all of what I got. I've taken photos of it all, but have not cataloged anything yet. I got a big zip bag which I think was for the //c. I can't find any photos of it on the Internet, but this guy had literally 5 or 6 of them, so he gave me one when I noted, "Looks interesting," and he just handed me one. I mostly got a big load of Apple II manuals and a few 5.25" disks when it came down to the Apple II portion. I like manuals though, sometimes even more than getting hardware or software, because there's a lot to learn from reading them. They're comprehensive and authoritative, something you can't find on the Internet. I want to learn to program something useful, and the bulk of the books are Apple programming manuals. I need another bookshelf.
The Mac gear though sounds intensely interesting since pre-System 6 and pre-Mac Plus era stuff seems to be scarce these days. What sort of stuff did you get on those MFS floppies?
A lot, and I suspect most all of it is rare and desirable, but this might make you cry: one of the disks is an original, 1984 Macintosh System Disk. I popped it into my Mac Classic to have a laugh and try to boot off it. It worked twice, and a few hours later, every utility and OS I have reports it as unreadable... even to this day. I suspect some little flakes of magnetic media came off. I'm not too worried about it, anyway, since I'm sure there are already people who have made disk images of it, so since the disk has the original label, I could just rewrite it with an image from the Internet. The majority of the disks with systems on them have 1.1g, with a few newer ones (mostly just the 800k disks) having Finder 4.x or 5.x. I've found one disk which has System 1.0, and the date says 24 Jan 84. I've also made sure to lock all the disks before putting them in the Mac Classic, and I don't ever plan on unlocking them, unless in an extreme case.

I've taken photos of all the disks (not individually, though, going to do that later) and I have archived them. I will release a full list of what I got sometime later.

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