The Macintosh 512k just arrived!!!
It's in awesome condition. Sadly, although they included a keyboard and mouse, they seem to have omitted the keyboard cable. I'll dig around for one of those on eBay.
I have a few pictures, a few comments, and as always, a few questions.
Here's the Mac 512k at different angles:
And, while I'm here snapping pictures, here's all my other computers:
They included a few software disks as well. I checked Macfaq.org's serial number decoder, and found this particular Mac to be 24 years old, incidentally making it my oldest computer.
Before they shipped it, I asked them to stick a random floppy disk in the drive to protect the read/write head (as I've had a few problems with the floppy drives in my SEs, I thought it wise to take precautions this time). When I unpacked the Mac, however (which was shipped in its original box, by the way), the floppy disk they stuck in was sticking out. So I pushed it back in, and it bounced right back.
Hence my questions. The Mac 512k is a completely new ball game for me. In a bit I'm going to prepare a boot disk for it and turn it on, but before I do, I need to make sure I know as much as I can.
So first of all, how does the floppy drive work? Is the disk supposed to bounce back if you push it in? How do I get it to stay?
Secondly, is there any special way to turn it on, or do I just turn it on, wait for the :?: prompt, and then insert my boot disk?
Also, how do I run different programs if there's one drive? Does each program include bootable software, or do I put in the system disk in, eject it, and then a program disk?
And, finally...the battery is AA?!?! Really? I mean, really?
Hope I didn't overwhelm anyone with my questions, but this is the best place to ask them...
All the best,
-Apostrophe
It's in awesome condition. Sadly, although they included a keyboard and mouse, they seem to have omitted the keyboard cable. I'll dig around for one of those on eBay.
I have a few pictures, a few comments, and as always, a few questions.
Here's the Mac 512k at different angles:
And, while I'm here snapping pictures, here's all my other computers:
They included a few software disks as well. I checked Macfaq.org's serial number decoder, and found this particular Mac to be 24 years old, incidentally making it my oldest computer.
Before they shipped it, I asked them to stick a random floppy disk in the drive to protect the read/write head (as I've had a few problems with the floppy drives in my SEs, I thought it wise to take precautions this time). When I unpacked the Mac, however (which was shipped in its original box, by the way), the floppy disk they stuck in was sticking out. So I pushed it back in, and it bounced right back.
Hence my questions. The Mac 512k is a completely new ball game for me. In a bit I'm going to prepare a boot disk for it and turn it on, but before I do, I need to make sure I know as much as I can.
So first of all, how does the floppy drive work? Is the disk supposed to bounce back if you push it in? How do I get it to stay?
Secondly, is there any special way to turn it on, or do I just turn it on, wait for the :?: prompt, and then insert my boot disk?
Also, how do I run different programs if there's one drive? Does each program include bootable software, or do I put in the system disk in, eject it, and then a program disk?
And, finally...the battery is AA?!?! Really? I mean, really?
Hope I didn't overwhelm anyone with my questions, but this is the best place to ask them...
All the best,
-Apostrophe