Hi,
For the first time in several years, I have unpacked my very old friend the Macintosh SE. We have moved house and I no longer have space to store her, so must put her up for sale. A very sad day!
She helped me earn my living for a long time, and we travelled several thousand miles together - Mac in her “luggable” padded blue MacBag, where she has lived these many years. I also have the original box she arrived in and all her diskettes - OS Install / tidbits / printing / fonts / disk tools / quick time / utilities / system tools plus Word 5.1 plus Norton Utilities plus Compuserve Information Manager V2.3 plus fax modem plus some appletalk? leads / connectors. I suspect that some apparent duplicate diskettes were for a system update 3.
But the even sadder news is that - for the first time ever - she has let me down. I switched her on full of anticipation, heard her old familiar “boing” (so much quicker than today’s Mac!) and my heart sang! And then – the dreaded question mark! Could she be sulking at my inattention for so long? How does one react to a lady in that frame of mind?
After a couple of minutes I inserted her Install Disk 1, and she changed her question mark into a diskette icon on which an X intermittently appears. I tried pressing the switches on the left hand side - forgotten what they should do, but they had no effect. And there matters now rest.
I don’t have the special screwdriver my old technician needed to open up an SE, and even if I did, I wouldn’t know what to do then. Please, does anybody have any suggestions?
Her vital statistics are Model M5011, 1MByte RAM, 800k Drive, 20 SC Hard Drive.
johnboy
For the first time in several years, I have unpacked my very old friend the Macintosh SE. We have moved house and I no longer have space to store her, so must put her up for sale. A very sad day!
She helped me earn my living for a long time, and we travelled several thousand miles together - Mac in her “luggable” padded blue MacBag, where she has lived these many years. I also have the original box she arrived in and all her diskettes - OS Install / tidbits / printing / fonts / disk tools / quick time / utilities / system tools plus Word 5.1 plus Norton Utilities plus Compuserve Information Manager V2.3 plus fax modem plus some appletalk? leads / connectors. I suspect that some apparent duplicate diskettes were for a system update 3.
But the even sadder news is that - for the first time ever - she has let me down. I switched her on full of anticipation, heard her old familiar “boing” (so much quicker than today’s Mac!) and my heart sang! And then – the dreaded question mark! Could she be sulking at my inattention for so long? How does one react to a lady in that frame of mind?
After a couple of minutes I inserted her Install Disk 1, and she changed her question mark into a diskette icon on which an X intermittently appears. I tried pressing the switches on the left hand side - forgotten what they should do, but they had no effect. And there matters now rest.
I don’t have the special screwdriver my old technician needed to open up an SE, and even if I did, I wouldn’t know what to do then. Please, does anybody have any suggestions?
Her vital statistics are Model M5011, 1MByte RAM, 800k Drive, 20 SC Hard Drive.
johnboy