Hello:
This is my first post here and I am hoping someone will be able to suggest what I should do next. Sometime ago I was given a 180c without a power supply. I am not a Mac person but something about this unit kept me from chucking it. Instead I put it away and forgot about it. A few days ago I found a low-current charger @ 7.5VDC with the correct plug. After 24 hours on it there was enough oomph in the battery to get it to boot up. Unfortunately there is password protection and I can do no more.
The security is DiskLock, David Shayer 1988-91, Performance Improvement, Cooper & Lybrand if it matters. What I would like to do is reformat the hard-drive and install a new operating system. I don't however know enough about the operation of these to go any further. If this was your machine, what would you do next? I would truly like to get it up and running with some sort of writing program and use it as a text-only machine. It may sound odd but I really want to type on it. That is getting a bit ahead of things however.
I will greatly appreciate any advice or insight at all on this.
This is my first post here and I am hoping someone will be able to suggest what I should do next. Sometime ago I was given a 180c without a power supply. I am not a Mac person but something about this unit kept me from chucking it. Instead I put it away and forgot about it. A few days ago I found a low-current charger @ 7.5VDC with the correct plug. After 24 hours on it there was enough oomph in the battery to get it to boot up. Unfortunately there is password protection and I can do no more.
The security is DiskLock, David Shayer 1988-91, Performance Improvement, Cooper & Lybrand if it matters. What I would like to do is reformat the hard-drive and install a new operating system. I don't however know enough about the operation of these to go any further. If this was your machine, what would you do next? I would truly like to get it up and running with some sort of writing program and use it as a text-only machine. It may sound odd but I really want to type on it. That is getting a bit ahead of things however.
I will greatly appreciate any advice or insight at all on this.