"Lonely Mac Syndrome" was a phrase I coined, tongue-in-cheek, to describe this machine's odd behavior (also in initial post).
Essentially, as long as I was working in a program, everything was fine, but literally if I left it for several minutes, I would come back to find the cursor locked up. Any attempt to click, etc. would cause a rectangle to appear onscreen, with each subsequent click or clicks producing addition rectangles inscribed within the previous one. Nothing to do then but reboot.
Now, last night I had hoped that using 6.0.8 (like you, I prefer system 6) on the hard drive, as opposed to floppy, might work, but no luck. So, I went back and installed 7.0.1 on hard drive and voila, everything is working!
So you are exactly right, it is/was a software problem, the OS! Perhaps the image from Apple is compromised somehow, because I have had this happen with multiple disks all using the same 6.0.8 image. If I could find a 1.4M image of 6.0.5 or 6.0.3 I would try that, but I can't image 800k floppies on my peecee. If it is a bad image file, I wonder if others are having the same problem and just giving up like I almost did?
cseals3
Essentially, as long as I was working in a program, everything was fine, but literally if I left it for several minutes, I would come back to find the cursor locked up. Any attempt to click, etc. would cause a rectangle to appear onscreen, with each subsequent click or clicks producing addition rectangles inscribed within the previous one. Nothing to do then but reboot.
Now, last night I had hoped that using 6.0.8 (like you, I prefer system 6) on the hard drive, as opposed to floppy, might work, but no luck. So, I went back and installed 7.0.1 on hard drive and voila, everything is working!
So you are exactly right, it is/was a software problem, the OS! Perhaps the image from Apple is compromised somehow, because I have had this happen with multiple disks all using the same 6.0.8 image. If I could find a 1.4M image of 6.0.5 or 6.0.3 I would try that, but I can't image 800k floppies on my peecee. If it is a bad image file, I wonder if others are having the same problem and just giving up like I almost did?
cseals3