Hi all, newbie here with an interest in classic macs 
After having had to give up my old mac collection prior to moving out into a small house (beige G3, LC 475 and Classic, with a multi-switched VGA adaptor and previously a trinitron 19" apple CRT), I recently obtained a Classic 2 to celebrate moving again into a bigger house with a proper computer room :b&w:
First impressions are that visually it is virtually indistinguishable from the classic, the only giveaways being a circular pattern of holes for the speakers (much needed as I recall the classic's sound being muffled).
It doesn't seem overly yellowed, has a fresh grey-ish look to it.
On booting, it will show a zebra crossing pattern. If I leave it half an hour, it will show a diagonally striped grey wallpaper.
On physically restarting, it will usually show the diagonally striped grey wallpaper and play an 8 note death chime.
Usually after 2 or 3 reboots it will get to the desktop. The date is set to 1956. I assume that this is a sign that the PRAM battery has gone?
I read in the service manual that this requires removing the memory board from the motherboard, a few connectors and the battery should be replaceable?
When I get to the desktop, all is well, it has 4mb RAM (a huge amount for a classic compact mac in my opinion!) and a 40mb HDD. Installed is System 7 and ClarisWorks 1 (a useful application and one I remember fondly from IT classes in school ).
Unfortunately my disk with my classic games on is now unreadable.
I can obtain games and use VMac and a Pentium 2 laptop with a floppy drive to get the games onto the mac. Is there a way of networking classic macs to a network drive such that the mac itself could obtain the .sit files?
I can use a G4 Mini, the P2 laptop with FAT32, Linux box etc.
Cheers!
After having had to give up my old mac collection prior to moving out into a small house (beige G3, LC 475 and Classic, with a multi-switched VGA adaptor and previously a trinitron 19" apple CRT), I recently obtained a Classic 2 to celebrate moving again into a bigger house with a proper computer room :b&w:
First impressions are that visually it is virtually indistinguishable from the classic, the only giveaways being a circular pattern of holes for the speakers (much needed as I recall the classic's sound being muffled).
It doesn't seem overly yellowed, has a fresh grey-ish look to it.
On booting, it will show a zebra crossing pattern. If I leave it half an hour, it will show a diagonally striped grey wallpaper.
On physically restarting, it will usually show the diagonally striped grey wallpaper and play an 8 note death chime.
Usually after 2 or 3 reboots it will get to the desktop. The date is set to 1956. I assume that this is a sign that the PRAM battery has gone?
I read in the service manual that this requires removing the memory board from the motherboard, a few connectors and the battery should be replaceable?
When I get to the desktop, all is well, it has 4mb RAM (a huge amount for a classic compact mac in my opinion!) and a 40mb HDD. Installed is System 7 and ClarisWorks 1 (a useful application and one I remember fondly from IT classes in school
).Unfortunately my disk with my classic games on is now unreadable.
I can obtain games and use VMac and a Pentium 2 laptop with a floppy drive to get the games onto the mac. Is there a way of networking classic macs to a network drive such that the mac itself could obtain the .sit files?
I can use a G4 Mini, the P2 laptop with FAT32, Linux box etc.
Cheers!