Thank you phreakout for your great answers.
I will crack it open then, replace the battery and clean the RAM connectors with electrical contact cleaner.
When it does boot up, it shows all 4MB available in the about screen, and I can run Clarisworks, slider game etc. without lockups.
Do any UK/Ire users know if Maplins would be the place to go for a replacement PRAM battery?
Null modem may be the way to go, I assume it would have to be a mac 68k compatible (and not a generic PC modem) such that it connected to the modem port? As most of the games and apps I could invisage using are floppy-disk-fittable, modem speed shouldn't be too much of an impediment.
I think later versions of ClarisWorks had a terminal app built in.
I also had a Mac Plus in my mothers attic, which hopefully isn't in landfill :-/
Last I used it before going to university (in 2001 8-o ) the screen had a bad connection (needed tapped on the top left to keep a picture) and I didn't have any 800k floppies. But that's another thread.
I will crack it open then, replace the battery and clean the RAM connectors with electrical contact cleaner.
When it does boot up, it shows all 4MB available in the about screen, and I can run Clarisworks, slider game etc. without lockups.
Do any UK/Ire users know if Maplins would be the place to go for a replacement PRAM battery?
Null modem may be the way to go, I assume it would have to be a mac 68k compatible (and not a generic PC modem) such that it connected to the modem port? As most of the games and apps I could invisage using are floppy-disk-fittable, modem speed shouldn't be too much of an impediment.
I think later versions of ClarisWorks had a terminal app built in.
I also had a Mac Plus in my mothers attic, which hopefully isn't in landfill :-/
Last I used it before going to university (in 2001 8-o ) the screen had a bad connection (needed tapped on the top left to keep a picture) and I didn't have any 800k floppies. But that's another thread.