Yeah I definitely understand that. I recall Windows machines grew up on the days of MS-DOS and other command line based OSs. So keyboard control was important and retained even in more modern operating systems.
The Macintosh emphasized a mouse driven GUI environment that is simpliar and easily used by more people thus making it marketable to a greater crowd where command line based systems of the time was too complicated to be used in a practical manner by the masses. So it's no surprise the old MacOS software didn't allow one to do much with just a keyboard.
The vintage Macintoshes were literally a different species of computers back then and the reason why I liked them so much. Apple still makes computers, but they are x86 Intel based machines now, so a lot of the charm of having different hard-ware was lost, so I never had an interest in the newer macs.
I suppose I'll just have to wait till I have a mouse before I can find out 100% if this drive is dead or not. Unfortunately this means I'd either have the choice of getting the mouse first (and wait for it to arrive in the mail) to see if the drive is savable or not, or just get another hard-drive with the mouse at the same time and risk having 2 working drives and realize that I had wasted my money.
It's starting to look more like this drive really is dead. But there is that tiny chance that Lido could format it and it would be usable. But alas, I almost got there.
I got a little creative with ResEdit and modified some of the menu options to have command key shortcuts (I did all of this in an emulator on my PC and transferred the result to my boot floppy). I assigned Command+K to the "Maximum Mac Setup" menu option in the Partition Menu.
I assume this does the same thing as what the format button would have done. Only this would LFF it and partition it in one go for me. But alas, the confirmation dialog (the warning message that this would destroy existing data) has the default button as the Cancel button. So pressing enter on the keyboard would activate the Cancel button.
I have yet to find a way to edit the program to where I could use enter to activate the Ok button instead. Thus I'm stuck till I get a mouse. Which drives me insane being how a single dialog has gotten in the way of doing what I had wanted to do. I got so close yet a single button has trolled me.
The Macintosh emphasized a mouse driven GUI environment that is simpliar and easily used by more people thus making it marketable to a greater crowd where command line based systems of the time was too complicated to be used in a practical manner by the masses. So it's no surprise the old MacOS software didn't allow one to do much with just a keyboard.
The vintage Macintoshes were literally a different species of computers back then and the reason why I liked them so much. Apple still makes computers, but they are x86 Intel based machines now, so a lot of the charm of having different hard-ware was lost, so I never had an interest in the newer macs.
I suppose I'll just have to wait till I have a mouse before I can find out 100% if this drive is dead or not. Unfortunately this means I'd either have the choice of getting the mouse first (and wait for it to arrive in the mail) to see if the drive is savable or not, or just get another hard-drive with the mouse at the same time and risk having 2 working drives and realize that I had wasted my money.
It's starting to look more like this drive really is dead. But there is that tiny chance that Lido could format it and it would be usable. But alas, I almost got there.
I got a little creative with ResEdit and modified some of the menu options to have command key shortcuts (I did all of this in an emulator on my PC and transferred the result to my boot floppy). I assigned Command+K to the "Maximum Mac Setup" menu option in the Partition Menu.
I assume this does the same thing as what the format button would have done. Only this would LFF it and partition it in one go for me. But alas, the confirmation dialog (the warning message that this would destroy existing data) has the default button as the Cancel button. So pressing enter on the keyboard would activate the Cancel button.
I have yet to find a way to edit the program to where I could use enter to activate the Ok button instead. Thus I'm stuck till I get a mouse. Which drives me insane being how a single dialog has gotten in the way of doing what I had wanted to do. I got so close yet a single button has trolled me.