Make sure you have the appropriate network extension installed! Since your Ethernet card is an Apple one, you just need the Apple Ethernet LC extension which can be found here.

OK... i have OS 9.2.2 running on my imac. how can i get the iMac to appear in the chooser of the LC III, or connect to the iMac? I am running the 7.5 Network Access Disk.

Here's the download for MIDIgraphy from Harmony Central: http://www.harmony-central.com/Software/Mac/midigraphy.html

Update: Installed a lean version of 7.5.3, now to replace those leaky gross caps on the logic board. Bleh.

There's a shareware sequencer called MIDIgraphy that IIRC will run on System 7. Searching these forums for MIDI will reveal other clues.

Screw the keyboard - Timbuktu it. }

Yes, yes, you could.

Or you could just buy/find a keyboard. Head onto your local Freecycle and ask for an old ADB keyboard. Click to expand... ... Or i could just head onto Freecycle and ask for…

Or you could just buy/find a keyboard. Head onto your local Freecycle and ask for an old ADB keyboard.

the imac is running OS X, and i have no keyboard. i could put Key Caps on a floppy....

I can't tell from the other side of the world...can you access the iMac from the LCIII?

i can select EtherTalk and the activity LED blinks a bunch. does it have the right drivers?

Yeah, it will. You'll want to make sure you've got the correct drivers for your ethernet card on it however.

Ok I finally used what little knowledge of UNIX I have to figure out what I was doing wrong and make a proper boot disk. Thanks to JRL for helping me get my computer to boot up ag…

Would a system 7.5 Network Access Disk work? i'm dd-ing one now.

I mean I did exactly what the procedure in the link I posted above told me to do. It seemed to work fine, no error messages were displayed. What am I doing wrong?

What machine are you installing 7.1 on, and do you have another old Mac to verify the network disk you made? Pretty much any Mac that came with a floppy drive will boot from the 7.…

OK... i'm really not looking foreword to all of those disk swaps. would it be possible to install from my iMac via a network? Click to expand... Network installs work for most …

OK... i'm really not looking foreword to all of those disk swaps. would it be possible to install from my iMac via a network?

formatting a floppy took 10 minutes! like... 10kbps slow. 512kbps isnt slow...

So I had to just turn the machine off before the install finished and now when I boot up I get the old "The 'System' file on this startup disk may be damaged. The Installer can be …

Wow... i didnt know floppies were so slow... Click to expand... 500kbps slow? Sheesh, back in my day.....

Wow... i didnt know floppies were so slow... Formatting... Verifing format... Re-Verifying format...

An alternative to 7.1.1 is 7.5.3 (freely available from Apple; no need to download an unauthorized OS release of dodgy ancestry). If the size bothers you, just use Gamba's "digital…

Where did your "Programs" disk come from? Scribbling the word "Programs" on a disk with a crayon isn't going to fool it.