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I just got a Macintosh Plus from a friend. The thing is old as sin, and I can't get it to run. It comes up with a little screen that has a 3.5 floppy disc on it with a blinking qustion mark. Any sugestions?
It is almost for sure that the mac does not have a harddrive that little blinking disk is a prompt asking for a system boot disk. Look around for a boot disk. Maybe try ebay?
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Response Number 2
Name: AUSer Date: June 3, 2001 at 14:53:03 Pacific
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Here is the good news, you can make your own boot disks.
The Bad News, the Mac Plus needs an external SCSI hard disk, as joey said above, try ebay to find an old hd.
Summary: Hi, I got an old Macintosh Plus 1mb. It also has an external hard drive. Not that I think that matters. What I am wondering is how I can move files from my Macintosh Plus to my Windows, and vice versa...
Summary: I don't know anyting about mac's at all. A friend gave me an old macintosh plus 1mb and I'd like to get it working. Everytime I turn it on I get a flashing disk with a ? in it. I have the external ...
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