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| Macintosh 128K used to boot |
Posted by: pterio on 2022-12-16 20:47:07
Hope someone can help.
I acquired 2 new 128K macintosh computers and I boot them both up with an external floppy drive and they booted up just fine without anything plugged in
When I plugged the moue and keyboard in it now doesn't boot with the boot disk . The same thing happened to the other computer as well. So I removed the mouse and booted it up again but it still doesn't work. It reads the disk and then shoots it back out for some reason? The same issue happens on the other computer. It seems as though something happened when I plugged the mouse in. |
Posted by: joshc on 2022-12-16 23:43:56
Did you plug in the mouse/keyboard with the computer switched off?
Which mouse do you have? There’s only one official one compatible. |
Posted by: bibilit on 2022-12-17 00:04:26
Probably not an issue with the kb or mouse.
Likely an issue with the disk, if this is dirty, contamination can stain the head and avoid the boot process. |
Posted by: cheesestraws on 2022-12-17 02:26:34
When you say "doesn't boot", what do you mean? Doesn't do anything? Sad mac? Crash? |
Posted by: pterio on 2023-01-05 20:31:17
Thanks for all your replies, I got it to work with a different boot disk. Seems the boot disk I was using wasn't good. |
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