Macdrone
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So I got the Macintosh TV and I am finding oddities that make this machine at its age and what it does super strange.
First how it came. Well packed no power on at all.
Recapped logic board, No change, change button switch as was listed ages ago on an LC board. Now in a 575 it boots. Analog board needs recapped, but I put the analog from the busted up 575 into the Mac TV. The original 160mb hard drive was dead, floppy drive dead, slot load cd rom works.
System without a battery doesnt hold time of course. 8 meg ram is max no matter how much ram you put in. It always tries to start from the hard drive unless the floppy has a bootable system folder. This was hard to put another scsi hard drive in because they all had an incompatible system and was a loop of not being able to use utilities until I found a working floppy drive to put in. 7.1 is bare bones and has no apps. There were no real apps on the Mac TV cd rom. Just system software. I have application floppies, just found it strange.
More to come as I get the remote and play with it some more. 7.1 is ok but putting 7.5 on it at the moment as it didnt have even desktop picture or anything on it.
Its really wierd there is no pds slot, no cpu, no upgrade path at all, other than a motherboard, which would change the back plate and would not be solid black anymore.
First how it came. Well packed no power on at all.
Recapped logic board, No change, change button switch as was listed ages ago on an LC board. Now in a 575 it boots. Analog board needs recapped, but I put the analog from the busted up 575 into the Mac TV. The original 160mb hard drive was dead, floppy drive dead, slot load cd rom works.
System without a battery doesnt hold time of course. 8 meg ram is max no matter how much ram you put in. It always tries to start from the hard drive unless the floppy has a bootable system folder. This was hard to put another scsi hard drive in because they all had an incompatible system and was a loop of not being able to use utilities until I found a working floppy drive to put in. 7.1 is bare bones and has no apps. There were no real apps on the Mac TV cd rom. Just system software. I have application floppies, just found it strange.
More to come as I get the remote and play with it some more. 7.1 is ok but putting 7.5 on it at the moment as it didnt have even desktop picture or anything on it.
Its really wierd there is no pds slot, no cpu, no upgrade path at all, other than a motherboard, which would change the back plate and would not be solid black anymore.