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Thank you -- this was a Mac II (with 2MB ram) with A/UX installed on the hard drive in 1988 August, so it was likely an early version of A/UX; does this suggest the floppies were likely to be formatted UFS?

Hi All, I have a handful of old A/UX floppies from the late 80's. And I have a USB 3.5 floppy drive which works with Mac floppies in Basilisk. I want to know if there is a way I can mount these AU/X floppies on a modern OS, linux perhaps?  Any info is appreciated. Thank you!

thanks for reply.

yes! I got battery dead, floppy dead, HD dead, all at the same time.

Yes, the little microswitch sensor which detects write-protected has this little piece of metal missing. So that explains why I couldn't format a floppy. Of course now that my HD is dead, I cannot test formatting a floppy by forceably holding down the switch with a small screwdriver or something.

Thanks for the excellent reply, I will check it in more detail later tonight.

I ordered a replacement drive, model APPLE 661-0345 however what I received in mail was: Sony model MP-F51W-23 My Mac II running 7.1 with this drive cannot read any of my old 800k floppies. See picts. Does anyone know what the problem is? Did I get the wrong drive? Thanks very much I hope...

thanks [8D] now I have to figure out where to purchase a replacement HD.

I hope you're right. I would hate to live with the possibility I ruined my 80MB (circa 1988) HD by flipping it upside down and using it while in the midst of fixing the battery issue.

So here's what I did. I wired 2 AA batteries to one of the batteries and this allowed the computer to boot. Amazing. So it boots, and everything is actually fine. The OS 7.1 comes up and I explore. Now, I had flipped the large hard drive on it's back, so it was running upside down. Worked...

Hi everyone, Well the subject line says it. No chime, no nothing. Quiet as a mouse. Last time I booted it was > 4 years ago and it worked fine. My questions are the following: 1) will dead batteries really prevent Mac II from booting? 2) I have my B/W monitor power cable connected via the...