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  1. MacSE

    Is my Macintosh SE's floppy drive working?

    When I received the boot disk in the mail, I put it in and the machine booted off the disk. It displayed a flickering Welcome to Macintosh and remained stuck. I thought the disk drive needed to be cleaned with compressed air, and restarted the computer. The computer tried to eject the floppy and...
  2. MacSE

    Is my Macintosh SE's floppy drive working?

    I rebooted the computer and the drive made some noises. It looks normal now. Hopefully it stays that way when I put in the boot disk!
  3. MacSE

    Is my Macintosh SE's floppy drive working?

    I pushed a paperclip into the hole while the mac was powered off and saw the metal bar lift upwards. I actually was faster than the mac at realizing the OS was wrong, and just pulled out the disk.
  4. MacSE

    Is my Macintosh SE's floppy drive working?

    I recently picked up a Macintosh SE for $5. The hard disk was dead, as I expected. I put in a boot disk and turned the computer back on. However, I soon realized I was using a System 1.1 Boot disk, which is not compatible with the SE. I don't have an ADB mouse/keyboard, only a 128k/512k/Plus...
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