It works fine but it wont shut off from the selection on the screen. I need to flip the switch. Any suggestions?
Mac 128k shut down problem
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Oh ok thx
Also note that really early versions of the OS don't actually display the "your macintosh can now be switched off" box, they just eject any floppies and restart. So if you're at the flashing question mark icon, you can also turn off the machine there.
Almost but not quite precisely true!
Really early versions of the OS didn’t have either option. In Finder 1.0, the Special menu included “Clean Up”, “Empty Trash”, and “Erase Disk”. “Set Startup” was introduced later in 1984 with Finder 1.1g (the first version I personally used back then). If you wanted to turn off your Mac, you just turned it off.
The idea that you should eject your disks and restart your Mac when you’re done with it was formalized in Finder 4.1 (1985), but the menu item to do that was called “Shut Down”, not Restart. (The MiniFinder was introduced at the same time. I remember thinking Finder 4.1 was super cool as a 10-year-old.)
Later, I believe in 1987 when the Mac II with soft power was introduced, that menu item was more appropriately renamed “Restart”, and the proper “Shut Down” option was added.
(My memory for the above was jogged by this great list: https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Finder_versions)
Really early versions of the OS didn’t have either option. In Finder 1.0, the Special menu included “Clean Up”, “Empty Trash”, and “Erase Disk”. “Set Startup” was introduced later in 1984 with Finder 1.1g (the first version I personally used back then). If you wanted to turn off your Mac, you just turned it off.
The idea that you should eject your disks and restart your Mac when you’re done with it was formalized in Finder 4.1 (1985), but the menu item to do that was called “Shut Down”, not Restart. (The MiniFinder was introduced at the same time. I remember thinking Finder 4.1 was super cool as a 10-year-old.)
Later, I believe in 1987 when the Mac II with soft power was introduced, that menu item was more appropriately renamed “Restart”, and the proper “Shut Down” option was added.
(My memory for the above was jogged by this great list: https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Finder_versions)
As someone used to System 6 and later, that didn't half confuse me when I was using my dad's Plus running an older System. Especially irritating when you have a hard disk.
