Re: Apple LC3 ---Help!!?

[derobert@erols.com (Anthony DeRobertis)]

In article <358edc8d.13308502@news.kijfhoek.nl.net>,
s.lartibartfast@inter.nl.net wrote:

>Hello, Maybe this isn't the right grouup for this, but I don't know
>where else to turn to.
>
>A friend of mine recently bought an Apple LC-III, for almost nothing.
>
>He has been toying with it, and liked it very much.
>And, to be honest,so did I.
>I wish M$ had taken a better look at this OS, instead of copying the
>user-interface from OS/2.
>
>There were obviously a couple of questions, such as;
>
>What is the latest version OS for this thingy? 7.5.3?
>And where to get it?

7.6.1 is the latest.

>
>What kind of cable is needed for the scsi-connector at the back?
>Pinouts?

Standard 25-pin SCSI cable. I'm not sure where you can get the specs for that.

>
>There seems to only one sim-adapter, the other one is slightly
>different. What kind of connector is this, and what kind of memory can
>be placed in the sim-slot?

72-pin 80(?)ns SIMMs. The other slot is a processor direct slot, for
expansion cards. Also, there may be a slot for VRAM.

>
>My friend has been fiddling a bit to much as it seems, for he can't
>start the machine anymore.
>All he gets is a black screen.

When he turns it on, does it play a startup chime?

>
>Is there something like a bios in this machine that can be altered?
>If so, how can one acces this?

There is a parameter RAM, and it can be altered with various control
panels. To reset it, hold down command-option-p-r while turning it on.

>
>He hasn't got anything like a start-up disk, so there is a big
>problem. If I could find a site where I could download a OS, I
>wouldn't be able to place this on a disk the mac would understand, as
>I am using a dos-based computer, or am I wrong?

You would not be able to. However, if you get a copy of 7.6.1, you'll get
a startup disk.

>
>I appologize for the poor English, it is not my native language.

It was readable (unlike some other posts <g>)

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