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Re: Help With Time in a Bottle
julian814 wrote:
Linards Ticmanis wrote:
Kirk Mitchell wrote:
Sounds like they've used At Ease as access control. Shift booting
won't get past that. You'll have to start the Mac with a System CD or
floppy.
Look on http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html for a
System Disk...I don't know how you'd unpack the darned things without a
Mac already though.
Of course if it's a standard SCSI hard disk in there, you could always
attach the disk to another computer that has a SCSI controller and
speaks HFS (Linux knows HFS, for example). Then you can simply delete
the stuff.
I'm afraid the other computers I have are either Apple// or Windows
machines, so that's out. Sounds like an awful lot of work, as well.
The hard disk pops right out, so that's easy. And once you connect
up the cables on a system that can read it--like another Mac ;-)--
deleting the At Ease stuff is trivial.
Did some more tinkering with it and found out a few things. It is
indeed running At Ease version 3.0.3, which I can't disable from the
finder without knowing the Administrative account password. It's
running OS 7.6.1, which is what I wouldn't mind using. It also has
Netscape Navigator 4.0, but when I try to run it, the computer hangs.
Probably a network configuration issue--again requiring admin
privileges.
Found out the school that used to own the computer, going to try to
contact them to see if they can tell me the password, but it looks like
I'm going to have to find and reload the system software. Any help
would be greatly appreciated.
It's really worth it to find out how to regain control of the system
and save yourself the other trouble.
-michael
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