Re: Help! - Newbie with Apple 11si

["Hellfire" <nospam@dontwantit.net>]

You should be able to upgrade a Iisi all the way to system 7.6, which is
available on Apple's FTP site. You may also want to try posting your
question to a Macintosh newsgroup as well, we are all Apple II users here
(the series of computers before the Macintosh). Try comp.sys.mac.system or
comp.sys.mac.software. Apple will also have lots of documentation for the
machine on their web site in the Tech Info Library. Good luck!

-Regards, Matt

"David Lloyd" <david.lloyd@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I have been given a "Macintosh 11si". I have used a Mac before but
> infrequently and a long time ago. I would now very much like to get into
it
> again - as a change from my PC - and would welcome help from any quarter.
I
> list, below, all details I have found on the machine which I think may be
> relevant:-
>
> Under "About this Macintosh":-
> Macintosh 11si
> System Software B1-7.0.1
>
> Under "Control Panels":-
> Silverlining d2 2.2.1
>  Bus 0: Internal SCSI bus
>  Disk 0: Quantum Lightning 540S
>  Stephens Machine: 253MB in vol; 264MB available
>  Unknown 6: Driver with no device
>  CPU 7: Macintosh 11si
>
> When I click on the item "CPU 7" above, I get a screen as follows:-
>
> Machine Name: Macintosh 11si
> Processor chip: 68030
> ROM version: 67c
> System version: 7.0.1
> Volume size supported: 2GB
> ROM size: 512KB
> Low memory size: 8KB
> Logical RAM size: 34,816KB
> Physical RAM size: 17,408KB
>
> I know that "Stephens Machine" is the previous owners disk and I assume
that
> I can change this to my own name.
>
> There are various programs already on the machine which are, of course,
> quite helpful to start off with.
>
> When the computer starts up, I get a message reading "Quicktime VR
> installation failed because it requires MacOS 7.1 or newer".
>
> Can I upgrade the operating system to "7.1 or newer" and, if so, which
> version do you suggest and from where would I get it?
>
> I would like to be able to obtain a manual for the computer and, I
believe,
> there was a disk and/or book that would have come with the computer in the
> first place, which was a kind of 'tutorial'. This would also be helpful. I
> am trying extremely hard to think back to when I used a Mac (4 or 5 years
> ago) and remember various bits and pieces, but I was never too "competent"
> with the system as such, I just "used" the computer!
>
> Look forward to hearing/receiving any helpful information you may have.
>
> Many thanks
>
> David Lloyd (from England, United Kingdom)
> e-mail: david.lloyd@tiscali.co.uk
>
>