Silly me for not going with wider search terms right from the get-go, as comparing against just about any Mac startup sound isn’t exactly demanding ).Ĭoming back around from all the attempts at mimicking a certain famous gesture by Jean-Luc Picard, I was swiftly back on track with the repairs thanks to Gamba’s excellent Mac Plus analog document. Without thinking much, I of course assumed that the memory upgrade had somehow gone wrong and spent a good while looking for documentation about error codes. One thing that mislead me in the beginning was the startup sound having used mostly only newer Macs (Mac II and later), I first thought the power up beep is some kind of a early power-up error notification.
Knowing I had stored it in a working state, I started looking into what might’ve gone wrong. Once I did, it turned out that Plus was not outputting picture anymore.
Maybe you’ll have a little less grandiose mission getting your Plus back in action )Īfter digging up the Plus from basement, I upgraded the memory to 4Mb without powering up the system first. If you, like me, acquired a second-hand Plus with just a keyboard, this one is a definite read for you. One of my ideas with this post was to compact my findings and provide one usable solution for “ how to get that damn can of worms up and running“. But as it often is with these retro systems, not everything is necessarily applicable or usable, or you’ll simply come across a bunch of dead links. There is a lot of info about Mac+ out and about the net.
and waiting, right up until this august when I dug it up thinking “maybe it’s about time.” And here, we start to close in on this post. Then life had its funny ways, and the Plus sat in the basement waiting. Nonetheless, I took it with me and stored it away to wait for closer inspection. The lack of OS disks and mouse made it pretty much a unusable piece-of-shit. With a near yours-for-free-if-you-take-it-out-the-shop price tag, the Plus powered on nicely but came only with a keyboard (minus one key cap). Fast forward ten (or so) years and I found myself looking at one in a second hand store.
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