June 18, 200719 yr I was working on a 17-year old Macintosh SE with a SuperDrive and accidentally clicked on "User Privileges" or something like that and got this message:"Sorry! A system error has occured!illegal instruction(restart)"I clicked Restart and got the "Welcome to Macintosh." screen followed by:"Sorry! A system error has occured!address error(continue / restart)"I pressed Continue.Same thing.I pressed Restart.Same thing.I flipped off the power supply.I flipped it back on.Same thing.No matter how many times I repeated this, the message kept coming back.Please help.
June 19, 200719 yr I think this is the first post regarding an ancient Mac on this board. Did you stick in an old boot disk? (Maybe Mac OS 6.0.8 or something?)
June 25, 200719 yr Author Boot...disk? What's that? Uhh... all I have for it is a SuperDisk that is write-protected that is keeps asking to initialize...it booted into OS 4 just fine without anything in the drive the first time, then it got the errors. Edited June 25, 200719 yr by doggitydogs
June 25, 200719 yr Boot...disk? What's that? Uhh... all I have for it is a SuperDisk that is write-protected that is keeps asking to initialize...it booted into OS 4 just fine without anything in the drive the first time, then it got the errors.Oh boy... Do yourself a favour and download the Mac OS 6.0.8 boot disks and try booting into it again. They're public domain.http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Suppo...m/System_6.0.x/Edit: I forgot to mention that you need another Mac capable of making boot disks in order to use those image files.
July 8, 200719 yr OS 6.0.8 should work fine on that system. You'll need to find yourself a USB floppy drive.
August 2, 200719 yr I have a question. I had 2 of those (but no superdrive), and i only want 1 file get opened. I can not do that, bevause it keeps telling me i don't have enough memory (ram). I can not fix this problem. From one of them I removed the hard drive, now i wonder, how could i copy this software form the disc (it's scsi), to any other PC (or mac).Also, if not possible, can newer apple computers read old 800k flopy discete format? I don't know what else to do, i must have that document.
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