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I know they are no longer supported but does anyone know how to set the time and date on a Mac 6 please.
Hopefully someone can assist.
Thanks Neal

You might want to try this (if you have your credit card handy).

It looks like the guy wants USD 5.99 (so I wasn't tempted myself).

Shift and F2 seems to ring a bell ... but it was such a long time ago. There is a sequence like that that allows access to time, date, leads, print config etc

It could be:-

STOP - to return to the main menu

Shift+F1 to display the "System Functions" menu

... then select Setup (F4?) (and hopefully take it from there).

... mind you, I have taken this from notes about the MAC-12, so I could be talking total [censored]. Ha, ha.

PS: here's another long shot ... and another (even further).

Mac6 and Mac12 should be the same menu structure (both of the same era as was the MacPC) but I will have a look for the manual when I get to work.

more soon........

Yes, I used to enjoy "lifting the bonnet" on those good old beasts (more my own sort of era, too).

You could format 3.5" floppies on the MAC-12, but I can't remember if it used DOS or some other (proprietary) operating system. Anyone know?

For some reason I'm guessing at RDOS. But (once again), I could be talking out of my ... er, hat!

Here's hoping you can save the day before Neal turns up in the morning then, Dave.

Not DOS but Marquette's own software. I seem to remember all the Marquette gear ran using a Motorola processors (60somethingorother)

Yeah, you're right. If only because of the messages that came up on the "screen" (if you could call it that). They weren't anything that DOS could have done (without adding further code). Interesting.

I wonder if the floppy formatting was "special", though. My guess would be not, as it would have made the disks useless (unable to be read) in a PC. But who knows? I seem to remember that the MAC's (of that era) were Big on sending results down 'phone lines, and exciting stuff like that (very real in remote locations - in the States, and Down Under, of course).

PS: the ubiquitous 68000 I expect. Thirty years, and still going strong (sort of). I've just noticed a CPU board for the MAC-6 (P/N 85599-208-1) advertised on line priced at USD 2,995.

I wonder if Mithrandir got to the bottom of his problem(s)?

Nope, sorry Neal, no sign of a manual at my end but I will put a post on our internal company forum and see if anyone has a paper copy in their workshops.

(sometime later)

Some feedback...


This may or may not be helpful but in my old notes with ECG stuff, under "Marquette" I found this:
Hold "Shift" key and "2" key to display system function menu.

We're getting there. After all, there are only a few F keys on those units. Ha, ha.

Hopefully Neal will have got it sorted by this time (and date?).

"Internal forum"? Much fun to be had on there?