Please Help Me Revive my Apple IIC+

[Kyle Fenton]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

By any chance will it get rid of FoolProof Security? Please Please Please Please I'm not trying to hack it, the unit was given to me by a school and the password to unlock it is gone. Please don't post any hacking, cracking tips. That is not who I am. For FoolProof, well, at least the unit is "clean" - no unnecessary files.

I don't know anything about FoolProof Security. But if it was System 6.0, it shouldn't that hard to remove. Here is some tricks that you might want to try.

Try booting up from the disk and removing it from the extensions or wherever it is.

If you can't do that then hold the shift key on startup, and this will disable any extensions, then remove it from the extensions folder.

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

By any chance will it get rid of FoolProof Security? Please Please Please Please I'm not trying to hack it, the unit was given to me by a school and the password to unlock it is gone. Please don't post any hacking, cracking tips. That is not who I am. For FoolProof, well, at least the unit is "clean" - no unnecessary files.

No one believes you are trying to break in to such an old system for nefarious reasons, it’s too easy to bypass on OS 6 anyway as Kyle noted.

There was third-party s/w that would r/w PC format disks under OS 6. I have a stack of IIc Macs in the attic. I find it hard to throw away working computers. I probably have lots of games too come to think of it, but I’m sure there are more games still available on-line.

If you install OS 7.5.x boot from a basic OS on a floppy first and rename the system folder for a clean install. If you have existing third-party s/w you want to recover later you’ll need the old OS 6 Extensions folder.

Make sure your IIc reads modern floppies. Some of the older systems used a 785Kb(?) floppy, so if you have an old floppy drive you’ll also need to locate old floppies.

Another alternative to the floppies is to locate an Ethernet card for the IIc. OS 7.5.x supports TCP/IP as well as AppleTalk, but you’d still need software to share files with a PC.

[Aaron Knight]

Coupla things.

As far as FoolProof, you can bypass it by doing a clean wipe of the hard drive and reinstall, at least I know you can do that with newer versions. I had to force one on a school machine for a teacher who lost her admin password to it...

As far as the Apple IIc stuff, if you want, I have access to many internet-capable older macs that I can make floppies on and mail them to ya... I don't know how feasible any of this is, but let me know....

Always glad to see old technology continue to work

EDIT: The IIc will use Double Density (800kb) floppies, which completely rules out the option of doing it on a PC IIRC. I know that PCs see mac DD disks differently, I assume this probably carries over to ProDOS.

[Kyle Fenton]

I just saw this piece of software here that says it emulates the Apple II.