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Back to Home Page 04/18/01 Rev 06/09/02 CLOCK 800 KB Boot Floppy for Mac Plus, SE, & Classic

Features:
•Boots directly to BlackWatch 1.5.5 clock screensaver (after 1 minute delay).
•No hard disk required.
•No keyboard required.
•No mouse required.
•Ejects floppy after boot.
•The floppy has been tested on both Mac SE and Mac Plus, each with 4 MB of RAM.

Hardware Requirements:
•Mac Plus, Mac SE, or Mac Classic.
•Internal 800K or 1.4M floppy drive.
•4 MB of RAM minimum. (2 MB minimum if RamDisk+ is changed from 1420KB to 720KB.)
•Good PRAM battery.

Download the disk image from here. (Requires Stuffit Expander 4 or higher.)

Boot Instructions:
•Lock floppy.
•Turn on Mac and insert floppy.

Setting Clock Time:
Setting clock time requires keyboard, mouse and Apple's System 6.0.8 System Tools disk.
Boot from System Tools disk and change the time by using the General Control Panel.
The new time setting will work with any other boot disk because time setting is stored in logic board PRAM.
Setting Alarm Time:
Use same System Tools disk as above, except SuperClock 4.0.4 control panel must be added to the System Folder.
Trash TeachText from disk to make room for SuperClock.
Boot from System Tools and select SuperClock in Contol Panel.
Click on Alarm Options panel. Set desired alarm time. Enable Alarm by clicking on small clock. The Alarm is enabled when small lines appear at top of small clock.
Click OK. Close Control Panel.
Note: SuperClock stores these settings in logic board PRAM and the Alarm will work after later restarts even if there are no Control Panels nor Extensions.

Shutdown the Mac, disconnect keyboard and mouse, and restart with Plus-SE_Clock disk.

Floppy contents:
Free space...............................60 KB

NoFinder 1.0b3 (application).............10 KB

Setup Folder
..BlackWatch Finder Folder
   ....(empty)
..Substitute Finder Folder
   ....Finder (Substitute 1.6.0).........34 KB...(Deleted PICTs, icl4, icl8, ics4, ics8)

System Folder
..Apple Menu Items folder
   ...Control Panels alias...............1 KB
..Control Panels folder
   ...General Controls 7.0 control panel.16 KB
   ...RamDisk+ 3.24a control panel.......57 KB
   ...Sound 7.0 control panel............17 KB
   ...SuperClock 4.0.4 control panel.....30 KB
..Extensions folder
   ...System 7 Tuner.....................19 KB
..Finder (BlackWatch 1.5.5).............53 KB...(Type=FNDR, Creator=MACS, PPC resources deleted)
..Preferences folder
   ...BlackWatch Preferences.............1 KB
   ...Finder Preferences.................1 KB
..Startup Items folder
   ...(empty)
.. System 7.0.1 suitcase...............482 KB...(reduced)

Notes for RamDisk+
Setup:
Included Items:  NoFinder, System Folder.
Included Items Size:  669K
RamDisk+ Size:  1420K (optionally, 720K)
Disable:
Holding down mouse button during boot will disable RamDisk+, therefore floppy won't eject and RAM requirements are reduced.

Revised 6/1/02....Deleted requirement for hard drive when setting time.
Revised 6/1/02....Added Setting Clock Time and/or Alarm Time:
Revised 5/31/02...Changed minifinder from MiniSubstitute 1.7.1 to Substitute 1.6.0.
Revised 5/28/02...Added Sound and SuperClock control panels, restored sound and apple events to System file.