philf@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Phil Fernandez) (03/29/89)
I just had my Mac II upgraded to a Mac IIx today, and have a couple of weird things I wanted to ask about. Information and advice appreciated. Please mail to my e-mail address listed below. I have a Mac II(x) with Apple color monitor, color memory upgrade for 256 colors, and 8mb memory. With the II, I could boot the machine, and the "Welcome to Macintosh" window would appear on my color background screen. The little Mac picture in the left of the Welcome screen would be in color, and the INIT icons would appear on the same screen. Now, the Welcome screen in in black-and-white, then the screen is cleared and the INIT icons appear on a blank screen with my background initialized. Why the change? Is this just cosmetic (new ROMs?), or the signal of something more serious? Also, I can't find a piece of software to actually tell me that it's a IIx with 68882. MacEnvy and MacSpeed both are confused. Are they just outdated, or might this too be the sign of a problem? Finally, I'm running system 6.0.2. Should I upgrade to 6.0.3? Most of these questions should have been answered my my vendor (bookstore at Stanford), but the person I dealt with there didn't know these answers... Plese send to: philf@lindy.stanford.edu ...!sun!lindy.stanford.edu!philf pmf