[P1] PowerBook 190 query

[Jack Rodgers]

On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 02:45  PM, Mary Jo wrote:

> I just found an old PowerBook stored away.  It's a 190.  I ran into 
> trouble
> with it years ago but don't remember much.  Presently the situation is 
> this:
> When plugged in, the PowerBook turns on and a smiling face appears, but
> instead of  booting up, it shows a message:
>
> This startup disk will not work on this Macintosh model.
> Use the latest Installer to update this disk for this model.
> (System 7.1 does not work on this model; you need a newer version that 
> does.)

I believe the 190 is not a PPC Mac, probably 68030 or 68040 and thus 
will not run any System design just for PPC. Thus OS 9 probably won't 
work. You may need System 6. Or earlier?

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