PROBLEM SOLVED! I found a thread on Reddit that showed a photo of the "Happy Mac" another user having a similar issue was seeing. It looked exactly like what I was seeing but apparently it's not a "real" happy mac but is in fact a happy mac with a sad mac background. The thread concluded with the …

Thank you everyone for the wealth of information you've provided me here. I highly recommend getting a floppy emu and one of the dedicated scsi HDD emulators. I ended up getting a BMOW floppy emulator. This has allowed me to boot the machine, at least partially. Right now, I'm stuck at the "Happy …

Thank you for the suggestion. I was not aware of 68kmla.org. I will search around over there as well.

I've recently come in to possession of a 1MB Mac Plus. It's, as far as I can tell, in great condition and fully functional. I've disassembled it and checked the board and everything looks clean and no cap issues. When it boots, it shows the disk with a question mark on it, informing me that it needs …