Old Mac's are great, I'm trying to get a Color Classic ][ (Last all-in-one made in that old design style), it's got a modular mainboard that you can replace with a newer motherboard giving you a great color Mac in an all in one.
Old Mac's are great, I'm trying to get a Color Classic ][ (Last
all-in-one made in that old design style), it's got a modular
mainboard that you can replace with a newer motherboard giving you a
great color Mac in an all in one.
The best computer I EVER used was a Mac IIci with a cache card, 12 mb of RAM, 80 MB internal and 1GB external drives. System 6 back then. That thing never crashed.
I have backup disk images of system 6. I need a MAC with a floppy drive to write them out so I can install the OS on some old mac systems. I found
this will not work for 800K floppies, but for normal 1.4mb floppies, this method really worked very well.
I have backup disk images of system 6. I need a MAC with a floppy
drive to write them out so I can install the OS on some old mac
systems. I found
It's actually very simple. I downloaded floppy images from MacintoshGarden, and then just simply used the dd command to write the images to the floppies. I was surprised that it worked that easily actually. Obviously, this will not work for 800K floppies, but for normal 1.4mb floppies, this method really worked very well.
this will not work for 800K floppies, but for normal 1.4mb floppies,
this method really worked very well.
I thought 800 K were single sided, but the same density?
Yeah, 800kb floppies is what I need, the Mac CAV (Constant Angular
Velocity) drives are pretty much exclusive to Mac and old Amigas I think. Writing out these disk images from non-CAV systems (USB floppies, PC floppy drives, etc) require a hardware mod of some kind or special software. My ST can do it with a Happy Discovery Cart, or within a working Mac Spectre GCR enviornment, a working Mac with a floppy drive can do it, but I don't have any of that at the moment.
quadluka wrote to Zet <=-
there is a 2.88mb DS/QD format, but it's rare and died due to the plummetting cost of hard drives at the time.
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