Cyrus wrote: > Ah! Thanks, I figured it was something like that. > > -Cyrus > > P.S. Would covering the hole make it work? > > P.P.S. Sorry to change the subject; I thought that maybe both subjects > might be related. :-)
This is a bit of a hot topic when it comes up. I've personally has pretty good luck with the hole-covering trick, but it's definitely something you'd want to do as a tinkering sort of thing, and not something to do for an actual useful solution. What I've done for playing with my old Macs is set up a bunch of Disk Copy images on a newer Mac, and then when a disk starts getting flaky I just refresh the image on the disk. I haven't needed to do a lot of actual document creation or whatnot, so I haven't typically had much to lose. If you're planning on setting using it for actual word processing, locally-stored emailing, or whatnot, you'll definitely want to get some real DD disks, or at least do very frequent backups of your "special" disks. It's still pretty easy to get real DD disks, so if you need some they should be easy to turn up. Incidentally, this also works for making 1.44MB into 400k disks. I've used several with my 128k Mac with good success. I've had several last month between "refreshes", so it can be an option in a pinch. Some day I'll get some real DD disks, but since I mostly just like to play with the things I'm not too worried. Scott --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
