Or a external SCSI HD. Then you can forget always using boot floppies,
and you free up the Floppy drive. They made ones that were
specifically designed to sit under the Plus, I have a couple of those,
and they work great. Since you only have 1Mb of RAM, you'll only be
able to run up to System 6.0.8. (System 7 requires 2Mb of RAM). If
you do decide to upgrade it to 4Mb, you can run system 7.5.5. There's
lots of fun old games that'll run on the Plus, for that you can check
out the Mac Garden, http://www.macintoshgarden.org/
Photoshop 2 runs, as does old versions of Word; I believe Word 5
works? Not entirely sure. Perhaps 3 or 4. I wouldn't recommend
connecting to the internet; probably more hassle then it's worth...
Cleaning tips: For general cleaning, a soap-based all purpose cleaner
works well for dirt, dust, and oils. General purpose, non-abrasive and
non-chemical cleaners are best. For sticker residue, isoprobial
alcohol works wonders (With some elbow grease). For those black or
white scuff marks that the alcohol won't take off, Magic Eraser pads
work wonders. Old toothbrushes work well for clearing dirt out of
vents. (and the corners where the screen meets the plastic) If you
want to clean it up even more and de-yellow it, there are easy ways to
do that, too. Are you planning to take it apart? There's definitely a
trick to doing that.
One machine I've found that works great as a crossover/floppy making
computer is the Beige G3's, the minitowers and the desktops. Mostly
because they'll run OS9, and OSX pretty well; they have Ethernet,
Serial, Floppy, external SCSI, and also internal IDE and SCSI busses.
Currently, you can pick these up dirt cheap. I have one that's been
upgraded to 466Mhz, and it runs 10.4.11 quite well, which talks to my
iMac running 10.6.1. OS9 talks to System 6 pretty well over Serial.
-Elliott Price
Mac Computer Repair - Santa Barbara
Graphic Design - Artwork Setup
Websites - Low Cost Custom Websites
On Nov 2, 2009, at 11:00 AM, D. Finnigan wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:54:38 -0800 (PST), Jake <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> So my question is what should/can I do now?
>>
>
> Get a hold of some floppy disks and a Mac with both a floppy disk
> drive
> and Ethernet.
> Now you can make double-density disks off of disk images downloaded
> from
> the Internet.
>
> >
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