--- On Mon, 11/2/09, Jake <[email protected]> wrote: > So my question is what should/can I do now? > > Thank you in advance to any and all helpers.
#1. Find someone to mail you some 400K disks with a System and some other useful software. To make them yourself you need to either already have the disks and copy them (slowly) using your single floppy Mac or have a Mac with a hard drive that boots, with the system disk images and DiskCopy on it, and a floppy drive. USB floppy drives cannot read or write the 400K or 800K Mac format floppies. When all you have is one old Mac with no hard drive and a 400K or 800K floppy drive, you've a bit of a chicken and egg problem. ;) Have the disks, you can make copies, but then you don't need copies because you have the disks... #2. Find four matching 30 pin, non-parity, 1 meg SIMMs. These are getting hard to find now since it's been nearly 20 years since the 72 pin SIMM replaced them, and the 72 pin ones aren't much easier to get. There's something else you have to do besides just installing the SIMMs, easy to find it on the web. #3. Get an external SCSI hard drive case with a 2 gig or smaller drive in it. Or find an external floppy drive for it. Not a lot of use for the external floppy when you have a hard drive, unless you can lay hands on an AEHD (Applied Engineering High Density) 1.44M external drive. It can't boot from a 1.44M disk because it requires a driver, but after booting you can read and write 1.44M Mac disks with the Plus and an AEHD. There are some people who still use a 1 meg Plus with a single floppy for a few tasks. Some folks use them just for writing because there's no tempting software distractions, can't just minimize MacWrite for a quick game of cards or ShufflePuck. ;) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
