This link will give you a lot of information on the history of your Mac. http://homepage.mac.com/chinesemac/earlymacs/
As far as I know, the 50th week is about as early as any production Mac rolled off the assembly line, but there might have been some as early as the 48th or 49th. Are you sure it has a 400K drive? If so, you will see little red lights inside the slot when powered on. Your Classic will make a fine disk duplicator. BUT YOU WILL NEED an 800K disk. You should NOT use a 1.44MB disk to format 400K or 800K, especially on an old Mac that may have drive alignment issues anyway. The system you use depends on the ROMs in the 512K and whether you have an 800K drive or not. On Nov 24, 11:28 am, David Colvin <d.col...@online.ie> wrote: > What about a Superdrive in a Mac Classic? It can read AND write to 400k > disks. . . right? Could I download system 3 and MacWrite and MacDraw on my > iBook. I do have an external floppy drive. Move it to the Classic and make > the boot disk there. I don't actually need to make the boot disk on a 400k > drive, do I? The Superdrive should work. > > Does anyone have a system that they recommend? I was thinking 3 but the > floppy driven Macs are a new world for me and I could use all the help that > I can get > > I had a little surprise when I brought this 512k home this weekend. I was > curious about the history of it, so I turned it over to get the serial > number and model number. The first thing I noticed is that the model number > is the same as a 128k. Then I researched the serial number and discovered > that it was made in Fremont, California the 50th week of 1983. . . more > then a month before the first 128k went on sale. > > Anyway, it must have been converted to a 512k by Apple Service because the > back half of the cabinet says "Apple 512k". Does anyone know what week that > the factories started producing the first 128k's? > > Thanks for any help. > > David > > > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:34 PM, D. Finnigan <dog_...@macgui.com> wrote: > > > &gOn Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:17:09 -0600, ltuc...@hiwaay.net wrote: > > > I have a plus that is one of the 1mb factory upgrades from Apple. I > > > can't remember if a 512 has 400 or 800k drives, but guess that doesn't > > > matter if email can work. The system is old enough that when you look > > > under the apple menu it just says something to the effect of Apple > > > Macintosh System - I think it is 4.x or 5.x > > > 512k Mac had 400k drives. The Plus was the first Mac with a double-sided > > 800k disk drive. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ ----- 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 vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
