I've seen 800 K disks on Ebay for not very much, I not have any but you can get some there.
I have an external 800k drive that' I've never used, it may work it may not. And I have an SE30 that can read pc formatted disks so If my external 800k drive works I should be able to download the OS from the apple site and get it on an 800K disk If you want to mail me one or two diskets to try to put the OS in email me at abel.or...@gmail and I'll send you my home adress. I'm not sure of what system you need so let me know. Good luck Abel On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Gregg Eshelman <[email protected]> wrote: > --- On Mon, 11/30/09, dshipwright <[email protected]> wrote: > <clip> > > Anyway, one my boxes could read the diskettes if they were > > good, but age took it's toll. > <clip> > > Only two ways to read Macintosh 400K and 800K floppies. One is with a real > Mac with a floppy drive (but not a USB floppy drive) the other is with an > Amiga or PC with a CatWeasel floppy controller. > > Apple used a variable speed drive and recorded more data on the outer > tracks to squeeze more data onto the disks. It's completely unlike any other > floppy format. > > There are plenty of people who'll send you copies of some 400K disks to get > your old Mac up and running. The media is the same as PCs used for 720K > disks, 400K disks can be formatted as 720K/800K but the single sided 400K > disks were only factory certified on one side, just like the 180K 5.25" > disks. > > > > > -- > ----- > 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] > To leave this group, send email to > [email protected]<vintage-macs%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > -- ----- 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] To leave 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/
