I'm starting to wonder if the platters in the hard drive are losing it's life and ready to give up the ghost. Also, if the floppy drive was used "alot" in it's life, the heads could be ready to go, too. Even the internal transistors and other electronic doo-dads on the motherboard have a finite lifespan, and of course, tin whiskers could develop.
On 2/22/11, Abel Ortiz Monasterio <[email protected]> wrote: > The PC exchange helps a lot. When I tried copying old images in to Mac > formatted floppies I had trouble because the formatting was taking up space > and the single disk images did not fit. (For example an old OS from the > apple site). > > But if you download from the net and copy into a PC formatted disk they fit > and you can then read it on the vintage Mac > On Feb 22, 2011 6:11 AM, "Gregg Eshelman" <[email protected]> wrote: >> --- On Mon, 2/21/11, Dean <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Tyrone, Christian and Gregg- >>> >>> Thanks so much for your responses. You gave me a lot >>> of info that I >>> have to digest and consider. Some of what you wrote >>> was over my head >>> technically, so when I have a minute, I'll be asking some >>> questions, if you don't mind. >>> >>> One question I have right now is how can I copy files to a >>> PC-DOS floppy? If I insert anything but a mac-formatted >>> floppy into the >>> Quadra, I'll get a message something like "this disk is >>> unreadable, do you want to initialize it?" >> >> You need PC Exchange installed. This page has the info on it. >> >> http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/pc2mac.html#asw >> >> With that, you can use PC formatted disks and other media. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> ----- >> 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/ > > -- > ----- > 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/ -- Tyrone L. Warbasse, http://www.totallyparanoia.com/ http://www.myspace.com/coffee4binky/ "¿Cuál es tu nombre? Vete a la mierda, ese es mi nombre!" Twitter: coffee4binky AOL/AIM: detectiveragga Yahoo! Chat: thematrixreformatted YouTube: coffee4binky Also, find me on Facebook! -- ----- 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/
