Abel- Thanks for the input. All of this is helpful.
Dean On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:08 PM, 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/ > -- ----- 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/
