The only other old mac I have is a blue & white G3 which only has an optical drive I believe. Perhaps there's a way to hook up an old drive to that?
On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 7:18:31 PM UTC-4, Clark Martin wrote: > > Only the Mac 128K and 512K (and Mac XL if you want to count that) had 400K > floppies stock. The 512KE, Plus, early SEs and some others had 800K > drives. Now, as to how to get something on it... You'll need a Mac with a > 1.44M floppy (not via USB) to be able to R/W 800K floppies. > > On Aug 24, 2016, at 4:05 PM, Daz Botron wrote: > > > Well, I went back today and grabbed the yellowed (Made in USA) Plus and > the glowing green IIc monitor they had. He pulled out a complete Plus kit > with bag, keyboard, mouse and external 3.5 but he wanted $175 for it. > Probably a good deal but I just can't afford it right now. I shouldn't even > have bought what I did but I've been thinking of getting an old mac for > awhile and I just couldn't resist that IIc monitor. All in all I still got > a very good deal for what I got and paid for it all. However, now I need to > get a keyboard for it that won't cost me more than what I paid for the plus > (I already have a mouse) and I'm still left with the problem of how to get > software on it. I just get a blinking question mark disk icon when I turn > it on, of course. I don't even know if it takes 400k or 800k disks. I'm > assuming 400K because it was made in USA and therefore an earlier > production run. > > Clark Martin > KK6ISP > Another Designated Driver on the Information Super Hiway. > > -- -- ----- 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/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
