Once the Plus and the SE are running, there are additional ways of transferring files (for example, via modem, null-modem or a network). North_American/Macintosh/Utilities/Disk_Copy/Īn Apple User Group in your area could perhaps be of help.Īn older Mac capable of handling 800K floppies cannot be avoided if one wishes to produce 800K disks (such as a startup floppy). You would use Disk Copy 4.2 or 6.3.3 in order to make sector-copied floppies from disk images (the Make A Copy button in version 4.2, or the Make a Floppy command under the Utilities menu in 6.3.3). The 2DD/DSDD diskette as such is the same, but a PC drive can only format/create 720K. This means a pre-1998 computer.Ī floppy drive capable of handling the special 800K Mac format has a variable speed, which means that a normal PC floppy drive cannot be used (the same is true for an external USB drive). Unfortunately, it is absolutely necessary to create 800K floppy disks on another older Macintosh computer with a (built-in) floppy drive for 800K (and 1.44 MB) disks. It would probably be correct to assume that the Macintosh SE is not of the FDHD kind, since your question merely refers to 800K floppies. Unfortunately I do not have access to anything capable of running OS 9 or even the Classic environment (I still have a set of OS 9 CD ROMs), thus no way of making the system discs.ĭoes anyone know of a way to either make the system discs in an OS X/Intel environment, or a source to acquire an OEM copy? None of the vintage stores I've found locally or online seem to have them available. I know it's easy enough to copy the OS to 800k floppies with a pre-OS X system because I actually did that when I acquired the Macs a decade or so ago, using my old Motorola Starmax 6000 clone (remember those?).
What I can't figure out is how to get a working set of system disks. Plenty of mice at the local vintage shop for $5 a pop and I have a basket of discarded, blank 800k floppies here at the office. I've lost the System 6 floopies though.I'd like to get them working, just for fun.
Unfortunately its hard drive seems to be dead as it just makes a clunking noise and refuses to boot, although I assume it could still boot from floppy, a la the Plus. The Plus has a keyboard (funky telephone-style connector) and no mouse, the SE has an ADB keyboard and mouse. I also have external 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives.
They're relatively complete, and worked at one point. I acquired MANY years ago a pair of original Macs a Plus and an SE.
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