29 Nov
2005
29 Nov
'05
9:13 p.m.
Now here's a tricky question: If the SE30 were
the only mac in my entire
household, how would I procure an OS install on diskette for it? The drive
in that thing is the 800K multi-speed beast, yes?
The SE/30 (note slash -- just being pedantic ;) will read 1.44MB MFM disks
just fine, as it came with a SuperDrive standard. It's the original SE that
might not, depending on how the particular models you find were fitted out.
There are various packages for making 1.44MB MFM disks from images on a PC
and the Mac should happily boot from them (in the SE/30's case, from System
6 all the way to 7.6, and possibly 8.1 if you use a little trickery).
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