What fun from a Macintosh SE

Apple has 6.0.8 and 7.5.3 and the 7.5.5 updater available as free downloads. They do not have previous versions of System 6 or 7, nor later versions of any OS revision. That's actually OK, as performance wise, there is little difference on an SE between System 7.5.5 and System 7.0 or 7.1. And .5.5 is more stable and has better networking support, so there is really no reason to run a previous version of System 7. Same can be said for System 6.0.8 and previous versions. There is really no reason NOT to run .8 so there should be no worries about lacking earlier versions. And although your comment about getting them onto floppies still holds true, it is worth correcting that the SE uses 800K drives at the minimum. Some of the SEs uses 1.44 drives. The best way to know is to look at the front of the case. If it says either SuperDrive or FDHD, it is using 1.44 drives. If it just says SE, it is probably an 800k drive (also the back label will likely tell you). Hopefully this persons is a 1.44 drive, so they at least have a half a shot at creating the disks on another computer. If they are in fact 800k drives, that could prove a challenge almost as much as 400k. Later Macs can't read/write 800k disks as well as the 400k, and PCs I don't think can do 400 or 800 at all. (I think there are ways to get PCs to write the 1.44 disks however, and at least those are readily doable by any newer Mac with a floppy drive). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>