23 Aug
2004
23 Aug
'04
7:03 a.m.
Hello List,
Help. I rescued a Mac SE, mouse, and keyboard. My problem is it has the 800k low-density
diskette drive and a wiped hard drive. I don’t have a Mac compatible drive needed to
create the boot disks.
Would anyone have a set of boot disks?
Sincerely and thank you in advance,
David
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24 Aug
24 Aug
1 p.m.
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 09:03:53 -0700 (PDT)
David Ward <davidewardjr(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Hello List,
Help. I rescued a Mac SE, mouse, and keyboard. My problem is it has
the 800k low-density diskette drive and a wiped hard drive. I don_t
have a Mac compatible drive needed to create the boot disks.
Would anyone have a set of boot disks?
Sincerely and thank you in advance,
David
I don't know if it would work at all in your vintage of Mac SE, but I
have piles and piles of the Macintosh high density 'super drive' floppy
disk drives from a lot of different ages of Macs. Can someone chime in
on wether your SE could be upgraded to use one just by swapping the
drive? If so, you can have one or several for the cost of postage.
1:17 p.m.
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 05:00:35PM -0500, Scott Stevens wrote:
I don't know if it would work at all in your
vintage of Mac SE, but I
have piles and piles of the Macintosh high density 'super drive' floppy
disk drives from a lot of different ages of Macs. Can someone chime in
on wether your SE could be upgraded to use one just by swapping the
drive? If so, you can have one or several for the cost of postage.
AFAIK, to use a "super drive" in an SE, you need suitable ROMs as well
as a suitable drive. The case for such is marked "FDHD" (fud-hud), for
"Floppy Drive, High Density". I have one in Ohio.
-ethan
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