21 Jan
2003
21 Jan
'03
1:47 p.m.
Hi all,
I've got a Mac Plus I got of Ebay some time ago. Anyone any idea how I
can (legally) obtain an OS for it? I'd like to add a HDD to it; I've an
old 600Mb in an external box lying around, am I going to be able to use
this (even if I only get a 20/40/80Mb partition on it I'm a happy
chicken.).
Tim.
21 Jan
21 Jan
2:05 p.m.
I've got a Mac Plus I got of Ebay some time ago.
Anyone any idea how I
can (legally) obtain an OS for it? I'd like to add a HDD to it; I've an
old 600Mb in an external box lying around, am I going to be able to use
this (even if I only get a 20/40/80Mb partition on it I'm a happy
chicken.).
Check out some of the Mac sites for pointers on where to get an OS. Apple
should have a copy you can run available for download. At least they used
to have OS's for the Apple ][gs, and older Mac's (System 6 & 7) available
for download. I've not messed with any older Mac's in quite a while, so I'm
not sure what's still available, or where they've hidden it these days on
their site. I'd not recommend anything newer than System 7.1 for a Plus
though.
Zane
2:23 p.m.
One of the thrift's here has OS 7 in the box for $4, if you want it let me
know and I can pick it for you and the ship it to you?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Myers" <tim.myers(a)sunplan.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 6:54 PM
Subject: Ressurecting Mac Plus
Hi all,
I've got a Mac Plus I got of Ebay some time ago. Anyone any idea how I
can (legally) obtain an OS for it? I'd like to add a HDD to it; I've an
old 600Mb in an external box lying around, am I going to be able to use
this (even if I only get a 20/40/80Mb partition on it I'm a happy
chicken.).
Tim.
3:38 p.m.
Making an 800K boot disk is easy if you have something like a Mac II or
Quadra lying around. Just use Disk Copy to make a floppy from the image. I
got it to work on a Power Macintosh 6100, but some people have had problems
making 800K disks with Power Macs.
I have images for System 0.97/Finder 1.0 through about System 6.0.1/Finder
6.1. But you'll need System 3.0/Finder 5.0 or higher for SCSI support, I
think. But System 3 didn't become stable until System 3.2/Finder 5.3. I
would recommend System 6.0.8, the last release of System 6. Although I've
used 7.0 on a Plus without any problems, but you need 2 megs of RAM for
System 7.
Do you have a system you could use to make a floppy with?
--
Owen Robertson
on 1/21/03 6:54 PM, Tim Myers at tim.myers(a)sunplan.com wrote:
Hi all,
I've got a Mac Plus I got of Ebay some time ago. Anyone any idea how I
can (legally) obtain an OS for it? I'd like to add a HDD to it; I've an
old 600Mb in an external box lying around, am I going to be able to use
this (even if I only get a 20/40/80Mb partition on it I'm a happy
chicken.).
Tim.
22 Jan
22 Jan
6:56 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-admin@classiccmp.org]On
Behalf Of Owen Robertson
Sent: 22 January 2003 02:41
To: Classic Computer Mailing List
Subject: Re: Ressurecting Mac Plus
I have images for System 0.97/Finder 1.0 through about System 6.0.1/Finder
6.1. But you'll need System 3.0/Finder 5.0 or higher for SCSI support, I
think. But System 3 didn't become stable until System 3.2/Finder 5.3. I
would recommend System 6.0.8, the last release of System 6. Although I've
used 7.0 on a Plus without any problems, but you need 2 megs of RAM for
System 7.
Do you have a system you could use to make a floppy with?
When I was hacking around making disks for my Lisa (400K) I started off with
a 1.44 floppy in a PC which I used HFVExplorer to copy the disk images onto,
then moved the disk to a Mac IIcx which could read 1.44 but not (for some
reason) write 400K, so I had to appletalk the images over to a Mac Plus THEN
diskcopy 4.2 'em onto a 400K floppy. Painful and slow, but it worked. These
days making 800K disks isn't an issue 'cos I've got more old Macs than I
know what to do with and a beige G3 on the LAN.
cheers
--
adrian/witchy
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the online computer museum
www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - monthly gothic shenanigans
6:45 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-admin@classiccmp.org]On
Behalf Of Tim Myers
Sent: 22 January 2003 00:54
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Ressurecting Mac Plus
Hi all,
I've got a Mac Plus I got of Ebay some time ago. Anyone any idea how I
can (legally) obtain an OS for it? I'd like to add a HDD to it; I've an
old 600Mb in an external box lying around, am I going to be able to use
this (even if I only get a 20/40/80Mb partition on it I'm a happy
chicken.).
Go to Apple's website and dig down in the downloads section - they've got
(or did have last year) all versions of MacOS from v1 up to 7.5. The
software license normally says that if you own a Mac you can download the
OS. If they haven't got older versions any more I've got 'em all here :)
cheers
--
adrian/witchy
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the online computer museum
www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - monthly gothic shenanigans
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