5 Oct
2003
5 Oct
'03
1:06 p.m.
Your iBook won't write an 800k floppy? Hmmm... Is
the floppy an actual 800k
floppy, or a 1.44m floppy?
Apple stopped having the drives read and write 400 and 800 k disks a
while ago.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
6 Oct
6 Oct
7:10 a.m.
Apple stopped having the drives read and write 400 and
800 k disks a
while ago.
Actually the System does that... I don't remember when though. I
think it might have been System 8 that stopped reading 400k, I
remember because I was real mad about not being able to use my PM6500
to do disks for my 128k, and then I ended up with an iMac and the
iDock doesn't work under X(until you pull the cable going to the ADB
and serial that is) but the USB floppy only handles 1.4MB anyway! So
now it's time to get the LC up and running again I guess. But if you
have Mac with the SuperDrive(floppy, not DVD-R!) in it, and you have
something prior to System 8/9, you can do 400k disks all day long.
Just keep a System 7 boot disk around! That oughta work with anything
prior to a G3.
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7:45 a.m.
I have use my "newer" macs 8500/7500/840av/950/IIfx to make 800k disks for
my IIgs and have noticed that the auto inject 1.44 drives use on the older
systems (IIfx, 840av, 950) have no problems making disks that are readable
on the IIgs while the 8500/7500 non inject floppies cant do it reliably.
So your better off using an old quadra to make 800k disks for older
machines. I have no idea about writing 400k disks because I dont have any
machines that use them.
11:28 p.m.
Apple stopped
having the drives read and write 400 and 800 k disks a
while ago.
Actually the System does that... I don't remember when though. I
think it might have been System 8 that stopped reading 400k, 
7 Oct
7 Oct
1 a.m.
New subject: WHO? (was: RE: Help! need 400k/800k Mac os 6 or 7 diskettes!)
I lost track of this thread - who needed those diskettes? I just found
a box (waaah! another box!) of oldish Mac stuff at a customer's place,
and that seems to have the old System disks - were part of the IIcx kit
I believe....
--f
2:24 a.m.
New subject: WHO? (was: RE: Help! need 400k/800k Mac os 6 or 7 diskettes!)
On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 08:00 AM, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
I lost track of this thread - who needed those
diskettes? I just found
a box (waaah! another box!) of oldish Mac stuff at a customer's place,
and that seems to have the old System disks - were part of the IIcx kit
I believe....
--f
Was me Fred, They have to be low density and I would be interested in
any software on 400K or 800K disks...
My SE is currently running 7.1 but it's incomplete, it doesn't see the
cdrom on the SCSI chain.
2:45 a.m.
New subject: WHO? (was: RE: Help! need 400k/800k Mac os 6 or 7 diskettes!)
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Ron Hudson wrote:
Was me Fred, They have to be low density and I would
be interested in
any software on 400K or 800K disks...
My SE is currently running 7.1 but it's incomplete, it doesn't see the
cdrom on the SCSI chain.
I'll grab all that stuff tonight, and go through it in
the morning
to see what all is there.. probably all their software since, oh,
1992 or so, when they started with Mac's.
--f
7:27 a.m.
New subject: WHO? (was: RE: Help! need 400k/800k Mac os 6 or 7 diskettes!)
On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 09:45 AM, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Ron Hudson wrote:
Was me Fred, They have to be low density and I
would be interested in
any software on 400K or 800K disks...
My SE is currently running 7.1 but it's incomplete, it doesn't see the
cdrom on the SCSI chain.
I'll grab all that stuff tonight, and go through it
in the morning
to see what all is there.. probably all their software since, oh,
1992 or so, when they started with Mac's.
--f
Of course once I get the CDRom working, I can write
CDs with my
iBook.
9 Oct
9 Oct
3:36 a.m.
Apple stopped
having the drives read and write 400 and 800 k disks a
while ago.
Actually the System does that... I don't remember when though. I
think it might have been System 8 that stopped reading 400k, I
remember because I was real mad about not being able to use my PM6500
to do disks for my 128k, and then I ended up with an iMac and the
iDock doesn't work under X(until you pull the cable going to the ADB
and serial that is) but the USB floppy only handles 1.4MB anyway!
7:43 a.m.
"Eric J. Korpela" <korpela(a)ssl.berkeley.edu>
Do older external 400k drives work with System 8? I
find it hard to
swing a dead cat without hitting a pile of external Mac (or Apple II)
disk drives.
Apple 400K external drives will not work with any Macs that have a newer
processor than a 68000. They work on the original (128K) Mac, the
512K and 512Ke, the Plus, SE, and maybe the Classic.
The drive requires a PWM motor control signal that later Macs do not
provide.
The 800K and Superdrive (FDHD) do not need this signal.
Eric
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