5 Oct
2003
5 Oct
'03
11:03 a.m.
I don't have any machine that can write these.
If anyone can send me just an 800K floppy with the Mac OS6 or OS7
cd rom drive that'l work too. I have a CD with OS7 (probably) on it.
I want to get a MAC SE working again. I have scsi CDrom drive and
apples software cdrom.
If the SE has 4 MB of ram, you can connect an your SCSI CD ROM drive to
the SCSI port on the back, and boot from your OS 7 CD (assuming it is an
Apple OS 7 installer and thus a bootable CD). To do so put the CD in the
drive, then turn on the Mac and hold the Command-Option-Shift-Delete to
force the SE to boot from the external drive.
If you can't get that working, let me know, I'll send you a system 6
install set on 800K disks. System 7 doesn't fit on 800K disks so that's
right out. Unless you double check that you need 800K disks. Later Mac SE
models had 1.4 drives in them (if the Mac is labeled as Mac SE SuperDrive
or Mac SE FDHD then it can use 1.4 disks)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
5 Oct
5 Oct
11:20 a.m.
On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 06:03 PM, chris wrote:
Ok, I get a blinking floppy disk "?" in the middle of the screen. I
guess the CD rom I
have is not bootable after all.
(it came from a 2 disk pack marked "Apple Software" / "Claris
Software"
)
My iBook won't read the CD. My SE want's for format any 1.44 floppy,
and my iBook
won't mount any 400/800mb floppy.
:^)
Home address:
Ron Hudson
29300 E 65th St.
Blue Springs MO, 64014
Thanks a lot!
I don't
have any machine that can write these.
If anyone can send me just an 800K floppy with the Mac OS6 or OS7
cd rom drive that'l work too. I have a CD with OS7 (probably) on it.
I want to get a MAC SE working again. I have scsi CDrom drive and
apples software cdrom.
If the SE has 4 MB of ram, you can connect an your SCSI CD ROM drive to
the SCSI port on the back, and boot from your OS 7 CD (assuming it is
an
Apple OS 7 installer and thus a bootable CD). To do so put the CD in
the
drive, then turn on the Mac and hold the Command-Option-Shift-Delete to
force the SE to boot from the external drive.
If you can't get that working, let me know, I'll send you a system 6
install set on 800K disks. System 7 doesn't fit on 800K disks so that's
right out. Unless you double check that you need 800K disks. Later Mac
SE
models had 1.4 drives in them (if the Mac is labeled as Mac SE
SuperDrive
or Mac SE FDHD then it can use 1.4 disks)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
11:39 a.m.
http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html
You can download several older system software disk images, 6.0.3, 6.0.5,
6.0.8, 7.0, 7.0.1, etc...
Your iBook won't write an 800k floppy? Hmmm... Is the floppy an actual 800k
floppy, or a 1.44m floppy?
Let me know if the download is successful...
Another source: http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/bootdisks.html Gamba's
boot disks for Macs...
http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/syslist.html Gamba's System Software for
Macs...
You might also want to visit http://w3.trib.com/~dwood/oldmac.shtml and see
what other info you can dig up.
Good Luck!
If this doesn't help you enough, let us know...
TTFN
Andrew
-----Original Message-----
Subject: Re: Help! need 400k/800k Mac os 6 or 7 diskettes!
On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 06:03 PM, chris wrote:
>
> If anyone can send me just an 800K floppy with the Mac OS6 or OS7
> cd rom drive that'l work too. I have a CD with OS7
(probably) on it.
>
Ok, I get a blinking floppy disk "?" in the middle of the screen. I
guess the CD rom I
have is not bootable after all.
(it came from a 2 disk pack marked "Apple Software" / "Claris
Software"
)
My iBook won't read the CD. My SE want's for format any 1.44 floppy,
and my iBook
won't mount any 400/800mb floppy.
:^)
Thanks a lot!
12:59 p.m.
On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 06:39 PM, Andrew Prince wrote:
http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html
You can download several older system software disk images, 6.0.3,
6.0.5,
6.0.8, 7.0, 7.0.1, etc...
Your iBook won't write an 800k floppy? Hmmm... Is the floppy an actual
800k
floppy, or a 1.44m floppy?
1.44m USB floppy
Let me know if the download is successful...
I seem to be able to download, now if only one of the images is a
bootable cdrom!
Another source: http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/bootdisks.html
Gamba's
boot disks for Macs...
http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/syslist.html Gamba's System Software
for
Macs...
You might also want to visit http://w3.trib.com/~dwood/oldmac.shtml
and see
what other info you can dig up.
Good Luck!
If this doesn't help you enough, let us know...
TTFN
Andrew
-----Original Message-----
Subject: Re: Help! need 400k/800k Mac os 6 or 7 diskettes!
On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 06:03 PM, chris wrote:
>
> If anyone can send me just an 800K floppy with the Mac OS6 or OS7
> cd rom drive that'l work too. I have a CD with OS7
(probably) on it.
>
Ok, I get a blinking floppy disk "?" in the middle of the screen. I
guess the CD rom I
have is not bootable after all.
(it came from a 2 disk pack marked "Apple Software" / "Claris
Software"
)
My iBook won't read the CD. My SE want's for format any 1.44 floppy,
and my iBook
won't mount any 400/800mb floppy.
:^)
Thanks a lot!
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