on 9/23/03 2:02 PM, Dustin Rinebold at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm a huge fan of silent computing, and I spend a lot of time running > compact Macs from floppies. I also have a silent LC and IIsi (disabled > fans), but my favorite and most used computer is my 512K with dual 400K > floppy drives. Seriously, I use a Plus to do any real work, but I love > my 512K just because of the nostalgia of the unique sounds the 400K > drives make. > > Anyone know where I can get the original Laserwriter driver? I'd like > to try printing from the 512K to my 16/600, but the 6.0.8 Laserwriter > driver is too large to put on a 400K floppy and still have room for a > System and Finder. I'm thinking the older version my be smaller. > > -dustin >
I may have it. I own a sundry group of odd, old disks. If you email me offlist, and I have it, I'll attach it to you. I have come into this thread pretty late, and I don't know if the Subject Line has been beaten to death or not. BUT, I have used external hard disks to store floppies onto with a good rate of success. Disks like Microsoft's Office-related Disks come as copy-using-protected making them impossible to archive without Res-editing into the sub-molecular level. I had Athana International as a good source of 800k floppies. which make great 400k floppies. And I check all disks with a vintage disk checker like SUM II or Symantec Disk Tools in System 6 to see if the originals contain damage. If they check perfect, then I make a copy of the copyable ones FIRST before using them to work from. Then I make a second copy. The originals go into a dark, cool closet high on a shelf until the copies go bad. Then, they make more copies. Jeff -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
