oh and tape over the 2nd hole.
This method does not work for a long time. When I got my Mac II (my
first Mac with an 800k drive), I tried this method, and no less than 10
minutes later, the disk didn't work.
Do not use this method for backups or for any important data you may
need.
I see Antonio has answered this in more technical detail than I can,
but I have added some practical notes about working with these disks
and disk images here:
http://homepage.mac.com/chinesemac/earlymacs/#disk_images
Note that CompUSA.com has Sony 2DD disks. Last time I checked, they
still
Lately I've been tinkering around with some old macs for fun. I'm
restoring a 512K to its original codition and I'm also converting an old
Duo 270c into a digital picture frame since the battery is dead.
I'm a professional programmer and of course I'd like to try writing apps
for some of
Hi all,
Damn...due to my upgradeI lost the website/page for putting in the
serial no. of early compacts to get the info on the units.
Anyone can guide me here?
Cheers,
Phil
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On Feb 22, 2005, at 11:17, Phil Hosie wrote:
Hi all,
Damn...due to my upgradeI lost the website/page for putting in the
serial no. of early compacts to get the info on the units.
Anyone can guide me here?
Phil,
Google is your friend. Google for
macintosh serial number decoder
and the
My Reply follows quote. On 22/02/2005 08:17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hi all,
Damn...due to my upgradeI lost the website/page for putting in the
serial no. of early compacts to get the info on the units.
Anyone can guide me here?
Cheers,
Phil
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Try:
At 08:15 -0800 2/22/05, Dave Huseby wrote:
What's the easiest way to develop for these old machines?
One can still download Apple's MPW - Macintosh Programmer's Workshop - from the
Apple web site. It's a bit hard to find but it can be done. It comes with
libraries, linker, compiler, and
hey Powerbook People:
the following listers all promised to host the Powerbook
battery-rebuilding guide and then post links. I've sent the files to
each, and since none has posted links, I'm providing the contact info
I have so anyone needing this information may DL it. This
information
- An original RJ-11 keyboard cable.
Just one of my current niggles ;-) but the keyboard cable for the mac 128
to mac plus is an RJ10 which is slightly thinner than the RJ11 connector,
as I found out when I ordered the bits to make my own Mac plus keyboard
cable!
Regards Sean.
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Classic
hey Powerbook People:
the following listers all promised to host the Powerbook
battery-rebuilding guide and then post links. I've sent the files to
each, and since none has posted links, I'm providing the contact info
I have so anyone needing this information may DL it. This
information applies
Ian Nixon wrote:
oh and tape over the 2nd hole.
This method does not work for a long time. When I got my Mac II (my
first Mac with an 800k drive), I tried this method, and no less than 10
minutes later, the disk didn't work.
Do not use this method for backups or for any important
Ken wrote:
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Try: http://www.macfaq.org/hardware/misc.shtml#Q2.8.12
The pickle hasn't been around here for some time, but
his FAQ lives on.
http://macfaq.org/serial.html
This covers 400k 800k disks
http://www.macfaq.org/hardware/media.shtml#Q2.3.2
Bookmark it and download the html version
It works sort of but it is extremely unreliable. I
went through 16 floppies last night to get four
formatted for my Fat Mac. The other twelve are
salvagable but for some reason it does not like them.
According to my MacWorld secrets book, the 1.44 Mb
disks have a strnger magnetic field on the
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