I've recently restored my old Mac Plus childhood Mac Plus to working
condition and here is a few suggestions I have:
1) Running off floppies is a PITA. It's barely enough storage to
boot the OS, not to mention apps. If you have more than
1MB, you can play tricks like booting the OS and copying it to a
RAM disk, but it's still a PITA.
2) Keep your eyes peeled for an external SCSI Zip 100 drive. These
make the coolest and most awesome boot media.
3) External SCSI hard disks work too, but the Mac Plus is very
finicky about which SCSI drives it can boot, so
finding a drive is very difficult. You have to try a lot of them
before you find one that works.
4) If you want to replace the caps on your Mac, the book "Macintosh
Repair & Upgrade Secrets" by Larry Pina
is a must have. Might be hard finding a copy now a days. I might
be able to scan relevant chapters for you
if you need them.
5) The parts can be gotten off DigiKey. I ordered some a year or two
back. I can provide you with part numbers.
-- Marcio
On May 28, 3:03 pm, Sterling <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just got an old Mac Plus off Ebay in seemingly operational
> condition.
>
> I want to use it to teach my son a few things.
>
> But first I need a system disk.
> Is there any way to create a system disk using a PC (with floppy
> drive)?
>
> It's bad enough that all of my PC's only have CD rom drives and no
> floppies.
> Except for one old IBM laptop with a floppy in the expansion bay...
>
> I also purchased another motherboard off Ebay that I want to tinker
> with.
> Maybe replace some capacitors etc.
>
> I noticed the Mac Plus makes a faint ticking noise while powered on.
> Is this on the motherboard maybe, or with the CRT assembly?
> Something I can fix?
> The screen seems a bit fuzzy on the upper right and left corners too,
> but otherwise is holding nicely!
>
> Any comments?
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