[OT] Help with ancient Mac

John Abreau jabr at blu.org
Tue Jul 12 04:17:52 EDT 2005


On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 20:48 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> Over 20 years ago I recommended a Mac to a friend of my father. He has
> 2 of them, one in Florida and one here. He only uses a spread sheet.

> As I said, the best option to get hold of an old Mac boot disk or an
> image. 

I bought a MacPlus back in 1985, and I bet it's still in my 
attic somewhere. I had an external 40mb scsi hard drive on it 
the last time I used it, and that's probably still up there 
too. 

I have no idea if it would still work after sitting unused for 
probably ten years, or even if it's still there; I may have 
thrown it away at some point. But I'll take a look and see if 
I can find it. 

I don't know where I'd find floppies for it, though; does anyone 
still make them? I imagine 20-year-old floppies probably would 
have rotted away by now and be unusable. 

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