[OT] Help with ancient Mac

Kyle Plummer kyle at breezy.com
Tue Jul 12 11:12:53 EDT 2005


I have some BCS System 7.0 install disk, and System Disks from my old 
powerbook. If they well help.

Kyle

Jerry Feldman wrote:

>On Tuesday 12 July 2005 10:35 am, Mark J. Dulcey wrote:
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>>The 800K floppies were written with the same head design as 720K
>>floppies; the reason you got 800K instead of 400K is that the disks were
>>double-sided. 
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>Thanks Mark,
>I actually have some old floppies going back to my Atari ST days that I 
>never discarded that contains some software. 
>I haven't looked, but is there code available on Linux for formatting the 
>Mac 800K encoding. I know that you can format the 720K natively using 
>fdformat(8). 
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>But, the main issue is just getting a boot disk for him, and I think that a 
>couple of people may have it. 
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