[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).
>
>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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