marcj wrote:

Larry.

Larry Blanchard wrote in message
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Now I'm intrigued. I did some research and found it uses 400K 3.5"
floppies in some strange format which a PC disk controller can't write.
I also found that Apple has no interest in supporting anything that old.

I did find some disk images of various O/S releases, but they do me no
good because I can't write them in Mac format.

I believe you need a program called "rawrite" which is a PC program
that writes raw binary data to a floppy without trying making it PC
formatted. This should create a useable mac-formatted system disk that
will boot up your old machine. (You might want to troll around the
linux boards - rawrite was usually used for creating Linux-formatted
bootdisks, back in the day before everyone had CD-R drives).

Nope. Doesn't work. I don't recall what was different about the Mac
hardware but there was something--the only way you could write a
Mac-formatted disk on a PC was to use a Central Point Software Deluxe
Option Board which provided the necessary hardware.

I predict you'll boot it, realize how brutally slow it is, squint at
the tiny screen, and wonder why you went through the trouble!. Good
luck with the macquarium, it sounds like a cool project!

Some people collect old machines for reasons having nothing to do with
current utility. I suspect that 20 years from now that machine's going to
be worth a lot more working than it will as an aquarium.

-Marc-

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