"Market" for old macs?

[Teo Zenios]

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From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 12:04 AM
Subject: RE: "Market" for old macs?


> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, James Fogg wrote:
> > Do you have a PC? Apple does (or did) offer the OS's on their website,
> > and there were instructions about how to use various PC based programs
> > to write them in a Mac 800K format from a PC drive.
> > Somewhere I have the images and software because I've had to do this
> > once.
>
> The 1.4M Mac format can easily be done by a PC with special software.
>
> I'd LOVE to hear from anybody who is successfully formatting and writing
> GCR with a PC (without adding in a "flux transition" based additional disk
> controller (such as Catweasel or COPYII Option Board)
> It is "impossible".   (VERY difficult)
>
I don't think it can easily be done either. Another odd thing is that the
68K machines equipped with superdrives can reliably make 800K disks from
images, my perfectly good powermacs have problems doing this.