"Market" for old macs?

[Adrian Graham]

On 30/11/05 21:39, "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:

> I've never used a Lisa with 3.5"; it must be a lot nicer than the twiggy
> disks with the extra thumb hole.

Call me a masochist, but I *want* to use a twiggy based machine :) Booting
off a ProFile is too quick!
 
> quite difficult if the reason for the project was to create a boot disk
> for that Mac.  Some software shouldbe able to format on the PC.

Sorry, I should've said I was creating disks for my Lisa.....

> SOME Macs can do both 400K/800K AND do 1.4M (FDHD drive, and the early
> FDHD control circuitry - I've heard that "recent" Macs can not do GCR)

I checked my entire Mac collection and none of them would read 1.44 AND
write 400K, hmm, I didn't get my SE/30 out of the garage.....

>> Create 400k disk
>> Boot lisa
>> Drink beer :)
> 
> You were able to wait until you were done?
> I started hitting the alcohol less than halfway through.

I don't drink during the day though, by the time I'd booted Lisa for the
first time it was past beer o'clock :)

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