"Market" for old macs?

Scott Stevens chenmel at earthlink.net
Wed Nov 30 17:14:08 CST 2005


On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:52:32 -0500
"James Fogg" <James at jdfogg.com> wrote:

> > Now here's a tricky question:  If the SE30 were the only mac 
> > in my entire household, how would I procure an OS install on 
> > diskette for it?  The drive in that thing is the 800K 
> > multi-speed beast, yes?
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
Here's my question to throw into the ring:

I have a LOT of Macintosh superdrives from early NuBus PPC Macs that I've salvaged.  Is there a good spec for the interface and has anybody gotten anything but a Mac to talk to those drives?  If anybody needs a superdrive or two for the cost of shipping just holler, btw.


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