First post, by tedward
I've recently come in to possession of a 1MB Mac Plus. It's, as far as I can tell, in great condition and fully functional. I've disassembled it and checked the board and everything looks clean and no cap issues. When it boots, it shows the disk with a question mark on it, informing me that it needs a boot disk.
My question here is about obtaining boot disks for these older macs in 2023. For a PC, I would just write a bootable floppy on another PC and go. However, I'm unfamiliar with these older Macs and I'm not sure how to bootstrap OS disks for these. I have disk image files of OS 7 that I can put on to floppies but I'm not sure how to:
- Source compatible 800k floppy disks
- Write 800k floppy disks - My understanding from reading up on it on Wikipedia is that these Macs had some sort of dual dual head drive (top and bottom) and this makes them fundamentally incompatible with PC drives of the era.
Any help and info would be greatly appreciated.