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Posted by: Swabbie on 2025-12-22 12:02:52
One last issue: do you have other Macs that you can make 800k disks with? Plus won’t read 1.4 MBs. I don’t. Oldest Mac I have rn is a G3 so, great point. |
Posted by: Swabbie on 2025-12-22 12:05:30
Right now on eBay there's a parts/repair mouse for $23 and a few others for $40-50. I think my price is fair It did work last time I tested it but I can test again with my Plus ok. Great. I’ll pm you to make arrangements to buy. |
Posted by: Torbar on 2025-12-22 12:17:53
all the photos from the listing:
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Posted by: Swabbie on 2025-12-22 12:34:32
all the photos from the listing:
Spoiler content hidden. Thank you for posting this! |
Posted by: LaPorta on 2025-12-22 12:43:28
I don’t. Oldest Mac I have rn is a G3 so, great point. Which sort? If it’s a beige one with floppy drive, you’re fine. |
Posted by: Swabbie on 2025-12-22 12:57:47
Which sort? If it’s a beige one with floppy drive, you’re fine. Oops. Sorry. A G3 tower. I had a beige PM 6400 but sold it to a much better tech than me after not being able to solve an issue with it. (In my past posts if curious) |
Posted by: Torbar on 2025-12-22 13:00:14
which tower? Beige or blue&white?
If it's beige youll be able to make disks, (long story short, to make 800k disks you need a mac with a built in floppy drive. a usb one won't work)
if you end up needing some 800k floppy disks with a system image on them to get started, i'm willing to make you some and drop them in the mail. in the long term i'd recommend either a bmow floppy emu, or a modern SCSI drive emulator(bluescsi, zuluscsi, etc) to connect to the db25 port on the Mac |
Posted by: LaPorta on 2025-12-22 13:02:28
which tower? Beige or blue&white?
If it's beige youll be able to make disks, (long story short, to make 800k disks you need a mac with a built in floppy drive. a usb one won't work)
if you end up needing some 800k floppy disks with a system image on them to get started, i'm willing to make you some and drop them in the mail. in the long term i'd recommend either a bmow floppy emu, or a modern SCSI drive emulator(bluescsi, zuluscsi, etc) to connect to the db25 port on the Mac +1 on this, I was going to say I’d make a floppy for you, too. As Torbar said, there are some fine options there to load disk images. |
Posted by: larwe on 2025-12-22 14:00:10
There is no HD in the Plus you need to plan for floppy creation - you would be better off going with an SE . (still the 68000 experience, but not as overpriced accessories [not aimed at you luRaichu, just the general prices, because these cover 128/512/Pluses] - keyboards are insane for these!) For me I HAD to have a Plus because of the feel and sound of the keyboard. It brings back all kinds of memories. It's a unique feel, the keycaps are an unusual shape and the echoes inside the mechanism when you press and release keys are like a musical instrument. |
Posted by: luRaichu on 2025-12-22 14:02:43
I fondled the keyboard of a Macintosh 128k in a museum and to me it looks and feels slightly better than the Plus keyboard
It's not convenient to be swapping floppies every time you want to load up a program, just get a SCSI disk emulator. BlueSCSI seems to be the cheapest at this moment, works fine for my Plus |
Posted by: larwe on 2025-12-22 14:28:05
I fondled the keyboard of a Macintosh 128k in a museum and to me it looks and feels slightly better than the Plus keyboard
It's not convenient to be swapping floppies every time you want to load up a program, just get a SCSI disk emulator. BlueSCSI seems to be the cheapest at this moment, works fine for my Plus That message feels dirty and I love it. 🙂 Also yes BlueSCSI. I put the term power mod in all the Pluses I crack, because it takes no time at all and makes life much easier for The Next Guy. |
Posted by: Swabbie on 2025-12-22 14:58:47
which tower? Beige or blue&white?
If it's beige youll be able to make disks, (long story short, to make 800k disks you need a mac with a built in floppy drive. a usb one won't work)
if you end up needing some 800k floppy disks with a system image on them to get started, i'm willing to make you some and drop them in the mail. in the long term i'd recommend either a bmow floppy emu, or a modern SCSI drive emulator(bluescsi, zuluscsi, etc) to connect to the db25 port on the Mac Oops. Blue and White kind. last beige beast I had was a 6400 but shes gone. So much new to learn with compacts!
Thats so kind of you to offer up an 800k floppy! can PM you w/ my address. |
Posted by: Swabbie on 2025-12-22 17:01:51
Update: so I’ve decided to take the advice of those here that steered me to an SE for my first compact making this post “solved” I guess. I’m not getting this Mac Plus on fb marketplace. Thank you all for your inputs. Master class as always. |
Posted by: Unknown_K on 2025-12-22 17:30:40
If you are going to get a plus you might as well get an external floppy drive as well and have the experience of flipping floppies all the time.
I made sure to get external floppies for my Amiga 500 and 1000 to experience that same thing (HD expansions exists but were pricey 20 years ago let alone now). |
Posted by: LaPorta on 2025-12-23 05:42:59
Sometimes the floppies are part of the charm. I never like to play Dark Castle/BDC except from floppies. |
Posted by: larwe on 2025-12-23 07:32:15
Sometimes the floppies are part of the charm. I never like to play Dark Castle/BDC except from floppies. Speaking of visceral sensory experiences, no floppy I ever encountered sounds exactly like the seek sound of a Mac drive. I do not understand, really. It's just a Sony drive. But the seeking sound of those drives is absolutely unique. Maybe the compact shell acts as a resonant cavity to amplify certain harmonics in the sound 🙂 |
Posted by: LaPorta on 2025-12-23 07:51:21
It’s just the head drive motor specific to them. They sound the same out of the case. |
Posted by: Phipli on 2025-12-23 09:47:50
Speaking of visceral sensory experiences, no floppy I ever encountered sounds exactly like the seek sound of a Mac drive. I do not understand, really. It's just a Sony drive. But the seeking sound of those drives is absolutely unique. Maybe the compact shell acts as a resonant cavity to amplify certain harmonics in the sound 🙂 It’s just the head drive motor specific to them. They sound the same out of the case. They're variable speed. PC ones are fixed speed. The motor changes speed to go slower the further out from the centre it is. That means the speed the magnetic medium actually travels under the heads remains about the same for different places on the disk.
That's why you get the sound of increasing urgency when you format a disk 😆 |
Posted by: joshc on 2025-12-23 10:47:40
If you are going to get a plus you might as well get an external floppy drive as well and have the experience of flipping floppies all the time. Easier said than done, prices of external drives are still high. A FloppyEmu would be a better buy these days. |
Posted by: LaPorta on 2025-12-23 11:37:52
True, but they still don’t sound the same as Sony Mac 1.4 MB drives of the non-original (auto inject) design. |
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