Mise à jour d'un Macintosh Plus de 1984, j'ai une disquette me permettant de graver des disquettes de 1,44 Mo car je souhaiterais mettre à niveau le disque système de l'époque pour faire fonctionner ce Mac avec la version 7 de l'époque.
Also, a set of System 7.0 disk images (800K) for 2DD diskettes was made available. See, for example, an old reply here:
Problems installing System 7 on a SCSI ha… - Apple Community
In order to write sector-copied 800K installation floppies from images, another pre-1998 Macintosh computer with Disk Copy 4.2 is needed as an intermediary.
You can per se use each 800K floppy in the Macintosh Plus internal floppy drive, but some kind of external hard disk drive connected to the SCSI port is required to store the installed system. A Macintosh Plus does not supply termination power, so this has to be handled separately.
Also, a set of System 7.0 disk images (800K) for 2DD diskettes was made available. See, for example, an old reply here:
Problems installing System 7 on a SCSI ha… - Apple Community
In order to write sector-copied 800K installation floppies from images, another pre-1998 Macintosh computer with Disk Copy 4.2 is needed as an intermediary.
You can per se use each 800K floppy in the Macintosh Plus internal floppy drive, but some kind of external hard disk drive connected to the SCSI port is required to store the installed system. A Macintosh Plus does not supply termination power, so this has to be handled separately.
Unfortunately, the French Apple community (Communauté Apple) appears to have very little to offer users of very old Macintosh computers. Therefore, you may still want to use this International/English site. However, it would be easier if the entire thread is in English. If necessary, you could perhaps consider using a web translation service such as Google Translate in both directions:
Malheureusement, la communauté Apple française (Communauté Apple) semble offrir très peu de ressources aux utilisateurs d'ordinateurs Macintosh très anciens. Par conséquent, vous pouvez toujours utiliser ce site international/anglais. Cependant, il serait plus simple que la discussion soit entièrement en anglais. Au besoin, vous pouvez envisager d'utiliser un service de traduction automatique comme Google Traduction dans les deux sens.
First of all, do you also have access to another (approx. 1990-1998) Macintosh computer with a built-in floppy drive? Models from that period can handle both 800K (DD) and 1.44 MB (HD) floppy disks internally. As Allan Jones indicated, the internal floppy drive of the Macintosh Plus will only accept up to 800K (DD) diskettes.
Do you have an external floppy drive, or a hard disk or Zip drive, that could be connected to the Macintosh Plus?
MFX wrote:
Mise à jour d'un Macintosh Plus vers System 7
mise à jour d'un Macintosh Plus de 1984, j'ai un floppy disk me permettant de graver des disquettes de 1,44MB car je souhaiterais upgrader le disque système de l'époque pour faire fonctionner ce Mac avec la version 7 de l'époque.
Automated translation (from French):
"Upgrading a Macintosh Plus to System 7
I am upgrading a 1984 Macintosh Plus; I have a floppy drive capable of writing 1.44 MB disks, as I would like to upgrade the original system disk to run this Mac on System 7."
Assuming that MacTracker is accurate, a Mac Plus can run versions of System 7 up to System 7.5.5. That is, if you can find a legitimate used retail copy of the appropriate kit.
The Macintosh Plus does not accept 1.44 MB floppy disks. It has an internal floppy disk drive capable of handling 400K and 800K floppies, and an expansion port for attaching an external Apple floppy drive of the same type.
Note that the Macintosh Plus came out in 1986, not 1984. The original 128K Macintosh cannot run System 7.5.5 – although a Macintosh that started life as a 128K Mac, and then received a major hardware upgrade to a MacPlus, would be able to do so.
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MACHINE TRANSLATION of QUESTION:
Update of a 1984 Macintosh Plus, I have a floppy disk allowing me to burn 1.44 MB floppy disks because I would like to upgrade the system disk of the time to run this Mac with version 7 of the time.
REPSONSE:
First, the Macintosh Plus does not appear to support 1.44MB floppies. That capability appeared with the latter Macintosh SE. Although a Macintosh Plus can support up to OS 7.5.5, older Macs would often fail to install a system from burned/copied disks. You need an original system install disk set and they are very hard to find. I have such a set for OS 7.6 and it is roughly 15 floppies.
Like Carol B, I believe you may be better helps inteh Apple's French-language forums.
MACHINE TRANSLATION of RESPONSE:
Premièrement, le Macintosh Plus ne semble pas prendre en charge les disquettes de 1,44 Mo. Cette capacité est apparue avec ce dernier Macintosh SE. Bien qu'un Macintosh Plus puisse prendre en charge jusqu'à OS 7.5.5, les anciens Mac ne parvenaient souvent pas à installer un système à partir de disques brûlés/copiés. Vous avez besoin d'un ensemble de disques d'installation système d'origine et ils sont très difficiles à trouver. J'ai un tel ensemble pour OS 7.6 et il y a environ 15 disquettes.
Comme Carol B, je crois que vous pourriez mieux aider les forums en français d'Apple.
This is primarily an English community. Pleased use the French link provided below.
Il s'agit principalement d'une communauté anglaise. Veuillez utiliser le lien français fourni ci-dessous.
Mise à jour d'un Macintosh Plus vers System 7
