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How do I get System 6 onto 800k floppies?

I acquired MANY years ago a pair of original Macs; a Plus and an SE. They're relatively complete, and worked at one point. I also have external 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives. The Plus has a keyboard (funky telephone-style connector) and no mouse, the SE has an ADB keyboard and mouse. Unfortunately its hard drive seems to be dead as it just makes a clunking noise and refuses to boot, although I assume it could still boot from floppy, a la the Plus.


I've lost the System 6 floopies though...I'd like to get them working, just for fun. Plenty of mice at the local vintage shop for $5 a pop and I have a basket of discarded, blank 800k floppies here at the office.


What I can't figure out is how to get a working set of system disks. I know it's easy enough to copy the OS to 800k floppies with a pre-OS X system because I actually did that when I acquired the Macs a decade or so ago, using my old Motorola Starmax 6000 clone (remember those?). Unfortunately I do not have access to anything capable of running OS 9 or even the Classic environment (I still have a set of OS 9 CD ROMs), thus no way of making the system discs.


Does anyone know of a way to either make the system discs in an OS X/Intel environment, or a source to acquire an OEM copy? None of the vintage stores I've found locally or online seem to have them available.

Posted on Jun 25, 2012 9:12 AM

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How do I get System 6 onto 800k floppies?

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