Just picked up a 512k, but how do I get it working? :)

Hi all,
I stopped in at my local computer store to sell of a bunch of PC parts that were making me angry as they set around and very quickly became "yesterdays technologies", and in the corner under a table set this little 512k mac. Long story short the little apple is setting in my kitchen right now waiting for an os disk, and the pc parts turned into gas money.
So what do I have to do to get this cool old mac up and running? It has the 400k drive in it, and a external 800k floppy drive as well, but I don't know how to get an OS converted to disk, or if apple even offers system 6 free anymore. I have a 5400 and an Imac ready to make some disk if needed, but I don't know what to do from there.
Thanks in advance for your help, these forums are great.
Chris

Powermac 5400/200, Mac OS 8.6 or Earlier

Posted on Nov 1, 2006 1:42 PM

17 replies

taerchen

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Nov 13, 2006 1:30 AM in response to Chris O

Crystal Quest was one of the great games for these Macs.

Chris O Author

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Nov 13, 2006 9:20 AM in response to taerchen

I'll have to try that one out.

I think I have it pretty stable now, got some new 800kb disks and bumped my 5400 up with a G3 L2card,128ram, and put a new superdrive in it. Now it reads and writes floppys like no problem so the 512 has been getting a steady stream of old retro games. Thank you everyone for helping out once again!

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Just picked up a 512k, but how do I get it working? :)