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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!asuvax!asuacad!icbal
- Organization: Arizona State University
- Date: Monday, 4 Jan 1993 16:21:20 MST
- From: <ICBAL@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Message-ID: <93004.162120ICBAL@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: mac 512 errors
- References: <joverhol.726171106@vela> <8322@news.duke.edu>
- Lines: 19
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- In article <8322@news.duke.edu>, braun@daytona.tunl.duke.edu (Richard Braun)
- says:
- >
- >A couple days ago a friend of mine was given an old mac 512k.
- >However the machine came without any system software, so he asked
- >me for help. What is the latest system that will run on this
- >model mac? We found an old system 4.2, chopped it down so it
- >would fit on a single-side disk and tried it (it successfully booted
- >a mac plus), but he got an error 12 just before it finished booting.
- >Does anybody know what this error is. Does anybody have an old system
- >that will work on his mac?
- >
- >Is it possible for his mac to use a double-sided drive?
-
- An old 512K can indeed use an external double-sided drive, but all of
- the 800K disks you use must be formatted MFS, which you must do elsewhere
- (like on a Mac Plus).
-
- Bruce Long
-