Wanted......Apple OS

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I have one of these....but need an 'easy' way to get hold of some OS disks for it....just the OS disks themselves, not all those null-modem data transfer/whatever solutions that need a soldering iron....just the disks....

Will pay handsomely....[afterall the whole computer was only AUD $5....with extra drive, printer and mouse].

I just want to be able to say:- "Yes, of course I have an Apple....what do you take me for....backward - primitive?"...;)

 

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Sorry Paul...no OS disks from me as this was way before I'd even approach anything related to a desktop - I grew up with calculators only in the mid to late seventies. Just wanted to ask a question (trivia) if I may & anyone can answer if they know: How much did one of these cost retail when it was new??? Thx for the space!!
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I don't know if you use ebay, but I happened upon this.

Link
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
That's a IIc, right? I think it didn't actually have an operating system apart from basic... but I could be wrong. You should be able to download basic somewhere from the net and then copy it to a 5" floppy and then run it.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

You should be able to download basic somewhere from the net and then copy it to a 5" floppy and then run it.

No...not if it needs to be on 5.25 inch mac-formatted floppies...when all you have is the equivalent for PC.

Without the 'basic' I can't even format the floppies.

All I can do is 'turn it on'....the lights are on but no-one's home...

Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
Hmm. I thought basic was actuallly loaded onto the machine itself, but then I was still in primary school when my parents got rid of ours, so I guess I'm wrong

Are you sure you can't find some utility that'll mac format a 5.25 inch floppy? I would have thought there'd be some overly eager guy on the internet who'd have released something.

Good luck with it though anyway...
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Are you sure you can't find some utility that'll mac format a 5.25 inch floppy? I would have thought there'd be some overly eager guy on the internet who'd have released something.

As I understand it the floppies are identical but the drives very definitely are not...one ver cannot read or write for the other as they are fundamentally incompatible....like 3,5 floppies vs tape drives...

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I couldn't find any place that sells it.  I think your best bet will be eBay.

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Adamness ...I'm not really 'into' Ebay....always seems a bit tacky...like a meat market  like bidding for slaves...

Hopefully someone will just 'have some' somewhere...and not 'need' them...

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have a working IIc and I think I have the original system disks. I may have an external apple drive laying around too. We'll see what can be done.

I'll let you know.

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Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It looks like they're single sided, double density drives = 143k Apple formatted (=180k PC DOS formatted).

Don't know if a "modern" 5.25" drive can emulate that at all no matter how good your programming skills!

There *were* some very clever DOS format proggys in the early days, but even running them under Windows - I don't like your chances.

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Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I have a working IIc and I think I have the original system disks. I may have an external apple drive laying around too. We'll see what can be done.

I'll let you know.

Sounding good....Jafo crosses fingers....

Chris TH  ...yes, I looked into the pros and cons...assuming there was some super-duper easy way....but there wasn't/isn't....

Reply #12 from Stardock Forums Top
I had an Apple //c but don't recall it coming with any OS discs or anything. It just worked.
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ooooooooo.......a mission

Out of curiosity.....what happens when you hit and release the "Reset" key and then press the "Ctrl" and "B" key simultaneously ?
Reply #14 from Stardock Forums Top
I don't recall, but I know that typing "pr#6" will reboot the system.
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It just worked.


My guess is you were about nine when they came out.......at that age everything 'just' works....

I don't recall


.....I can't remember what I had for breakfast
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My guess is you were about nine when they came out.......at that age everything 'just' works


You know, there was a time when you didn't even need disks?
http://www.physorg.com/news68796309.html


"Probably operated by crank, it survives in three main pieces and some smaller fragments."
This device, "could calculate the position of certain stars, at least the Sun and Moon, and perhaps predict astronomical phenomena"
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
what happens when you hit and release the "Reset" key and then press the "Ctrl" and "B" key simultaneously ?


IIRC the targeting graticule pops up for the orbiting LASER satellite.

If you kept the EULA, the destruct sequence was encoded in the Apple Headquarters postcode. I think it points to Redmond by default?

Just don't aim it at your little brother, you'll have his eye out - OK?




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Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Out of curiosity.....what happens when you hit and release the "Reset" key and then press the "Ctrl" and "B" key simultaneously ?

Do I have to try that....or will it just then boot into Windows and subsequently go to BSOD so I feel right at home?....

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Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top
"Out of curiosity.....what happens when you hit and release the "Reset" key and then press the "Ctrl" and "B" key simultaneously ?"

I remember that trick. It was so funny. In my computer class in high school, when there was a substitute, we did that on all the machines. I so want to take out my old Mac from the closet now!
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I so want to take out my old Mac from the closet now!


Ah HA! A closet Mac user !

I can't really talk, I just bought an iMac (for the wife, though, honest!)

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Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
How much did one of these cost retail when it was new???






On a sadder note . . . I can't find the system disks, I shall keep looking though.

This site might be useful though:
Link


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Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Here's me thinking the AUD $5 was a bit steep...
Reply #24 from Stardock Forums Top

My guess is you were about nine when they came out.......at that age everything 'just' works....

Ah, the good ol' days.

Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top

9.....

1963.....

They didn't have Macs then....probably didn't have Jobs, either...