This means that boot disks for a Mac 128K, 512K, 512Ke, Plus, pre-FDHD SE, or un-upgraded Mac II cannot be made on a Mac OS X, Linux, or Windows machine. When written to a floppy, these images create exact copies of the master disks.ĭue to physical differences between Mac and PC floppy drives, 800K double density Mac floppies can only be written by other vintage Macs. These floppies are distilled into disk images you can download from the Web.
Installing System 6 or System 7.0.1 onto an older Mac is only possible using floppy disks, and the first step to installing System 7.5 is usually “boot from a floppy”. And that’s what we’ll talk about: Free tools for writing Mac floppy disks and HFS CD-ROMs using modern Mac, Windows, and Linux computers. To get that vintage Mac up-and-running, you need to be able to write downloaded software onto disks that an older Mac can read. 2007: One of the biggest hassles of the vintage Macintosh hobby is loading software onto your first older Mac.
