Re: Source for IIGS system disks

[Ziggy <Ziggy@TheCentre.com>]

a2user wrote:

> In article <xsFzd.565459$wV.548649@attbi_s54>, Ziggy <Ziggy@TheCentre.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Downloaing isnt the problem, you need a mac + a low density drive to 
> > write the files to disk.. I have PC's, and much a too modern PowerPC Mac 
> > to do the conversion..
> >
> > This isnt an emulator, its a real IIGS, so i need real disks...
>
>
>
> Small correction.  That would be Double Density 3.5" disk/drive, not low
> density. I believe low density would refer to the 400K drives the original
> Mac 128K used. By the time the Apple IIgs came out in 1986, Apple had
> switched all their 3.5" drives over to the 800K (720K for the rest of the
> computing industry) Double Density 3.5" drives.
>
>
> Also, the 3.5" floppy SuperDrive which Apple put into their Macs from the
> late '80s to the late '90s should be able to read/write ProDOS disks, even
> at 800K, so I am guessing you have a Power Mac G3 blue & white from 1999
> or newer, after Apple ditched the floppy altogether.


Its a 'bronze' PB..  Guy at work has a G4 tower.. we tried it on his 
first, but it refused to work with the disks..

My fault on the disk desnity ( memory has faded over the years on some 
of the details of classic hardware ) .. but the result was the same ....