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Is this too much $ and work for a noob.

which tower? Beige or blue&white?
If it's beige youll be able to make disks, (long story short, to make 800k disks you need a mac with a built in floppy drive. a usb one won't work)

if you end up needing some 800k floppy disks with a system image on them to get started, i'm willing to make you some and drop them in the mail. in the long term i'd recommend either a bmow floppy emu, or a modern SCSI drive emulator(bluescsi, zuluscsi, etc) to connect to the db25 port on the Mac
 
Torbar said:
which tower? Beige or blue&white?
If it's beige youll be able to make disks, (long story short, to make 800k disks you need a mac with a built in floppy drive. a usb one won't work)

if you end up needing some 800k floppy disks with a system image on them to get started, i'm willing to make you some and drop them in the mail. in the long term i'd recommend either a bmow floppy emu, or a modern SCSI drive emulator(bluescsi, zuluscsi, etc) to connect to the db25 port on the Mac
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+1 on this, I was going to say I’d make a floppy for you, too. As Torbar said, there are some fine options there to load disk images.
 
Juror22 said:
There is no HD in the Plus you need to plan for floppy creation - you would be better off going with an SE . (still the 68000 experience, but not as overpriced accessories [not aimed at you luRaichu, just the general prices, because these cover 128/512/Pluses] - keyboards are insane for these!)
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For me I HAD to have a Plus because of the feel and sound of the keyboard. It brings back all kinds of memories. It's a unique feel, the keycaps are an unusual shape and the echoes inside the mechanism when you press and release keys are like a musical instrument.
 
I fondled the keyboard of a Macintosh 128k in a museum and to me it looks and feels slightly better than the Plus keyboard
It's not convenient to be swapping floppies every time you want to load up a program, just get a SCSI disk emulator. BlueSCSI seems to be the cheapest at this moment, works fine for my Plus
 
luRaichu said:
I fondled the keyboard of a Macintosh 128k in a museum and to me it looks and feels slightly better than the Plus keyboard
It's not convenient to be swapping floppies every time you want to load up a program, just get a SCSI disk emulator. BlueSCSI seems to be the cheapest at this moment, works fine for my Plus
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That message feels dirty and I love it. :) Also yes BlueSCSI. I put the term power mod in all the Pluses I crack, because it takes no time at all and makes life much easier for The Next Guy.
 
Torbar said:
which tower? Beige or blue&white?
If it's beige youll be able to make disks, (long story short, to make 800k disks you need a mac with a built in floppy drive. a usb one won't work)

if you end up needing some 800k floppy disks with a system image on them to get started, i'm willing to make you some and drop them in the mail. in the long term i'd recommend either a bmow floppy emu, or a modern SCSI drive emulator(bluescsi, zuluscsi, etc) to connect to the db25 port on the Mac
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Oops. Blue and White kind. last beige beast I had was a 6400 but shes gone. So much new to learn with compacts!

Thats so kind of you to offer up an 800k floppy! can PM you w/ my address.
 
Update: so I’ve decided to take the advice of those here that steered me to an SE for my first compact making this post “solved” I guess. I’m not getting this Mac Plus on fb marketplace. Thank you all for your inputs. Master class as always.
 
If you are going to get a plus you might as well get an external floppy drive as well and have the experience of flipping floppies all the time.

I made sure to get external floppies for my Amiga 500 and 1000 to experience that same thing (HD expansions exists but were pricey 20 years ago let alone now).
 
LaPorta said:
Sometimes the floppies are part of the charm. I never like to play Dark Castle/BDC except from floppies.
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Speaking of visceral sensory experiences, no floppy I ever encountered sounds exactly like the seek sound of a Mac drive. I do not understand, really. It's just a Sony drive. But the seeking sound of those drives is absolutely unique. Maybe the compact shell acts as a resonant cavity to amplify certain harmonics in the sound :)
 
larwe said:
Speaking of visceral sensory experiences, no floppy I ever encountered sounds exactly like the seek sound of a Mac drive. I do not understand, really. It's just a Sony drive. But the seeking sound of those drives is absolutely unique. Maybe the compact shell acts as a resonant cavity to amplify certain harmonics in the sound :)
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LaPorta said:
It’s just the head drive motor specific to them. They sound the same out of the case.
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They're variable speed. PC ones are fixed speed. The motor changes speed to go slower the further out from the centre it is. That means the speed the magnetic medium actually travels under the heads remains about the same for different places on the disk.

That's why you get the sound of increasing urgency when you format a disk 😆
 
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