Finally a Macintosh Plus

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I had a few bad Macintosh Conquests lately.  From a local recycler I got a Powerbook 140 & a Macintosh IIcx which don't work.  The Powerbook is beyond help, the Macintosh IIcx chimes but probably needs a recap.

So I was very happy to find a perfectly working Macintosh Plus for $80.  Where I live they are not that common so $80 was not bad.



 
With my trusty Floppy Emu this is currently my favourite Macintosh since it is ultra quiet (no fan and SD card drive).  Currently running a 40MB Floppy Emu in HD20 emulation mode.
 


Very Clean Inside
 

 

[Juliet Elysa]

Aw, sorry to hear about the PowerBook. But congrats on finally finding a Plus! Especially a working one. I love mine, though I can't really do much on it due to a lack of software for System 3.x. Compact Macs are just plain cute. :lol:


Here's mine, with a bunch of other clutter.

 

[uniserver]

plus is a great machine!

 

[Elfen]

System 3 - Juliet Elysa? Damn... You should get System 6 and get more software for the Plus. A lot of things that will run on System 7 will on on System 6. 

 

[Schmoburger]

+1 for getting a copy of 6... max1zzz has a mirror of the old now defunct unsupported software archive up on the web and you can find .sea files of the System 6 startup disk set here.

I love my Pluses but all are up for new filter caps before I can use them again at the moment, as they all trip the RCD's when i leave them plugged in.

 

[Juliet Elysa]

Mine's old enough that it doesn't have a hard drive, will System 6 run on floppies and if not it can boot from an external hard drive right?

 

[Schmoburger]

Yep no problems at all booting from an external hard drive. But yes, Pluses never had an internal anyway... booting from floppies and running off floppies was the normal manner of operation back in those days. Hard drives were very much a luxury item... First Compact mac to include one standard was I believe the SE FDHD. Depending upon the program, you either had to do the old switcheroo between floppies to load the program to memory, or some programs, were on bootable floppies with a cut down system file.

The System 6 disks arent Installer disks per-se, more a set of disks with most of the tools you need to do things, System Tools and Disk Tools are the ones you use the most.

 

[Macdrone]

I run system 7 on mine, just because made making floppies easier.

 

[3583Bytes]

Yes you could do floppies but those are getting harder to find and my experience is that the fail after some time. My floppy collection probably looses 10% of its members every year.

The real solution is Big Mess of Wires Floppy Emu. It hooks into the floppy port on the back and let's you mound a 40MB hard drive or a floppy disk image on you Mac. No fan no noise

 

[Elfen]

For years I ran a Mac 512Ke, Plus, and SE with system 6.0.4 floppies. I can search and look about for them but I no longer have 800K Disks to copy to. I need to hit up eBay for old 800K floppies.  

 

[westcoastech]

If you need a set of 6.0.8 disks made I can help, send me a pm

 

[bibilit]

A SCSI Zip can be an alternative to floppy discs.

 

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I have been testing all my favourite games on the Plus to make sure they work, however I am having issues with Pax Imperia.  I can start it and choose the star system but can't get past that.  Any known issues with that game on the Macintosh Plus?