I have a imac g4 running 10.2 or 9.1(I think) and was wondering if I could create disk for the macintosh?
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Macintosh generating disk
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Depends which Macintosh. If the unit you are targeting has a SuperDrive/FDHD (1.4mb drive) then yes, with a USB floppy drive you can do that. 400k or 800k is a different story.
Im targeting the 400k and 800k (I meant a power mac g4)
It is not possible to write a 400k or 800k disk on any Power Mac G4 without extremely expensive and custom hardware. I'm blanking the name of it, but there is a hobbyist who makes a controller that can interface directly with an old-style PC floppy drive and run its motor and read/write head directly, allowing direct dumps of data from any 3.5" floppy disk, in any format.
Edit: Found it! KryoFlux is the only solution I know of. €100-€125.
Edit: Found it! KryoFlux is the only solution I know of. €100-€125.
It would be cheaper to wait for a good price on an old PowerBook 5300 through wallstreet G3 with a floppy module and the appropriate Ethernet pcmcia card (if required) to act as a go-between machine. Any PowerBook prior to the Lombard G3 can write to 400k, 800k, and 1.4mb disks, provided it has the floppy module present if it was removable. And they don't take much space to store when not in use.
Would a powerbook 1400cs/166 work?? A found one for cheap. It only comes with a cd module though. Do they have a floppy module? If not cant I just apple talk them? And It doesn't have a Ethernet card. Where could I get one??
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The PowerBook 1400 would work. It's floppy module (which it looks like you would have to get seperately) definitely supports 800k disks, and should support 400k disks as well. If by AppleTalk you mean LocalTalk over the printer/modem port then no, none of the G4s share any ports with the 1400 line. However, with an Ethernet card popped in you could connect them to the same LAN and run AppleTalk over Ethernet.
eBay should be able to source you a PCMCIA Ethernet card. There were many supported by Mac OS 8 and 9 on the PowerBooks. Maybe someone else can comment in on specific supported model numbers. I don't recall them off the top of my head.
AppleTalk between the PowerBook 1400 and some older Macs like the Plus and SE is very doable once you have them up and running. As for the 128 and 512 varients I'm not sure, I've never used those two machines.
eBay should be able to source you a PCMCIA Ethernet card. There were many supported by Mac OS 8 and 9 on the PowerBooks. Maybe someone else can comment in on specific supported model numbers. I don't recall them off the top of my head.
AppleTalk between the PowerBook 1400 and some older Macs like the Plus and SE is very doable once you have them up and running. As for the 128 and 512 varients I'm not sure, I've never used those two machines.
ok thanks
