[vcf-midatlantic] Anyone with a Mac "Bridge" machine able to make a 400k disk

corey cohen coreyvcf at gmail.com
Mon Apr 3 18:01:03 EDT 2017


Do you hook it up to the port on the back? I read the PDF and it implied it had to be connected to the internal disk cable.  

corey cohen
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> On Apr 3, 2017, at 5:20 PM, Joseph Oprysko <joprysko1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> No, it doesn't need to plug in internally.  Just with a 128k you won't be able to mount hard drive images. I use it externally with my 128k. 
> 
>> On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 5:06 PM Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
>> I'll get it done tomorrow. Moved my macs out to storage while I was cleaning and testing all the Apple II machines for VCF, gotta start putting everything back the way it belongs tonight!
>> Once I have it done we will figure out the easiest way to get it to you.
>> Tony
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> > On Apr 3, 2017, at 11:40 AM, corey cohen <coreyvcf at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Yep that's the disk.  Once I have a real copy in 3.5" 400k.  I'll make a few spares then going forward I'm set to transfer data up and back.
>> >
>> > corey cohen
>> > uǝɥoɔ ʎǝɹoɔ
>> >
>> >> On Apr 3, 2017, at 11:20 AM, Tony Bogan <thebogans at mac.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Corey, I can get the image to 400k floppy for you. The link from your email doesn't work so let me know exactly what image you want. I'm assuming it's the macterminal_binhex5_bootdisk one from his image archive.
>> >> http://tkc8800.com/post/macintosh-128k-512k-400k-disk-images
>> >>
>> >> Tony
>> >>
>> >> Sent from my iPhone
>> >>
>> >>> On Apr 3, 2017, at 10:09 AM, corey cohen via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> I was hoping to get the serial to Mac 128/512k transfer disk from tck8800.com on a 400k floppy so I don't have to get a bridge machine going forward.  Once I have a copy of that disk and an rs422 to rs232 cable I can just use my modern MacBook Pro to transfer files and disk images.
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks,
>> >>> Corey
>> >>>
>> >>> corey cohen
>> >>> uǝɥoɔ ʎǝɹoɔ
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