It boots!!!
I was worried the FDD wouldn't work after a week and 2,000 miles in transit. I was wrong. It booted from and ran the 400k system disks that shipped with my Macintosh 512k!!! Problem is: it spat out the 800k disks that I prepared for it on one of my SEs.
So it's either that the two read/write heads in the Plus's drive are misaligned, and so only the lower one works when it's alone (hence the 400ks being read but not the 800ks)...or else my SE fudged up the disks.
But I'm not too worried; I'll do more experimentation in the future and I'll figure all this out.
In the meantime, here are pics of the Plus running MacPaint, MacWrite, and a program called Amazing that came on the Macintosh Tour disk.
MacPaint:
MacWrite:
Amazing (easy and hard levels):
-Apostrophe
I was worried the FDD wouldn't work after a week and 2,000 miles in transit. I was wrong. It booted from and ran the 400k system disks that shipped with my Macintosh 512k!!! Problem is: it spat out the 800k disks that I prepared for it on one of my SEs.
So it's either that the two read/write heads in the Plus's drive are misaligned, and so only the lower one works when it's alone (hence the 400ks being read but not the 800ks)...or else my SE fudged up the disks.
But I'm not too worried; I'll do more experimentation in the future and I'll figure all this out.
In the meantime, here are pics of the Plus running MacPaint, MacWrite, and a program called Amazing that came on the Macintosh Tour disk.
MacPaint:
MacWrite:
Amazing (easy and hard levels):
-Apostrophe