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Post from USA
got this in the post yesterday and now my Macintosh SE boots
Nice,
What kind of SE have you, first generation or the SE FDHD one ?
What kind of SE have you, first generation or the SE FDHD one ?
contrary to what people may think
COPY THAT FLOPPY!!!
you have no idea when that floppy is going to go bad. Find a way to copy it, and do it quick!
COPY THAT FLOPPY!!!
you have no idea when that floppy is going to go bad. Find a way to copy it, and do it quick!
Yes, I agree with Coius, copy that disk! I can practically guarantee that one day it will suddenly stop reading on any computer.
I did the same thing with a series of original Mac 512k system disks, including MacPaint and MacWrite. I have them all backed up, and I use the copies.
Floppys do fail, frequently. But you'll be fine as long as you back them up.
And to expand on bibilit's question, is your SE the dual floppy kind or the HDD-floppy combo?
-Apostrophe
I did the same thing with a series of original Mac 512k system disks, including MacPaint and MacWrite. I have them all backed up, and I use the copies.
Floppys do fail, frequently. But you'll be fine as long as you back them up.
And to expand on bibilit's question, is your SE the dual floppy kind or the HDD-floppy combo?
-Apostrophe
Moreover, the disk can became corrupted by a faulty floppy drive,happened to me once xx(
I emphasize Coius' point as well.
I keep a directory on my archive volume just for floppy images, and I (hope I) have a copy/diskcopy image of every floppy I own in that directory. When I get something "new" that comes with a driver on a floppy, the first thing I do is make an image for the archive.