Here's an update
I got the Mac to boot up one of the disks that had an operating system (Finder version 4.1) and in the stack of floppies that came with this mac, I formatted two of them and copied the OS to them. Now the Mac boots almost all the time. I would say about half the disks are unreadable, probably because of their age, but I was able to find some programs like MacWrite, MacPaint, ThrowPaint and a BMX game. I don't have a full version of a System OS, unfortunately the original Mac boot disk is unreadable.
Anyway, just thought I'd share. It's booting great now, I think it was just some bad floppies. I'll keep you guys posted.
As far as the 800k external floppy drive — I think because this is a mac with an original ROM, it has no idea what to do with an 800k drive. I have never been able to boot on it or even mount a disk. I think I remember reading that there is a program or some sort of driver you can run to make the Mac recognize the drive — HD20 init or something.
I got the Mac to boot up one of the disks that had an operating system (Finder version 4.1) and in the stack of floppies that came with this mac, I formatted two of them and copied the OS to them. Now the Mac boots almost all the time. I would say about half the disks are unreadable, probably because of their age, but I was able to find some programs like MacWrite, MacPaint, ThrowPaint and a BMX game. I don't have a full version of a System OS, unfortunately the original Mac boot disk is unreadable.
Anyway, just thought I'd share. It's booting great now, I think it was just some bad floppies. I'll keep you guys posted.
As far as the 800k external floppy drive — I think because this is a mac with an original ROM, it has no idea what to do with an 800k drive. I have never been able to boot on it or even mount a disk. I think I remember reading that there is a program or some sort of driver you can run to make the Mac recognize the drive — HD20 init or something.