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Post #4 by tendim
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryPeripherals
Post DateWed, 11 Nov 2015 - 00:18
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/software-for-a-mac-plus.2897/
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The Powerbook 180 has a 1.44 "SuperDrive" floppy.  These floppy drives can read disks form more modern pc's or Macs.  Simply download stuff to a more modern machine and transfer to the Powerbook via floppy.  If you don't have a floppy on the more modern machine, you can buy a usb floppy drive for very little money.  The Powerbook floppy can also read/write 800k disks for the Mac Plus.
To add to this, the 180 will the be easiest way to transfer material to the Plus, since the Plus can only read 800K floppies.  I was in the exact same boat a few years ago and ended up buying a Powerbook 3400 as the "bridge" machine:

Intel Mac Mini w/ USB Floppy ---1.4MB disk---> Powerbook 3400 [180 in your case] ---800K disk---> Mac Plus

I am not sure how I can get old software/games that will run on either machine.

Other alteratives are to pick up an Asatne EN/SC adapter to give you Ethernet or SCSI, and then run an FTP server off ofyour main machine.  However, you will still have a chicken-and-egg problem if you don't already have an FTP app on your classic hardware.

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