The logical thing to do would be to get an image of a bootable disk onto the amiga and write it to a floppy. I also have my trusty amiga 1200 to which I can get files no problem over a network, but I have no desktop macs (the closest I have is a netbook running osx).
Now I have an old PC laptop running linux with a floppy drive, but that drive seems to be faulty.
Since I can get System 7.5 from apple's website, the first thing I need to do is get the thing to boot from a floppy, but this is full of all the usual catch-22s you get dealing with old machines. I imaged the hard disk from it and it seems there is plenty there, but when I boot it I get what I assume is a non-system-disk error, so I imagine I will need to reinitialize the drive and so on. Privacy Policy.So I am in a situation I found a Powerbook 150 (a mac from 1994) in a skip and, curious, brought it home. Under which this service is provided to you. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2018Ĭable News Network. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. Unsurprisingly, rivals are once again copycatting Apple's leap of faith, releasing "Ultrabooks" that feature no disk drive. It was a controversial decision, but one that, as before, was mimicked by all of Apple's competitors.Ī decade later, Apple released a PC with no disk drive at all in the MacBook Air. With the 1998 release of the iMac, Apple got rid of the floppy disk drive entirely, featuring only a re-writable CD drive. But the bet was right, and within a few years, the computer industry embraced the 3-1/2 inch drive as the new standard.īut Apple wasn't done shaking things up. That made the Macintosh among the first PCs to even feature a 3-1/2 inch disk drive, let alone have it be the only disk drive built into the computer. The technology was extremely new at the time, introduced just over a year before the Mac went on sale. In the early 1980s, the company supported the predominant floppy disk format of the time, selling "Disk II" 5-1/4-inch disk drives for the Apple II system.īut with the 1984 release of the Macintosh, Apple did away with 5-1/4 drives, opting to build a 3-1/2-inch drive into the Mac. Apple has effectively killed off two disk drive formats, and may well be on its way to eliminating disk drives altogether.
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