[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Can anyone help me?

[Martin Kafka]

Ken

Thanks for this helpful information. 
The floppy disc did fit into the drive slot and I do have an external drive but it doesn’t book up.
I assume the reason that It doesn’t show up as an icon on my screen is because of the floppy that is stuck in the floppy disc slot.

In any case, my son Adam is a computer scientist and geek and when he visits ( form California) he will take a look. 
If anyone can kick the machine to get it operational, he’s our man

Marty Kafka

> On Oct 11, 2021, at 9:47 PM, Ken Pogran <pogran at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> Macs had internal 3.5" drives, not 5.25". I don't recall if there was ever an external 5.25" drive for a Mac. So in. all likelihood Martin's Mac Plus wouldn't solve Derek's problem.
> 
> The Mac Plus read its OS off a floppy, or off an external 20MB  hard drive, if one was attached. (I believe it was a SCSI interface). Imagine a bootable OS in 800kB!
> 
> I recall occasionally lugging a Mac Plus and HD 20 drive home from work in a custom-designed carry bag, back when the Mac Plus came out.
> 
> Ken Pogran
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LCTG <lctg-bounces+pogran=alum.mit.edu at lists.toku.us> on behalf of Martin Kafka <mpkafka at rcn.com>
> Date: Monday, October 11, 2021 at 3:55 PM
> To: Derek Gardiner <derek.gardiner.02420 at gmail.com>
> Cc: Lex Computer and Tech <LCTG at lists.toku.us>
> Subject: Re: [Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Can anyone help me?
> 
>    Derek
> 
>    I have an old Mac Plus computer that I purchased used in 1986-7.
>    It has a slot for  the 5.25 floppies. My problem is that a 5.25 inch floppy disc is “ stuck” in the disc slot.
>    I tried to release it with a safety pin but it will not extrude.
>    I do not think the Mac Plus has its own OS because I get the blinking ? icon on the screen.
>    If you would like to use this computer and tinkering with it might help, be my guest. 
> 
>    I live in Newton.
>    Let me Know. 
> 
>> On Oct 11, 2021, at 12:54 PM, Derek Gardiner <derek.gardiner.02420 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have a strange request. Is there anyone out there with the ability to read a 5.25” floppy disk in Apple format. The disks I have were created on an Apple IIc in the 1980s. (Not sure if the format changed for the Mac.)
>> My wife and I have several of these disks and we would like to be able to examine the files. 
>> Derek.
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