Hi everyone,
I have been a long time admirer of old apple computers, but have never got round to buying one. Last week, I saw a cheap auction advertised on trademe for x2 Macintosh Plus, a Mac Classic and a Mac Classic Colour, along with their respective mice, keyboards, and a bunch of extra cords. I wound up getting them all for $60. When I went to pick them up, it turned out that the guy selling them was an ex apple technician and also had an Apple IIe, a Motorolla Starmax 3000/200 with monitor, two 5 1/4" floppy drives, a brand new large clear blue and white apple monitor, a heap of spare RAM for the Mac Plus/Classic and a heap of other mac bits and pieces that I took away. Exciting!
So far, I've tested the Mac Classic (working in OS 6.07), the Starmax (working in OS 9) and one of the Mac Pluses started up after I opened it and reconnected the disk drive and power. I've plugged in the other Plus and the Classic Colour and neither is working but I haven't opened them up yet to have a look. I don't have a monitor to use with the IIe, so I may just wind up selling it. I've also cleaned up the Mac Plus keyboards and am going to make a converter to USB so I can use them on my modern PC and Mac. They are great to type on.
My problem now is that I can't find a way to get new software onto any of them. I have a packet of apple 3 1/2" 1.44MB floppies and nothing else. I have a long list of games I want to put on the Mac Classic. My initial plan was to get the Starmax hooked up to the internet, download the game images and burn them to floppy. That plan failed after I spent a day trying to work out how to get the Ethernet to work and failing. My next plan was to download them on a pc, burn them to CD, then transfer them to the Starmax. Unfortunately, the Starmax isn't seeing the CD drive. I'm going to continue trying to get the Starmax to work but in the meantime, if anyone has spare games on 3 1/2" 1.44MB, or OS/games for Mac Plus, I'd be very stoked.
TL;DR - Hi, I'm new to vintage computers, working on restoring 4 old Macintosh computers to game-playing status. Looking for any spare games/OS people might have for Mac Plus/Classic.