Where to get old software? For the MAC M0001

[phat-patrick80]

My father-in-law just gave me 2 Macintosh's and an Apple IIe and I am looking to find someone with any information on where to get software to make them work. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Sly]

Depending on the Macs OS & RAM try mac the underdogs Plenty of games for System 5 6 & 7. Can't help on the Apple II's, I have a feeling you may have to resort to trawling eBay for disks.

 

[David Schmidt]

My father-in-law just gave me 2 Macintosh's and an Apple IIe and I am looking to find someone with any information on where to get software to make them work. Any help would be appreciated.

There's tons of info out there. To get you started - check out System 7 Today for the macs:
http://main.system7today.com/
And of course Low End mac:
http://lowendmac.com/
For the Apple II, there are tons and tons of resources - check these out just to start:
http://www.virtualapple.org/
http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/A2FAQs4MAJORSITES.html
http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/A2FAQs7GAMESITES.html

 

[phat-patrick80]

Thanks,

The model numbers of the MAC's he gave me are M0001 and M0001w, I know those have 400k floppy drives, have you heard of anyone switching out the drive for a current one? (1.5mb)

Also can i run OS 6 on those macs?

 

[David Schmidt]

The model numbers of the MAC's he gave me are M0001 and M0001w, I know those have 400k floppy drives, have you heard of anyone switching out the drive for a current one? (1.5mb)

No. I'm not sure, but I doubt the ROMs will handle the 800k variety; certainly not the 1.4mb variety. I think the Mac Plus was the first to be able to handle 800k.

Also can i run OS 6 on those macs?

Definitely not. You have a plain 128k Mac (max system: 3.3) and a Fat Mac (512k; max system: 4.1). See:
http://lowendmac.com/compact/original-macintosh-128k.html
http://lowendmac.com/compact/macintosh-512k-fat-mac.html