Hi, I got an old Macintosh Plus 1mb. It also has an external hard drive. Not that I think that matters. What I am wondering is how I can move files from my Macintosh Plus to my Windows, and vice versa. I know it will have to be done with floppies. I just want to be able to transfer text documents. Can this be done with my Macintosh Plus's 800k floppy drive?

Um, there's no emulators on the pc that can handle the 800k mac disks..if the MacOs on it could handle PCexchange control panel you could use pc formatted 720k disks, but i'm not sure it runs on system 6..it may be nessecary to transfer them to a mac with a 1.4 k floppy, or to the external drive, and plug that into a mac with a 1.4k floppy.. The best solution is a system 7 boot disk with the pcexchange control panel installed, instead of a full system 7 install, because of your really low ram, and *if* it will boot with this disk , replace the system 6 or earlier system folder (move it to the external drive or so to keep it safe, rather than deleting it) and move the system 7 folder onto the plus harddrive..reboot and ignore the message that the system is meant for a bootdisk, and assuming there's enough memory to load pcexchange, it should now recognize pc 720k floppies. I'm concerned 1 meg simply isn't enough memory tho... here's an 800 k system 7 bootdisk....you'll need stuffit expander or another binary decoder... http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/download/SysVII-800k-boot-disks/800kMac-701-miniF/ PC exchange is here.. ftp://ftp.ece.ucdavis.edu/pub/pspice/mac/PC_Exchange.bin ..and it occured to me tha apple file exchange will read pc 720k disks also ,,start apple file exchange before inserting the floppy, then copy them to it..this may in fact be the easiest way, as apple file exchange may indeed run under system 6, and in any case doesn't need to be loaded into memory on boot..it's on the system 7x disks.. here..look for 7.0 or 7.01... http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/syslist.html

If they both have network support you could set up a simple ftp server on your Windows machine and just upload to it.

there is always vMac or Basilisk II for Windows which emulate 68k macintoshes. Joshua Coventry Apple Computer Specialist