This is a collection of 105 floppy disks for the original Macintosh machines (M0001 & 512K). They were distributed by the Boston Computer Society between 1984 and 1987. They all are single sided (400K) disks (the 800K drive was not available until 1987). The disks contain many freeware and shareware programs and desk accessories that were new and innovative at the time. The creation date on the first (BCS disk 001) is: Nov 24, 1984. The creation date on the last (BCS disk 100) is: Apr 28, 1987.
The collection is incomplete. The following disks are missing: 8, 9, 24, 25, 26, 27, 51 and 54. To make up for these there are 13 additional BCS disks including ones with labels like "Net Trek", "Ars Magna", Radical Castle", "Dungeon of Doom", several font disks, Red Ryder 7.0 and 8.0, and a hypercard disk. I have not cataloged the set but I did examine several to make sure that bit rot has not set in. I was surprised to find that none of those I tested showed any read errors. I guess the floppy technology 20 years ago was pretty good. I expect that you will have similar success in reading these disks.
Most of the disks include system software on each floppy so you should be able to run them even on your Mac 128K.
Some example contents:
BCS001 includes many MS-basic programs and a clock application.
BCS015 includes Finder version 1.1g.
BCS028 contains "New Daleks", "citgo", "Font Librarian", "Wizards Fire", "Visi f", "Locked Finder", "Regress f", "Mike Morton f", and "System f"
If you have a question about a particular disk just ask.
This would be a great collection for anyone who wants to re-create the computing experience that started with the first Macintosh.
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