MPC 2000 with no OS Disk. What now?

hey,
today i got a mpc 2000 from ebay.
now my problem ist that there was no floppy with it.
when i start the mpc it says three thing
1. MPC2000 boot rom v1.00
2. scsi 7
3. mpc 2000 disk is missing

my plan was it to buy the maschine, check if everything is right and put a usb drive in it.
so now i have to check fast if everything works. i did a little research on google now my question is

Can i buy some floppys and a usb floppy drive download the os file and put it on the floppy disk and everything works? i´m on mac by the way i dont know if this matters.

i have to get this thing running really fast so that i dont lose my paypal safety.

Thanks for your help

You have two options:

1. Buy an OS disk from eBay and wait for delivery.
2. Go outside and buy an external floppy drive, and a couple of floppies, and just download the OS files from the internet.

Scrawny wrote:You have two options:

1. Buy an OS disk from eBay and wait for delivery.
2. Go outside and buy an external floppy drive, and a couple of floppies, and just download the OS files from the internet.

hey thank you for the quick answere.
i just buy it and it works?
i read in some articles that i have to put the floppys in a fat format or create fat images?
is this possible with a mac and how does it work?

I've never touched a Mac in my life so I'm not sure if it's any different than on Windows, but as far as I know, it's just that simple.

Thank you Lampdog. That was exactly what i needed

The O.S is downloadable from the above links, as stated.
I find sometimes I have to change the order of the 'system' file and the 'Exe' file on the disk untill it works.

They can be a bit tempremental, but once you've got the operating system loaded its all gravy.

Don't forget to save, your 'Program' and 'all sequences' regularly.
As they can crash ocassionaly and you lose it all. Puff, its gone forever.
And bare in mind you are restricted to 8 charactors when naming samples. Then press'Enter'.

A usb floppy drive will work, legacy mpcs only read 16bit samples so, either convert the samples to 16bit or just record them into the input (which sounds better anyway). Peace.!

Where are you based?
I have some old floppies lying about and think I can make a copy of the OS straight from my MP.
Let me know if you need assistance.