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Floppy Emu update: Mac 128K/512K support
It kind of disheartens me when I see people wanting this because it's "cool" and "convenient", when for me it's my only hope of a floppy drive, and I can't have it.
Still, I'd rather have a real drive clunking away, even if this is "cool".
Still, I'd rather have a real drive clunking away, even if this is "cool".
Dude, are you sure you live in the UK and not Darfur or something? Get a paper route.
A quick check on ebay.co.uk shows a price of £6.22 for a Manual eject floppy drive (Performa 475). Free shipping.
I'd have to pay $12 shipping on top of the 10 bucks it would cost me, you have it easy
I'd have to pay $12 shipping on top of the 10 bucks it would cost me, you have it easy
And when you can hardly afford food for the week, you really think you'd spend a whopping 6 pounds on a floppy drive?
(And besides, I need auto eject.)
(And besides, I need auto eject.)
All Mac floppy drives are auto-eject... Some are also auto-inject (grabs the disk before you're really done pushing it in). A lot of confusion on these terms leads to erroneous eBay listings.
Whoops, meant Manual Inject :-x
But anyway, if you can't afford a really cheap floppy drive, Let alone food for the week… I have no idea how you plan to pay for an emulator board or an SD card…
But anyway, if you can't afford a really cheap floppy drive, Let alone food for the week… I have no idea how you plan to pay for an emulator board or an SD card…
So it's you who's buying the food each week? That's an odd position for someone who doesn't even have enough clout to decide what they keep in their room to be in.
According to Google six pounds is at this exact moment worth $9.55. I guess according to the USDA's statistics I could "Thriftily" feed a male human between 14-18 years of age for a little over a day and a half on that much money.. Gee, that's sort of depressing, but nonetheless... that's a "whopping" sum to you? I'm sorry.
Weren't you totally working on your own floppy emulator board using some unnamed microcontroller or something? Are those free in England? They sure ain't here.
I must have missed the beginning of this story. Your Mac doesn't have a floppy drive? Or it's broken?
Like Blinkenlightz said, all Mac floppy drives are auto-eject. Whether it's manual or auto-inject doesn't matter too much, except if you put a manual inject drive in a computer that originally had an auto-inject drive, the opening in the case may not be big enough to easily push the floppy in all the way. You can still do it with the edge of your finger, though. I used to have a Mac setup like that.
If your family is truly struggling to afford a week's food, then I'm sorry to hear it. In that case, your extra cash is probably better spent on things other than floppy drives anyway. But if it's something you REALLY want, there are lots of ways a smart person with enough spare time can earn a little money. You obviously know something about classic Macs - there are tons of opportunities on eBay to buy things that are priced too low or are mislabeled, and immediately resell them with a better description for a small profit. Or buy old Mac parts that are "broken", many of which are simply missing software or other parts, or just need a good cleaning. Or depending on your neighborhood, you can likely earn some extra money babysitting, or mowing lawns, or running errands for neighbors. When I was 12, me and two friends put notes in about 50 neighborhood mailboxes, advertising ourselves as "helpers" for odd jobs, and got a lot of phone calls that led to work raking leaves and washing cars and stuff. Good times.
I used to have a hard drive and a floppy drive. The hard drive broke. I ran the Mac from floppies. The floppy drive broke (bottom head cracked during a clumsy re-alignment operation). I got a free hard drive from a PC guy we know.
Thus I do not have a floppy drive.
any from the U.S. postmaster?
Yeah, do NOT put anything directly in to any one else's mail box. It is a violation of US law (18 USC 1725) to put anything in or on a mailbox that does not have properly-paid postage. (Funnily enough, you do not have to actually SEND it through the USPS, it just has to have proper postage...)
When I was first starting my business, my wife and I went out distributing fliers in our neighborhood. My wife decided it was easier to tape them to mailboxes than to go up and tape them on doors. About two days later, I got a nastygram from the local US Postal Inspector. An apology was sufficient, no fine since it was the first time without a large distribution, but still...
Son, put down the screwdriver and back slowly away from the Macintosh, keeping both hands where we can see them.
For what it's worth, while I was living with my parents and didn't have my own job, I was pretty limited in what I could buy, I think this applies to just about everybody on this forum. It continues to be in poor taste to directly ask for handouts though, and it's even worse to suggest that the rest of us are bad people because we have the money to buy this type of hardware, and you don't.
Maybe one day you'll be able to pay for cool and convenient upgrades to TWENTY year old machines that only become practical for basic text processing tasks when you put a few hundred dollars of decade-newer upgrades into them. Until then, you've done a surprising job of making do with what you have, Keep it up until something comes along. Maybe your parents will surprise you with a disbursement to get new parts at some point in the near future.
And I'm sure you'd rather hear the screeching of a dial-up modem. It's interesting, how hilariously hipsterish you are about this hardware given that 100% of it was built before you were born.
This makes zero sense.
Help me, oh BMOW Kenobi, you're my only hope.