Just to make things interesting, Apple has a bunch of different floppy drives with different software interfaces which all plug into the floppy port / IWM / SWIM / IBM chips. There…
Just a little update on this - turns out I won't be upgrading this guy's iMac...thanks to the uselessness of the local computer shops....thanks to everyone anyway
Well about the time I pulled out the soldering iron I realized something. If I want to understand how the drive works it would be much better to spy on it while the Mac is using it…
I did some research and found that the SWIM and pretty close to the IWM. I took a look at the Linux Mac floppy driver code and apparently a command is sent to the drive it switch i…
PC66-133 will work, just the 66 stuff will downclock the bus speed to the 66mhz that the memory can handle. Other than that you'll be ok.
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If the bus is great…
They use the same power adapter as the Powerbook duo/1400/G3 so you are good to go if you have one of those around.
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Mine uses the silver/white Hockey Puck/Wi…
68kMLAPowerPCby Trash80toHP_MiniSat, 5 Dec 2009 - 20:03
I found one of these at the flea market with no power adapter, battery or hard disk. Would there be a way to use one of my Wallstreet/Lombard AC bricks on it with an external hard…
I just wanted to stop in and introduce myself. I've been lurking in the background just reading the forums. I had registered before, but somehow got sidetracked and never got aroun…