If you are going to emulate the 400K drive itself, it is completely dumb. What it receives is encoded RLL data which goes thru an amplifier straight to the write head. To read, the…

Thanks for the tip. Works perfect!

Here is my Mac 128k connected to retro-net.org using MacTerminal. It runs lynx to browse the web and I can get email using pine. Very nice free service from them. The lack of arr…

Have you come across the Catweazel? Catweasel Disk Controller ISA Catweasel is a universal floppy disk controller that uses unmodified PC diskdrives. The Catweasel can read …

without having to vary the data rate. Click to expand... That's a good thing, right? In terms of building an emulated peripheral.

Here are a few final things: You can do file transfers back and forth from MacTerminal (I still use v 1.1) to Mac OS X with a few command line utilities (macutils) available on Ma…

it looks like it only has F keys and a numeric keypad. weird.

MacTerminal .......... The lack of arrow keys on my keyboard appears to be an issue though. Click to expand... Doesn't the keypad menu drop down to give you some?

Here is my Mac 128k connected to retro-net.org using MacTerminal. It runs lynx to browse the web and I can get email using pine. Very nice free service from them. The lack of arr…

or a Ham license and packet radio hehe

You should AT LEAST get dial-up. 8-o

...but its better than my old dialup so im not complaining Click to expand... It's better than what I've got: I have to leave my home and drive 25 miles into town when I want t…

Oh and i forgot to mention that it's very unreliable... pingtest gives me an F and 5-10% of the time the connections down I cant wait till Insight, Sigicom, SBC, Comcast, Insight …

...but its better than my old dialup so im not complaining

I wouldn't be able to turn it into anything server-y as my isp has 1 ip for _everyone_ on each tower, so no incoming connections. Click to expand... Tower? You mean on each wir…

Looking at the Mac drive pinouts I just Googled there's a pin labeled "PWM" which says "Motor speed control". If you can find documentation as exactly what sort of signal is presen…

Floppy disks are like record players Click to expand... No they aren't. Floppy diskettes are like records. Floppy diskette drives are like record players. Also they aren'…

I wouldn't be able to turn it into anything server-y as my isp has 1 ip for _everyone_ on each tower, so no incoming connections. Click to expand... That is really stretching t…

Floppy disks are like record players Click to expand... No they aren't. Floppy diskettes are like records. Floppy diskette drives are like record players. Also they aren'…

For those interested my notes so far. I think I am going to go buy a printer, because I hate reading on the computer. Can't scribble notes on the pages that way. :-D Click to e…

I wouldn't be able to turn it into anything server-y as my isp has 1 ip for _everyone_ on each tower, so no incoming connections. Click to expand... Tower? You mean on each wir…

What about a Localtalk-Ethernet adapter, like the Farallon Etherprint? Click to expand... On a 128K? No room for MacTCP.

Just as an aside, well... I was fuzing with this out of curiosity, and I never was able to make a USB serial adapter spawn a console out of /etc/ttys automatically. The oft-quoted …

good selection of notes! and I use arduino quite a bit, the programing of it is pretty easy, you should have little issue picking it up (ps if you have any questions and the ardui…

For those interested my notes so far. I think I am going to go buy a printer, because I hate reading on the computer. Can't scribble notes on the pages that way. :-D http://www.…