presumably the later drives change speed depending on which track they're on, so one should be able to do the same thing with an emulated version and not bother counting pulses. …

get a metric ruler, go from there, its one of 3-5 sizes

I've got an SE with a really noisy fan I'd like to replace. Unfortunately, the SE uses an odd paddlewheel style fan instead of the fans you typically find in systems since that ti…

presumably the later drives change speed depending on which track they're on, so one should be able to do the same thing with an emulated version and not bother counting pulses. …

2k, starting tomorrow I will be working with some old school 64k ram and the arduino on a non related project, to see how easy/bad it is If the mac is generating the pwm on the ea…

The PWM signal is well documented in Inside Macintosh and Apple Macintosh Family Hardware Reference. A PAL reads the disk-speed buffer in RAM and generates a PWM. However, the 800K…

http://www.weirdstuff.com/sunnyvale/html/index.htm It's in the Sunnyvale area.

where exactly is this place? I will be driving home to SB sometime next week and would like to check this place out.

They used to have a prototype Apple Imagewriter in their mini museum. I've asked about it several times, but they always told me it wasn't for sale. I got my Farallon PhoneNet ada…

They used to have a prototype Apple Imagewriter in their mini museum. I've asked about it several times, but they always told me it wasn't for sale. I got my Farallon PhoneNet ad…

Thanks! Goodwill was the place where I got my maxed-out PB 170 with 1 GB HD for $5.

Congrats on your latest conquest JRL! I'm going to try and see what I can find at my local Goodwill this weekend. They're having a 50% off everything sale! (Except white tagged …

:lol:

This store actually isn't a "junk" store. It's a outfit that specializes in buying company and retail surplus. Mostly technology, but there is actually a lot of industrial equip…

Eek! 8-o

No fair! Un fortunatley, none of the "junk" stores around here have computers...

Today, I went over to Weird Stuff Warehouse (explained before ). Aside the aforementioned Black Friday sale (25% off in everything in the As-Is section), it turns out that they …

It has great potential for a Macquarium! }

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…

Whatever floats your boat...personally I can't stand computers stuffed full of lights and stuff...and I don't think a clear CC with lights in it would change that!

Oh come on - look at it, sitting there, all transparent like. Just gagging for a big purple CCFL shining up from the back somewheres. There's not a jury in the world....

That thing is begging for some CCFL/LED action. Click to expand... Just....for the love of God.....no.

I just imagine Johny Ive looking at these prototype models saying, "hm ... what, if we add some color to this plastic?"

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 …

Would you sell me a 5 1/4 inch floppy?