Unfortunately macgreg was taken on MacTalk
The iMacs are very tough too - my 4 year old son inserted three CD-ROMS into a slot load drive at once - I extracted them all and th…
(btw I am gregh from MacTalk...)
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Oh hey, I had no idea you were on MacTalk. I'm over there with you and Byrd as well, same name as here.
Really nice little …
Oddly, the issue only happens with the 7.5 installer...Guess I have to go back to the drawing board with that one.
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My Performa 6200 came with a CD with the o…
Oddly, the issue only happens with the 7.5 installer...Guess I have to go back to the drawing board with that one.
What do you mean by "zeroed the drive", have you run Drive…
It's 7.5.3 (the one freely-distributed on Apple's site). Guess I should have been more specific. :I
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Do all the installers, eg 7.6, 8.0, 8.5 report the same …
I zeroed the drive, and attempted to install OS 7.5.
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•requires System 7.5.1 through 9.1
http://lowendmac.com/ppc/performa-6200.html
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It'…
Is the battery flat?
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Yes, but it has been since I've gotten it, and like I said, I've reinstalled the system many times.
What does "About Macintosh" s…
I had no idea the transfer rates were so high
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IBM PC's, even with an 8088 (wow!) used a DMA controller for floppy disk because of the data rates. You could j…
IWM in the Macintosh is similar but not identical to the Apple ][ controller. There's a / device out there that emulates a physical floppy drive and works with the Apple ][ / calle…
Man I wish our goodwill doesnt suck, I asked one day where the computers were, they said downtown, so I called downtown and "the public is not allowed into that area"
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A few years ago I attached 7 DuoDisks to a IIe for fun... that's almost 2 megs of online storage! I think I used ProSel as a program launcher. It really worked quite well.
Incidentally, you can make your own view new posts URL that excludes other parts of the forum (or, more properly speaking, only includes certain parts of the forum) by mucking arou…
That can be simplified a bit by enabling the sub-forum search option (&sc=1) since phpBB doesn't distinguish between forums and categories – so the forums listed on the ind…
This seems to work, the major drawback being that changes to the forum may break it.
Code:
http://68kmla.org/forums/search.php?fid[]=1&fid[]=3&fid[]=4&a…
This is probably a "doable" project, but it's going to involve at least some hardware. (IE, I don't think you'll be able to get away with just a cable linking bare pins on the para…
You could do a really crude approach where you actually format the "disk" using the Macintosh and simply record the output signal at a suitable resolution, it's still a digital sig…
Perhaps a combination of a parallel port and a soundcard for the analogue waveform. Sounds horrendous, but it would be a good stepping stone on the way to a microcontroller based …
Olde-mac-milt usually carries HDD cradles for the IIci/IIcx/Q700, which he groups together. I have one of each of those Macs, and can verify that they use a common (with minor var…