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Interface information for 400KB Floppy drive — #14

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…
68kMLA 68k by Osgeld Wed, 25 Nov 2009 - 00:30

Interface information for 400KB Floppy drive — #13

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.…
68kMLA 68k by redrouteone Wed, 25 Nov 2009 - 00:27

Interface information for 400KB Floppy drive — #12

I've done some embedded systems work before. In college my senor project was a 4'x2' display that showed the internal data flow of the pipe line of a MIPS process. I designed the …
68kMLA 68k by redrouteone Wed, 25 Nov 2009 - 00:25

Power Mac G4 MDD Cooling — #2

The power supply won't have issues unless you have an ADC display. The trickle power for the power button on it heats up the power supply but if the unit is off, the fans don't spi…
68kMLA Hardware by bizzle Wed, 25 Nov 2009 - 00:10

IIci acquisition — #9

Just joined here after acquiring my IIci. Click to expand... Because before, you wouldn't have been allowed. ;D Click to expand... In all fairness its been about 10 years…
68kMLA Software by Osgeld Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 23:43

My first hack a success! — #8

I found a 3300pf, 2kv capacitor at a component shop near my house. I soldered it on and it looks great. Only 1/4" black border now. Here's a screen shot, and I'll upload a pictu…
68kMLA Hardware by olePigeon Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 22:39

What to do with my LC III... — #14

Aww. That's a bit of a bummer. Hm.. What else? Can't really think of anything other than putting old games and stuff on it and trying to find a place for it.
68kMLA 68k by PowerPup Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 22:26

Interface information for 400KB Floppy drive — #11

do you have an oscilloscope? Click to expand... Yes I do, but is one of those cheap Radio Shack Scope Pens. I think it only goes to 2MHz, but that should work for this. I thin…
68kMLA 68k by Osgeld Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 22:25

Interface information for 400KB Floppy drive — #10

do you have an oscilloscope? Click to expand... Yes I do, but is one of those cheap Radio Shack Scope Pens. I think it only goes to 2MHz, but that should work for this. I thin…
68kMLA 68k by redrouteone Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 22:03

What to do with my LC III... — #13

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.
68kMLA 68k by macgeek417 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 22:02

Interface information for 400KB Floppy drive — #9

Really the thing is that I don't have a bloody clue how you make a floppy disk drive work. So I think I need to expand my search to floppy disks in general and then focus on the Ma…
68kMLA 68k by porter Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 21:40

Interface information for 400KB Floppy drive — #7

I took a look at Inside Macintosh. It did some useful information, but it mostly described the software interface to the disk controller. I am looking for information on the interf…
68kMLA 68k by redrouteone Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 21:21

Ibook Clam Shell — #9

well most of my movies are just burned dvd's so it wont not need the decoder, and i think its on the dvd drive, if im not mistaken, I have herd of put squares of a disk under the …
68kMLA Hardware by Mycatisbigfoot Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 20:57

Getting a IIci on tah intarwebz. — #14

Well, it looks like my card is installed. The driver disk has MacTCP on it, and I installed that. But, in the Network control panel, there is only EtherTALK, not ethernet. Do I …
68kMLA Networking by offensive_jerk Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 20:43

Installing Mac OS 8 without CD drive — #8

I thought you couldn't share a CD drive over Appletalk. If not, I suppose you could image it to the other machine's hard drive.
68kMLA Networking by Bunsen Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 20:42

Interface information for 400KB Floppy drive — #6

So I really have no idea what data and commands the drive expects. So really if I could figure out how any floppy works that would be a good start. Click to expand... Click …
68kMLA 68k by Mac128 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 19:51

What to do with my LC III... — #12

My Q605 running NetBSD does take about 45 seconds to pop out SSH keys. However, it has a 25MHz full '040, so ... Click to expand... Which ssh keys are these? When you first gen…
68kMLA 68k by johnklos Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 19:50

Interest in PCI Powermacs? — #16

I had a lot of difficulty trying to install NetBSD on my 7300 with OF 1.0.5. I'd get it to boot the kernel and then the machine would reboot. It would do it so fast I couldn't see …
68kMLA Hardware by bizzle Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 19:43

Dead Plus... What to do? — #10

EvilTim's other projects. Click to expand... IIRC he also converted a monochrome CRT to greyscale by feeding the intensity level into where the brightness knob used to be. Cli…
68kMLA Hardware by Bunsen Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 18:55

IIci acquisition — #8

Just joined here after acquiring my IIci. Click to expand... Because before, you wouldn't have been allowed. ;D
68kMLA Software by Dog Cow Tue, 24 Nov 2009 - 18:46
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