On 09/13/2016 09:58 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > yea.. another project. Getting an Apple 20 pin drive working with a > flux transition reader.
Not that much of an issue--after all, the old CopyIIPC deluxe option board came with a bunch of 400K/800K Mac utilities and uses standard drives. I might have used that, but the system was buried at the bottom of a pile and I wanted to preserve the Apple file structure as much as was possible, not translate it into MS-DOS. > The one example that directly involved me was I asked them to support > NTP internally on the engineering network, so I didn't have to set > the clock constantly (I had a prototype machine with an RTC that ran > fast). Around 1997 at the peak of the "dark times" an email (which > was FINALLY SMTP and not some stupidity like AppleLink) went out that > there was no budget to maintain the NTP server any more. Fortunately, > the NeXT purchase of Apple happened, the people that groked Unix came > in, and that bit of stupidity was killed. Heh, the first message that I got after I changed the PRAM battery and booted MacOS was that the system time didn't match the NTP time within reasonable limits. But there the oddity hit--if I wanted to get rid of the message, I had to open the Control Panel and manually set the time to something close to NTP--Mac OS did not offer to do it for me. --Chuck