Yo compacters everywhere, I dragged out the auld 128k again to trial a few thing with it. Like many, I don't fire up this pretty puppy very often. When I do, I must relearn a few things. Good fun.
I have three perfectly good (clean, reasonably quiet, no stiction) Apple HD-20 external 20 MB hard drives. On a Mac Plus, each HD-20 drive works well. When connected to the 128k, they spin up but do not even mount. My question here is: Does a 128k even have the ability to mount an HD-20 drive? Is their some little item to add to make it work here? Or is that external floppy drive port on the 128k forever limited to only external floppy drives? To a question asked by an earlier poster about the 128k, the Special -> Shut Down command appears to have come with Finder 4.1. One of my 128k boot floppies with System 1.1 and Finder 1.1 has no Shut Down command; you eject the floppy with the File -> Eject command then turn the fool thing off with the switch on the back. "It's a feature; not a bug." comes to mind here. Another boot floppy has the same System 1.1 but Finder 4.1 with the Special -> Shut Down as we still know and love it today. I'm not aware of a Finder version between 1.1 and 4.1. Bye the waye, you can identify the System File version with the cute little utility application "Sys Version". I say cute because, at 77 bytes, it is the smallest application I have ever heard of. Oh, and on one of my HD-20 external drives? It had a rattle. I opened the case which , odd for an early case, was easy to do with only one screw. Inside, I found and refastened the little piece of clear plastic that illuminates the activity LED through the faceplate. Did you know that the HD-20 uses a Rodime drive inside? With the plastic piece reattached, all is quiet again. Well, as quiet as a Rodime drive can be. Bill -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
