Yes, mini vMac is the defacto sucessor to VMac, sometimes we get lazy
and drop the mini, which Paul added to distinguish that mini vMac
doesn't pretend to be a full feature emulator, i.e. serial port SCSI
interfaces.
Also, I think I may have misunderstood what Kryoflux does based on
some
See! I'm just surprised it took 17 posts for someone to offer ;-)
dale-gmail, Mike mentioned he wanted whatever came installed with
it ... the 128K 100 day club would have had System 1.0 installed on
it. From May on it would have come with System 1.1 which would have
persisted until June 1985.
In that they are both GCR, yes that is correct. Thanks for the
clarification. I think the confusion is the inclusion of DOS in the
Apple description, DOS ProDOS being the System software for the
Apple II.
The Macintosh 400K disk has 80 tracks (0-79) and divided into 5 groups
of 16 tracks each,
I'm a little confused ... according to this link, it does not support
Macintosh 400K/800K discs, but rather Apple DOS 400K/800K discs. I
would think it would say MFS or HFS rather than DOS, if it read
Macintosh discs. Though theoretically if it reads GCR, it shouldn't be
that difficult to step
Mike, I think you are looking for a 400K boot disk. Several members
will make you one for free. I would do it, but I don't currently have
any systems set up to make 400K boot disks. If you just want to be
done with it, and not wait for someone to make you one, check out
http://www.macbootdisk.com
You're screwed. THe rive is fried.
To open it you have to press in the clips which are near the rear,
accessible through the vents. Then it lifts up from the back. Be
careful you don't press too hard, the plastic is old and brittle and
they are easy to break.
On Aug 28, 7:04 pm, Chris
: Re: Zip drive on a Mac Plus?
From: tommijaz...@gmail.com
To: vintage-macs@googlegroups.com
Hi Mac128, please forgive my bad english :).
I have the disk images and I managed to put them into the 800k floppy,
using
Disk Copy 4.2. I was simply following this procedure:
http
Ah the LC 520 series ... the only Mac so ugly its Apple designers
attempted to permanently shelve it. I have long since put my 575 out
of its misery by transplanting the logic board into my Color Classic.
The analogue board can also be hacked to fit inside a CC case, or can
be cannibalized for its
Try These:
http://68kmla.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7t=10830
http://68kmla.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7t=11198
http://68kmla.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7t=1360
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I'm not sure I follow exactly. However, the Mac TV did not use the
same TV or Video card as the Performas. It was a proprietary
combination card with an NTSC composite video and RF input.
The Performas and other Macs which would support it (see
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA34375?viewlocale=en_US
Sigh. Please read this Apple manual for clarification. In particular,
pages 15 and 18. Apple never made a universal TV Tuner card as far as
I know. Now you could plug your PAL or NTSC VCR into the Video Card
which would recognize and convert the PAL signal to Quicktime. The Mac
TV did not have
Apple's hardware manuals specifically state that specific NTSC or PAL
tuners are required for specific markets. The Apple TV/Video System
came with a territory specific TV tuner card. The Video System card
was required to import video and as such could convert PAL or NTSC.
However, if the TV
You still have to decode the signal via hardware. The tuner built into
the hardware is NTSC. Once the signal is tuned, Apple's software can
decipher it. But you have to get the correct signal to the software
first. There is no universal tuner (well there may be but it would be
a lot more expensive
The CRT is not bad. But to answer you, yes all CRTs from the 128K
through the SE/30 are interchangeable. The Classics are a bit more
problematic.
The problem is as Gregg describes. My advice to you is get Larry
Pina's book, as you will most likely have to make some complicated
repairs. Or you
Uh, nope. NTSC, PAL SECAM are totally different standards. You
cannot buy a TV in France and expect it to work in the US ... in fact
none of those old TVs will work anywhere anymore, including the MacTV,
without a digital converter box. Either way, a Mac TV will ONLY accept
an NTSC input, either
Yes. You can even format 400K disks as HFS if you want, though they
will not be bootable.
On Apr 30, 8:49 pm, David Colvin d.col...@online.ie wrote:
What I need
to know is this: Can I use an Apple external 400k floppy drive with my
512ke?
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Clark, with all due respect then why do Pina et al point to low
voltage as a culprit to prevent frying the analogue board? In fact
they make quite a stink about making sure all of your voltages are in
adjustment, especially after adding ANY load, no matter how small.
I have personally seen stuff
When's the last time you adjusted the voltage? There is a fair
probability that if your voltage was already low, adding the extra RAM
drawing more power caused the circuits to fry while trying to
compensate. Plus, I don't know what the effect of not cutting that
resistor would have. I would think
Also, you should be able to use the SCSI to Ethernet adapter on this
Mac, now that it has 1MB RAM and 128K ROMs. It will work on any Mac
which will load the driver.
On Apr 10, 7:48 am, netBEUI sbugliar...@gmail.com wrote:
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Unfortunately with the advent of Mac OS X it is becoming increasingly
hard to locate software to allow older Macintosh computers to
operate.
I have a Power Macintosh 8500 upgraded to a 500 MHz G3 and currently
have it running Mac OS 9.1. I was interested in being
So you basically have a 1MB Plus.
Removing the stickers won't harm anything. They just prevent UV light
from erasing the data over time. Just pull one up enough to see if
there's a window or not in the center, if you want to know if they are
pirated or real. Pirated ROMs were fairly common and a
The RAM doesn't require 128K ROMs. But the Mac Snap SCSI card DOES. It
did not come out before the Plus, it came out after.
On Apr 8, 10:04 am, PM7500 jburke...@comcast.net wrote:
The Dove for the 128k/512k was out before the Plus so how could it
require the 128k ROM?
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Yes, it is most likely a MiniMux board required to decode more than
128K RAM. This confirms that your 128K board has been upgraded to a
512K which was a requirement of the Dove board. Therefore you may have
1.5MB RAM, not sure how the Dove board handles it.
In a straight 512K board upgrade the
? Or was it another manufacturer? Any info on such a
card would be greatly appreciated.
On Apr 9, 2:46 pm, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote:
On 4/9/10 11:40 AM, Mac128 wrote:
The RAM doesn't require 128K ROMs. But the Mac Snap SCSI card DOES. It
did not come out before the Plus, it came out after
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On Apr 6, 5:44 pm, Mac128 mac128mail-h...@yahoo.com wrote:
That is correct. But only the Apple 3.5 External (A9M0106). The
Macintosh 800K (M0131) requires the HD20 INIT which will not load on
the 128K.
Hmm I got home and plugged it in and the machine
Yes, you'll need System 2.0/Finder 4.1, since how much RAM a Mac had
was irrelevant prior to the introduction of the 512K.
Physically, If you've had it open, can you describe the board the SCSI
cable is connected to? Is it only a small square board connected
toward the back, or is it a large
Using such accelerator boards in a 128K is pointless anyway. And
DAMAGING. Anything that increases the heat and power consumption
inside a compact Mac is a bad thing, especially when one can have the
same functionality for significantly less money in the form of a Plus,
SE or SE/30. While
discount. This is why the later Pluses had fewer
repairs than the beige ones.
On Mar 6, 4:44 pm, James Fraser wheresthatistanbul-pcil...@yahoo.com
wrote:
Hello,
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Not sure when you bought yours, but the
Plus had a healthy life
Most likely just needs to be lubricated. I would be very careful about
cleaning the heads unnecessarily, which is a sure way to destroy a
drive. Whatever you do, do not lift the read/write head.
I have received many drives which would not eject the floppy, which
otherwise worked perfectly with
Nope. High Voltage in there my friend. If the screen is black, then
some of the notoriously underpowered components in the video circuitry
have fried. It's all easily repairable, but you will need to be handy
with a soldering iron.
If you are serious about becoming a vintage Mac collector, you
While cleaning the floppy drive is always a good idea, what this boy
needs is a known good 400K MFS Boot disk with System 3.2 or earlier.
I know there are a number of good samaritans here who can easily pop
one out to him. I would suggest Kevin Rye's service at http://macbootdisk.com
, but the
Um, the Apple IIe is not exactly a Mac II.
On Jan 10, 1:37 pm, John Musbach johnmusba...@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/10/10, 128k karl1...@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone know where you can download Mac II roms online?
http://www.theoldcomputer.com/Libraries/Emulation/BIOS_Roms/Apple2e.zip
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Nope. The HD20 required the HFS file system, which is the reason it
could not be used on a 128K. The HD20 came with System 2.1/Finder 5.0
in September 1985, which was the first HFS aware system, and the HD20
INIT was placed in the system folder to load HFS into the 512Ks RAM at
startup.
On Jan 7,
Apple says it is officially not compatible with System 6. However,
they are regularly used to boot up to System 6.0.8. I don't think
System 7 supports the HD20 drivers, but I could be wrong about that.
Never had a call to run System 7 off an HD20.
HD20s are not rare. They routinely sell on eBay
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On Nov 24, 11:03 pm, Mac128 mac128mail-h...@yahoo.com wrote:
You really need to get an intermediary Mac to handle transferring
files, or some other method. If something goes wrong with your SE hard
drive, you will have no way to work with it.
However, in lieu of that you have several options
Search the forum for Boot Disks in the Google Group page.
Someone on this board should be able to make you a copy for free. If
you can wait until Summer, PM
platnicat and he will make you one.
Or you can buy one at http://www.macbootdisk.com/
On Nov 23, 10:35 pm, David Colvin
This link will give you a lot of information on the history of your
Mac. http://homepage.mac.com/chinesemac/earlymacs/
As far as I know, the 50th week is about as early as any production
Mac rolled off the assembly line, but there might have been some as
early as the 48th or 49th.
Are you sure
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mac128mail-h...@yahoo.com wrote:
Your Classic will make a fine disk duplicator. BUT YOU WILL NEED an
800K disk. You should NOT use a 1.44MB disk to format 400K or 800K,
especially on an old Mac that may have drive alignment issues anyway.
But they will work
You really need to get an intermediary Mac to handle transferring
files, or some other method. If something goes wrong with your SE hard
drive, you will have no way to work with it.
However, in lieu of that you have several options with OS X:
http://mac128.com/transfer -- using OS X Terminal
The 512K can connect directly to Leopard mounted as a partition with
an intermediary Mac. ALl that is required of the intermediary Mac is
that it runs OS 8.1-9.2 in order to handle the 512K AppleShare client
and OS X AFP. Here's a handy tutorial for those interested:
Platnicat will be happy to make you an 800K boot disk for free. Just
PM him via his profile:
http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?hl=enenc_user=E-M4KxMAAADjbb25gusqcnIYWHR9JiJZWMj6vob75xS36mXc24h6ww
If you have any trouble you can buy one at http://www.macbootdisk.com/
or ask anyone else on
I don't believe the Mac Classic shipped with a right-angled cord like
the earlier 128K-Plus. It would use a standard Platinum gray-colored
cable that shipped with all Apple products at the time.
On Feb 11, 7:49 am, D. Finnigan dog_...@macgui.com wrote:
if you want the original cord, that will
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