Had another thrift store rescue. A dual floppy (800k) SE. Took it home,
fired it up with an old disk. It booted right up, vertical need a little
adjusting so I opened it up and there is a hard drive. Fixed the vertical.
Turned it on and it booted up from the HD. It has some startup icons I¹m
n
In a message dated 9/6/09 2:54:41 PM, ltuc...@hiwaay.net writes:
> A dual floppy (800k) SE.
>
Sell it to me...and I'll tell you all about itgiggle..
Jaber (Seattle)
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May be a very stupid, unnessecary and even offending question:
Have you closed the r/w protection of the disks?
Or did you try (unreadable) 1.44MB DOS disks on the two drives ?
Close the other hole with adhesive tape -
if it then askes for formatting, think of intensive cleaning, although they
re
There are no stupid questions - that's my motto.
The disks are not write protected - actually the machine will give the
standard your disk is locked message if you try to format one while locked.
I used standard 400/800k disks. Tried the tape trick on a 1.44 disk. They
just will not format.
Tha
While I appreciate the offer, it really looks good next to my single floppy
SE, and wouldn¹t want to deprive them of each others company ;>
On 9/6/09 5:49 PM, "rhoarcl...@aol.com" wrote:
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> In a message dated 9/6/09 2:54:41 PM, ltuc...@hiwaay.net writes:
>
>
> A dual floppy (800k) SE.
>
>
Hi Lee !
That's a good motto - equal to mine.
Since these drives are a few years old and mechanically not too robust,
they may have reached their 'lifetime'.
Good luck with the cleaning; try a vacuum cleaner first, so you may not have
unscrew the whole thing.
Lars
>
>There are no stupid question
> >Thanks - I'll probably end up trying to clean them.
There's an article on cleaning floppy drives here:
http://chrislawson.net/writing/macdaniel/2k0314.shtml
And a site about the SE here:
http://ccadams.org/se/
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Thanks for the cleaning link.
Doesn't look like I need it right now for this SE.
Turns out the MicroMac INIT 2.2.1 related to the GemStart 16MHz Mercury from
Total Systems is causing the problem (probably the init and the board
itself). Turned off the INIT in the control panel, rebooted, and it f
> Turns out the MicroMac INIT 2.2.1 related to the GemStart 16MHz Mercury from
> Total Systems is causing the problem (probably the init and the board
> itself). Turned off the INIT in the control panel, rebooted, and it formats
> floppies in both drives just fine.
There's a version 3 of the sof
Sometimes with older Macs things I received things like this:
http://retromaccast.ning.com/photo/floppy-drive-after-a-few-years
If someone slaughters an older Mac, these are the left-overs,
so they are usually very cheap (that means, the shipping costs are
higher than what the item itself will cos
That's one dirty drive...
Actually for a machine as old as this one it's in almost new shape. The
case is not yellowed at all. And the interior is pretty much dust free.
Must have come from a smoke free, UV free, dirt free clean room .
On 9/7/09 5:45 PM, "WhyOSX" wrote:
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> Sometimes wi
--- On Mon, 9/7/09, Lee Tucker wrote:
> From: Lee Tucker
> Subject: Re: Mac SE floppy
> To: vintage-macs@googlegroups.com
> Date: Monday, September 7, 2009, 12:42 PM
>
> Thanks for the cleaning link.
> Doesn't look like I need it right now for this SE.
> Turn
--- On Mon, 9/7/09, Lee Tucker wrote:
> From: Lee Tucker
> Subject: Re: Mac SE floppy
> To: vintage-macs@googlegroups.com
> Date: Monday, September 7, 2009, 7:20 PM
>
> That's one dirty drive...
>
> Actually for a machine as old as this one it's in almo
These will never yellow:
http://retromaccast.ning.com/photo/black-brothers-5x00
I know that (un-understandably) they were sold overseas (Europe, Australia, NZ),
but are quite rare in NAmerica - don't be too jealous.
Lars
>
>That's one dirty drive...
>
>Actually for a machine as old as this one it
tion, like a garage or basement "workshop".
On Sep 7, 8:47 pm, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
> --- On Mon, 9/7/09, Lee Tucker wrote:
>
> > From: Lee Tucker
> > Subject: Re: Mac SE floppy
> > To: vintage-macs@googlegroups.com
> > Date: Monday, Septe
Hello,
--- On Sat, 9/12/09, Mac128DOTcom wrote:
>The Classic and Color Classic were different
>machines which drew air indirectly from the the floppy drive, but
>the SE more or less sucked most of its air right through the floppy,
>which prompted Apple to offer optional plastic dust shields.
I think he just means that little black plastic flap that's in front
of the drive, on all the non auto-inject drives. (That you push up out
of the way with the floppy when you put it in) You probably have
one you could look at that :)
-Elliott Price
Mac Computer Repair - Santa
ts in the
Mac cases shaped however they thought looked stylin'.
That would certainly have offended Steve Jobs' artistic sensibilities, had he
been involved with Apple at the time.
--- On Sat, 9/12/09, Mac128DOTcom wrote:
> From: Mac128DOTcom
> Subject: Re: Mac SE floppy
> To: &qu
Nope. I mean an actual plastic shield that slipped over and wrapped
the entire disk drive inside the Mac only open in the front and bottom
with a slit for the cable. Obviously this had to be custom fit for
each Mac. I wish I had a link to a picture. I think my SE/30 has one,
so perhaps I will crac
Hello,
--- On Mon, 9/14/09, Mac128DOTcom wrote:
> Nope. I mean an actual plastic shield that slipped over and
> wrapped the entire disk drive inside the Mac only open in the front
> and bottom with a slit for the cable. Obviously this had to be custom
> fit for each Mac. I wish I had a link to
Yes, that yellow insert was designed only to protect the early heads
in the 800K disk which did not park the heads safely on shut down. The
400K & 1.44MB drives did not need these.
On Sep 14, 11:41 pm, James Fraser wrote:
> Hello,
>
> --- On Mon, 9/14/09, Mac128DOTcom wrote:
>
> > Nope. I mean
so from what I can tell, my Apple IIGS's floppy drive with the yellow
insert (still have it) is an 800k drive then?
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Mac128DOTcom wrote:
>
> Yes, that yellow insert was designed only to protect the early heads
> in the 800K disk which did not park the heads safely
Hello,
--- On Tue, 9/15/09, Christian Wacker wrote:
> so from what I can tell, my Apple IIGS's floppy drive with
> the yellow insert (still have it) is an 800k drive then?
I was getting ready to ask something along the same lines. I could have
*sworn* the external 800K Macintosh drive I used
On Sep 15, 11:09 pm, Christian Wacker wrote:
> so from what I can tell, my Apple IIGS's floppy drive with the yellow
> insert (still have it) is an 800k drive then?
The Apple IIGS came out after Apple had switched to using 800k floppy
drives in the Mac and was indeed an 800k drive.
bill
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Exactly the 400K drive used a single read/write head. Whether it
parked or not, the only thing below it was a felt pad for pressing
against the bottom side of the SS disk (which is why you shouldn't use
a SS disk as a DS after it's been formatted 400K). The 800K had two
heads opposing each other a
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