Re: MacPayForIt/and old sites in general/ Davong boat anchor

2002-03-26 Thread Dave Byrne
Try this site for the 'wayback effect'. It gets busy occasionally, so be patient. It had the MacFixit pages ;-) www.archive.org/ Does anyone have any information on drivers for an old Davong 10 Meg serial port drive for the old Mac Plus? I recently acquired one of these old 'boat anchors' an

Re: MO Drive, general question, anecdotes

2002-03-19 Thread Dave Byrne
Thanks for the suggestion about SunTar 2.3. I found it on Tucows and d/l it. I'll keep it handy and try it when I get serious about the MO drive. Maybe it will work on other things too? > Maybe, just maybe, the freeware utilitiy 'SunTar 2.3' is something for you. > Just about the weirdest progra

Re: MO Drive, general question, anecdotes

2002-03-19 Thread Dave Byrne
I've got such a collection of eclectic and semi useless equipment, I don't dare bring home another MO drive ;-) I will take the advise of using the same formatter on all the disks, although I think I tried that a long time ago with Silver Lining. Maybe it would be a good time to try it again.

MO Drive, general question, anecdotes

2002-03-18 Thread Dave Byrne
I bought a "NuDesign " Magneto Optical drive for my MacIIx years ago and had nothing but problems with it. It quit working while it was still under warrantee and was replaced by the vendor. I was going to use it to back up all my floppies, but it had other ideas. I spent days loading and arrangi