Look what the Easter bunny brought

ArmorAlley

Well-known member

• Apr 4, 2024

• #1

To go with my 1985 system, which at the moment is a 512K, a LaserWriter Plus waiting to be fixed and MacWrite on 400K floppy, I present what I think v1.2 of Aldus PageMaker.


These last two pictures are of a Macally 6-port FireWire card. I had never seen one before and bought it immediately. One can never have too many FW ports.
It will have to go into the Quicksilver for now, at least until some one develops a serial-to-PCI adaptor & FW drivers for System 1 so that I can try out it out on the Mac 512K.

 

slomacuser

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• Apr 4, 2024

• #2

Great conquest! Congrats.

 

LaPorta

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• Apr 4, 2024

• #3

Very nice! You have an AppleSauce to image those floppies?

 

ArmorAlley

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• Apr 4, 2024

• #4

I don‘t. What is AppleSauce? Does it make a bit-for-bit copy of the disk?

 

Phipli

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• Apr 4, 2024

• #5

ArmorAlley said:

I don‘t. What is AppleSauce? Does it make a bit-for-bit copy of the disk?

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Even lower level - it makes a record of the flux transitions on the disk.

 

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MindWalker

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• Apr 4, 2024

• #6

Neat!

I don't think I've ever seen a license agreement seal on a floppy disk shutter before! Surely that would cause issues by either the user breaking the shutter while removing the sticker, or by sticking the disk into a drive with the sticker still attached...

 

volvo242gt

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• Apr 5, 2024

• #7

Nice score.

For those interested, here's where Apple was located in the Seattle, Washington area at the time, this copy of PageMaker was sent to the owner:

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ArmorAlley

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• Apr 5, 2024

• #8

Phipli said:

Even lower level - it makes a record of the flux transitions on the disk.

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I had a look for an AppleSauce and found that they are sold out, which is a pity.
It looks like something worth saving for.
What any equivalents are there?

applesauce – The Ultimate Floppy Disk Preservation and Analysis Toolkit

 

Phipli

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• Apr 5, 2024

• #9

ArmorAlley said:

I had a look for an AppleSauce and found that they are sold out, which is a pity.
It looks like something worth saving for.
What any equivalents are there?

applesauce – The Ultimate Floppy Disk Preservation and Analysis Toolkit

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The GreaseWeazle is less specifically tuned for Apple disks, but is what I have. One of our members did the PCB layout for the common variants. They cost about £25 delivered in the UK, you then need a PC floppy drive and cable. Sometimes you have to try a couple of different drives to find one that is good at Mac disks.

 

Phipli

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• Apr 5, 2024

• #10

This I believe is the store for the person that developed the software :

Greaseweazle V4.1 USB Floppy Adapter Flux Reader Writer, Amiga Atari PC & more! | eBay

Greaseweazle V4.1 is the very latest version, updating the V4 design with new features Supports Disk-Change detection as used by Rob Smith's integration into the WinUAE Amiga emulator. A floppy ribbon cable (typically you want a standard PC cable with 'twist' on pins 10-16, to communicate with a...

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