Thought I'd use my week off to sort out a few of my compacts. There are a few:
SE FDHD
SE
SE with RasterOps 020 and video card
SE/30x3
2x beige Plus (both filled with mud)
2x platinum Plus (one filled with mud)
2 x 512
1 x 512ed
1 x "512" with a Mac Plus motherboard shoved in (Mutant)
1 x 512 with a MacRescue card.
I had the Mutant plugged in for ages, but I wanted to use the MacRescue machine, because it's the most interesting one I have:
It worked well for a few days - I delighted my kids with MacVision-scanned photos of them printed on an Imagewriter I for their bedroom door. But today it started sending my FloppyEmu into a cycle of rebooting. I checked the voltage on the floppy port, and it runs at just below 4v on pin 6 while it's running 12.3v or so on pin 7. The screen also conks out periodically when it's been on for a while, so that'll be some resoldering. I'm leaving it for a day or two to make sure the CRT is discharged and I'll try cleaning contacts etc.
So I broke out my 512ED. This made the flub flub flub noise, subject of
this topic. Waiting for that one to discharge too. It...looks the same as the one above.
So I broke out my nicer (in that it's not literally full of mud) platinum Plus. It works, seemingly, quite nicely. A little bit of menubar burn-in, sadly, and only one meg of ram (so I can't install TrueType fonts!). Amazing how little one meg is when you try to do System 6, truetype, and ethernet networking. Needs a wash, a replacement CRT, and a memory upgrade, but it's been on for about five hours (with a screen saver!) and is doing well, currently plugged into a SCSI2SD in an HD 20/SC case:
I've been enjoying using the 512/MacRescue with very 512-era software running off one of my HD20s. That said, the HD20s can't last forever - I think I'll install a second FloppyEmu into the empty 400k drive case I have and leave it in permanent HD20 emulation mode for nice silent running.
By the by, does anyone know if you can connect two floppyEmus to a single computer? I've had one daisy chained from the HD20 for a while, but that might be a different case. The BMOW site says you can't use his daisy chaining adaptor for the Mac, but I wonder if that counts for HD20 mode?