Fat Mac with HyperDrive revived!

[snuci]

What a great read and good pictures too!  I have a couple of HyperDrives that need some work too. I'll have to pull them out when I get some time.

 

[Dog Cow]

I found those floppy gears that are available and I'm probably going to get some.

I was wondering if anyone here has tried them before.

Yeah, I installed a replacement 800k eject gear a few months ago. Working fine so far.

 

[MOS8_030]

Ok, last picture of the 512Ke HyperDrive Mac, fat & happy.

After I repaired the floppy drive today I carefully stuffed all its guts back in and gave it test run.

Yeah, the screen is bit off center after all the analog board work but I'm not going to mess with it.

I've already had to spend waaay more time on this than I intended.

But there's one last nagging issue.

The hard drive has always reported only about ~6.5mb of available space and Hypertools only saw ~6.5mb

That is until I had to reinstall the Hypertools to the system file after the analog board failed.

Now the Hypertool utility sees the full 10mb but it's still telling me the HD is full at ~6.5mb.

It's still running the same software I got it with in 1996.

So, instead of leaving well enough alone I may reformat the HD and install a fresh copy of the OS.

Maybe...

:beige: