avadondragon
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So I went for a walk in the woods yesterday and I came across a dump site. There was a giant Intergraph monitor that caught my eye and caused me to investigate more closely.
95% buried in the ground with just a tiny corner showing I saw some suspiciously familiar looking plastic... I started digging and uncovered a remarkably intact Macintosh SE FDHD! What are the odds?
It of course couldn't possibly work but it turned out that it's SWIM chip was totally untouched! Those DIP style SWIM chips are unobtainium these days and I've been wanting one for ages to upgrade my Mac SE to being able to use full size (and PC compatible) 1.44MB floppies. I pulled the part along with the ROMs to support it and popped it into my machine and it came right up! I'd already swapped out the floppy drive for a 1.44MB a while back when the original stopped working.
Another cool thing it had was a Lapis Video card. I couldn't find hardly ANY info about it online but it looks like it outputs standard VGA as well as TTL. Perhaps this is why the giant monitor was next to it?
I cleaned up the case and it looks pretty decent to have been buried underground for god only knows how long. I think I may put a mini vMac emulator in it. #Zombie Mac!
95% buried in the ground with just a tiny corner showing I saw some suspiciously familiar looking plastic... I started digging and uncovered a remarkably intact Macintosh SE FDHD! What are the odds?
It of course couldn't possibly work but it turned out that it's SWIM chip was totally untouched! Those DIP style SWIM chips are unobtainium these days and I've been wanting one for ages to upgrade my Mac SE to being able to use full size (and PC compatible) 1.44MB floppies. I pulled the part along with the ROMs to support it and popped it into my machine and it came right up! I'd already swapped out the floppy drive for a 1.44MB a while back when the original stopped working.
Another cool thing it had was a Lapis Video card. I couldn't find hardly ANY info about it online but it looks like it outputs standard VGA as well as TTL. Perhaps this is why the giant monitor was next to it?
I cleaned up the case and it looks pretty decent to have been buried underground for god only knows how long. I think I may put a mini vMac emulator in it. #Zombie Mac!