Turbogizzmo
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So I picked up a Macintosh Classic M0420 (hopefully this is the right forum for it) at a garage sale very cheap. (Also hopefully not breaking any rules, the rules link didnt load for me)
Taking it home I discovered it was missing all 4 screws and someone had somewhat tried a recap. I am no expert in soldering but with a little help from the heat gun and my old Weller I have most of the over soldering cleaned up and a battery replaced.
Next it would boot to just a mouse, after verifying the floppy worked and doing some command keys to skip the harddrive I figured the drive was dead.
Off to pick a SCSI emulator which seems to be a general debate on which works best but in the end settled on the Zulu model, hope that's ok.....
Pop it in and was able to boot up some basic HDA images.
Now after all that work my brain is a little fried so here are some questions:
-Is there a adapter to use the Zulu outside of the case using a parallel port on the back? (I dont really want to cut the back open or open and closing the case a lot)
-How does one go about building, getting, setting up a good image of the OS with some classic games and apps? (I would love to just plop a classic image on the Zulu and have it upstairs for everyone to mess with without having to do a lot sneakernet or floppy netting) Honestly I just want to see some black and white flying toasters
PS I also played around with retro bright on one half of the case and that process is amazing...but will see how it sticks.
Taking it home I discovered it was missing all 4 screws and someone had somewhat tried a recap. I am no expert in soldering but with a little help from the heat gun and my old Weller I have most of the over soldering cleaned up and a battery replaced.
Next it would boot to just a mouse, after verifying the floppy worked and doing some command keys to skip the harddrive I figured the drive was dead.
Off to pick a SCSI emulator which seems to be a general debate on which works best but in the end settled on the Zulu model, hope that's ok.....
Pop it in and was able to boot up some basic HDA images.
Now after all that work my brain is a little fried so here are some questions:
-Is there a adapter to use the Zulu outside of the case using a parallel port on the back? (I dont really want to cut the back open or open and closing the case a lot)
-How does one go about building, getting, setting up a good image of the OS with some classic games and apps? (I would love to just plop a classic image on the Zulu and have it upstairs for everyone to mess with without having to do a lot sneakernet or floppy netting) Honestly I just want to see some black and white flying toasters
PS I also played around with retro bright on one half of the case and that process is amazing...but will see how it sticks.
