Franklinstein
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Browsing ebay-kleinanzeigen, I came across an 8200/120 a few hours away. It was of course missing its CD bezel, it looked a bit scruffy, and according the the seller it doesn't work, but it's only €60 and... what's this sticker? "Powered by Sonnet," eh? Well, this is interesting. Don't mind if I do. It's a gamble (the card may have been removed a while ago) but going by the seller's description and other stuff he has for sale, it's worth a shot.
Six hours later, I have it and an external Syquest drive of some flavor back home. I open the 8200 and, lo and behold, it has a Sonnet Crescendo 7200 inside. Sweet deal. Totally worth the drive (it was a really pretty day, too). A few bits of broken plastic later, I have the machine apart entirely. The power supply's fuse is bad but the multimeter doesn't report any faults (at least, no immediate fuse-blowing shorts) and nothing looks like it was on fire, so after cleaning it out I'll try to find a suitable fuse and fire it up some point this week.
I also went out earlier in the day and found a SCSI 1.4MB floppy drive. I have yet to look at it much but it may work on a Mac, which if it does would have been one way to get HD floppies on a pre-SuperDrive Mac without spending tons of money on new ROMs, SWIMs, and upgraded internal drives.
Six hours later, I have it and an external Syquest drive of some flavor back home. I open the 8200 and, lo and behold, it has a Sonnet Crescendo 7200 inside. Sweet deal. Totally worth the drive (it was a really pretty day, too). A few bits of broken plastic later, I have the machine apart entirely. The power supply's fuse is bad but the multimeter doesn't report any faults (at least, no immediate fuse-blowing shorts) and nothing looks like it was on fire, so after cleaning it out I'll try to find a suitable fuse and fire it up some point this week.
I also went out earlier in the day and found a SCSI 1.4MB floppy drive. I have yet to look at it much but it may work on a Mac, which if it does would have been one way to get HD floppies on a pre-SuperDrive Mac without spending tons of money on new ROMs, SWIMs, and upgraded internal drives.