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Interesting. Looks like I'll have to round up at least 3 HD20's and give it a whirl. :lol: Hopefully the external 800K drive still works on the end of the chain, attached to the last HD20 the Mac will accept.

Are you thinking the OS or ROM/driver limits the Mac to having only two HD20's? Otherwise, if each HD20 has it's own Woz floppy controller (unlike the external 800 drive), shouldn't the number be unlimited theoretically?

Yes, but in 20MB increments.... It would just give you more options to store data, not one big directory....

Wonder if there is a theoretical limit. Wasn't SCSI limited to 7? Would be interesting if the HD20 could go more than SCSI! :lol:

I read a scan of the HD20 manual recently and I came across something interesting. It suggested you could use two HD20's linked together. Makes sense, since the HD20 has it's own floppy controller which allows a 800K external drive to be attached on the end. So, in theory, you could add more...

Isn't BinHex a form of encoding? I found the tool in the Terminal. Don't know how I missed that. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get it to work. It decodes just fine, but whenever I encode I get this message end of file detected reading 131072 bytes at offset 0 from "Daleks"

Anyone know the following? 1. Can BinHex 4.0 run on a Mac 128K? It was written in 1985, so I'm assuming so. I know it works just fine on my Mac 512K (What other Macs were out in 1985? :lol: ) 2. Can you use BinHex 4.0 to convert a directory with contents, or is it just on a file by file...

Awesome! Thank you very much for the configuration info! I have never seen that much detail before. Now I can try it at home! Good job!

HFS.tiff HFS Floppy has 1.4MB available, HFS+ has 1.3MB. :lol: HFS+.tiff

Agreed, it's not as nice as having a mounted disk, but less overhead. I've done similar things running XP in VirtualBox, and used PCMACLAN to share out my iDisk and Time Capsule, so that a Mac 512K could access them. I felt dirty using Windows. Still looking for a more "Mac" way to do it...

A simpler approach may be to simply turn on FTP sharing on your Mac Pro. That way you can access anything on your Mac Pro, including mounted network shares, all the way back to a Mac Plus with Fetch.

Very cool. I'd love to see how you configure IPNetrouter to do that. I've never known where to start with that app!

Here's something interesting I've stumbled upon. I remember back when Apple introduced HFS+ with System 8.1. I could format Zip Disks with the new file system, but not Floppy Disks. IIRC, there was around a 40MB minimum to use HFS+. I was messing around with a USB Floppy Drive recently on...

I've messed around with this too, and had the same problem as you. The version of AFP required to connect to Airport disks or a Time Capsule is higher than Mac OS 9 supports. The way around this to to use FTP. Turn on FTP sharing on Mac OS X machine, and then mount the Airport disk. Now fire...

How much available memory does the Mac 128K have left over to give to apps? I've never seen a number posted for the Mac 128K, but Apple states that the Mac 512K has about 372K available. This seems odd since the difference 512K-372K is 140K, or more RAM than the 128K had total, even though...

Let me rephrase that. :) Most USB and SCSI DISK devices can be mapped as a drive on a PC. I was curious about unique Mac disk devices. Like a Mini Din-8 or ADB disk based device. The QuickTake 100/150 is the only one I can think of.

Wouldn't both of those work on a PC too? Granted, you'd need a PC with SCSI, but wouldn't it just show up as a SCSI disk? The Handspring was cross platform too, although the disk mounting may have been unique to the Mac (Like the QuickTake 150).

I was wondering if we could come up with a list of unique Mac peripherals that can be mounted as a disk on the desktop. Obviously, most SCSI and USB devices can be mounted on non-Macs. I guess the interface we'd be looking at is ADB, Mini Din-8, and the Mac Floppy connector. The only two...

When I bought mine in 1996, I used Netscape 2.02 and it worked just fine!

Actually, there are plenty of iOS apps that store files! They are quite prolific now days, but there have been apps like AirSharing since the early 2.0 days. So, you have an Terminal App which can store files and then you directly transfer them using a serial cable and MacTerminal. Not as...