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Does anyone have a link to all the Radius ROMs plus the Apple 24AC ROM?

I really like those EIZOs, but they appear to be rather expensive.

No, no! Just rest a pair of thick black rimmed taped glasses on top of the case. :)

@killvore Your Quadra 700 is such a nerd with its pocket protector.

I wonder what would happen if you erased an 800K floppy as 400K single sided, then physically flipped the platter inside the disk, and formatted the other side. Would need to separate the hub from the disk as well, flip it, and reattach it with some glue. I think the disk would probably work...

I don't recall if it was that disk specifically, but the Famicom on Japan used a similar one that they modified. That's what I was thinking. As I said, in an alternate universe, I could've seen the original Sony 400K becoming flippable to save money on having an extra head for double sided...

PlaysForSure is an interesting one. I wonder how much music people could recover if they had access to it.

As a side note: I think it'd be fun as a general hobby to invent your own media. 3D print your own floppy disk and drive. Like some alternate universe. A flippy 3.5" disk and drive would be fun. It would also make some sense given the original 400K single sided disks and the way that the...

@joevt I do know they can be formatted in cleaver ways. There are floppy disks that are formatted for Amiga / C64 / Atari. They have a single area where the respective files are stored, then there's some fancy ways they write the tracks, headers, etc. so that the disk appears to be one format...

Was the Macintosh used at the premiere a 512K fat Mac? Or was it a 256K Mac? Because it only need a little bit more to do the demo.

I was just curious if it's possible to format each individual side of a double sided disk. For example, format an 800K disk as two 400K single sides. Or a 1.4MB disk as two 720K sides.

Holy cow. Nice find.

I saw someone make an SD card floppy drive. I think it'd be cool to build something that can do that. Take a real 800K drive mechanism and motor, modify it so when you insert a special floppy disk with an SD card instead of a floppy platter, it connects perfectly to the SD slot pins. Then...

@djc6 Just FYI: a little bit goes a long way. It's also very brittle. You may be tempted to straighten the solder out before using, but be careful.

Applying some fresh leaded solder will lower the melting point. Alternatively as @superjer2000 mentioned, some low melt solder will make quick work of stubborn spots. Especially if they're attached to the ground plane. You just need to be extra careful and make sure to remove all the low melt...

@zigzagjoe Would it be possible to add a jumper for flipping the vertical? There could be similarly specced LCDs with different viewing angles that might work better for some people, but not others. For example: what if you have two ZFP drives that keep your Mac at a higher angle?

@jmacz I don't know why, but I really like the support brackets. Makes it look more "premium." Like if Apple had done it originally, you'd 've thought their engineers went out of their way to make sure all the SIMMs and batteries stay put no matter what.

@finkmac Würth. The affordable quality cap. My favorite brand. Too bad they don't make axials.

Could be RAM, ROM, and/or CPU.

@cheesestraws I wonder if you could size it so it'll fit in an old GS108 Netgear case.