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Hi all, I have a superdrive which would not eject disks. Last night I checked the gearbox near the eject motor. The small metal gear driving the mechanism was really seized. I rocked it/rotated it manually (first removing larger gear on top!) and after a few turns the small gear freed up and it...

Did you know .. BasiliskII will recognize an HFS partition on an SD card as a floppy drive? It mounts properly and I can copy data from the BasiliskII emulated Mac to/from it. When you press CTRL-SHIFT-F11, Basilisk will mount the HFS volume on the SD card. (my approach is -- I will...

Hi, on this keyboard, will the Apple emblem detach? There is a little pin-hole on the opposite side, if I stick a paperclip or something in there, should the plastic emblem pop off?  Thank you guys

OK I have had a lot of success and have a Mac II running A/UX 1.1.1, and I am able to mount my old 1989 floppy disks! I can see my old computer source codes -- very cool =) Now, the challenge -- I want to copy the contents of these floppy disks onto some other media to get them off of the A/UX...

Hi all, I have a Mac II with the FPU and PMMU so I know it can run A/UX, I found an 'A/UX 1.1.1.iso' and I have this actually running properly in the emulator 'shoebill'.  I have the SCSI2SD v5.1, and I used the 'dd' command to write the image to a 2GB SD card like this (see below). And you...

Hi All, I have a handful of old A/UX floppies from the late 80's. And I have a USB 3.5 floppy drive which works with Mac floppies in Basilisk. I want to know if there is a way I can mount these AU/X floppies on a modern OS, linux perhaps?  Any info is appreciated. Thank you!

I ordered a replacement drive, model APPLE 661-0345 however what I received in mail was: Sony model MP-F51W-23 My Mac II running 7.1 with this drive cannot read any of my old 800k floppies. See picts. Does anyone know what the problem is? Did I get the wrong drive? Thanks very much I hope...

Hi everyone, Well the subject line says it. No chime, no nothing. Quiet as a mouse. Last time I booted it was > 4 years ago and it worked fine. My questions are the following: 1) will dead batteries really prevent Mac II from booting? 2) I have my B/W monitor power cable connected via the...