Floppy Emu update: Mac 128K/512K support

[uniserver]

me and two friends put notes in about 50 neighborhood mailboxes, advertising ourselves as "helpers" for odd jobs, and got a lot of phone calls

any from the U.S. postmaster?

 

[Anonymous Freak]

any from the U.S. postmaster?

Yeah, do NOT put anything directly in to any one else's mail box. It is a violation of US law (18 USC 1725) to put anything in or on a mailbox that does not have properly-paid postage. (Funnily enough, you do not have to actually SEND it through the USPS, it just has to have proper postage...)

When I was first starting my business, my wife and I went out distributing fliers in our neighborhood. My wife decided it was easier to tape them to mailboxes than to go up and tape them on doors. About two days later, I got a nastygram from the local US Postal Inspector. An apology was sufficient, no fine since it was the first time without a large distribution, but still...

 

[Bunsen]

I used to have a hard drive and a floppy drive. The hard drive broke. I ran the Mac from floppies. The floppy drive broke (bottom head cracked during a clumsy re-alignment operation)

Son, put down the screwdriver and back slowly away from the Macintosh, keeping both hands where we can see them.

 

[Cory5412]

For what it's worth, while I was living with my parents and didn't have my own job, I was pretty limited in what I could buy, I think this applies to just about everybody on this forum. It continues to be in poor taste to directly ask for handouts though, and it's even worse to suggest that the rest of us are bad people because we have the money to buy this type of hardware, and you don't.

It kind of disheartens me when I see people wanting this because it's "cool" and "convenient", when for me it's my only hope of a floppy drive, and I can't have it.

Maybe one day you'll be able to pay for cool and convenient upgrades to TWENTY year old machines that only become practical for basic text processing tasks when you put a few hundred dollars of decade-newer upgrades into them. Until then, you've done a surprising job of making do with what you have, Keep it up until something comes along. Maybe your parents will surprise you with a disbursement to get new parts at some point in the near future.

Still, I'd rather have a real drive clunking away, even if this is "cool".

And I'm sure you'd rather hear the screeching of a dial-up modem. It's interesting, how hilariously hipsterish you are about this hardware given that 100% of it was built before you were born.

 

[Bunsen]

it's my only hope of a floppy drive

This makes zero sense.

 

[Cory5412]

Help me, oh BMOW Kenobi, you're my only hope.