jimwan@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (James Wanderer) (03/08/90)
What does one do with an old Mac - single sided drives, 1 meg on third party board - to make it usable again? It has been sitting around awhile ...... Jim Wanderer "Follow PAC-10 Basket Ball!! :-< "
s36572u@puukko.hut.fi (Karl Tigerstedt) (03/13/90)
In article <32689@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> jimwan@lanai.UUCP (James Wanderer) writes: >What does one do with an old Mac - single sided drives, >1 meg on third party board - to make it usable again? > >It has been sitting around awhile ...... Here's what I did: a) 1988 bought a Fat Mac motherboard (512k) for 250 FMK (60 USD) and a keyboard & single sided drive. b) Got hold of a high quality terminal monitor and hooked it up to the mac. c) Used that configuration for a couple of months, then got tired of small disks & little memory. d) Got 128k ROM's a Seagate 277N 65 Meg HD. a Four socket SIMM memory expansion board an A+ mouse a Good power supply (150 watts) 4 x 1 Meg SIMM's a SCSI controller board an IBM XT system chassis an external 800k drive (Cutting Edge) Instructions: You stir and mix a little, say a few magical words and voila! : You have a functioning "Mac Plus" system with 4 Megs of memory, adequate hard disk and a good monitor. If it wasn't for the keyboard, people would think I'm using a "normal" IBM clone! Works fine. Estimated total cost of system : 7500 FMK (1800 USD). May not be cheap in the states, but it sure is cheap here in expensive Scandinavia. Comparison: A normal Mac Plus with only 1 800k internal drive costs 6600 FMK.
s36572u@puukko.hut.fi (Karl Tigerstedt) (03/13/90)
In article <32689@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> jimwan@lanai.UUCP (James Wanderer) writes: >What does one do with an old Mac - single sided drives, >1 meg on third party board - to make it usable again? > >It has been sitting around awhile ...... Here's what I did: a) 1988 bought a Fat Mac motherboard (512k) for 250 FMK (60 USD) and a keyboard & single sided drive. b) Got hold of a high quality terminal monitor and hooked it up to the mac. c) Used that configuration for a couple of months, then got tired of small disks & little memory. d) Got 128k ROM's a Seagate 277N 65 Meg HD. a Four socket SIMM memory expansion board an A+ mouse a Good power supply (150 watts) 4 x 1 Meg SIMM's a SCSI controller board an IBM XT system chassis an external 800k drive (Cutting Edge) Instructions: You stir and mix a little, say a few magical words and voila! : You have a functioning "Mac Plus" system with 4 Megs of memory, adequate hard disk and a good monitor. If it wasn't for the keyboard, people would think I'm using a "normal" IBM clone! Works fine. Estimated total cost of system : 7500 FMK (1800 USD). May not be cheap in the states, but it sure is cheap here in expensive Scandinavia. Comparison: A normal Mac Plus with only 1 800k internal drive costs 6600 FMK. This is just one example of what you can do with an old mac, but if you're not familiar with soldering & measuring, forget it.