Resurrecting a Macintosh Plus

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6 points·t0mek··6 comments

This is great. My family had a Macintosh Plus in the mid '80s, and it recently ended up in my possession after my mother did some cleaning. I brought it into the office as a bit of decoration and I've been fantasizing about getting it running, perhaps with some chain of adapters that would let it boot from a flash drive.

Probably the easiest way would be buying the floppy emu [1] - it allows to run the computer from an SD card. A bit pricey, though ($139).

If booting from a floppy would be enough then Rescue My Classic Mac is a way to go.

[1] http://www.bigmessowires.com/floppy-emu/ [2] http://rescuemyclassicmac.com/

That's perfect! Thanks for the link. I'm surprised that it's possible to emulate a hard drive through the floppy port - I never heard of such a product back then. I'd have assumed it would have to be done through the SCSI port. But that's part of the fun of it, getting to look at those old machines again now that we have the Internet.

The HD20 [1] emulated here uses some Apple-specific protocol, so it can be connected to the DB19. The SCSI port can also be be used, to connect some old hard external SCSI drive or a modern solution like SCSI2SD. The floppy-emu is easier to setup, though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Disk_20 [2] http://www.codesrc.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=SCSI2SD

OT, but not much, and not really "news", look at what this guy did (a mini-Mac): http://www.cultofmac.com/242234/smallest-working-macintosh/

Old Apple hardware has always been fun to tinker with. :)

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