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It's MO time ☺

Posted by: ClassicGuyPhilly on 2023-11-20 05:58:11

@Phipli that Ning Nang Nong song brings to mind Syd Barrett's Effervescing Elephant...love that tune.

Posted by: SophieRose on 2023-11-20 06:38:05

Lol 😂

Mine kinda does this..

Posted by: Durosity on 2023-11-20 11:43:36

I need to be getting me one of these new fangled MO drive dohickies.

Posted by: joshc on 2023-11-20 11:46:57

I know. I want to jump on the MO bandwagon too!

Posted by: MrFahrenheit on 2023-11-20 19:24:18

Hello. I’m here from the alternate reality timeline where Apple adopted Magneto Optical disk storage.

Feel free to ask me how it went.

Posted by: Durosity on 2023-11-21 06:28:38

That looks absolutely amazing!

Posted by: Unknown_K on 2023-11-21 08:02:58

You seem to really like Windows NT 3.1.

Posted by: tt on 2023-11-21 23:35:57

If it goes Ecky-ecky-ecky- ecky-pikang-zoom-boing-mumble-mumble-NI! you're in real trouble.

Haha, oh no, it's soon to be a goner then.

Posted by: MrFahrenheit on 2023-11-22 04:05:47

You seem to really like Windows NT 3.1.

No, I collect operating systems in general.

Posted by: ClassicGuyPhilly on 2023-11-22 05:43:45

No, I collect operating systems in general

That's seriously impressive

Posted by: MrFahrenheit on 2023-11-22 08:02:48

That's seriously impressive

Thank you. I also have nearly every Apple and Macintosh boxed OS as well.

Posted by: Unknown_K on 2023-11-23 00:29:12

I collect OS and boxed apps in general and have quite a few of them.

Posted by: ArmorAlley on 2023-11-23 00:43:55

I need to be getting me one of these new fangled MO drive dohickies.

I can recommend them. Mr. Jobs has started having them installed into his company's NeXT boxes too. They are also all the rage in Japan too which is a great place both the disks and the drives.

Posted by: CC_333 on 2023-11-23 02:23:32

That's seriously impressive

Indeed!

I aim to eventually have a similarly complete collection (so far, on the Mac side I have Mac OS 7.6, 8, 8.5, 9 and several varieties of Mac OS X (including a copy of Server 1.x)), but lack of time, opportunity and funds have held me back, but I'll get there....

I'd love to be proven wrong, of course!

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Posted by: MrFahrenheit on 2023-11-23 04:54:57

I picked up a lot of MO disks from Japan recently. 77 mixed 230/640/1.3GB disks, almost all were 640MB. Over half were new still.

They came with a neat 12 disk binder case of which I’ve never seen before. I paid under $2/disk including shipping.

Supply from Japan is readily available.

I recommend an MO drive on a bridge machine and a SCSI MO drive on a vintage machine. ATAPI versions also work on those machines with IDE.

Speaking of which, I should try modding a 630/640 to replace the floppy with an IDE Fujitsu 1.3GB. I wonder if the bus in these can support master and slave devices.

For the ATAPI version of the Fujitsu drive, I’ve found that the same MO Disk Extension linked elsewhere in this thread works as well.

Posted by: Gunzel on 2023-11-23 06:20:29

Bought today from HARD OFF in Japan, Y550. They had more, but the price was not so good, and the weight starts to add up.

Posted by: MrFahrenheit on 2024-07-13 05:53:32

For those looking for an internal MO drive for PowerBooks:

Fujitsu DynaMO 230 Magneto-Optical Drive For Apple Macintosh PowerBook 5300, 190 | eBay

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Seems to be new and complete kit with software and manual. The box has some wear from storage, please check all the photos.</p> <p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Selling AS-IS since I don't have a matching PowerBook to test...

www.ebay.com

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