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| Box of surprises! | |
| Posted by: oneboyarmy on 2016-01-28 18:30:31 A good friend of mine since me a box of goodies - does that still count as a conquest? 😛   The contents? Various compact flash cards to be used for my various IDE to CF projects Newton OS 2.0 CD-ROM and a bit of documentation An original iSight camera 2 ADB to USB adapters An 8-inch floppy disk* ...and last but not least, a working Apple IIe Compatibility Card! The same friend gave me a cable for the malfunctioning card that I have a couple of years ago but of course, I couldn't use it until now! I'll be looking for the correct 5.25" floppy drive next. I also found out why my previous card wasn't working... I guess... one of the caps and the pad is coming off the board. Pretty sure that'll do it. Time to hire someone for some recapping. *The 8-inch floppy is more of a comical item than something that would be used. He has a couple boxes of them, but nothing that uses them, and even though he's 3-4 years older than I am, he's never used a system that used 8-inch floppies. | |
| Posted by: Elfen on 2016-01-28 19:33:59 Nice! And the Apple IIe card is fixable, yeah - a cap would do that. And was your friend grovelling for you to spare him his life as you held the balith over his head? Yes? Consider it a conquest! Go Klingons! Damn, I remember 4 boxes of 8in media would almost go for 1/2 a grand! C\PM would be on them if there was a system for them to put on. | |
| Posted by: oneboyarmy on 2016-02-06 12:42:29 I snagged a 5.25" drive and now we're really in business! I can't wait to move so I can get this Mac on a proper desk.  | |
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2016-02-06 18:59:09 I love Montezuma's Revenge, awesome game. | |
| Posted by: oneboyarmy on 2016-02-07 08:10:00 Mine too! We had it in my 5th grade classroom and it was always a good day when we got to play it. Sadly, our IIe had a monochrome monitor so some of the keys proved to be a challenge. The teacher across the hall had a color monitor (and a Platinum IIe) and I was very jealous of how good Wheel of Fortune looked on it. | |
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2016-02-09 11:52:07 I laugh every time the little dude falls on his head and dies. Â His little leg shaking. :lol: | |
| Posted by: nightingale on 2016-02-11 08:28:40 I can't believe that I didn't even know 8" floppies were a thing.... | |
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2016-02-11 08:35:26 You never saw the movie WarGames? 🙂 | |
Posted by: EvilCapitalist on 2016-02-11 11:32:26You never saw the movie WarGames? 🙂Shall we play a game? | |
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