Notices by Mac84 ? (mac84tv@bitbang.social), page 2

@DosFox It needed a special disk just to get the darn thing to see the drive! It's very similar to how the HD20 works and boots. Brief steps, 1. It reads a boot floppy, 2. Boots from HD. 3. Ejects floppy), here's some info on TinkerDifferent:

https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/tecmar-mac-drive-10-mb-a-serial-hard-drive-the-first-macintosh-external-hard-drive.4657/page-2#post-40230

I dumped the ROMs there too.

Sadly, it only kinda works on my Mac Plus, before making horrible glitching happen on my screen and speakers, and freezing it up. See this video: 😅 ⚡

IT FREAKIN' WORKS! 🎉

Here's a 30 sec clip of when it sprang to life:
https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxkbH08-ZWrrjUx2wf1POjPUBHFXMvTE8v

Here's HOW I got it working & how I backed up ALL the data from it:
https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/tecmar-mac-drive-10-mb-a-serial-hard-drive-the-first-macintosh-external-hard-drive.4657/page-2#post-40230

This was NO small task. Huge thanks to EVERYONE who helped me get here! ❤️🤗 What a journey...

Let's explore a massive MFM hard drive designed for the first Macintosh... and see if my dongle has what it takes to make it work!

https://www.youtube.com/live/uPCD7RcJoLo

Today’s the big day! 💾

If you’re attending VCF Midwest please stop by the “L” YouTuber area near me and many, many other talent and awesome people to say hello! 👋

Hope to see you there!

#VCFMW

This is THE WEIRDEST device I've ever used!

Watch me check out this silly piece of oddware from 1985.

Oh, and maybe do some neck stretches first.

📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41jCujsrHVg

Let's try and fix this sad Macintosh TV analog board... 🤞

https://youtube.com/live/t5zPtAJY8wk

@yon Oof, I've looked at development prices, no thanks!

I do have plenty of 8mm footage I'll be showing here, including some 8mm to VHS transfers my grandfather had done back in the day - which makes for a very interesting comparison!

I hope you folks like hour-long deep dives about hacking the heck out of a plastic 8mm film digitizer to help rescue home movies. 📽️

...'cause that's what's coming soon! 🎞️

@alanfleming I do that and get emails but time hasn’t been on my side to pay attention to such things as of late. Maybe next year!

@alanfleming It’s the only thing I dislike about the provider. The SSL Cert should be updated now, they actually have a new process but it’s a bit of a UX nightmare and still requires manual guess work. Now we wait until next year where I forget how I fixed it this time.

@alanfleming It's being resolved, the hosting provider makes it very frustrating to go in and fix it, manually.

@pierrenick Thank you! I'm doing surgery on ONE final Apple tape... and it's not being an easy one... keep your fingers and toes crossed!

@apzpins It's linked in my second post, but this is what I used. In my limited testing, it seems to work well - I chose the grey color. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09KL17849?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

YES!!

I successfully repaired my Apple 40SC Tape backup drive by creating a new 3D printed capstan for it. I then was able to recover some lost Apple / Claris engineer's goodies from 36 years ago! 😮

Read all about it here... 📼
https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/repairing-my-apple-tape-backup-40sc-drive-and-rescuing-apple-history-from-36-year-old-data-tapes.4477/

Join me as I explore the treasures and tempting dot matrix printers of the recent VCF East Swap Meet!

And learn the answer to the age old question, how many sad printers followed Steve home this time? 🫣

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6sx-3G_8gc

@Thorsted I'm sorry to hear that, that stinks :( I see some are now "borrow only", and only for certain accounts. What a shame.

Freshly archived! ✨💿

I've archived the companion CD-ROM for "Creating Web Pages for Dummies, 2nd edition" from 1997. It has a bunch of freeware/shareware and HTML authoring goodies for your vintage PC or Mac. 🌭

https://archive.org/details/creating-web-pages-for-dummies-2nd-edition-cd-rom-software-disc-1997/

#ArchiveEverything

Remember Tekserve, the independent Apple-focused repair shop located in New York City? (1987-2014)

I found some neat tech FAQ and Macintosh troubleshooting PDFs they made on some old Apple CDs, so now they're up on the Internet Archive for easier browsing and discovery!

https://archive.org/details/tekserve-nyc-faqs-apple-macintosh-support-1998-2002

Let's try and fix up this upgraded Macintosh II!

https://www.youtube.com/live/xBCyEGlJ9O4

Here's a 5 min preview of the amazing retro insanity that was VCF East 2025 from this past weekend! 🕹️Full video out soonish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG481vdZhwo