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Floppy Emu prototype on a breadboard

Macintosh Floppy Emu

The Macintosh Floppy Emu works! No, not the flightless Australian bird, but the SD card 800K floppy drive emulator for classic Macintosh computers. I’ve been tinkering with this project for a while now, and wrote about it here several times before.…

Logger Mini rev 2 board

Soldering Self-Confidence

I don’t like to solder. Nor am I very good at it, despite having soldered loads of boards. The temperamental solder never seems to flow where I want it. Surface-mount soldering in particular used to scare me enough that I didn’t even…

FCC Testing For Open Hardware

What do small scale open hardware projects do about RF interference compliance testing? I’ve been looking into selling assembled versions of a few of my projects like the Backwoods Logger, to people without the time or skill to build their…

Classic Mac Floppy Emulator Boot-Up

Watch this video on YouTube Exciting news on the Classic Macintosh Floppy Disk Emulator: I successfully transferred two sectors from a virtual 800K floppy disk, and used it to boot a Mac Plus to the “Happy Mac” screen. This proves…

Floppy Emu prototype connected to a Mac Plus

Macintosh Floppy Drive Emulator Update

A couple of months ago, I posted a design sketch for an SD-card floppy disk drive emulator for classic Macintosh computers. Recently I finally got motivated enough to start building it. Using one of the oh-so-rare DB-19 connectors that I purchased a…

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