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Mac84 replied to the thread Tecmar Mac Drive (10 MB) A serial hard drive?! (The first Macintosh external hard drive).The thought is, that this board converts the drive to SASI/SCSI (at some point), the pinout of the 50-pin cable seems to confirm that... -
Mac84 replied to the thread Tecmar Mac Drive (10 MB) A serial hard drive?! (The first Macintosh external hard drive).I’m assuming the drive was used at some point in time - and hoping there’s data on it. I’m mainly curious to see what goodies are on it...
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Mac84 replied to the thread Tecmar Mac Drive (10 MB) A serial hard drive?! (The first Macintosh external hard drive).Correct, sorry for not stating that above. So currently, I get the same error if 1) the drive is plugged in and turned on with a...
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Mac84 replied to the thread Tecmar Mac Drive (10 MB) A serial hard drive?! (The first Macintosh external hard drive).Well, with the HD removed from the enclosure, but everything else plugged in, I get the same error about the drive not being recognized...
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Mac84 replied to the thread Tecmar Mac Drive (10 MB) A serial hard drive?! (The first Macintosh external hard drive).I only took a quick peek, but it looked like copper, similar to this "clock" someone made and posted on eBay of the same model drive. :oops:
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Mac84 replied to the thread Tecmar Mac Drive (10 MB) A serial hard drive?! (The first Macintosh external hard drive).Thanks David, I'm currently performing a number of those steps today. I didn't think of testing the enclosure without the drive...
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Mac84 replied to the thread Tecmar Mac Drive (10 MB) A serial hard drive?! (The first Macintosh external hard drive).Out of curiosity, I opened up the Tecmar "Volume Manager" software (v6.0.3) in ResEdit and looked through the alert messages. This is...
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Mac84 replied to the thread Tecmar Mac Drive (10 MB) A serial hard drive?! (The first Macintosh external hard drive).The Hyperdrive one is neat! And yes, this is a bigggg drive. Thankfully the MacGUI article I linked to above (after you log in) has...
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Mac84 replied to the thread Tecmar Mac Drive (10 MB) A serial hard drive?! (The first Macintosh external hard drive).Yep! They had to use volume shenanigans to get around the maximum storage sizes of the original system software, hah! This MacGUI...
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Mac84 replied to the thread Tecmar Mac Drive (10 MB) A serial hard drive?! (The first Macintosh external hard drive).That's a good question! This drive I believe was also capable of working with the Mac 128K, where the HD20 needed the 512K to work. One...
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Mac84 posted the thread Tecmar Mac Drive (10 MB) A serial hard drive?! (The first Macintosh external hard drive) in Add-ons, Peripherals & Networking.Hey all, I wanted to share something neat I picked up at VCF Midwest this year, a Tecmar Mac Drive, perhaps the first external hard...
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