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    Tecmar Mac Drive (10 MB) A serial hard drive?! (The first Macintosh external hard drive)

    Thank you. This will help tremendously. Much appreciated and I appreciate the time markers too :) Looking at my Mac Drive power supply, I saw some caps are out of spec so I made note of them for replacement. I saw two caps that were the same value but one was taller than the other. As it...
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    Tecmar Mac Drive (10 MB) A serial hard drive?! (The first Macintosh external hard drive)

    I think it's age. I have two or three Hyper Drives and all of them have red shock indicators. Nope, no rubber whatsoever. The metal Mac Drive case is more heavy duty than I've seen with most hard drive enclosures of the period. It was well designed.
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    Tecmar Mac Drive (10 MB) A serial hard drive?! (The first Macintosh external hard drive)

    Congratulations! I am an early riser so I was watching the live stream until just before midnight and saw most of the fun. I'll watch the rest of it today and coupled with what you wrote above (thank you!), I'll figure it out if I can get mine to work. I've never used my Floppy Emu as an...
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    Tecmar Mac Drive (10 MB) A serial hard drive?! (The first Macintosh external hard drive)

    I'll try to check out the stream later today. Perhaps I am mistaken but I was referring to the chip on the Macdisk board marked 7000007, v1.2 which is the same as mine. I also see you have a Tandon TM600 series drive. I have not had the best of luck with those. Various models were used in...
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    Tecmar Mac Drive (10 MB) A serial hard drive?! (The first Macintosh external hard drive)

    It's never easy. The RIFA caps look as fresh as they day they were delivered from hell. I do have a couple of large caps where one has the outer jacket split along one side and another that looks like it was starting to. I'll have to remove the caps and check them. Hopefully it's one of...
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    Tecmar Mac Drive (10 MB) A serial hard drive?! (The first Macintosh external hard drive)

    Also, not straight thru. I have to assume this is the correct cable as it's the only one that came with it. Of course, I don't know for sure but it's a good bet. Hope you can figure it out from this:
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    Tecmar Mac Drive (10 MB) A serial hard drive?! (The first Macintosh external hard drive)

    I had bought one of these some time ago quite a while back but never actually tried it because it has issues with the power supply and drive. I suppose it's waited long enough for me to look at it. The good thing is, I have software and the original cable (and box too!). What I don't have...