BMOW ROM-inator install in Mac512!

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While BMOW no longer sells the original ROM-inator, thanks to @KayMMods in Tokyo who kindly sold me his spare kit, I was able to build this fun and useful mod. It's fully reversible and really adds something special to the earliest compact Macs too. Best of all, Steve C. and Kay came to an agreement to resurrect sales of the kit, which will be shipped worldwide out of Tokyo soon.

 

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I think I'll pick one of these up from for my 512k (has a bad 400k drive in it, so this would be nice) @KayMMods once he has a few - Sure I could print one, get a programmer, find the roms, etc - but it gets to be a lot of work. Be sure to post a thread when they're up for sale!
 
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I think I'll pick one of these up from for my 512k (has a bad 400k drive in it, so this would be nice) @KayMMods once he has a few - Sure I could print one, get a programmer, find the roms, etc - but it gets to be a lot of work. Be sure to post a thread when they're up for sale!

Speaking of @KayMMods , he's pretty awesome. Look at what just arrived at my door! Beautifully packaged and with 2 complimentary gears (as clean as anything I've seen) too!

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Kayさん、誠にありがとうございました!

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James, thx for for ur advice, everything is going well now. Enjoy ur BlueSCSI!

@eric , thx for add me your BlueSCSI group. All Japanese 68K mac user should have it.
There is no problem in production, but the resistor array is out of stock and can not be made without it:ROFLMAO:
 
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James, thx for for ur advice, everything is going well now. Enjoy ur BlueSCSI!

@eric , thx for add me your BlueSCSI group. All Japanese 68K mac user should have it.
There is no problem in production, but the resistor array is out of stock and can not be made without it:ROFLMAO:
I've had to get creative when sourcing the parts list from Canada as well!
Here's hoping some of these STM32 bluepill clones work as they should :S
 
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Speaking of @KayMMods , he's pretty awesome. Look at what just arrived at my door! Beautifully packaged and with 2 complimentary gears (as clean as anything I've seen) too!

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Kayさん、誠にありがとうございました!

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I am honestly jealous now, James! This is amazing!
The BlueSCSI is also on my list of projects. I started to collect the components. I ordered 20 of the STM32 one day accidentally. 🙃