Posted in vintage on Sep 24th, 2024
TL;DR: Controller said RAID1 was lost after disks being powered on for first time after 20 years, I didn’t believe it. Booted into Linux and dd’d the last good disk. Recovered the UFS filesystem, I have 20 year old artifacts to sift through. Always take images of your drives before mucking with them. The main […]
Posted in vintage on Sep 22nd, 2024
[photos: flickr – Macintosh Quara 700 drive sled] The Quadra 700 I acquired had the internal plastic assembly that held the floppy drive and hard drives, but didn’t have the sled that the hard drive went in and clipped into the system. These are hard to find on top of an already hard to find […]
Posted in retro on Sep 3rd, 2024
Around 1995 I had a Zoom VFX V.32bis 14.4k modem as my main workhorse. It was a white plastic shell with a smoky brown translucent front face. I decided to buy one recently for old times sake: I also came into possession of a Telebit Netblazer PN (which I need to finish working on and […]
