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Not long ago I dismantled my first ever computer. An old Macintosh Classic with 4mb RAM and 40 MB harddisk. It was broken beyond repair and since then I am look
by sdoering 5y ago
Not long ago I dismantled my first ever computer. An old Macintosh Classic with 4mb RAM and 40 MB harddisk. It was broken beyond repair and since then I am looking for a way to connect the old disk to anything modern. Sadly I can't find a connector that is halfway decently priced.
I will keep looking, but breaking up the thing that was in one way or the other part of my life for >25 years felt very strange. So many memories. So many firsts. And I believe that this is a big part of that feeling of specialness such things have.
A new laptop doesn't provide any firsts for me. Nothing new. Maybe faster. Maybe a better keyboard. But nothing new.
- drewzero1 5y agoI had similar feelings when breaking down my family's old Gateway 2000 for scrap. That was the computer on which I started learning about how operating systems work (or don't, if you delete system files to free up space). The experience from that computer and the Apple ][e that preceded it has really shaped my trajectory since then. PCI SCSI controllers are around and fairly cheap, looks like there are even some PCIe ones out there (not as cheap). I've never gotten as far as the software side of it though. I imagine one might create an image of the disk, and use it with Mini vMac, but I think I still need to figure out the SCSI setup. (I have a PCI SCSI card that I was attempting to use to interface with some tape drives-- different story.)