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February 27th, 2021, 05:16 PM

RadRacer203 replied to a thread What are the top 10 rarest vintage computer bits you own? in Your Vintage Computer Collections

Currently my rarest pieces are: Zaisan ES3 computer IBM 5161 expansion unit Worm drive in my PS/2 model 60 Macintosh Portable pre-production demo...

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February 27th, 2021, 05:10 PM

RadRacer203 replied to a thread Apple Lisa Widget Hard Drive (Parts) in Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade

It's just the internal Widget drive, not the Profile external one if that's what you mean by having the box. Just the drive itself with its...

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February 27th, 2021, 04:37 AM

RadRacer203 replied to a thread Apple Lisa Widget Hard Drive (Parts) in Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade

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February 26th, 2021, 06:41 PM

RadRacer203 replied to a thread Apple Lisa Widget Hard Drive (Parts) in Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade

No, I've had bad hard drives come back but there's no saving the mechanicals in this one, clicks really loudly occasionally, and sounds kind of like...

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February 26th, 2021, 05:46 PM

RadRacer203 started a thread Apple Lisa Widget Hard Drive (Parts) in Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade

Selling the original Widget hard drive from my Lisa 2/10 or will part out. Drive booted perfectly but only once. Mechanically it's pretty ruined, one...

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February 23rd, 2021, 02:16 PM

RadRacer203 replied to a thread Lisa 2/10 floppy and hard drive replacements? in Later Apple (68000+ based machines - Mac, Lisa, etc.)

Used a rusty Mitsubishi high density drive as a donor, still wouldn't turn on with pin 19 disconnected

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February 23rd, 2021, 12:31 PM

RadRacer203 replied to a thread Lisa 2/10 floppy and hard drive replacements? in Later Apple (68000+ based machines - Mac, Lisa, etc.)

Huh, well that's really interesting, maybe I'll try a Superdrive I have on the shelf. Gotta be more reliable than the original Weird, just tried a...

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February 23rd, 2021, 09:13 AM

RadRacer203 replied to a thread Windows 2000 freezing when resolution is changed in Pentium (First generation)

Completely forgot I created this thread, but I figured out that the issue was with the graphics card. Throwing in a more appropriate Matrox one with...

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February 22nd, 2021, 09:04 AM

RadRacer203 replied to a thread Lisa 2/10 floppy and hard drive replacements? in Later Apple (68000+ based machines - Mac, Lisa, etc.)

I think my goal for this machine is to get some kind of internal hard drive solution, I'm thinking the scsi card and a scsi2sd is most likely, and I...

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February 22nd, 2021, 04:27 AM

RadRacer203 replied to a thread Lisa 2/10 floppy and hard drive replacements? in Later Apple (68000+ based machines - Mac, Lisa, etc.)

I did already unstick the drive so it's spinning and ejecting, just immediately rejects the disks I have

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February 21st, 2021, 06:18 PM

RadRacer203 started a thread Lisa 2/10 floppy and hard drive replacements? in Later Apple (68000+ based machines - Mac, Lisa, etc.)

So this past Friday I found a Lisa 2/10 and it came home with me. Overall it's in nice shape, mostly works, and has the keyboard and mouse. The...

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