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I bought this just in case the SD card didn’t perform as well as I would have liked.
IDE to SATA adapter and a $10 cheapo SSD. Can’t be used on the Macs, but for later use. The Macs that have SCSI are a bit more of a pain. Of course, dealing with old hard drives and floppy drives is a horrible experience, so there were a number of things to make it easier (where I could). #GOTEK FLOPPY EMULATOR MAC SERIAL#
An array of parts like serial mice (important for the 486 later), IDE DVD Drive, random PCI cards like a Realtek 8139. A Mac SE (the pictured Mac Classic was ruined due to leaky caps). In the end, the haul from the parents house resulted in: It even has the old style BNC connections that I’ll never use: back of Trinitron The holy grail of the haul was a 17″ Trinitron Monitor. Some the CD/Floppy drives were dead in various manners. Some had dead PSUs, others had corroded logic boards from batteries/caps. Unfortunately, these Macs have had a long hard life, and I was lucky to put together a few working machines from the parts of all. So over the course of a few weeks, I brought home almost a dozen different machines. A stack of old computer stuff (mainly Macs), at my parent’s house. All I was able to find was a PS/2 keyboard and mouse, a 4×3 LCD, and a fancy old power “strip” to fit the retro theme. Unfortunately, I’m probably a few years too late for the kind of gear I’m looking for. It didn’t take too long for the nostalgia to kick in hard, and I rearranged my office, and made a trip to the local Goodwill. I found myself watching a ton of retro YouTubers like LGR and the 8-Bit Guy. Like so many other things, this all started on YouTube. There’s also something to be said about a computer where you can’t just flip away to a web browser, Discord, or other distractions. And if you try to upscale it, it just doesn’t look right. Especially on a modern 4K screen, you end up looking at a game/emulator/etc that is like 3 inches tall. Sure, you can emulate this stuff, but it’s just not the same. Old macs, 486s, and all the games from that time period constantly itched at the back of my head. Gotek drives are also fantastic to use in an enclosure as a second drive, making easy backup of floppy disks or copying of disk images possible.It’s safe to say that I’ve gotten extremely nostalgic for some of the computers of my youth. #GOTEK FLOPPY EMULATOR MAC UPGRADE#
We stock a range of Gotek mounting kits and parts to convert your classic retro computer to USB or upgrade your current installation.
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The Gotek floppy disk drive emulator helps preserve classic floppy disk software and gives your retro computer a faster and more reliable storage solution! Floppy disks are slowly becoming more unreliable and because they are a magnetic tape media they are unfortunately deteriorating. This is a fantastic upgrade for any retro computer such as Amiga, Amstrad, Atari, BBC, IBM XT or MS-DOS computer etc etc. The Gotek drive shows as a standard floppy disk drive to the computer but instead uses USB flash to load the disk images from. The Gotek floppy disk emulator drive will fit in almost any computer that uses (or can use) a floppy disk drive. We have a range of Gotek floppy disk emulator drives for sale, Gotek mounting brackets and OLED/LCD displays.
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