He’s also filmed a demo video that we’ve embedded after the break.Ĭontinue reading “Mac SE Reborn As A Server And Mac Emulator” → Posted in Mac Hacks Tagged arm, AVR, dockstar, emulator, floppy, seagate, usb SNES Controller Dock For Dell Streak Things like a chemical cleaning to return the original color of the classic case, and building a converter so that the peripherals are USB compatible are just some of the pleasures awaiting you in post. There’s so much going on with this project we just can’t cover it all here. When you insert the floppy, the pogo-pins raise up and contact the protoboard, connecting the SD card to a Teensy microcontroller. The drive itself has had the read head transplanted for some pogo pins (hey, we saw those earlier today). Instead, he’s added an SD card slot and some protoboard in the space for the read head. It still takes floppies, but there’s no magnetic media inside of them anymore. When the Mac is off the Dockstar still runs as a server.īut one of the best parts is the floppy drive.
But what fun is a dead machine housing a headless server? To add to the fun he included an ARM processor running a Mac emulator, along with all the bits to make the screen, keyboard, and peripherals work. He had been wanting to do something with the Seagate Dockstar and decided it would find a nice home in the Mac. The retro hardware had a bad mainboard thanks to the corrosive properties of a failed backup-battery. Cooked up an amazing hack by resurrecting a Mac SE using a Dockstar and ARM processor.
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