Wow, that was nerve wracking

In what turned out to be an exciting and reminiscing night, I upgraded the hard disk in my Color Classic (well - Performa 250) from 40MB to 1.2 Gb.

Luckily I had an old copy of service source 1.0 which happily ran on my G4 Powerbook under Classic. I safely navigated the CRT discharge procedure and reassembled it back to working order. I kept one hand behind my back just to be sure (keeping one hand behind your back minimises the chance of any electric shock passing through your heart).

I also swapped out the ethernet card in the LC PDS slot for the //e emulation card from my parent's old LC and now have a real (almost) hardware Apple //. It's actually even better than a real one because I can share some hard disk partitions under ProDOS for easy file transfer.

I have a UniDisk 5.25 drive as well, but I left the adapter cable for the drive at my parent's (hopefully they still have it).

So much fun :) Now I can get stuck into learning assembly programming the 6502 (it may have a 65C02 - I'm not quite sure).

The only downside is that my Color Classic has no ethernet card now, so I'm having to ferry files via a PowerBook 3400 that has ethernet and localtalk. If the person I lent my localtalk/Ethernet adapter to a few years ago reads this, can I have it back?!

Update:

Guess who forgot to put the self-termination jumper on the hard drive before re-assembling the Colour Classic...

I guess I'll just have to leave the long (and thus high-resistance) SCSI cable attached until I could be bothered fixing it.

On the plus side, I found the adapter cable, and so now I have an external platinum 5.25 floppy drive attached :) Pity I threw out all the disks years ago. Still, it sounds nice on the startup scan =)