Mac Plus Booted from SD card/USB stick??

[mcmikey]

Hi all,
Now I've gt my Plus up and running again with a new logic board I have been messing around and got it booting from a SCSI Zip drive instead of the 40MB HD. The 27 year old system and demo disks still boot fine as well
What I would really like to do is boot from silicon - SD or USB stick. It is probably impossible but has anyone attempted this?

Cheers,
Mike

 

[harrymatic]

This is just the thing. You load up an SD card with disk images and the device presents the selected image to the Mac as if it were a physical drive.

 

[mcmikey]

Amazing! You've gotta love the internet!

 

[keysersoze]

Amazing! You've gotta love the internet!

FloppyEmu is fantastic. I've got one and switch between Floppy and HD20 mode. I stuffed all of my old files on it, and easily put stuff on it from my MBP via the SD card. Get one!

 

[mcmikey]

I'm going to order one in a week or so. My internal floppy drive is playing up and I was going to swap the mechanism with the external, but I might try fitting this inside instead. Won't know till I see it in the flesh of course!

 

[catzilla]

I would like to try the Floppy Emu on my SE/30. I have a IIsi I could grab a rom simm from.

 

[keysersoze]

I would like to try the Floppy Emu on my SE/30. I have a IIsi I could grab a rom simm from.

Or get a Dougg3 ROM SIMM!!

http://www.downtowndougbrown.com/programmable-mac-rom-simms/

 

[catzilla]

Or get a Dougg3 ROM SIMM!!

http://www.downtowndougbrown.com/programmable-mac-rom-simms/

Very cool, thanks...

 

[keysersoze]

Very cool, thanks...

Here's a good thread on it and other cool/geeky things you can do.

https://www.thinkclassic.org/viewtopic.php?id=102

 

[2499723]

I'm just here to second the Floppy Emu. It's an amazing piece of kit! It's made my life so much easier - don't need a million floppies lying around anymore, cool though they may be.