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I have a Lisa 2 that worked for many years, but has recently started giving an Error 52 -- and also immediately starting up when powered, instead of waiting for the power button. (Interestingly that light remains unlit despite the machine turning on.) Here's what I've tried so far: 1) Replace...

Before ResEdit shipped as a unified application, Apple had smaller programs that could perform some of the same tasks: Alert/Dialog Editor Font Editor Icon Editor These were part of a "Software Supplement" that seems to have shipped in the summer of 1984 - for the price of $100. Below, a July...

Interesting new development: http://hackaday.com/2017/05/01/the-raspberry-pi-becomes-a-scsi-device/ The project itself (in Japanese):  http://www.geocities.jp/kugimoto0715/rascsi/index.html Change over to low-density port, and pair this with some disk images on a SD card, you could build a...

So when booting from an external FloppyEmu, and thus having an empty disk drive, I get an audible "disk seek" noise at about 0.5 second intervals.  This noise abates once I launch an application, but returns once the program has fully loaded.  The disk drive itself seems to work fine otherwise...

The 68000 on one of my Mac 512k's seems to have had three pins connected to something at one point.   Curious if folks can guess what device/upgrade might have originally been installed?

Anyone know if the original, non-backlit Mac Portable has a fuse on the motherboard? I've seen references to one, but don't know if they might have involved the revised model, and I can't seem to locate any fuses on my motherboard...

A common problem when rooting around on old media is the tedious process of converting MacWrite files for viewing. Oftentimes these are ReadMe files that explain exactly what the software is, or provide other crucial information about what's on a disk. Unlike pure-text documents from...

I was doing some reading of the first MacUser issues, and came across an oddity: an article on the new Font/DA Mover with an accompanying illustration that showed very different icons for the "suitcases" holding Fonts and DAs which had been moved out of the system file. I've recreated them here...