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Hi all, I understand that the MacEffects Thunder card is not guaranteed to work on the original LC. Was curious if folks had any experiences with this combo? In another thread, somebody mentioned an INIT that was written for the original card design (before MacEffects re-created it), which was...

Continuing the saga of my WGS 8150/110, I was curious if the 600i was working or not. This drive has an unfortunate number of delicate ribbon cables, which makes disassembly and repair a bit of a gamble. Regardless, my first task was to trace down a mechanical, not electrical, problem: the tray...

I recently purchased a bulk lot of crushed ABS plastic: and realized the seller had accidentally included a Workgroup Server 8150/110 ;) In all seriousness, even knowing what I was in for, it's pretty impressive seeing what condition these are in nowadays. The SGI community has a...

I’m 99% sure this is a software router between LocalTalk and Ethernet, but I’m interested in the software CDEV and the “Forward Transfer Algorithm” they mention. Doesn’t seem to be preserved on Macintosh Garden…

Versions of Toast earlier than 3.x don't seem to include support for saving images from a physical CD-ROM. Toast 3.5 does, however -- in a variety of formats: Of these options, at least Mac Volume and SCSI Copy result in a file readable by DiskJockey -- albeit in different ways. It's not as...

There is a thread from a while back here -- initially about an obscure terminal console add-on, but eventually discussing the TOPS protocol as a whole. For reference, this is about the Transcendental Operating System -- TOPS, originally from Centram Systems West, then SUN, and then I think...

...one in an ongoing series of items grabbed from the Free Table at VCFWest this year... Between about 1984 and 1986, Kensington marketed a line of "Maccessories" designed for the 128K, 512K, and Plus. Included in this line was the "Surge Suppressor", which was color-matched to early Macs...

In certain older AppleTalk network visualization software packages such as Trawl and GraceLAN, the machine type (“Macintosh SE/30“) determines what icon is used for a node on a network. By default, netatalk seems to send “Workstation”, and I’m curious if there’s a best practices way to change...

This is quite an extensive (42 min) piece from This Does Not Compute about the cancelled touchscreen Duo: He has interviews with several key engineers, and access to what seem to be working units...

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...