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Lately I've had a few situations where it would be nice to have an always-on 68k server running System 7 or some such. Since I don't have a spare machine to dedicate to such a role (and don't really want to deal with the space and power consumption of running vintage-hardware 24/7), I thought...

So, the other day, while I was using it, my SE/30 experienced rather a dramatic failure, dying with a sharp "snap" and a smell of burning electronics. I'd recapped it about a year ago with tantalum capacitors, but I hadn't touched the (Sony) power supply or analog board, so my first instict was...

I finished recapping the display in my 180c the other day, with great success, and while I know there are capacitor lists for it out there, there didn't seem to be any references for suitable sizes/footprints for the replacements, so I thought I'd share my notes on what worked for me...

My ethernet card project has gotten to the point where it's stable enough that I'm using it day-to-day in my SE/30, but one thing I'm curious about is how it performs in comparison to other PDS ethernet cards. In theory it should perform just as well, if not better, than a 'vintage' card, but I...

As my ethernet card's driver starts looking more and more like an actual functioning piece of software, I've been giving some thought to how to distribute it - the SE/30 card's driver can be packaged neatly as a comd system extension that you can drop into your System Folder (only Network...

In the decade and a half between giving away my old SE/30 while moving house, and acquiring another one, I seem to have misplaced the ethernet card that I used to have for it. Having gotten a pretty severe case of sticker shock looking at what they go for on eBay these days, I have embarked on a...

I'm trying to get A/UX 3 stood up on my IIfx, and I'm running into a really strange problem - if the only Nubus card in the machine is my graphics card, it'll boot fine and run happily. If I add any more cards, it hangs at a grey screen with square corners, immediately after loading the kernel...

My SE/30 has a RasterOps Colorboard 264 in it, which is lovely, but it's not without its caveats - it does not seem to have any monitor-presence detection, and just presents a 640x480 screen whether there is a monitor connected to it or not. This is a bit annoying, since I don't always want to...

I'm playing around with A/UX 3.0.1 on my SE/30, and I'm running into a strange problem where the kernel panics with "!Double Panic: unexpected kernel trap" when there is heavy incoming serial traffic. I've seen this happen both in terminal sessions using cu and when receiving network traffic...

I've just finished recapping an SE/30, and have a puzzling problem: while the boot chime is loud and clear and sounds normal, playing any sound while the system is running causes it to lock up and play a 'stuttering' boot chime for a second or two, and then restart - as if somebody pushed the...

First, a little background. While I'm new to 68kMLA, I'm a long-time collector and enthusiast of old hardware of all kinds, Apple gear especially. At my peak, I had a IIfx, a IIci, about ten assorted compact Macs, and all manner of goodies and peripherals (at one point, the IIfx was driving a...