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I am looking for someone with a Personal LaserWriter NT and / or a Personal LaserWriter NTR to do a test for me. Specifically, download the LaserTalk software and see if it is able to connect to the printer. Additionally, if any individuals here are familiar with the LaserTalk software, I would...

I've mentioned David Given's fantastic FluxEngine before, but I wanted to alert the community that as of the most recent release, FluxEngine can now write (as well as read) 800k Mac disks. If you're not aware, FluxEngine takes a regular 34-pin PC floppy drive, and by hooking it up to a ~$10...

I have a LaserWriter II that I've been working on today. It wasn't picking up paper at all, but after putting a few rubber bands round the pickup roller it is now picking up paper with a 50% success ratio! Not great, but I'll take it for now! I'm able to print the service test page, which is...

I should start off by saying that absolutely none of this is my work, I am just letting the 68kMLA community know about it. This is all done by the amazing David Given. The FluxEngine is a floppy disk imaging device that hooks up to USB on one end, and a regular PC 34-pin floppy drive on the...

I maintain the collection of HyperCard stacks on archive.org (I don't work for archive.org - I just maintain the HyperCard collection). One slightly annoying thing about the online emulator (James Friend's port of the PCE emulator to JavaScript) is that it has a bug where the PRAM values are not...

Hello, In school two days ago, I noticed something unexpected on my computing teacher's desk. Closer inspection revealed it to be an old Rodime hard drive. I spoke to my teacher and he agreed I could borrow the drive to see if it worked, and if there was any data on it. I took it back home, but...

Hi, I have a Macintosh Classic II connected with a Keyspan USB to Serial adapter to a Raspberry Pi running Basilisk II. I have ZTerm running on both of the machines, and am just trying out some communication stuff. I found that when the data rate (under Settings->Connection) is set to 300...

Hi, I just received a boxed ThunderScan (the little device that turns an ImageWriter printer into a scanner) off ebay, but am having software issues. The 400k disk would only read in my Classic II, all other computers would say "This disk is unreadable. Do you want to initialise it?". Of...

Hi, I was wanting to install System 7.5 onto a Macintosh Centris 610, but the floppies that I have do not seem to work (sometimes gives me happy mac, other times sad mac, sometimes does not read the disk at all). I saw on Apple's Older Software Downloads page that they have System 7.5.3 parts...

Hello everyone, I have a Macintosh Plus that I got a couple of years ago. When I first got it I had a problem where I would turn it on, it would come on, get as far as the flashing question mark icon on a floppy disk, but after a fraction of a second on that screen it would reboot. It would...

Hi all, Recently I bought a Macintosh IIcx motherboard off ebay. I only got round to cleaning it a few days ago and then I noticed that the copyright date on the motherboard was 1988, which confused me because the Macintosh IIcx was introduced in 1989. Is this normal for all Macintosh IIcx...

Hi, I would like to fit my (non functioning) Macintosh Classic, with a Raspberry Pi, to use as a general purpose computer/server/interesting object to have around the house. I am hoping for it to look authentic as possible, so ideally I would actually like to keep the original CRT inside, but...

Hello, I have a Macintosh Plus. It has worked well in the past few years. Yesterday when I went and switched it on it worked fine for about two minutes but then a vertical line appeared on the screen. I have never had this issue before. Whats more, when I went and turned it on just now to...

Hello everyone, I have an old Macintosh Plus, which I bought off eBay. I wanted to use a mac serial decoder to find information on it, but the serial number on the bottom of the casing has worn off. I was wondering if the serial number was printed/engraved inside the case, and if so, where it...