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    Macintosh Plus with BlueSCSI - how best to create original 800K System Disk floppies?

    I have a Macintosh Plus 4GB booting into OS 7.1 from a BlueSCSI V2 emulator and working fine. However, although I’m reasonably computer literate on modern Macs I know nothing about many aspects of the older Macintoshes. I want to create the original 800K system disks for either 7.1 or 6.0.8 so...
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    Please identify this electrolytic capacitor or a replacement.

    This tiny 5mm high electrolytic capacitor broke off a 30+ year old MicroMac PerformerPro accelerator card for a Macintosh Plus computer. I’m not an engineer and the only label on the capacitor is the info on the top (see attached image) - 22, 6A, 5G3. The capacitor still has a decent size lead...
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    Discovered MicroMac PerformerPro 68030 accelerator card inside Macintosh Plus - help?

    I have a vintage Macintosh Plus recently removed from long-term storage. It seems to be working well and I added a BlueSCSI emulator which boots fine into Systems 6 and 7. When I opened up the Mac to modify the logic board with a resistor enabling SCSI power to the BlueSCSI I discovered that...
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    Macintosh Plus screen slowly drifting horizontally to the left

    I have a vintage Macintosh Plus recently removed from long-term storage. It seems to be working well and I added a BlueSCSI emulator which boots fine into Systems 6 and 7. I have one minor problem I noticed when it was running for a while. The screen, which on boot-up was nicely crisp...
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