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  1. Danamania

    My White Whale of 90s Apple Software: Macintosh Print Pack

    Converted. http://www.danamania.com/tmp/mpp.pdf I think the helvetica might still be a bit weird, but the rest looks good. I like that there's a weird font spacing issue in the image, too :)
  2. Danamania

    My White Whale of 90s Apple Software: Macintosh Print Pack

    After that, Preview on Catalina converted the .eps to a visible document I could then save as a .pdf, too.
  3. Danamania

    My White Whale of 90s Apple Software: Macintosh Print Pack

    I went through some of the same issues a few months back converting some of those documents. Those font issues were solved with a print to .eps - embedding worked well there. Nowadays everything is .pdf, but I guess back then support was a bit flakey, and .eps was stronger. perhaps. Edit: may...
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    Another round of... What's This Card?

    What cheesey said. In general items like these can be absolute goldmines btw, though from a quick look around the time may be up for this one. If a print house has working equipment, many will be hesitant to get rid of a setup that's done them well for decades. A card like that to the right...
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    Unknown nubus video card

    Oh goodness. I remember that post. Was that really 20 years ago?
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    AFP from a Synology NAS

    Aye, I want to add a tiny gigabyte or two pool on the NAS, absolutely isolated so it just appears as a small share to swap files on 7.1 machines conveniently. At the moment I've been working around that by sharing my permanently set up and turned on Q605's 4GB drive, and ultimately that's the...
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    AFP from a Synology NAS

    The file size issue on earlier system versions is a volume issue. Back when I had a smaller volume on my NAS it was less of a problem. Once I added another drive and brought the pool to 12TB, it really started getting ridiculous. Still works, though, for everything down to 7.1 - except 7.1...
  8. Danamania

    Melting display feet

    I had the same happen on the same model display a few years ago. I'd had the display sitting on wooden fibreboard shelves for years, pulled it down and all feet were fine. Sat it on top of my 6360, and within hours the rubber had melted and ran down the front of the Mac. *only* on one corner...
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    Introducing (and interest check) AirTalk: Wireless plug-and-play LocalTalk dongles

    Worth mentioning just in case is you need to have the AppleTalk control panel set to the port the AirTalk is connected to, or the AirTalk chooser extension won't see it.
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    Introducing (and interest check) AirTalk: Wireless plug-and-play LocalTalk dongles

    A twitter thread of AirTalks, with lotsa pics.
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    Any known caveats with a IIsi?

    A IIsi resto is my current project, and it's up and running happily - I recapped its PSU last weekend, which went a lot quicker than expected (I haven't done many recaps, and it was a horrid mess beforehand). It was all through-hole except for the daughterboard SMD caps, which were just a little...
  12. Danamania

    I will be recieving a new (to me) PowerMac 7300/200. How do I turn it on?

    This should help with the how to open, pointing to the latch Cory is referring to, also the 'foot' which is just a thin black plastic piece that slips into a supporting position when opened fully, but needs to be manually released or it'll just snap when you try to fold the drive bay parts down!
  13. Danamania

    68060 in Mac

    Going back a long long way, but there were posts in the early 2000s of 060 to 040 adaptors working in only one model. One of the last 68ks, the LC/Quadra/Performa 630 series which was supposed to fire up OK with an 060, at least to the point of booting.
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    A friendly reminder that MacTCP performance is godawful - OpenTransport is nearly 3x faster

    fwiw, OT1.3 brings similar improvements to at least as far back as 7.1, too.
  15. Danamania

    NUBUS Card Identification

    It's not the same card, but it gives me REALLY strong avid vibes, like this one that came with my Q950. https://www.applefritter.com/node/2157 Edit: actually the main part of the card DOES look the same, but with a different end on it. All the visible components in the same spot.
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    Mac Plus internal SCSI: noninvasive edition

    This is excellent and I approve.
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    PowerBook 540c screen problems

    giving the clutch cover a gentle press about an inch or two to the right of the mic hole below the screen can sometimes help. There's a connector right underneath there that can loosen. Been a while, so I forget precisely what the symptom of that one is, but it's a just few seconds to check...
  18. Danamania

    LC475 / Power Macintosh 8200 / Performa 630

    I dunno, that's all changeable anyway  :)  
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    LC475 / Power Macintosh 8200 / Performa 630

    Even the LC name got thrown around like confetti once the original little LC was out of the way, and it was numbers all over the place on *anything*. I'm normally one to loathe model designations that are chains of numbers (even when they're secretly very descriptive, looking at you...
  20. Danamania

    LC475 / Power Macintosh 8200 / Performa 630

    And add to the mix that the LC630 *did* come with a full 040 (at least in Australia), then it's... all whatever is defined as whatever. The only bit of internal consistency I think any company ever did was between equivalent releases at the same time.  I'd be happy with "Quadra" to mean "040"...
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