1.) The Macintosh II, released in spring 1987, was the first Macintosh that did not have built-in video.
2.) Immediately
3.) Framebuffer is accessed thru NuBus memory. The framebuffer is on the NuBus card. It is memory mapped into the CPU's address space.
Read Inside Macintosh volume V for...
1.) If you mean as its internal drive, then I would say no.
2.) There were more FDHS drives produced than any other kind of 3.5" disk drive for Macintosh, so probably more of them still exist today, so probably they are not too hard to find.
The Neptune application, part of the Sabina TCP project, is now released in its first beta version. It works to download a web page on a Mac 512K, but I don't have a 128K to test it with. However, the application is intended to work with a Mac 128K too.
Anyone who has a Mac 128K and can...
Use the Finder's Set Startup command to set the initial application to run when the disk is booted. This startup application name is stored in the disk's boot blocks.
I followed my own advice and last night I read through the DI package chapter in Inside Macintosh IV. Just as you already saw from reading it, the HFS DI package, according to the text, will only make an MFS volume on a single-sided disk. Short of disassembling the package and patching the code...
I pulled my Inside Macintosh volume V off the shelf last evening. If you look in the SCSI Manager chapter there's the documentation on the partition table. There's a code for an MFS format partition. I think that's step 1. Will any utilities create an MFS partition? I don't know, but you can...
These are System Bomb errors? If so, both are Segment Loader errors.
I'm rereading your story again carefully, and I have some more questions and a hypothesis:
1.) The very first floppy you booted from you said was a "copied System 6 disk I had laying around." Do you remember if this disk was...
Macintosh files with a .bin extension are typically MacBinary encoded. Use either MacBinary 5.0 or StuffIt Expander to decode these files.
The .hqx extension means BinHex encoding, and .sea means a StuffIt self-extracting archive. Again, use StuffIt Expander to decode these.
Your response is why I initially didn't want to make that remark about interference with the floppy drive: I wasn't convinced beyond a doubt that it was applicable to your scenario, based on your written description and the photos.
But that knowledge may be useful to you or others in future...
I read your story this morning, had an observation to make, but decided against it. Now that I see that still no one has replied, I will go ahead and remark that the CRT emits radiation which interferes with the floppy drive I/O. The metal mounting bracket shields the drive against this...