Recent content by Admiral Ackbar

Hi. In 2025, is there a clear resolution for this? Is there a specific “known good” cable? Thanks..

Awesome, thank you!

Can anyone recommend a place in the Philadelphia metropolitan area? Or New York City area? Mac Plus display just went bad (deflection yoke?) so would like to get it going again but would rather make a road trip than try to find a shipping box etc. Thanks.

It seems like I am looking for a commercial venture for someone else with actual talent. :) A Raspberry Pi Zero taking a lead from "somewhere" on the motherboard when a cool activity is happening that is variable (eg CPU cache misses), and powering the 1-inch oscilloscope/vu-meter/gauge display...

The hunt continues. https://www.amazon.com/vdp/0f1c24c28c174e11b25c576ba8b87fb7?product=B0F27W6ZR1&ref=cm_sw_em_r_ib_dt_B8RlITxrUgmSu

Understood. So I looked around for docs on the SCSI2SD and it doesn't appear to have LED pinouts on its own. Hmmmm...

Even better. Something like this to show activity. This thing takes 3.5mm as input, but if there was something that could be clamped into a CPU pin (for example similar to how the PDSROM clamps on pin 27 IIRC) with the other end stimulating this display, that would be cool. Pure BW 1-bit fun...

Hi all. Is there a place on the SE/30 motherboard where wires could be run to an external LED to make it light/active on "heavy" CPU operations, or disk operations, or network operations? Just looking for something to blink when the system is active. Kind of like the CPU lights on the ZipGSX in...

Hi all. From what I have read so far, the Noctua NF-A6x25 FLX 60x25mm fan is the thing to have in an SE/30 in 2025. However, it also appears to require a lot of disassembly and soldering that I'm not comfortable doing. Can anyone point me to search terms for products that give external cooling...

I got a system from an auction site, said it had an 030 processor. On boot, the sytem was not sped up at all. Speedometer showed that it was operating just like any other Macintosh Plus. Seller said that maybe something is loose and asked me to open it and re-seat everything. So I did. It...

Hi all. Can anyone point me to a bootable SYS 6/7 800k floppy image or docs on making one that will let me test the acceleration of a Mac Plus? I think there is an accelerator inside but I am afraid to open the case since it’s probably a wild scene in there. Thanks.

Hi all. Does anyone have the kind of emblem for the beige Mac Plus available? Thanks.

Hi all. Looking for a place (or former place that is searchable) with discussions on HyperCard stacks and development. I'm particularly looking for a way to read a GIF that is bytes in a text file to display, but need to do a lot of lurk-learning as well. I did find...

Hey all. I would like to give a couple of eMates "something to do" instead of taking up space in a storage bin. Can anyone recommend a pkg of a floating clock/calendar screen saver, so the devices could show time and date in the rooom? The closest thing I could find was an UNNA search to...

That is great, thanks, I can try that on my PB180 since that has '7. Strange that this is so hard for System 6.