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I found a beige DIN plug on AliExpress. Running the Mac from a RAM disk is surprisingly smooth, and I’ve been using it in a fairly practical way by connecting SheepShaver over Ethernet with an Asante EN/SC adapter.

I used a D-sub 9-pin mouse cable and replaced it with a DIN 8-pin plug (soldering it was quite a challenge). The mouse that originally came with my Outbound was discarded because it was mistakenly thought to be faulty when the keyboard battery voltage dropped (it had been lent out during a...

I bought a Microsoft InPort Mouse C3K5K5COMB and found that it wasn’t a simple pull-up design — it actually uses IC control. So I wired the mechanical encoder and microswitches directly to the DIN 8-pin connector. I also added 4.7 nF ceramic capacitors between each of the four terminals of the...

Thank you. I had thought that tantalum capacitors burnout was caused by reverse voltage, so I was relieved to learn that that defect is common.

The installer did not detect the SCSI BOLT on system 7.5. I used it on 7.1. Maybe pressing the Drive button installs the driver. I first pressed the Initialize button and it took over 2 hours for 4GB. Even now it seems fast enough.

This may not be the right thread to ask this, but if you know, please let me know. A few days ago I turned on my Dash 30fx for the first time this century. A few seconds later the capacitors on the 5.25" full height Seagate hard disk burned. I ordered a 33µ tantalum capacitor, is there anything...

Is this useful? I was able to initialize and mount an HD connected to a SCSI BOLT card in a PDS slot on my Dash 30fx. I was also able to boot from that disk.