Recent content by Muirium

Ah, AUI. This era of Macs was way before my time so I'd quite overlooked that. Better explains the coaxial, too. I can try to talk them into the good of letting it live on. I'll see if they like the idea. Anyone after the case?

Here are the two cards: I think they're both graphics cards. They both have DB15 ports, and the smaller one has what I think may be a BNC video output, too. I had a PC monitor with three of those on the back, back in the 90s, for RGB. The smaller card is Apple branded, presumably the...

You may well be right about the lock. I’m kinda tempted to put it on one of my Macs if the museum are cool with that. They're not sure what to do with the IIfx as it's so clearly damaged. If I build a IIfx Reloaded it'll have to go back to them. 😄

What these guys said. I've been playing with compact Macs lately for the first time in decades, and they all flicker quite a bit. Try not to position them in your peripheral vision, it'll drive you nuts! How people used multi-monitor setups back in the day with the weight and bulk and flicker is...

Ah! I quite suspect this RAM won't work anyway, because of the corrosion.

Ah! So when in the boot process is the BMOW logo shown, and for how long? I remember seeing a happy Mac with a pirate eye-patch on a video, for what I took to be the whole sequence, which strikes me as too cheesy for a classy little Mac like the 30. What I’m really looking for is the memory...

Yes, Steve's compression is very nice work. I just don't like to lose the original start-up image. I’m a bit of a purist, that way, though certainly not others. As fortune would have it, a Macintosh IIfx ROM happened to fall into my hands, so I can try that time-honoured trick instead! I’m sure...

What do we have here? Very almost literally kicking around, behind the scenes at a local museum, the beige box on the floor turns out to be a Macintosh… II… fx! Ooh, let's take a looksie. That's no way to treat a top of the line 1990 vintage Mac! Well, she's on the desktop now at least...

Ooh, very nice work. These are great times for the SE/30! 😄

Very nice! How costly was shipping in the end from CayMac? It’s hit and miss now with brexit. Some things get held up forever. Others just sail on through. Technically, I have two (non working) SE/30s right now, as a local museum let me see if I can restore theirs along with mine or at least...

Something I’d prefer is the original boot logo. Rominator II looks a good option except for the altered logo and the slot fit issue. (To be fair, my SE/30 needs recapped so I’ve not seen the original logo there. But my Mac Plus certainly doesn’t wear a pirate’s eye patch!) This is the ROM I’m...

This may be a hilariously naive question, so please forgive me in advance, but just how difficult would it be to install one of these into a Mac Plus to provide it with working ADB? Obviously, I don’t even know what the “internal side” of this ADB controller speaks, or whether a Mac Plus has a...

Beautiful! :geek: Welcome inspiration to persevere with my SE/30 restoration. I had it as far as the ? floppy icon a couple of times the other day, as I tried to figure out exactly what's leading it to Simasimac the whole rest of the time. Once I got that disk icon up the first time, I...

Keenly interested in an internal display greyscale card for my SE/30, too. I've had it a wee while now—here's a pic from 2014—but I’m finally getting around to fixing it up. Got a BlueSCSI on the way, too. Also very interested in Bolle's Ethernet equipped PDS riser, as seen in Action Retro's...