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@mizerable I'd recognize a 2012 MacBook Pro with 2010 acrylic white MacBook track pad anywhere. :) But have you swapped the keys into a B&W checkerboard pattern, yet? :D

@ssokolow Thanks for pointing out Abaton. I'm having fun discovering all the accessories they made. They really stuck to the Macintosh II design asthetic and did a great job. Even their modem looks great. Incidentally, is it possible Abaton made a left-handed version of their mouse? That...

PM sent about Crystal Crazy if you ever decide to part with any of this stuff. :)

Hey, production MicroMac SEs! I was literally wondering if they went into production a few days ago. Was just talking about a couple prototypes I had. Nice to see them.

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@ED2 If you have a collection of rare software, might I suggest visiting the AppleSauce Discord channel? You may have some stuff that hasn't been archived. There's probably someone in your area who can help you get those disks backed up so the rare software doesn't fall into obscurity.

Hard to dig up any information, but yes, it would appear to be a budget publisher for independent developers. Typically (although not always the case), the budget version is more common. It was offered at a steep discount compared to the original retail copy. It was expensive to get your...

Last time I used AutoDesk was AutoDesk R12 on Windows 3. I have free access to their online version through my education account, but I found it very confusing.

@zigzagjoe What app do you use for modeling? I've often toyed with the idea of reproducing some of Frog Design's prototypes and making them into real products. There's a guy on YouTube who did that with Apple's really slick MessagePad/Phone combo unit. Another guy (same guy?) did it with the...

@zigzagjoe I really like the case you designed. It looks like a cross between an LC and an upside down Apple Data Modem. If the buttons, line, and LED were moved to the top, it'd be a perfect match fro the modem. :) Either way, I really dig it. What could be really fun is if you ran a ribbon...

This is exciting. I know the FPGA stuff is faster, but I really enjoy "authentic" hardware. I'd buy an 060 upgrade over a multi-GHz FPGA 68k any day. But I'm sure I'm in the minority.

@ironborn65 Plug in an ethernet cable and do Internet Recovery (Option-Shift-Command-R.)

@shu82 This is a long shot, but by any chance did you find any Applied Engineering cable adapters that convert the internal floppy disk connector into an external? There's nothing special about the cable, literally just internal connector on one end and external on the other, but it did have a...

I have a SuperMac Dataframe if you're interested. The HDD has stiction and won't spin up without some help, but you could swap it all out with a working drive. Perhaps the most interesting part is that it's an MFM Rodime drive connected to a custom MFM to SCSI adapter board.

@Iesca Are you in the U.S.?