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It sometimes works but sometimes it either freezes the machine or leads to weirdness later. I only ever use it to get a chance to save and reboot in an orderly fashion.

It looks like the Q650 has the same port layout as the 700, but obviously has the extra Nubus slot. The port layout of the IIci is a little different. A shame, I'd like the extra slot (and... cheap RAM) in my 700, but I don't want to chop up the case.

I'm just happy some version has been preserved. I couldn't find anything at all beyond that manual. It's a bit niche, but everything deserves to be documented, doesn't it? I'll grab it if I ever find one, that's certain.

Where did I put my AAUI adapter?!

I don't know a whole lot about ADB, but the manual mentions "secret" codes - so to a first approximation, is it just sending a fixed code for each button, which then gets translated by the software? Because that seems... simple to redo.

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/jlcooper-cs-1-controller-driver Ah! Cool. I couldn't find it because I was expecting a space in JL Cooper. Have you got one? I wonder if it would be easy-ish to clone it.

Have you ever seen a JL Cooper CS-1? It's an ADB controller specifically for early audio editing software such as ProTools and SoundEdit. Manual here: https://www.jlcooper.com/_manuals/legacy/CS-Series/CS-1_Mac_User_Manual.pdf But no software.

They're not image files, the card has a readable Apple partition map with actual partitions much as if it were a SCSI HD. I'm able to mount the Mac partitions on my Linux machine if I just plug the SD card into a reader, that's why I thought dumping the whole thing to a file would work. The...

Haha, nope! I saw a reference to using the ZuluBlaster in initiator mode to dump it, I might try that.

I took the SD card and made a full copy of the entire drive (with dd on Linux) to a file, put that on the disk as HD2.img. Might've been naive... The Quadra's fine, though. Phew.

HUH! This is a weird one: I tried one of of my Macs (LC III), and it gave the chimes of death. Then I tried my Q650 and it gave the exact same error as my Q700! It seemed strange that all of my Macs had died at the same time... but then I realized my tests had one thing in common: A brand new...

Today I tried setting up my Quadra 700 again. It's been in a cupboard for a few years, but was working fine before that. Unfortunately, it now powers up to a Sad Mac, with error code 0000000F 00000003, which is apparently a "memory addressing error". I've removed all RAM, VRAM, and Nubus...