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I tried, but I didn’t make any progress. There’s not really room to get much leverage there. I also tried inserting a coin under the hinge, but that didn’t help either. There might be room to slip a thin wrench underneath to keep the insert from turning, if I knew what size was appropriate...

I have two iBook clamshells I’ve been working on. I stripped them down this far, but in both cases I got stuck at the screw holding the left hinge, the one dead center in this photo: It turns freely, but won’t come out. There’s enough of a gap for the grounding cable to rotate, though. I...

I should maybe add: I don't have any personal experience with this mode. It was just something I found in the LC III Developer Note (p14, “VRAM”) while researching video modes and parameters. The LC 475 Developer Note does not mention it, nor the Technical Specifications pages for the LC...

Yes, I don’t know if it was a technical limitation that kept B/W compacts at 512×342 and more—that’s the hardware and software they already had, so why change things? As for 640×400, this was available on desktop Macs too. Machines with 512k of VRAM (such as the LC III) can display 16-bit color...

Seems that all B/W compact Macs have that; compare for example the Macintosh 128k page. That table is labeled as being about “Video Memory” which I think is only really relevant for models that have multiple display options. For external displays, 512×384 is an option but 512×342 isn’t. It’s...

Action Retro did a video here:  TL;DW: works, but didn't seem to retain the advertised capacity. He said he was going to try to exchange it, to see if the problem was the one battery or the seller, but I didn't see a follow-up video yet.

If you need a Classic-style icon to work with, someone created and uploaded a Pi logo on Macintosh Garden.  

Hmm, I found another source saying that “industrial” and “true IDE” are the keywords to look for, so I ordered one of those. Of course, it's half the size for twice the price, but oh well.

I started by initializing the CF card with Drive Setup. It seemed to work, but the machine didn’t boot after I finished installing the system from floppies. At that point, I tried to repartition and the card stopped mounting. Initialization failed installing the ATA driver, and Drive Setup would...

There’s a familiar sight. I’m working on a 5300 at the moment, and it’s nice to see a 190 coming out so well on the other end. How are you booting right now? I got an IDE-to-CF adapter, but I’ve had mixed results with it so far.

One thing that was still kind of a mystery to me was that “floppy ribbon cable”. I thought it would have to be a pretty specialized part to connect to the computer’s expansion port on one end and the drive on the other. Well, I got a for-parts 5300 today whose floppy drive had cracked plastic...

Oh, and there’s another black one on Yahoo Auctions now: Macway キーボード TP-999KB 英語版 Ver.2.0 マウス MacALLY 12BMAC-MM01セットで (currently no bids at ¥4,980, which is on the high side) You’d need to use a proxy such as Buyee to bid on it. I have no experience with proxies, as I’m in Japan and bid directly.

Sure. That keyboard is a Macway keyboard, a line that was sold in Japan in the 90s. Layout-wise, it’s similar to early Mac keyboards such as the IIGS and M0116. Control is next to A and Caps (non-locking) is in the corner, but there’s a separate row for Esc and FKeys. Keyswitches are Alps, I...

It’s also got a bigger 11.3” screen, which is a plus for usability, but a minus if you’re going for the Compact Mac aesthetic. I think 10.4” is already pushing it. Given the date of “1 April 1998” on the parts list, I’d guess another reason for the 5300 was that many users would have upgraded...

Up on Yahoo Auctions right now: an Uchishiba Seisakusho BookcaSE. This is an aftermarket conversion case for a color 5300/190. It’s something I’ve been interested in for a while… in fact, here’s what was already set out on my table at home: The auction starts at ¥240,000 (~$2400). I’m...

How much support do aliases have for AFP? They can link to AFP shares, right? On the Pi side, you could have an AFP share for every USB stick attached. You could then augment that that with another share containing aliases to each of those USB stick AFP shares. This would be pretty good...

RaSCSI implements network device emulation already, but the driver that uses it is implemented only for X68000. I'd guess that emulating the same device as Scuznet is probably easier than implementing a new Classic driver, but that could have advantages.

I opened up my ’84 M0100 to take a look, and found it to be rather different: The most notable difference is the addition of the chip on the upper right, but also significant is the replacement of your 3-pole U1/2/3/4 with two-pole Q1/2/3/4. I’m not very knowledgeable about circuitry, but...

“Up” and “Down“ is kind of a misnomer. It’s more like “Y1” and “Y2”: two sensors, slightly offset, watching the same (I think) LED. They’re not independent, and the computer can’t detect vertical motion unless both sensors are working. I’m not sure if you can get useful readings off the pins...

Having thought about it more, you probably want Apple Partition Map files, not just HFS images, so the process outlined above is a better bet. Sorry!