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Oh, not knockoff: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014RO8WPE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I think mine have hardened, but need to look closer.  I got a knockoff cartridge to see if the printer worked. Wouldn’t recommend it - foam seal on it melted as soon as I put it in, so I think it’s very old. I’ll see if I can work out where, but it’s not showing up in email search for some...

A LaserWriter Plus update. I have a "new" cartridge for it. Boots up happily, tries to draw paper from the sheet feeder and jams without moving anything. Not unexpected. What is irritating is that the foam sealing the little door over the imaging drum of the cartridge melted immediately. I...

Fair - a late night whinge is not going to get me any help! It’s a Summagraphics MacTablet.  The power plug plug comes off the serial port like so: and its its plug looks like this: I’m now wondering whether it might worked plugged into the little device that comes with a Thunderscan...

Ugh. Arrived, looks the part. Cable, stylus, power ada...bugger. No power adaptor. Did not notice that on the eBay ad. Anyone who has one able to tell me what voltage etc it was? Who knows what the pinouts on the weird four-pin cable were. Bugger. 

It has a 68k chip on board, which sits right above the one on the motherboard. Not sure if it *is* the one from the motherboard resocketed or not. 

Fair point Trag - I don't think I've seen any contemporaneous information to that effect, but everything I read online indicates that it does. It would make sense to let people use more SIMMs, but I wonder if a Mac Plus can actually address more than four? Mine seemed not to work with six 256k...

Got the MacRescue working — six 1 meg SIMMs, recognised as as four megs. I was hoping that I could get the RAM disk working, but Connectix Compact Virtual which was reported on vcfed.org to be the right software is actually a virtual memory utility, not a RAM disk one. Bummer. It would be really...

Had another look at MacRescue tonight. Seems all the SIMMs are 256k, so six on a fully-populated board - 1.5megs. Add in the 512k on the motherboard and that brings us to two megs.  Interestingly the weird black black screens are the same as those shown on an AppleTalk.com.au thread which was...

Following through on my threat to break out my MacRescue boarded 512. As advertised, it boots and sees 2 megs of RAM. Opened up the case to find a fully-populated MacRescue board, with the three jumpers set 101.  Logic/guesswork dictates that each of these would be for a bank of RAM. All three...

Have decided to pare my collection down a bit - focus it more. This means essentially machines that run system 6 - I just don’t get the same nostalgic feeling for the later machines. A few exceptions - the LC500 series because I had a 520 in high school, my grandfather’s old iMac G3, the iMac G4...

Also — Stuffit 1.5.1 runs perfectly in Classic on a G4. That's some robustly written software. Raymond Lau is a goddamned hero. 

Unboxed a NOS Word 3.02 — posted to ’Garden and ’Repository (pending Mac Plus .sitting). 

One thing that should be doable is get one of those utilities that made a puking noise when a disk was ejected (MacPuke? Probably.) and replace the sound resource with the sound of a floppy ejecting. 

Same applies to floppy noises, of course. I'd love it if my FloppyEmu made the floppy noises (including the buzz buzz buzz griiiiiiiind noise of a disk error when something goes wrong).  Would the LED light on a SCSI2SD work, or is that just a power indicator? (I've never hooked a light up to...

Ah, I stand corrected. Although given this one was “for MAC” I think not downloading it was probably the right move. 

Oh, and yes: my "Mac Plus" is a hacked up 512 with a Plus logic board in it. I liked the aesthetic of the originals, but the convenience of SCSI, and I was a barbarian. I now have a 512 with a MacRescue board in it with SCSI, which I might just set up. Anyone got the RAM disk driver for the...

Having a crack at my ThunderScan tonight. I've learned a few things: 1. The Thunderscan doesn't know about the Network control panel — it thinks AppleTalk activated = Printer port busy, even though I've got SCSI ethernet on my Plus.  2. The internet is a cesspool of malware posing as scanner...

At the risk of flogging a dead horse, does anyone know if the card listed Here is one of the pivot ones that’ll also run a Mac Portrait Display? I can’t find that model number in the radius archives. 

Do the refresh rates of your FPD and card match? Seems there were 64, 68, and 75 kHz versions. The card for the 75 apparently drives a Macintosh portrait Display too, if that archive can be believed.