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    Anyone ever try using OpenTransport on a Mac II?

    Mini vMac Mac II. 7.5.3, default install, which is OT 1.1.
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    Anyone ever try using OpenTransport on a Mac II?

    The most you can try is loading one of the earlier versions, like 1.1. Install it on another computer then copy it over and see what it does. Would this image help clear things up?
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    Even the connector doesn't matter. The 9th pin is for 5v at 350mA, the rest is normal...

    Even the connector doesn't matter. The 9th pin is for 5v at 350mA, the rest is normal Mini-DIN-8. There's only 3 devices I know of that support overclocking beyond 230400bps: DynaTalk (never seen one), TOPS FlashBox (too old, think System 6), and the Farallon EtherWave Mac/PB Adapter (incompatible).
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    9600 8N1 was common and acceptable even in the early 2000s for Palm III handhelds. Otherwise...

    9600 8N1 was common and acceptable even in the early 2000s for Palm III handhelds. Otherwise, no there's no modern stuff that could do it. It wasn't a big market with Apple faltering in the wake of Windows 95, and if it did matter, by 1998 it was a done deal because the iMac G3 came out with...
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    Nobody really had modems that fast back then: if they did, it was ISDN, which AFAIK used a ISDN...

    Nobody really had modems that fast back then: if they did, it was ISDN, which AFAIK used a ISDN card for full potential with two lines at 128Kbps. By the time the GeoPort was relevant, it wasn't: Ethernet was here to stay and if you did something else fast you probably had a proprietary card for...
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    Not that I'm aware of. Apple says a GeoPort supports up to 2Mbps, but in my spelunking, I've...

    Not that I'm aware of. Apple says a GeoPort supports up to 2Mbps, but in my spelunking, I've never seen a device that took advantage of that. The only thing I know of that was specifically designed for GeoPorts was the GeoPort Telecom modem, which was rubbish and nobody liked them. Even the...
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    PowerPump"ACCELERATOR" from NewerTech: is it worth cloning?

    I should probably say Trash80, don't let me be a downer. Considering the current age of that thing, a full archival and image dump is probably the least we should do.
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    Mac SE 30 floppy drive head issue

    According to mcdermnd, who has touched quite a few things, he thinks people blame flybacks way too often. Flybacks are for the CRT not the motherboard, and you'll know when a flyback is bad. In his experience they usually undergo catastrophic failure, and he's only fixed a few of them, it was...
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    PowerPump"ACCELERATOR" from NewerTech: is it worth cloning?

    I'd argue no. How many people still have 601 accelerator cards? It's a very curious thing. Why don't you show us a bit more of it?
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    Mac SE 30 floppy drive head issue

    Anything can be fixed, the question is what is wrong and how much it costs :-) Except maybe a broken heart, that can be tough. I should get an extension cable but I don't recall anybody selling them. You may need to have the board looked at by an experienced specialist. There's a few here...
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    Netatalk 4.0 - Future-proofing Apple File Sharing

    https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/discussions/1884 Looks like I'm the only one.
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    Mac SE 30 floppy drive head issue

    UE10 is the Apple sound chip. A longer Port J12 cable should probably be something you'll want pretty soon. It means you can have the logic board out of the machine while you test things, since it's really annoying to keep pulling the motherboard in and out when you're having issues. If the...
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    Searching for DCon library

    Looks like there's multiple deviations of "dcon" too. Poke around here. https://discmaster.textfiles.com/search
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    Fast! CompactFlash for Macintosh PDS/NuBus

    We've known that for a long time 68K and PPC Macs have had bad busses. 16 bit bus on a 32 bit processor, bandwidth missmatching, or frequency discrepencies. Just by looking at a PowerMac G3 (beige) it doesn't take a big brain to know that a 66MHz bus on something of that timeframe was...
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    TOPS FlashBox information

    TOPS/2.0 isn't custom so much as it was a commercial product to transfer files across different systems, such as PC-DOS, VAX/VMS hardware or whatever else they made stuff for. You'll probably run into a snag because at least for Version 3, you need a different key file for each machine. Your...
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    TOPS FlashBox information

    The way I've done it for the Data Transfer Rates section was just a known file of managable size, in your case probably 3-4MiB, and a stopwatch. Inside the Newer Technologies EtherTech Installer disk is a Performance program. Pretty sure it uses AFP, so you'll need a file server of some kind...
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    Unsupported eMac - any way to get OS 9 to show in OS X startup disk selector?

    Doesn't work as in I put in a disc, it works for a bit then spits it back out without anything the desktop. I'll have to look into the Mac OS ROM file. ...Which one do I need?
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    Unsupported eMac - any way to get OS 9 to show in OS X startup disk selector?

    ya those blokes who did that Mac OS 9 stuff need a medal or something. Not many people want to do that these days and you have to know a lot of really esoteric stuff to do that. Using OS 9 on my G4 Mac mini helped clear out a lot of desk space versus the iMac G4. The CD drive doesn't work in...
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    Performa 550 and Recovery Partition

    This is fascinating stuff! I admire your dedication and drive to sort this stuff out. Is there anything in the ROM that can kick this off too or is it part of the 7.1Px system code?
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    Does the Mac II need FDHD kit for +8MB?

    Fair, since the IIx and the SE/30 are basically identical in terms of system design and ROM. I wonder what kind of FPU calls are happening at system boot time?
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