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Working on a post for DOS/PC Compatibility Cards and came across a KB article KB026105: PC Setup DIMM Patch. It "Corrects the problem of not being able to use large DIMMs (32 or 64 MB) with the 12" PC Compatibility Card" Not sure if this issue was fixed for later versions of PC Setup or not...

I'm putting together a post for my site about Connectix Compact Virtual. As part of that work, I discovered that only 3.02 and 2.04 are posted online, but I haven't found any other version.. I actually have Virtual 3.0 RC4 (attached) in my collection as part of the set of disks I got with my...

I have updated the list of accelerators on my site to group them by CPU, and to add photos. I'm hoping these changes will make it easier to identify unbranded boards. I managed to find photos for a lot of the accelerators either online, or as photos in advertisements or reviews, but I'm still...

Has anyone experimented yet with SCSI ethernet + an Apple IIe card? I was thinking of experimenting with the Apple IIe card's AppleShare Card feature that emulates an Apple IIe Workstation Card. First, over a legacy wired LocalTalk connection from my LC475 + Apple IIe card to my LC 630 DOS...

Has anyone ever come across a Novy Quik40 board? I'm updating the format of my list of accelerators to include photos and and I came across the note below at https://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane/input.txt Ready for takeoff: '040 boards: accelerator manufacturers are about to release '040 accelerators...

Anyone have one of these? "The 020 RailGun Fileserver Accelerator is geared specifically toward speeding up 68000-based Macs for use as file servers, It includes a parallel-processing feature that allows the original processor and RAM on such machines to be used as an AppleTalk and SCSI cache...

Another TIL article about the Serial version of the HD-20 and the computers that can boot from it. Does anyone know about this? https://savagetaylor.com/TIL/TA40360.html. If bios supports the ability to "boot" from a HD-20 serial version, does that mean it is possible to boot from serial if...

So, I've been going though the TIL articles and saw that the HD20 Driver File + System File Revision 3.0 or greater + Finder File Revision 5.0 or greater allows the 128k and 512k to read 800k disks? https://savagetaylor.com/TIL/TA33199.html, has anyone tried this? I thought the HD20 driver...

Does anyone have, or know about the Abaton Multitalk? I was going through the TIL articles and found: TIL04140: MultiTalk: No Longer Available for AppleTalk Network MultiTalk lets AppleTalk network users share serial devices. It has four mini-circular-8 connectors: one for AppleTalk (RS-422)...

I'm planning to update my downloads page and add some new guides to my website for the various SCSI to SD options that are now on the market. As a first step, I'm creating a list of current options and doing a basic feature comparison. Reading through the guides for BlueSCSI and ZuluSCSI, I...

I have an accelerator card for the SE that is missing the plastic guard that typically goes around the pins for the PDS connector. Is there anywhere I can purchase these, or will I need to take it off something else? Picture is an example of what I'm looking for.

I recently picked up a collection of external APS enclosures missing their power adapters. They use 5-pin mini-din connectors. Unfortunately the enclosures don't say much other than 90-240 VAC 50-60Hz. I tried looking through the apstech.com site on the way back machine but didn't find any...

I picked up a 660av that seems to be missing part of the extension rod that runs from the front of the case to the powered supply, or some other piece. It is to short to toggle the power on and off. Does anyone have a 660av and can take a picture of where the white extension rod in the case...

I'm trying to track down some information on the Formac accelerators to add to my list of accelerators. I managed to find some information in the MacWelt magazines from 1993 (German vesion of MacWorld) for most of them, except the LC 475 version that Bolle has cloned. Unfortunately there is...

Not sure what's going on at the moment. I have everything working on my LC 630 DOS under system 7.5.3 with PC SETUP 2.1.7 But when I try to use OS 8.1 the PC SETUP control panel will not load. I select the PC SETUP control, then the screen just flashes for a second all the desktop icons...

Experimenting with a new SCSI2SD setup with a FAT32 formatted SD card containing volume files (similar to Andrew's exFAT version). One thing I discovered as part of my experimentation was a couple of sizing quirks when I use HD SC setup: HD SC setup automatically reduces 2GB volumes I tried to...

So, I'm working on something for my SCSI2SD to make it easier to work with following the same idea as what Andrew did with an exFAT SD card. To deal with the varying "actual" capacity of SD cards my plan was originally to have a 29GB file that people can RAW-write to an SD card that will create...

Does anyone know where I can find a copy of Volume 6 from Restoration CD for Market Software Series mentioned on page 35 of the 1996 Service Guide: https://archive.org/details/service-guide-macintosh-computers-volume-iv-march-1996/page/34/mode/2up I've found Volumes 1 to 3, but that's it. If...

I'm working on a few things for my site and I wanted to link to manuals for early releases of System software. But... I'm having difficulty finding existing scans online for the various revisions. I'm hoping to track them down through this site so can get them added to the internet archive if...

Last year I started reaching out, through LinkedIn, to people who worked for, or even owned, some of the companies from the 80s and early 90s that produced accelerators and other addons. My shot in the dark paid off, Lincoln Henthorn, one of the executives from NewLife lent me his box of old...