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Oho! Marvellous! Thanks for finding that. I now have Yet Another Project awaiting time and funding, and I love it!

I think having a socket you can put a custom ROM into is at least as important as having a socket with, or at least for, a 68882. Most older applications never used the FPU because they used to be so rare, but anyone who can download a hacked image might want to be able to plug in a custom ROM.

I ask purely out of academic curiosity, as my Quadra 840av has either 48 or 64 MiB in it now, don't recall which, which I am in no danger of getting close to the edges of either way. 128 megs is as big as a _single_ 72-pin SIMM can get, so why doesn't this machine support anything over 32MiB...

If somebody came up with a basic but reliable "ROM socket + FPU" card for Classic IIs (even if it were just an FPU socket instead of the actual chip), I'd buy one right away... assuming the cost were reasonable, of course. A board that small shouldn't cost too much to make even in small runs...

These things look awesome. Nice work! I’ll definitely keep this thread in mind for when the 1GiB drive in my Quadra 840AV inevitably dies for good. (It’s not doing well at all.)

iCab has a lot of bugs in the Classic versions. I consider it unusable with JavaScript enabled. I think they gave up on trying to fix it, which is possibly why the newest versions are OS X only. If you were using a later OS Classilla would be an option, but for 68K your options are very few in...

Sounds to me like you're using the wrong flavour of serial cable. Mac serial cables come in two varieties. The older kind, which I believe may have been used for the original ImageWriter printer (not the II), are straight through, and are not much use because connecting pin 1 to pin 1, 2 to 2...

Trash80toHP_mini: the only 68K PowerBook I currently own is a 180c with almost no intact case plastics remaining. I’ve not put much effort into fixing it because all the power supplies I’ve found turned out to provide such dirty power that the electronics (CPU board, RAM, etc.) are almost...

Perhaps jumping straight to “machining” was premature. Stamping someting out of sheet aluminum & welding standoffs etc. to it would be a lot cheaper and probably lighter & stronger, too. Machining would look a lot more finished, of course, but honestly I just want the farkin’ thing to...

Argh! Details please? Make & model? Does it go in the actual external PC Card slot or what?

Apple’s original AirPort card appears to be physically incapable of WPA/WPA2 encryption. The software doesn’t tell you, of course — it just silently fails to work. Where did you find an AirPort Extreme PC Card? Apple AE cards are a different, larger size, and I seem to recall that even the PC...

Mainly just so I wouldn’t need to repeat the exercise ten or fifteen years later… heck, if I used the same crummy materials Apple did, new parts might well not last the first year if you needed to take your machine apart again for some other problem. Speaking of, you probably COULD do a...

Hi all, It seems to me that (beyond the stuff common to all vintage machines like leaky electrolytic caps) there are three common points of failure in old PowerBooks -- batteries, 2.5" SCSI drives and shatter-prone case plastics. I've seen options, if occasionally pricey ones, to deal with the...

I am very grateful for this cleaning technique. I shall try it tomorrow, though I have no idea where I will find access to an air compressor. My dad's is 200 miles away in another country. As far as the Mighty Mouse's lousy design, it is a hell of a lot easier on my wrist than the otherwise...

Perhaps my Google-Fu is weak today, but given that there were 4 models of that 1GHz eMac with ATI video and only the first one could boot to 9, I am not finding any answer out there that I am confident in. Could you please dig out that CD and tell us the part number when you get a free moment?

The trouble with this is that LocalTalk does not use the same byte framing conventions as RS-232. The most non-marketese name I could find for the format LocalTalk uses is “FM0”; its only compatibility with RS-232 is electrical. An RS-232 byte frame involves a logical zero called the start bit...

I think part of the reason the video card hasn't been cloned yet is a lack of specimens to examine. If I were you, Brooklyn, I'd see if I could find someone to examine your one with an eye to replicating it for the SE/30 owning public.

Hi all, The various threads here about 128MiB 72-pin SIMMs working in certain machines that were never intended to use them got me thinking. What, precisely, about the Classic II prevents it from using SIMMs over 4MiB? I know that 30-pin SIMMs were available in up to 16MiB capacities. Is there...

Hi all, I am the …proud? owner of two fully functional ROM 0 IIgses. I want to sell one and the board out of the other so as to swap in a ROM 3 board and be able to net-boot the latest system — but I can't find any other ROM 0 units for sale, so I don't know what to ask for them. I'm hoping...

I do not have instrumentation to hook up — I have a Commodore PET and an MSD-1 single-drive floppy unit. As such, I will need custom software to access them no matter what I do, but I am grateful to you for the leads. I’ll be checking that stuff out as soon as I finish this reply.