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Woah, woah, don't steal the thunder of the PowerBooks 1xx!

That's the nub... how do we find a metal-to-plastic adhesive that's shear resistant? For example, metal screw receptacles in in old PowerBooks break free from the weakened plastic they're embedded in. How do we reconstruct this bond in a way that actualy resists forces twisting/perpendicular to...

Bravo, this is very, very amusing. Thanks for getting this working; I have it working on QEMU right now, since I don't have enough RAM for my real machines. What's the dumbest, most anachronistic thing I could install? A few things things I learned the long way the first time around, trying to...

Interesting - have you had problems where apt refuses to use the CD as a repo? I know that Debian hardened apt a while ago to only work with repos that have a signed Release file, and the CD doesn't seem to have one.

Wahey, how long do apps take to start up? I remember compiling Duktape into a console app, and waiting slightly more than half a minute for things to load... I think a loading screen would ahve made it better.

Yup – search for "Celestin Company" on the Garden, the publisher.

The Apprentice series of developer cd-rom/floppy resource disks is wonderful, too – they provide all sorts of examples in Pascal/C/C++ of apps, extensions, desk accessories, etc... they capture Mac development around System 7.

Yes, I would! I know there are some packages on the Macintosh Garden that are essentially starter boilerplate packages, and I've been meaning to OCR some of the textbooks available online (e.g. Macintosh Revealed.) I don't have time to start a serious development project, but I'd like to ahve...

Yup, I'm using one of your/Bolle's earlier combo cards – the one with three configurable jumpers on the front, and two bodges at the back. Not sure what you mean by solder jumper otherwise. Ah, the sweet sight of "where is my 68k?" Anyway, if there's a chance that the accelerator or combo card...

Sorry to bring this thread from the dead, but I need the commiseration... I am a newly minted member of the EB club. Plugged my Bolle clone Turbo040 into the PDS slot, rather than the cache slot, heard a rhythmic buzz, unplugged and noticed my Epic Blunder... this after frying my SE/30 logic...

Free soldering practice board! Especially one of that age.

Look at it this way: if you use it and tell us about your hijinks, you'll already have recouped the cost of purchase already :) Where did you find it?

Alternatively, might be the video PALs, since the pattern has a repeating structure (I think the socketed chips above the RAM sockets.)

The noob in me is going "I wonder if suppressing console output would make this a lot more quicker"... I know that, in (relatively) ancient Unices with not-so-sophisticated IO systems, debug output could slow interactive applications to a crawl. I remember Bolle getting native Macintosh Toolbox...

Off-topic question to people assembling boards: are y'all scavenging from bombed boards, or is there a source for NOS ASICs that I'm somehow missing? I've been looking far and wide for a replacement for an SE/30 GLUE chip that might be malfunctioning.

I'm on the "please please please no" category, as someone who has bought multiple crumbling PowerBooks 1xx to get one that screws aren't falling out from, or that doesn't have screen tunneling. Get a compact Mac.

I'll say – I so love the attention to the charming PCB and product design :) It really reminds me that Macs are supposed to be, well, fun first. Right next to Siliconinsider's fun RAM designs, and Bolle's Easter egg logos.

Very out of topic, but – this is why it's nice to have multiple computers of the same model, so you don't have to choose! Well, I have a Classic II that's been stickered all over to honor its past as a college newspaper daily driver, and an SE/30 that (ROM-related simasimac allowing) will be...

Hey, thanks for the recommendation! I've just looked it up, and I've just noticed that you can get this stuff in multiple thicknesses. Would you have any recommendations/knowledge on why this is the case/what to get?

I would love to hear your advice on proper heatsinks! I have an (evidently) non-genuine '040/40 that's unstable at 40 MHz. It reports to have both FPU and MMU, but I've stuck a cheap Amazon heatsink and it overheats and barfs. Would you have a link to a proper heatsink?