Search results

Herb just restocked! I purchased one... although there isn't many, Herb had to get the pins repaired. Hence why I posted here. Herb's an amazing detective for this stuff.

If you're interested in real '040s, I think Herb Johnson has some used-and-pin-repaired 40 MHz 68040s in stock! 40 MHz models seem unobtanium these days...

Everyone has their own reason, but I'd get it – if you have BMOW's floppy emulator – for the HD20 support, so you can mount large disk images – it's the easiest way to transfer large files. I have an accelerator that's incompatible with the ROMinator (the Turbo040 patches the ROM), and I'm...

Random question: did you need a license for that Mathematica? I've wanted to run Mathematica on a classic Mac, but I haven't found an abandonware Mathematica with a free license.

Awesome deal, especially with the peripherals! God forbid I know people would pay good money just to harvest the switches from the keyboard... /shudders

Off-hand question: I'm not sure whether this is even the right question, but would it also be possible to convert TTF -> PostScript, and then use the Adobe Type Manager to convert PostScript to bitmap, and also have the PostScript font available for use in System whatever?

...how many LC-class Macs did you end up accumulating in your quest to achieve soldering perfection, anyway?

Completely unrelated, but: what the hell, did someone just port Motif to Windows??? Heroic effort...

Keep me posted! I have two PB180s in various stages of disassembly that I can't touch because the display bezel studs have completely broken off.

That seems a little suspicious – like they sanded the top off to relabel the thing.

Literally everyone's cheering you on, but I might as well add myself to the list... it's time for Bolo!

I don't know much about either the Amiga or what they're trying to intend to do, but isn't that going to be bottlenecked by... everything else?

If you're planning to become the one-stop shop for unobtanium Apple chips, what if I threw you a couple of dollars to support ya? I think we'll need a lot more of these as time goes on..

They're really under appreciated compact Macs – the ROM is 32-bit clean, for example! I'd be interested in making a stripped down System 7 romdisk.

IIRC there were a bunch of QBUS/UNIBUS SCSI controllers out there, but I'm sure they cost $$$$ on top of the $$ that a PDP-11 would already cost. Which model is it, by the way? I was thinking of breadboarding my own single-board PDP-11 with a J-11 chip – it's an 11/70 in a single chip that PDP...

Ah thanks! I've learned electronics troubleshooting/rework from y'all, and hell I hope I learn enough to whip up my own PDS cards one day :)  This is why I love the hobby and the community so much.

A bit of a digression, but how do you get on the Retro Tinkering discord? As someone who wants to get into digital design, it seems like a useful group to be in/passively learn from.

I have no idea how to do this – but if anyone wants to give this a try, contact me.