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@nottomhanks A common upgrade for the II and IIx. You got a motherboard and a sticker to slap on the bottom.

@Capt_Redbeard This is a really good point. It'd be well worth it to contact the seller to see if they have the computer that this card belonged to. You might strike gold twice.

@Bolle I presume you already reached out to JDW? He speaks Japanese. (I feel like we've already discussed this several times before. :P)

How about a VintageCoin that can ONLY be mined on a machine running between 1 and 40 MHz. :D Make it a proof-of-stake for hosting a file sharing server with vintage and retro materials. Not sure how you'd enforce it, though, if someone could just run 10,000 emulation instances.

Yeah. I've been scouring eBay off and on for probably the past 20 years checking II, IIx, and IIfx auctions to take a peak at the motherboards. I figure it's just as likely a IIfx-upgraded II or IIx would be a likely candidate for a Tokamac as any IIfx, especially if the owner is trying to...

Wow, extremely lucky. Would love to get one of those even without the required motherboard. It's one of those things that I'd hang onto just incase the motherboard shows up. Congrats.

I don't agree. Bitcoin is 100% speculative, while a fiat currency is backed by the country's ability to pay its debts one way or another. But this is an argument for a different thread. I didn't mean to hijack it.

So I decided to start from scratch after a couple days of fiddling around. This time I set up parameters before I started and it's working a LOT better and producing compatible code way more often. It seems to be pulling its code almost exclusively from Julian Skidmore's "One Week Wonder"...

I've been told by others that it does a great job commenting Assembly to make it easier to understand what's going on.

Depends on the crypto. Bitcoin was (is still) a proof-of-concept. It literally does nothing because the calculations performed were supposed to be representative of real work done. The blockchain was intended to be an immutable ledger and proof you did the work, and instead of using Bitcoin...

I think it would be very useful for an accomplished programmer who knows what they're doing and has a large repository of code they've written. The LLM can can train off that repository and produce code that the programmer is accustomed to and would find it relatively easy to follow and debug...

I get Google Gemini for free at work. So I've been messing around with it. Currently I am attempting to make a tiny database program using THINK C version 6 on System 7. I attempted to start with Codewarrior, but it was a complete failure. I then tried Symantec C++ and it was a bit better...

@CharlesS Yay! Someone else who has copies. I also have a large box of old BMUG floppy disks, but they all have mold on them. I was unable to recover any of them. The magnetic coating was just flaking off the platters. :( Tons of early and likely missing freeware and shareware. Please do...

I have a GQ-4x4 (PRG-113) programmer. I was able to read other ROMs just fine such as the Lisa upgrade ROMs or my Macintosh Plus ROMs. It was only having problems with this specific 2716 EPROM.

Turns out the dump was bad. My cheap reader just couldn't read the ROM reliably. Apparently the chip is on its way out, but not complete. Turns out Bitsavers is near by to me. He had a period correct commercial EPROM programmer and he was able to verify the ROM and make a clean dump. Right...

The most affordable upgrades would be a SCSI solid state drive, programmable ROM, and 128MBs of RAM. I wholly recommend System 7 Pro. You get all the bells and whistles of 7.5, but you can remove the parts you don't want for a smaller footprint since they're not integrated like in 7.5...

I acquired a Paradise Systems Mac 10 hard drive. Unfortunately the 10MB Rodime drive in it was toast. Annoyingly, the HDD's sector map was not filled in. So I don't know if I can find a compatible HDD. I've heard that MFM drives are notoriously picky when it comes to what drives will work...

Somewhere out there is software for the Macintosh for controlling computer controlled servos, motors, and hydraulics. Was on an episode of Computer Chronicles. Could use it for anything from sorting and moving packages to conducting toy trains.

Hmm. I never noticed the head separation issue. Now I wanna revisit some of my troublesome drives. Maybe the heads aren't in their natural resting state.

Hopefully one of our local geniuses can help you out.