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Technically, DS and HD disks have different magnetic properties and while this normally worked for me also, there is no guarantee this will always work. Also, you don't need to tape the hole to use the 1.44 disk as a 800K in the SE ( unless it's the FDHD model ), as a normal SE with DS drives...

Hello Marcio! Yes, that is working much better now! Thanks for the update. Rick

I don't understand why some folks are suprised that this works at LocalTalk speeds. Back in the day, using programs like Timbuktu or PC anywhere is was common to do remote control over phone lines using modems an that worked just fine.

Yes, it works on the portable now, and on the Lisa too. Great Job! Both running over LocalTalk. marciot please PM me if you want to try connecting to my Lisa yourself.

Nice Job! I wish this supported other resolutions on 68000 black & white systems. I tried running on my Lisa ( 720 x 364 display ), got no errors, but on the client side the display was garbled. My Lisa's are either ( 720 x 364) or ( 608 x 432 screen mod rom ), and yes they are running...

In 1984 my Macintosh 128K came with a tutorial cassette tape in the box with the manuals: Macintosh MacWrite MacPaint Cassette Tour 942-0417A

Have not tried it, but I think this will work just fine on the original Raspberry Pi. I do use the OrangePi version regularly and it's plenty fast enough.

I checked my Gatorboxes and I have no new corrosion. I also found the photos of the original issue I had. While I had thought this was due to something being spilled on the board, now I wonder if this something that leaked out of the oscillator package. The PCB itself is conformally coated.

Tonight I will check my 2nd CS unit and see if it has any corrosion in that area and report back. I also have a GatorStar GXR it runs faster and uses a different oscillator, I will try to check that also.

One of my Gatorboxes worked fine when I got it, then one day while I was using it just quit. Looking at the board I could not see anything obviously wrong. Lucky I had a 2nd working unit. After many-hours of comparison, I found the voltage on the bypass cap next to the 40Mhz oscillator was...

Note that while flash memory is very common today, in 1989 this was one of the very 1st devices to use a large amount of flash memory like this ( it holds the OS image that in the eariler version was loaded into RAM from a server ), these chips were very expensive at the time. The RAM is...

Years ago I purchased a NOS Apple OneScanner to use with my Lisa running MacWorks Plus. It's hard to find a scanner works with 68000 B&W systems ( the OneScanner does, this is what makes it so special ) , most require ColorQuickDraw that requires a 68020 or better. I set it up, did a few scans...

I seems to me that when folks learn that the Lisa was clocked at 5Mhz vs. the Macintosh at 8Mhz it gives the impression that the experience of using a Lisa is almost 40% slower than using a Macintosh. This is not helped by reports that using the Lisa Office apps are dog slow. My experience in...

Yes, if the HD is a Lisa parallel port HD such as a Profile, Widget or an emulator. Booting MW+ from SCSI hard disk requires the additional QuickBoot Rom.

While this made for a great press release for the CHM back in 2018, it never happened...:( The referenced LisaList mailing list is pretty much dead as well.. this is why I started LisaList2.com

When searching for a PlexWriter, note that the "S" ( PX-W124TS ) in the model number is important, I think "S" denotes SCSI.

On the face of the drive it is labeled: "PleXWriter 12/4/32" SCSI probe shows it as a "PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W124TS Ver. 1.04" 12X CD-R 4X CD-RW 32X CD-ROM I definitely boots, I tried it tonight on the UMAX S900 and booted the recovery CD. Rick

I had a Plexor 12X SCSI CDRW drive in my PowerMacintosh 7200 and it was bootable. I still have this drive, now in a UMAX S900 clone and bootable there also.

I am in for a board if you wish to factor this into your count! Rick

AUI cables were common at one point. Early Ethernet ( 10BASE5 A.K.A. "thicknet" ) used a large transceiver that was many times installed in the ceiling and a AUI cable was used to bring the connection down to the computer. Here is an example...