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Let's start a new thread in the compact Mac forum called getting started with a Mac Plus and Windows and you'll get all kinds of good help.

I second Skate323k137. If you are working with just a Windows machine and a Mac Plus your best bet would be a BlueSCSI. They're very easy to work with once you get set up. You can do all of your work on the Windows side in an emulator and directly manipulate the disk images you're going to use...

In case anyone missed my post in the trading post forum: FS: Powerbook 1x0 series hinge grommets I have a few grommets left if anyone needs them. I know they get lost pretty often. I might use some to make the 3D printed PowerBook 100 series hinge fix and sell them that way. Not sure for how...

I will add that you must be very careful to never use a disk you intend to boot from on a machine with driver/tools greater than v4.2. You can reinitialize/erase the disk using zip tools v4.2 and restore its ability to be a boot disk however. I'm using the v4.2 Iomega driver even on my OS9...

Don't apologize for pestering! It's what we're here for. I don't believe the problem is the floppy drive not being able to read the disk. That isn't normal boot behavior for the plus. If it can't read the drive it would just spit the disk out (if the eject motor is working) not power cycle...

Thank you so much!

I feel like I've read somewhere that this was the case but I can't find the source. I know the various G3/G4 upgrade cards are listed as being compatible with all PCI powermac models. I also know the dual processor machines/CPUs are definitely an exception to this rule

I found a fairly reasonably priced source for these LCDs - $66 https://www.yoycart.com/Product/574060630467/ or https://www.yoycart.com/Product/528329894933/

Well I was looking at possibly picking up a 140 and trying out the display in my 160. I noticed when I was researching the recap on these displays that they have the exact same PCB element and thus the same caps to replace. Thought it might be worth trying at least.

I've noticed a lot of PowerBooks out in the wild have had their batteries removed (for good reason) leaving a rather unsightly hole in the side of the computer. So I designed this to fix that problem. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5249730

Just just finished modeling a battery door cover for the PowerBook 1xx series. It is up on Thingiverse now. PowerBook 1xx Battery Cover

Are any of the passive matrix LCDs in these powerbooks interchangeable?

Here are two different battery doors: Macintosh Plus - Battery door cover & Apple Macintosh 128k, 512k, Plus Battery Door And here's the programmer's switch. Although I think I've seen another one. Can't find it right now though. Programmers Switch

It is pretty neat. Here's the website: http://www.macflim.com/

So I have the full desktop environment running on the pi of my RaSCSI and I VNC into it. Then I surf the web and download whatever I want straight onto the pi and transfer the files onto the disk image with Basilisk II (also running on the pi). From Basilisk I have access to tools that won't...

Creating a RAM disk and compressing it wouldn't be difficult. The tricky part is doing it early enough in the boot process to relocate the swap file there. But then it has to have a secondary pagefile on disk for when the RAM disk overflows. This could be interesting to research... Looks...

RAM compression is a fairly new built-in OS feature. Apple didn't introduce it in OS X until Mavericks. See here: Memory compression brings RAM Doubler to OS X Mavericks. Memory compression wasn't a feature of Windows even in the earliest builds of Windows 10. It came about in Windows 10...

Is there any sort of ram compression available for Tiger like RamDoubler in classic or ZRAM on Linux?

Oh cool! I didn't realize the full size RaSCSI had the header for the PowerBook.

I recently acquired both a BlueSCSI PowerBook version and a Pi ZERO version of the RaSCSI. I noticed the RaSCSI was even smaller than my PowerBook BlueSCSI board and I got to thinking - how cool would it be if I could put my RaSCSI INSIDE my PowerBook for internal WiFi? Just a thought for...