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Apparently the *VERY* earliest 5300s released could use the Lithium Ion batteries, as the 5300 series was supposed to ship with LiIon batteries that were recalled due to fire risk just as they were hitting stores.  The later 5300s had a firmware limitation that would prevent them from working...

Ick. I can just hear the hacking cough of phlegm just looking at those! And HAH! I wanted to look up more about the Apple Personal Modem, and lo and behold, what should the first search result return? Your video about it!

Yeah, virtual domains are completely broken with it, too.  "Oh, that top-level-domain website you think you're reaching? Nope, I'm going to give you their host's generic error page instead!"

You can replace the cells in NiMH batteries just fine - there are NiMH AA cells available.

And yes, the number of websites that render properly on MacWeb 1.1 on a Macintosh SE are exceedingly thin nowadays.  (Then again, they pretty much always were...)

Hey, nice!  Whatsmyip.org has been my go-to for that type of service ever since the .com of that same name went the way of the dodo. Good to know it's run by someone with a love for vintage computing!

The other option, if your SCSI adapter has a "SCSI Disk Mode" switch, and you have a MacOS 8.1-compatible Mac with SCSI and a CD-ROM drive, you could use the PowerBook in SCSI Disk Mode and do the actual install on the other Mac, using the PowerBook as the "target" for install.

Got it to boot, but only as the only device on the 'floppy chain' - having even a single real drive before it would cause it to try to boot only from the real drive... Which will make it very hard to load things onto the Smartport HD image... I guess I'll just have to load things I want in to...

As floppy drives start to fail, replacing an internal floppy drive with a Floppy Emu makes sense as an option.  And the Floppy Emu model b was designed specifically to allow for it to replace internal floppy drives. The only major improvement I'd like to see is for the Floppy Emu to support...

Yeah, I ran XP on my Sony PictureBook, Pentium MMX 266 MHz, 64 MB RAM. It worked fine until SP2.

Yeah. External CD-ROM is the most logical option.

I've tried 3.5 image (the System 6.0.2 installer on the included SD card,) and a SmartPort HD image.

I know it has to be possible, but for the life of me I can't get my IIgs (ROM 3 if it matters,) to boot from my newly-delivered Floppy Emu. I put the A2 firmware on, and it mounts when I boot from a floppy just fine (in either floppy or smart port hard drive mode.) But I can't get it to boot...

Classic networking ("Network" control panel for AppleTalk, MacTCP for TCP/IP) works just fine if you're okay with a static IP address. My SE and SE/30 running System 7.1 both connect, and even browse with MacWeb 1.1, just fine.

I find SCA adapter drives easier to deal with, because the SCA-to-50-pin adapters tend to have termination onboard, and easy-to-configure SCSI ID settings. Plus, SCA drives tend to be easier to find and cheaper than 68-pin. I ran a 9 GB, 10,000 RPM SCA drive with an adapter in my SE/30 for a...

In the order they appear on the screen: AppleTalk, Stuffit control panel, ?, ?, ?, Adobe Type Manager 3 Now utilities (see above,) PC Exchange, A 'print-to-PDF' utility, A screen capture utility whose name escapes me, ?, A modem status utility whose name escapes me, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, Speech...

I have three Blackbirds.  I can make two "good" Blackbirds out of the parts, plus one "pretty crappy" one. I have two good physical condition cases, one pretty beat up case. (screen side latch snapped so it doesn't stay shut, pretty big chip in the front bottom plastic at the very front where...

Someone else is selling the 48 MB RAM upgrade card for the Duo 2300c for $6500! Okay, people, vintage computers are "worth money," but not *THAT* much!  Considering someone else is selling the 40 MB module for $170, I'd say that's a hell of a premium for an extra 8 MB... Now I need to find my...

Agreed. Definitely a typo. The part number ends with -16C, the "16" is the speed. The photo is actually of the faster 25 MHz model (it ends in -25C.) That said, there are fast 68060 and even "embedded 680x0 derivatives," such as ColdFire and DragonBall lines, although they all have...

Yeah, as late as 2001, I was using an SE/30 as a primary web/email machine. (It fit in a nook in the dining room perfectly, so I used it as my "breakfast news and email" system.) At the time, it had been off the market almost exactly 10 years. It was decidedly "an antique". Equally old now is a...