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I recently purchased a serial trackball which reportedly works on a compact Mac. Took it out of the box and the trackball has a 9-pin female connector, not male as I was expecting. I'm wondering if this was from a PC now. The trackball in question is a MicroSpeed PC-Trac. Any ideas if this...

Wouldn't using MacPing to Ping itself in effect load the TCP stack?

After much hacking, and perusing a few sites (Jags House, Old Macintosh System Software and TCP/IP and Classic Mac Networking) I've managed to get my Mac Plus up on the internet, kinda. An odd thing though: I can ping other computers on my LAN, and even outside of my LAN (e.g. google.com), but...

Unfortunately I found Volumes 1, 3 and 4, no 2! But I did find some other reference books, "Unlocking the Toolbox" volumes 1 and 2 (author/publisher escapes me right now), and some MacFORTH books. :D

Have you tried the Three Macs and a Printer website? http://www.atpm.com/network/ It is one of the best guides for setting up a Macintosh network.

While not 68k related, I did pick up a 9500 with a whole slew of external SCSI storage (Exabyte tape drive, DAT tape drive, Jazz drive and two zip drives) and a 19" LaCie CRT monitor for free of of the local Freecycle! 68k related, I finally found original copies of Inside Macintosh. I've been...

What about the top half of the clamshell, where the screen is mounted?

Hm, never asked about the HD -- but I'm just discovering the problems with those HDs now. What would prices be with and without?

I've been offered a PowerBook 100, but neither of us knows how much it was worth. I've been scavenging Low End Mac and m68kmla but haven't found any good price comparisons. Does anyone know what a PB100 with 20MB HD and floppy would be worth nowadays? Thanks. -xd

I've got a PowerBook 165c that, except for the case, functions reasonably well. I purchased a battery for it a few years ago and it gets about an hour on a full charge, and is a great bridge machine between my desktop (G5) and my Macintosh Plus. :D But, the case is crap. I literally screwed...

My Mac Plus won't eject floppies, unless I use a paper clip and the "manual eject" hole. Does anyone know where the problem may lie? Would I need a whole new floppy mechanism, or is it possible this one can be salvaged? If the former, does anyone know where I might find one? I've also got an...

Before I went wireless at home, I used a IIci running NetBSD as my router / DNS server. Worked like a charm. The box fit under my desk and could run headless, so I didn't have to worry about it. One option for file storage is to combine a bunch of old SCSI drives into a JBOD. You'd need a...

Some background.. For the past few weeks I've been tinkering with a Mac Plus I found in a back alley somewhere near my work. I've managed to get System 6.0.8 installed on it, the "necessary" applications (NCSA Telnet, Fetch FTP, various tools for decompressing/converting .hqx/.bin/.sit files...