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Just made images of the RasterOps disks. The Accelerator Software was version 2.8.8 and the other disk was 2.9 I took the external 400k drive out from the enclosure. The disk loading mechanism is totally stuck. I don't see any physical damage so I'll try to clean it up first before taking it...

The external 800kb that was labeled broken is working now. The old grease was pretty dried up and the eject mechanism was stuck in a wrong position. It just required a good cleanup and new grease. I think the external 400kb is not totally ok as I'm not able to insert disk there as the slot is...

The original labels are dated 1990-1991, I'll make a disk images out of them at some point. Accelerator Software PN 7200-3644 and 7200-3656 Utility Disk Mac v2.7.1 PN 7200-3672 Graphics System Software PN 7200-3641 Macintosh System Software PN 7200-3577

I was looking for a network card for my IIcx and as usually, I ended up buying bit more than just a single card... I came home with: - 3Com EtherLink/NB with thin coax and AUI. - Asante MCNB REV A with RJ-45 and AUI. - RasterOps Color Board 364 (NTSC model?) with bunch of installation disks...

No clue why machine A is not working, I haven't found any broken traces yet... The machine B was much easier to recap and it is now in working condition. In addition of new capacitors it requires a sketchy jumper wire to bypass corroded trace. ADB, soft start, floppy, video and sound all work...

Some update: On machine A (soldered CPU, recapped and washed now) I found two broken traces to near audio circuits, that would explain no audio at startup. But I haven't seen anything related to video issue. Maybe I'll fix the audio traces first and then I might be able to head some dead mac...

Out of my three IIcx boards two are socketed. The same with SE/30 and I guess other macs of that era.

Recapped the worst looking IIcx board first. I didn't try it before hand as I was told it being totally dead. After recapping it starts up fine but no chime from loudspeaker or headphones, no video, no disk activity. The corrosion on pads was pretty bad and I two caps fell off during the...

The working IIcx has some startup issues, the keyboard start doesn't work every time. Also, if I have the mouse plugged to the IIcx instead of the keyboard the startup seems to fail. Is this PSU issue or just yet another symptom of bad capacitors?

I went to pick up ROM chips for my Plus project and came back two Plus logic boards and three IIcx units. So, only one of the IIcx is working without sound.  It has a display adapter (Macintosh Display Card 8•24 (670)), RAM, PSU and floppy drive and other two are empty cases with only...

It was a ROM issue. I swapped a known good ROM from 512Ke and Plus boots up fine now. The floppy disk drive doesn't eject so it needs a cleanup and possibly a new eject gear. 

Resoldering fixed the analog board a bit. There is still something wrong as the picture goes away if knock the box a bit. Much better than it was but looks like I missed something. But the logic board has issues. No chime, some faint burp sound looping and stripes. I am not sure what to do...

I was looking for a mouse for my 512Ke and ended up getting a broken Mac Plus with it. Very boring unit, no extras or anything. Seems like it has the same issue with the analog board solders as my 512Ke. I was able to get some video by pushing the sides but I think it has some other issues as...

I bought a broken Plus with a working mouse yesterday so I was able to check this better. I used my SE/30 to create boot disk and this 512Ke has 512K RAM  :-). Unfortunately some solder needs to be redone, the screen started to flicker if I tap the screen.

With Netscape 2.0.2 and WRP I was able to get WWW working. I have WRP running on a RaspberryPI 4 along with PiHole, WG and other network stuff and it works just fine. Of course web sites are pretty difficult to read on a B&W display. 

IDA Home will be available in May with M68K support but not exactly free (365$ / year) https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida-home-is-coming/

I installed a full 7.5.5 and added EN/SC stuff on it. Also, important bit was AppleShare Client 3.7.4 in order to access my share on RaspberryPi living in a different subnet. I have a RetroPie v4.5.1 (Linux 4.14.98-v7+ armv7l GNU/Linux) so the instructions how to install the recommended netatalk...

How about Ghidra? I used it only once at some hacking workshop but it should support 68k as well. https://zznop.com/2019/03/15/smd-hacking-with-ghidra/

Yesterday I printed out a mount for the SCSI2SD. This is not my own design, I used the one from this thread:  It printed out ok without the LED periscope thingy. The only modification I made was to add two spacers as I have the SCSI2SD upside down. The position is pretty ok and it is easy...

I have been looking for a low cost USB mouse adapter for my 512k. Currently options are: - Find a Amiga or Atari ST mouse and swap the wires (https://blog.rekawek.eu/2016/12/08/mac-plus/) - Use https://www.simulant.uk/shop/Amiga-Atari-USB-to-9-pin-Mouse-Adaptor or similar and swap the wires -...