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I made a new cable and it's working now! Woop!

I'll strip the outer insulation and see what the deal is. Also, I thought Pin 1 is supposed to be data, not ground?  Must be the break in the cable mucking up my tests, but I tested from each pin in the mini-DIN (with this graph for reference) to the pins on the PCB and found the opposite of...

Okay so, I left it in warm water for about 5 minutes, and rinsed it with alcohol. I don't have any acetone, but I didn't see any leakage whatsoever around the caps before the wash. No effect, I think... I decided to bust out the voltmeter again and test it while plugged in and powered. Between...

Ahhh! So that's what that weird shiny buildup is! I assumed it was glue or something! I'll definitely give it a good bath now. I have 70% Isopropyl as well. I did a check on the cable, and only 2 of the pins go all the way to the PCB: pins 1 and 3. As far as I can tell, pins 4 and 2 don't...

If you're feeling patient, you could split the file up into parts small enough for floppy disks. I believe some versions of Stuffit (Deluxe?) can do it, but there's also tiny programs that do it, like Split & Join.

Hmm yeah, my stock mouse works fine... I popped it open and can't find anything wrong :-/ Maybe it's the cable? I'll do a continuity check on it. Also, I'll plug it in while the casing is open. Do you know if the optical components visibly light up, or is it an invisible wavelength? Here's...

I have it plugged into an Apple Design Keyboard's ADB port and it doesn't seem to be detecting the mouse at all (clicks and movement). I have a stock Apple Desktop Bus Mouse 2 that works fine on the same port. I was thinking I'd need drivers for it, but you think the mouse might be dead?

I have an ADB Kensington Mouse-in-a-Box (model 64206B) that I'm trying to get working under System 7.6.1, on a Quadra 630. Is it possible?

Wow! Great implementation, I might actually copy you on this. This is some hacky remote management if I ever saw it, lol.

I did some digging, and it doesn't look good for System 7 or 68k Macs. Apparently the earliest version of AppleScript that supports the "Delay" command is AppleScript 1.3, which only loads on Mac OS 8.5 or later, and is 99% PowerPC native so it won't work on a 68k Mac! This means we have to...

I gotta admit, I've been struggling with the AppleScript 1.1 basic command set. There's not even a "delay" command. Because of the limitations, I had to use a text-only web browser to download the page contents first. We could probably implement this in a separate baby Perl program, but for now...

I can try it under System 7.6.1 for you. I haven't done anything with AppleScript in years, but I used to make hugely complicated shell-inclusive AppleScripts for GeekTool on OS X. I'll report what I find out! If AppleScript is too limited to do it on System 7, we could incorporate a baby Perl...

It may be possible with AppleScript and HTTP (or file sharing), but maybe not due to Classic AppleScript's limitations. All you would have to do is update a .txt file on an http server (or something else simple) with a signal for the AppleScript to detect and act upon. I suppose you could do it...

I don't see why you couldn't have asked in your first thread.  :p The Rayovac 840, which was included with the Performa 575, has a capacity of 950mAh. I don't know what the power draw from the system was. A standard AA battery has a capacity of anywhere from 400mAh to 1500mAh depending on...

Ah, okay. I wonder if that's required to get it working at all. My plan is to use one of these HP SCSI drives , which I think has an 80-pin SCA interface, with a converter to the 50-pin interface. Do you think it would work?

It doesn't look like anyone's that interested in refurbishing it, so I thought I'd take a whack at it myself. 50-Pin SCSI drives are kinda rare (and failure prone thanks to age) so I figure I'll get a 50-Pin converter for a modern enterprise SCSI interface (like SCA 80-Pin), and find a way to...

That's what I did, although just I snipped & soldered the old connector to my new battery pack. I didn't know someone was selling them though!

The Rayovac 840 uses a 3p2c (3-Positions, 2-Contacts) pin header connector, with the leads connected on the two outermost contacts. It could also be described as a 4-position connector, but there's plastic filled into one of the holes so not really. This should work for you...

I'm interested in switching to the comm slot as well. For now, though, I have other problems... When I do LAN/Local HTTP downloads (from an IIS server on my PC), the connection is very slow (which I expected) but it is also very inconsistent! For some reason, it will run at around 16-20KB/s for...

Wow! Very cool! I'm loving this thread so far, can't wait to see more   ;)