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Just as an experiment, plug in your external zip drive and turn on termination.  I had an SE/30 with some sort of termination problem and I stuck my zip drive on it and it would suddenly start working.  I would have thought all the internal 2.5in SCSI drives would by default have termination...

Yeah, I just tried it on Basilisk too.  My only real hardware 68040 is inconveniently far away (and running A/UX) at the moment but I would like to know if there is a flaw in this particular build of mini vMac or if it will run on SOME high end 68k Mac hardware.  It seems like it might be...

On System 7.1 I have found BackSplash II to be superior to Backdrop - plus I like that it uses PICT files rather than Mac Paint. You can download it at JagsHouse or MacGUI.

No, this is specifically the "Macintosh OS 9 and earlier" 680x0 platform official port by Gryphel.  It launches and has all the proper trappings (menu, title-bar, etc.)of a functional Mac program so I'm sure it isn't for an Amiga.

You can use Apple's Disk Copy. From menu bar select:  Image > Create New Image... Set the size however large you want (up to 2GB I think).  The images should work on your floppy emu as this is likely the file type it expects.

While playing on my PB170 I was lamenting the fact that most of the B&W games before 1990 won’t work on it and most newer games dropped B&W support. Then I thought wouldn’t it be nice if you could emulate an SE, Plus, 512 or 128 on these monochrome PowerBooks? Looking at Mini vMac’s site...

Wow, that exists for an SE/30?!

I'm curious what people think is the best tool for hard drive diagnostics / repair under classic Mac OS.  Specifically on 68k macs but PPC input welcome as well.  Hard drive errors are a common issue with these aging machines and it seems like having a list handy would be a useful resource.  I'm...

Update: I bought a replacement 180c interconnect board off eBay and it fixed everything!

It may be a silly question but do you have the PC Exchange control panel installed on the SE/30?

The average humidity here is about 70% so the atmosphere is basically soup year round. I bet this 170 wouldn't tunnel if I shipped it out west.

Well I've noticed mine clears up pretty quickly (although only temporarily) from just leaving it in the sun and letting it warm up while it is turned off.

Today I was thinking about this post and decided to see if memory served me correct.  YES you can connect OS X up through 10.6 to OS9 without ANY EXTRA SOFTWARE.  I just connected my Snow Leopard machine to my PowerBook G3 and neither have anything special installed on then.  The standard system...

I have a 170 that has the dreaded tunneling problem.  Worried my other 170 will develop it some day too. Has anyone encountered this phenomenon outside the world of Macs?

Your original power supply is probably repairable. Most of them need a recap nowadays. I had to open mine up for a recap last year. I have several 1xx series PowerBooks but I think the 170 is my favorite. The active matrix monochrome is SO crisp compared to the others and they seems less...

The absolute easiest/cheapest way would be to use a LocalTalk connection to another old world mac with a serial port if you have one available to you.  Any machine that came before the iMac should work. All you need to do is simply run a plain old serial mini-DIN-8 cable from the printer port...

Looking at the table over at applefool.com you might be able to use AppleShare IP that they've got over at the garden for what you want. I feel like OS9 has the ability to talk to Tiger using AFP over TCP without extra software though.  AppleShare IP just lets the older OS7&8 machines do it...

I am not positive but I think the issue is either the ribbon cable / plug connecting the top and bottom of the PowerBook or the whole PowerBook interconnect board.  Now my trackball has gone with similar symptoms - swapping a known good part from another machine didn't help. This post here...

OK, I Just realize the computer seems to actually be KILLING new keyboards or I just happen to have 3 separate keyboards with the same keys broken.  Same keys seem broken on another PowerBook now.

You could get 5V from the ADB port internally.  Or maybe use a 5V USB step down board to hook up to the internal battery charging connector.