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It’s not that easy. If it does, and the program runs from the cache, all fine & speedy. But what if the cache is dirty and has to be emptied? Mac OS isn’t that great in contest/multitasking application switching and I/O (netwok & disk), so it wouldn’t make me wonder if in certain daily...

What if you pull the unknown front card, lay it on the desk and do a birds-eye-picture of it. That would allow being able to read chip labels …

I got my hands on a Hurdler CPI Nubus card, that’s a “Parallel” port card (like IEEE1284/“Centronics”). Accordings to some docs it has a declaration ROM onboard, fine, so it’s sitting there and waiting for some data. It came originally with some printer drivers -- but these seem to be lost...

Any source for this software gem?

Sure, happy to do so.

Definitely, yes! It would e.g. enable us using 68k Macs all over the place in large congresses like the Chaos Communication Congress (some 17k visitors, some 30k devices in one network). It’s a switched network, but there’s no L2 connectivity between sites.

Would love to have 4 of these, if possible. Cool project!

+1 -- and strengthening JFTR: without working flow-control you’d need to drop the baud rate drastically when a 68k machine is involved: to 2400 bps or lower. Going “just a bit down” wouldn’t do the trick.

Fantastic stuff! Would love to test some of these with my Cayman Gatorbox and Stylewriter 2400 LT.

Okay, I found the store by myself: Head over to lass-shop.de and search for "stifte" (pens in German). The shop accepts EUR via SEPA bank wire transfer. More information about the mechanics as it seems compatible with ALPS DPG-1302, Atari 1020, Commodore 1520, Silver Reed EB50 and others.

Would you mind not only dropping the anecdote but also name and URL of that company? As I’m based in Germany and own a RK-P400C w/o pens, that’d be a great help for me, and perhaps for others to follow.

Thanks for the pointer, although the read is disappointing … Mac OS & I/O … again :-/ Hm, crosscheck test 1: if NetBSD or Linux on a Quadra is able to push more than Mac OS. Crosscheck test 2: Use IP instead of AppleTalk. Even between 2 (Gigabit-) PCI-based Macs of the 800 MHz league, AppleTalk...

I searched the forum to find comparisons of Asantés 10/100 Nubus card, comparing to onboard 10 MBit Ethernet found in Quadras and PowerMac 6/7/8100, to no avail (that the forum software filters out the number "100" as being “irrelevant” doesn’t help searching, though …) Did no one run some...

Some cards report themselves as fixed disks, others as removable media. Try to get one that reports as fixed disk. Often, the "industrial" branded ones can be switched between fixed and removable with a utility binary available from the "industrial" brand.

Hi, I’ve got two MagicBus cards (Mac SE PDS, one "empty", one with an 68030 accelerator), and two Radius graphics cards matching. But - no cable in between. Looks like a UW-internal SCSI connection, but apparently seems to have 60 pins, not 68. Now – where do I get such cables?

Two sets of four, for me, too, please.

No need for binhexing (this is an ASCII wrapper that’s meant for email transport of Mac binary files, as email isn’t binary safe), "Macbinary" is enough and saves you ~30% transfer time, as it is efficient. You can do this on the macOS commandline, too "macbinary". If Macbinary files are...

I do not want to favour creeping featurism. But … both your board and SCSI2SD have only one (1) SCSI port. Which means, that with a Compact Mac and the external port, I can connect either SCSI2SD or 68net/Ethernet via SCSI. Not both. I could put one inside newer Macs (SE, SE/30 …), but for the...

Has anyone ever found a driver for the E-Machines Big Picture? Got one in a Mac Plus, but no drivers, no luck. And - what kind of CRT does it drive? Portrait? 1024x768 19"?

No, I’m setting up a non-trivial AT network, with RAS and the like, step by step. I thought that I’m not the first guy running an AT network with more than 3 hosts, so that someone for sure wrote some networking debugging tools beyong "DDPing" :-)