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I'm using @mactjaap's amazing MacIPRpi on a Raspberry Pi and it's working great, but I'm wondering if it's possible to disable the NAT element and use the IP range I have setup for the VLAN that my vintage network uses? I mainly want to do this simply because.. honestly.. I struggle with some...

From this angle it looks like it’s a 68 pin scsi connector.. like this one? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325634282431?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=TYBAXQnXRka&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=O_6XGryPRSS&var=514658734826&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

I can't offer any input on the pitfalls of doing this, but I'm excited to see the results.

Did you make sure to install the new chips in the correct orientation? They're pretty easy to get mixed up.

Realistically the only way this is going to survive shipping is if it was completely disassembled first, all the individual plastic parts individually packaged and boxed up separately, and the chassis shipped completely independently from the plastics. And even then it’ll probably still get...

I’ll need to get one of my machines setup and try it again, see if the same behaviour happens.

Smart plan! I assume the link from above/deoxit had no luck?

Yeah.. our hobby likes to throw the rules out the window! Fingers crossed you get it going. I’ve got one that won’t even power on.. hoping to get it going one day!

Sensible! Make sure there’s no caps backwards. I did that recently with a AppleCD SC and I’m so annoyed with myself over it. The drive worked fine at first after I replaced the now charred cap, but a few days later it died and not yet been able to recover it.. not 100% sure if that’s was...

Well (and admittedly my knowledge of these things is limited), does adjusting the pots make any difference? I don’t think there’s a setting on them as such that is “correct”, more one that’s correct for the current components that are on the board.. I had a crt I recapped a while ago and when...

Have you checked all the adjustment pots to make sure they’re set correctly?

Ah that I vaguely recall. I suppose one could just hook up an LC475 or something like that and effectively run it as a print server. That said, getting a networkable one would just be easier.

I'm no expert on all the printers, but as far as I can remember the simple answer is no, that all the processing was offloaded to the Mac. I suppose it might be possible to share it from the Mac over the network? I know you could do that with some of the StyleWriter printers.

I'd usually avoid any 'Personal' ones.. as the name suggests they're designed for local use, not network, and most (if not all?) didn't have Postscript from memory.

My understanding is that most of the traces required aren’t present so probably not easily, but why would you want to?

Amazing guide, although I did accidentally read the spoiler and was really disappointed to know the capacitor values ahead of time. Talk about an anti-climax.

Ah so I have hooked up my laserwriter via LocalTalk and it does read that.. so yeah.. there we go, it just doesn’t work with ImageWriters! Shame.. was quite excited at the idea of printing to a dotmatrix from my iPhone.. something about the convergence of technology 😅