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That’s been my experience with 575 plastics. Accordingly, and based on what I’ve seen, my advice would be, DON’T TRY TO DISASSEMBLE THE SCREEN! My 575 basically disintegrated when I tried. I’ve also seen a couple of LC630s that have been as bad — same era. As fly your broken bezel, glueing it...

I would have thought that just having Photoshop 4 running on an SE/30 would slow things down mightily, never mind scanning into it. There is a reason DSP accelerator chips were developed (and bought at great expense on Nubus cards and the like) in the 68k era for this kind of work.

Old grease can develop a glue-like quality, which is what the problem seems to be here — the grease in your hinges has deteriorated. Old grease can bind to an extent that is truly remarkable. I saw it on an OMC outboard motor (another of my hobbies) a couple of years ago, where the throttle...

PostScript LaserWriters with native IP networking like the 16/600 or the 8500 will print with all the bells and whistles and will work perfectly, but at some point (X.9?) it became necessary to manually add the printer’s ppd description (which is just a text file) to the list in one of the unix...

I ask because I had thought the printer’s hard disk was used only to store fonts and things like letterhead graphics, but not to manage printing of multiple copies. I used to have a hard drive in a LaserWriter Pro 630 (similar to the 16/600 but AppleTalk only and 68030 driven). I didn’t notice...

Was this done automatically or was there some software (beyond the standard software printing interface) that did the magic?

The code for Bill’s bank account?

No need for hardware modifications. Sleeper and Basic Black are Control Panels that should do what you want. Sleeper has the advantage that it would allow the spindown of a drive as well, though you may be going the solid state route there, I suppose, so that may not matter. Otherwise, Basic...

What astonishes me is that there is a little man somewhere making fake chips for a living. Apparently…. How many people are still buying 68882s?

That is interesting — about the card stock I mean. I must give the heavier stuff a try, I leave mine on 24/7 as well, since the off/on cycle is just so wasteful. You can, however, set the sleep timer to 30 mins, using the web-based utility, so that saves on a good deal of the power usage. In...

I was wondering. I used to have one of those (with scanner), but the print head developed a temperature sensor problem in the cyan tank, I was moving across country during the shutdown, and it got recycled. You no doubt know what a new printhead costs. I’m now using its older sibling, an 8400...

What are you using to print those things?

I was assigned an SE for use in the office in my first academic post (91-2). Macs were used in my field because of WorldScript, mainly. By that time at home, mind, I had been using a cheap PC/XT clone. I much preferred the Mac, though that SE was slow. A colleage had what we thought was a crazy...

Regular Ethernet cabling is all you need, assuming we are talking of the same dongle. Looks like an oversized AAUI transceiver.

One good turn deserves another…. I wrote a Master’s thesis in Canada in 1983, drafting on a typewriter for months and months, but towards the end using the University mainframes via the terminal to write it up, do the edits and get the thing submitted. I seem to recall that the writing was done...

7.1 is very quick on a 68040 and is also very stable. 7.5 is fine on 68k but meh. 7.5.3 will run almost as fast as 7.1 if you turn most of the fluff and bloat off (e.g., QuickDraw GX and the ‘talk me through how to do things’ — the name of which escapes me presently — Extensions/ Control...

Is this relevant? http://myoldmac.net/SELL/Card-MacNUBUS-High-ResolutionVideo.htm

I have read that heat reforming of an old wiper blade is possible, the point being simply to increase tension.

Well that sure is disappointing!