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Haha I thought I was the only one with such a weird hobby overlap (old macs & old maps). These are some of my collection of early 19th century city maps from the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK), which are just aesthetically gorgeous in how they express city architecture...

I bet you can find that connector part number if you spend some time on parts websites. I found those weird Winbook ones in <10mins of searching. I doubt any connector is really bespoke to a manufacturer and isn't in supply somewhere in the parts universe, you just gotta want it enough to keep...

@3lectr1cPPC haha I was thinking about tagging you in this post since I know you've got a big collection! Yeah some kind of benchtop supply with presets and swappable plugs is an ideal solution. I think the connectors are all sourcable from Mouser et al with a little bit of searching around, so...

I've got a collection of a bunch of old laptops (Powerbooks, Sony Vaios, Thinkpads, etc) and I don't like having to keep all the power adapters along with them. Two questions: 1. Is there a high quality universal power supply with selectable voltage and swappable plugs that anyone recommends? I...

FWIW I think @beachycove is spot on re:dumping. There's big geopolitical shifts happening with China's increasing willingness to throw their weight around to get what they want and retain their power. Dumping like this is a very cheap strategy to undermine adversaries without them realizing it...

This is such an incredibly well put together and informative video @JDW!

Here's what I have in my archive of interware stuff. I saved PDFs of webpages that showed how to make one of the earlier models' video cables. I don't remember how I got the zips but they're from the japanese sites and I think are archived hqx files of various drivers for various Interware...

Thanks for compiling everything! I have the 24-16s with less vram. I always wondered whether soldering some vram on the empty pads would bump it up but I'd never seen a 24-21s til now. Seems like the only differences are the vram and a capacitor on the back, and possibly a 21s ROM.

After going down the rabbit hole, I think the only two options are: this was made by Apple to test the viability of a new Mac Portable style based on the LC, or this was the DynaMac LC Display, build in collaboration with Apple. I still lean toward the latter, for the reasons below. Elsies in...

Ok I'll bite, this is an interesting mystery and I have a hypothesis. Requires going through the What, Why, When, and Who. The What: Prototype Parts @ArmorAlley Fu Yu Manufacturing is a plastic molding company that worked with Apple (Singapore Business, 1997) @Performa450 Agree I think the...

Looks like a Dynamac IIsf or Dynamac LC Display, a type of macintosh conversion. No pictures known but matches description

Oh nice, it'll be useful to get away from the 512x341 thing. Just to add some more mystery to your sleuthing @zigzagjoe I have a Color30 with GAM chip, 10ns vram, 27c256 ROM, and the 4 digit serial printed at the bottom. Dunno what ROM version it has tho, haven't checked.

Here's my green PrecisionColor 24X, sporting the same ROM version as @mg.man's red (v2.0 -066-03-A) and the same ramdac. Mine has 24X silkscreened, 3mb VRAM (42C8255DJ x12). Looks like the reds are a slightly newer layout, as they have 'rev B' under the assembly number and (c) 1993 whereas...

This is so cool, I was just scheming on how to get ChatGPT on my SE30! I'd love if this was available for System 7 so I could run it on 68k systems to get a proper vintage-future AI in the box. The hold up is TLS/HTTPS but perhaps it could be done through a web rendering proxy or via something...

Re absolute positioning: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/anyone-have-an-adb-graphics-tablet-or-joystick.39128/#post-422551

If its any help I have a Lapis ProColorServer 24 LC but can't seem to find a ROM chip on it.

Wow this is great @Melkhior ! I looked up prices for the USB-FPGA Module and there are several versions. Wondering which one is the right one to use? The cheapest is 2.13a (XC7A35T, $185), but there's other 2.13 versions (b through d) go up to about $360. Other curiosity: 1920x1080 must feel...

nice! I love these little usability enhancements to classic MacOS

Good point @Forrest, agree that schools would start having interest in CD-ROMs at the time, and that could have been part of the needsfinding Apple was doing behind the scenes. Apple did have a big education wing and likely discussed some unreleased models with schools. However I don't think...