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    Getting files off of my SE/30

    Just chiming in to confirm that I do this frequently from my SE/30 using the BlueSCSI's WiFi connection + Fetch + a simple FTP server app on my MacBook Pro. Works like a charm! Huxley
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    Restoring a Lisa keyboard and could use a few tips

    Hi all, The keyboard that came with my 'new' Lisa 2/10 is in semi-functional condition. Most of the keys would respond after a couple firm presses, but it was pretty clear that the foam-and-foil discs inside had degraded. I've just finished the painstaking task of replacing all the discs, and...
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    Struggling to get my Lisa 2/10 to boot from an ESProfile

    Hi all! My wife and I visited VCF West a few months ago, and came home with a lovely Apple Lisa 2/10. The machine is in good shape overall, including a functional internal 10MB Widget drive with MacWorks XL installed. The only real issue with the machine that I'm aware of is that the upper...
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    The Zigintosh SE/47 lives!

    Please have that engraved on my tombstone 🤣
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    The Zigintosh SE/47 lives!

    Yeah, whatever the glitch is, it really does seem to only impact the menu bar and drop-down menus - everything else has been smoooooth so far!
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    The Zigintosh SE/47 lives!

    Update: I’m very pleased to report that the suggestion from @nathall worked - installing ClickChange let me set the menu colors to their proper values! I haven’t tried it with ClickChange uninstalled yet (I quite like this app!) but it’s a perfectly good solution for me. Hooray!
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    The Zigintosh SE/47 lives!

    Good tips - I'll see what I can do... Great suggestion - I'll give this a shot!
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    The Zigintosh SE/47 lives!

    I'm at the point where I think I've tried everything I can think of and/or what you've suggested: Open / close Monitors Control Panel + reboot Open / close Monitors Control Panel > Options + reboot Change color bit depth + reboot Menu bar and menus look correct in 1-bit (black & white) mode...
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    The Zigintosh SE/47 lives!

    How I'm feeling right now Good call! Once I finish tinkering with the hardware I'll give Test Drive a try :cool: I do have a fresh/modern PRAM battery installed and the odd inverted-colors thing persisted after a few PRAM reset cycles. I'll keep playing with it but if anyone else has a...
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    The Zigintosh SE/47 lives!

    Hey all! It's now past 3:30am local time and I'm basically a zombie at this point, but I had to take a moment to share that after several hours of painstaking work, my Macintosh SE/30 has been almost hilariously upgraded: a new 4XDC power supply from @tt powering a tower of @zigzagjoe's...
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    My wife and I have adopted a 41-year-old baby named Lisa

    Thank you! We really couldn't be more psyched. The list of truly historically-significant personal computers that we can't currently exhibit has gotten wonderfully small - if you know someone with an extra Altair sitting around collecting dust, please let me know 🙃 Hahah I've seen some...
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    My wife and I have adopted a 41-year-old baby named Lisa

    I've been collecting Apple / Mac stuff (and more general vintage computer / gaming stuff) since I was a broke kid scrounging around at yard sales in the early 1990s, and I'm proud that I've managed to put together a respectable collection which includes both beloved classics and esoteric...
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    Levco MonsterMac/OverDrive for 512k - advice/help sought

    I do have a 512k with a MonsterMac! I'm not sure if the board is fully functional (it no longer shows the 'vampire' Happy Mac at boot), but the RAM upgrade seems to be working at least. @cj_reha - my MonsterMac is tucked away in my storage locker and I probably won't be able to get to it until...
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    Columbo's Mystery Capers full version available?

    Just chiming in to say that I would love to be able to download and try this out! I love obscure games on obscure formats... :)
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    iMac G3 ingests and immediately ejects CD's. Is the drive toast?

    I had the same thought right after I started this thread! I popped my nice cleaning CD in there annnnnd it got trapped inside ☹️ Once the cleaning disc was in there, the drive started frequently making sad whining / whirring sounds - it was obviously trying to eject the disc but not getting...
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    iMac G3 ingests and immediately ejects CD's. Is the drive toast?

    Hi all, I was hoping to install Mac OS X 10.1 onto an extra partition on my slot-loading iMac G3 (Blueberry, 350MHz, non-Firewire model). Unfortunately, every optical disc I insert is immediately ejected, without being "spun up" at all. This iMac and CD drive haven't been used in many years so...
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    Any fun/interesting apps or games to show off Mac OS X 10.1?

    Hahaha damn, that's hilarious! I haven't thought about it in 20+ years, but I feel like I installed something that did that trick back in the day - maybe from a MacAddict CD-ROM?
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    Any fun/interesting apps or games to show off Mac OS X 10.1?

    These are great suggestions - thanks everyone! H.
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    Any fun/interesting apps or games to show off Mac OS X 10.1?

    Hi all, I'm going to try to get Mac OS X 10.1 running on the Blueberry iMac G3 that I'll be exhibiting this weekend, specifically in the context of comparing it to NeXTSTEP (which will be exhibited on our NeXT Cube). It's been more than a little time since I last played with OS X 10.1, and I'm...
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    Levco MonsterMac with SCSI and lots of dirt

    Hi again @mst3k! Curious if you ever got this setup working? I'm finally playing with my MonsterMac, but I've found a few oddities too: The very first time I powered it on, I saw the little squares under the Happy Mac icon which indicates the presence of the additional 2MB of RAM, but I've...
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