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This is so great. I wonder how many of these treasure troves are still out there, with people who think that nobody cares anymore. Do you know much about the company? How big a market was this, how many people worked there? I'd love to know more about the history, a lot gets written about Apple...

If you want to change the admin password, boot into single-user mode (cmd+S), you should be dropped to a text prompt. Type "passwd" and hit enter. It will ask you twice for the new password. After that, type "reboot" and hit enter.

That very specific sort of anxiety when Mac OS 9 crashes while you're copying files and you've rebooted to the grey screen and you're waiting to see if it's Happy Mac time or emergency boot disk time..

Would this work on an ADB->USB adapter like an iMate? I realize that something that attaches directly to USB is probably more sensible, but I like the software support this seems to have.

Do the later version have it? I settled on version 5 but I don't remember why. I think it seemed to be the last version that wasn't focused on the transition to OS X.

This appears to be an unimportant dependency and I've just removed it. After a few linker things, I now have a MacZoop 2.5 project compiling with CodeWarrior. It's an interesting developer experience. I code for a living and I'm a little embarrassed to see how useless I am without "jump to...

I've been trying on and off to compile an example using the MacZoop framework, using CW5 and I've had a lovely old time learning about Universal Interfaces and pre-compiled headers and such. I'm down from about 2500 error messages (about 4 actual problems) to 56, and they seem to originate with...

This is beautiful work, and a great write-up, too. Thank you so much. I also have one with a PSU that needs to be fixed.

Doubt it. I've never come across it, at least, and even the versions of Codewarrior for embedded/DSP use weren't available on Mac. I have one or two 68HC11 related tools somewhere, but they're very basic.

It's only the IDE/editor part that's Java. Underneath it's calling out to a bunch of command line utilities like the compiler (gcc) and the programming/flashing tools that communicate via usb/serial. The various parts also need to communicate between them, and I'm quite they do that in a way...

Reading Inside Macintosh: Memory for the first time - or - How I learned to stop worrying and love MMUs

Anything in particular you want to know?

Is it only the internal speaker or also using the output jack?

There's a person on the Garden that uploaded a system folder containing the 9.2.2 installation from the restore disc from my machine, and it doesn't include any extensions that look relevant. So I don't think it's drivers or anything like that. Having spent some more time with the machine...

OK, so it is possible! Do you have anything special in extensions or control panel, beyond Energy Saver? Nothing like a Powerbook Extras extension or something?

I bought myself a very nice 867 MHz Titanium Powerbook to run OS 9. It came with Leopard installed and I used it for a short while before I swapped the spinning drive for an SSD and installed OS 9 by mounting it as a Firewire Target Disk and copying the OS 9.2.2 installation over from my G4...

Even my G4 that can run a much higher resolution I stick to 1024x768 or thereabouts. Everything just becomes to small if I go higher.

TBH even just having labelled solder pads would be fine, an (optional) 2.54mm header would also work. I don't think that's a stupid idea at all. An internal port could also be used for USB wifi or bluetooth/wireless keyboard connectivity.

One extra external USB port probably isn't so interesting, no. I use my Lombard for making music, and once I sketched out an audio-over-USB/MIDI-over-serial interface that would fit in the battery bay (with a flex cable to the modem connector on the mainboard), but to call that niche is probably...

The Powerbook Lombard (and I suspect Pismo) use the same modem board. I put a Stealth Serial port in mine. It doesn't fit physically, unfortunately, but I did get it to work with the keyboard detached. Allegedly there's an extra USB port on the connector (see the pinout Alex Hixon published)...