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There's a lot of tricky pieces here, but the first one is that I would expect the majority of modern displays to be widescreen only. It looks like the one you linked is only about 5 inches in the shorter dimension, which I think is quite a bit too short to fit nicely. You *might* be able to...

Oh, you said HFS, not HFS+, that's why I got confused :)

Hey, USB is USB! They work totally fine with modern systems. HFS became read-only starting with Snow Leopard, and support was removed entirely in macOS 11 (Big Sur). fuseHFS is basically this: https://thejoelpatrol.github.io/fusehfs/

HFS+ works natively on modern macOS. I have played a bit with macFUSE for HFS but I forget how well that's working currently. It's not that big of an issue for me since it's usually quicker & more convenient to share files over AFP.

Not who you replied to, but for me the coolest thing about HFS+ on earlier systems would be the ability to swap Zip disks between the old computer and a modern Mac with zero issues. btw, should 68k 8.1 work natively with HFS+? And what are the size limits there? I've looked online and some...

Tested this on my SE/30, and other than the leftover "white area" mentioned earlier, it works great! Even as-is, I plan on keeping this installed and training my muscle memory on the shortcuts. Way more convenient than even the Control Strip!

The one I purchased is PC100. EveryMac says these take PC66, but usually higher speed sticks work fine running at lower speeds, don't they? https://everymac.com/systems/apple/ibook/specs/ibook.html

Oh that's right - it's far too small to be a modem

The SD cards themselves are formatted in exFAT. However, you don't put files directly on there - you put disk images (.hda etc) on there, the device mounts those, and that's what the Mac sees over SCSI. They'll generally be formatted as HFS. It's not *super* easy to talk to HFS (we can expand on...

I had that idea, but weirdly 256 & 128MB sticks seem more expensive than 512. If anyone on here has one of those that they know works in an iBook, let me know and I'll be happy to buy it off you! I also considered just straight up buying another stick from OWC since they're pretty cheap, but I...

And that's why you'll often see Stuffit files converted to MacBinary (.bin) or hex (.hqx) - those "flatten" the forks and make it safe to transfer/move. So, you'll often see things like "bunchoffiles.sit.hqx".

Here is a coin-cell adapter that I've seen recommended, although I haven't used it myself...

I *believe* that modern macOS still preserves resource forks, and they will continue to be preserved if transferring over AFP. However, it's still probably a good habit to just wait to decompress on the older machine.

I'm sure OP has their reasons not to, but I am curious what those are. My understanding is that batteries are fine as long as they're inspected and replaced every decade or so. Additionally, I believe the coin cell batteries (with adapters) work just as well, and have a negligible risk of...

Forgot about the ROM - which is actually a good suggestion for OP, the Rominator II! The bootable image on the ROM is a huge lifesaver whenever I mess up something in my system folder. OS 8 just requires a single byte flipped, I think, and there's quite a few premade images for it, so that's not...

Oh hey, neat! I'll add that to my chart lol Although seeing that it doesn't work with Multifinder is kind of a bummer.

As far as OS version, I can echo that 7.1 or 7.5 seem to be the best choices. 7.0 is fast, but 7.1 included a software rewrite that makes it compatible with much of the software that works with 7.5. 6 is insanely fast but probably wasted on an SE/30 since you can't even get 32-bit addressing...

+1 for PiSCSI. It's a great way to get started, as it so much capability built in to one device. It's a little more technical than Floppy Emus or SCSI-SD devices, but it'll get you CD/HDD emulation, ethernet, and a file server all on one device. The main downside is that it plays best if you...

Very delayed response here, but I finally got around to trying Deoxit on the RAM & slot to see if that helped, but no dice.

I can confirm these are great for the ROM, but do they work for the RAM as well?