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You have these options: - Upgrade your SE to a 1.44MB SuperDrive - Put hard drive into another Mac with a 1.44MB drive and install 7.1 that way, then move drive back to SE - Buy a Floppy Emu PCs can't write 400/800k disks at all, but they can write Mac-formatted 1.44MB floppies. 

Ready to buy the mAcTX LC? :)  

Every 90s Quantum hard drive I've ever owned - be it in a Mac, a PC, or an Amiga - has failed or is in the process of failing; they aren't reliable drives at all. The only use I've found for 90s Quantum drives is to prop my dish drainer up at an angle ;)  

Ah cool; so  copy /b high1.bin + high2.bin combined_hi.bin copy /b low1.bin + low2.bin combined_lo.bin or for *nix cat high1.bin high2.bin > combined_hi.bin cat low1.bin low2.bin > combined_lo.bin Burn to a pair of 27256 EPROMs and enjoy? Sounds easy enough.

As a side note, does anyone have a schematic of the ROM adapter? If the ROM gets released I might burn it to some real ROMs and throw it in my retail Mac 128 for a laugh :D

I have heard rumours that you can stick a Macintosh Twiggy disk into a Lisa 1 and dump it using Basic Lisa Utility (BLU), but that's only a rumor/speculation. The Twiggy drives were notoriously unreliable though, so perhaps your drive has some sort of f ault - especially if the original belt is...

I had to double-burn it to stick it on a 27256, but somehow this ROM worked on a IIET! Thanks.

This is the one I have. EPROM is a 27C128.

I did go ahead and burn it to a new ROM but the diagnostic tools and installer still can’t find my IIET. I’m trying to see if it truly is the dump I made that’s bad or if the failed eprom blew up some other parts of the card.

Is it against the rules to ask for a ROM for a Nubus Ethernet card? The one in my MacCon+IIET catastrophically failed and the dump I took of it before it failed is a bad dump as it's 90% 00.

Just a lowly 16MB... Anyone want to help me get this up to 128MB? :D

So I was browsing eBay one night and I found a listing for a non-working/parts-only IIfx. Immediately snatched it up and got it in today! The case is trashed - lots of bent pieces, major scuffs, and it's even missing the top lid. I threw it all into my regular II's case and found out the soft...

A 2032 is adequate. Pull the old PRAM battery and stick a 2032 holder in there. Don't worry about diodes to block charging current because a rechargeable PRAM battery was never a thing in the Mac world, except maybe the Powerbooks.

I've managed to clear stubborn thru-holes by using a bare piece of solid CAT5 wire. Heat up the thru-hole with hot air, cut a wire out of the cable several inches long, strip it, and pull it straight through. It's helped me get thru-holes clean enough where I can stick other components in.

Has anyone ever successfully installed UniPlus UNIX on a Lisa 2/5?

If you haven't already, you have to clean and recap the logic board. That caused me no end of SCSI problems until I recapped mine.

I wonder if any existing GEM applications will run on LisaGEM? Would be cool to have a fully graphical environment with more apps than 7/7 :D

Looking good! Just a small suggestion, consider using CR2032 coin cell batteries in place of the standby and PRAM batteries. They won't leak like the original lithiums and alkalines can, and they look a lot nicer on the board too! I use a pair of 2032s in my II and they work great.

mAcTX LC is coming.

Oh no didn't take it that way at all, we just haven't really gone into the specifics of what else the boards can do... which right now is pretty much just that bypass switch :D