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I acquired a SE/30 a few months ago. Until this week I had not disconnected the yoke but I should have. The only things that haven't been working are focus (not as good as it should be) and the front brightness knob does nothing. On cutting away the glue and removing the yoke I found a wire...

It's worth a look at Autodesk Fusion 360. The cloud-based storage and STL conversion can get annoying as it takes far too long compared to local storage and conversion. The website is a hot mess. Licensing is a little confusing but it is free for hobbyists. With all those negatives you might...

With the price of a large DRAM (around $5) these days I don't know if you would even bother with SIMMS - a FPGA would be useful in any redesign (attach a 50MHz 68030 maintaining original mainboard timing, ethernet, generate all clocks from one source etc..) and could easily make a single chip...

I know 512 x 384 is a handy number and exactly half the XGA standard resolution but can't understand why it wasn't used. If the memory is there why not? It was expensive in 1989! Supposedly the stock monitor is just fine at higher and grayscale resolution if you score a Micro Exceed, so why a...

Why does Apple state that the SE/30 supports 512 x 382 video? https://support.apple.com/kb/sp195?locale=de_DE (underneath it does say that the number of lines on the physical screen is 342) Every other source (and the Mac itself) says that the resolution is 512 x 342 with no mention of 384...

That's a pretty reasonable letter @MrFahrenheit but I feel you have only wasted more of your time - it's the same thing as telling an eBay seller that their item is not going to sell for $2k, they don't want to know better. (nitpick: we're close knit, like a woollen article)

There are pens available that are refillable and instead of a fountain pen tip they have a brush. Sometimes they are sold for calligraphy, sometimes for watercolour, but buying one of these and filling it from a large bottle of flux is much longer lasting and cost effective than buying flux...

Has this board been cleaned? I can't really tell if that is crinkly solder mask or capacitor guts. Also, what's the messy blob between C9 and C10 on the right? You seem to have a clean board and say it used to work so chances are it is something you touched. Are the contacts in the all the...

I have one of these massive blueberry monitors and will shortly be able to plug it in to a USB-equipped System 9.2.2 machine, so I'm looking for the software. Macintosh Garden doesn't seem to have it. If you are not familiar there is just a brightness adjust on the monitor itself, every other...

If there's any kind of redraw effort in the works - would it be better to separate the quarter of the board that houses memory into a daughterboard? If you want to use 8 SIMMs, plug in a board similar to the original with SIMM sockets. If you just want to have 128M memory then plug in the modern...

Nice find - I wish I could find Mac IIs in a dumpster near me! Something that is fantastic for debugging video is the Open Source Scan Converter. The little dip switches on those DA15-Dsub15 adapters can be really tedious when you try a mode that should work but it doesn't... the OSSC displays...

No progress on the analog board, I have checked each pot and its connection to the rest of the circuit but I cannot make brightness do anything which is frustrating. On the plus side I have plugged in the Radius Color Pivot card and it works in 7.5.3 with no extra software, appearing as a...

Maybe investigate a modern power supply that can replace what is in the machine that is designed to run fanless. Power supply technology has also improved but it is always going to cost more than a couple of good, quiet fans. As another alternative look for solutions that place sensors on the...

Memories... I was a Newton developer at an Apple-owned company in Brisbane, ceMis. Coincidentally I just picked up a 7200/90, which is one of the machines I used cfront to write driver software for them too.

@maceffects thanks but I don't have the video card, so it might not be very useful for me at this point!

Thanks for the pointers - I had not seen that thread. That "Designing Cards..." manual is probably the right place to start.

I'm curious about how these worked! Since I am probably never going to see on in real life I was hoping to find more information. There's a reference to a homemade grayscale adapter (Gamba's archived page) but I can't find much information on it... how can a board in the PDS slot override the...

Hey I think this is fixed! Solution: the patched Apple 7.5.3 disk setup tool that is commonly available does not correctly create a volume, it just appears to - when the installer tries to write to that volume it hits whatever didn't get fixed by the patch and it fails. Fix: Lido does...

Mine is still failing. My best is disk 3 of 7.5.3 installer so far :-( And then when it reboots after that I get the four chimes of death and 0000000F 00000066... Have to start again from floppy. I wish I had a 6.0.8 boot .dsk with Lido on it, I would like to rule out the 7.5.3 patched HD...

I had a sinking feeling reading what @Paulie wrote about the V6 and the SE/30 since I have a SE/30 and a new V6 sitting here. Tried it out today; sure enough the 6.08 and 7.5 installers can not write to the v6 SCSI drive though it completes init OK. But I noticed when booting from a 6.08 floppy...