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It has to do with the operating voltage of the flash card. I think (i.e. fuzzy long term memory) that 5V linear flash cards are read-only in the eMate, but 3.3V ones are read/write.

10 years ago, ATTO tech support would emaill you updaters for outdated products, even after they were removed from the website. They might still be that nice; give it a shot.

Sadly, OWC doesn't have the special RAM for the 6400/6500/TAM anymore.

When you ordered a color 5300, you got to choose 8 or 16MB RAM. Neither came with a memory module installed, so if you picked 16MB you got 16MB soldered. The 117MHz 5300 always came with 16MB, and the greyscale one always came with 8MB. Nowdays, I can't imagine a company taking the extra...

Is this something where running BootX instead of yaboot would do the trick? They don't seem to remove drivers or hardware support from Linux very often. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/OldWorldMacs MkLinux is pretty interesting as a demo system -- it's Linux ported to /...

I have one of those adaptors, TRASH. It worked great with an older Ultra2 drive. I agree about adaptors with both 68 and 50-pin ports on them being bad news. Pick one or the other and stick with it.

If you're not already a Linux expert, you really don't want to run MkLinux or or LinuxPPC. They're both 10+ years out-of-date and very different from modern Linux. The only reason I can see to run either of them would be historical interest in early Linux distributions. Ubuntu and Debian have...

Thanks for the link! I see, now. A LongDateTime goes up to 30,000CE but can only be used for calcuations / application-specific work. The system's conception of date and time is limited to a regular DateTime, which as you said only goes to 2040.

What's the max year the Toolbox date and time routines can handle? I seem to remember something in TidBITS about this, and it's like 25000CE or something crazy like that. Am I just making things up again?

Thanks for verifying that I'm not crazy!

I seem to recall reading that you can't run a 68LC040 + 68882 combination. I also seem to recall reading that when running a 68020 + 68881 or 68030 + 68882 that the clock speeds of the FPUs can differ from the ALU. (I also recall something about multiple 6888{1,2}'s per 680{2,3}0, with...

That MacAdvocate CDROM has some pretty great videos on it. All the Apple TV ads to the date of publication, which includes the entire span that I'm interested in anyway.

My uneducated guess is "if it fits, it'll work to at least some extent". My Takky used a 575 Analogue board, deflector assembly, and neck PCB (from the 15" 575 CRT) with the stock Color Classic tube and it was fine. Getting it aligned was a bit of a pain. I highly doubt that Apple commissioned...

Scarab of Ra should fit on your boot floppy. Really, you should consider repairing your hard drive and upgrading to even 8 or 12MB of RAM, if you want to keep the machine at a level where a typical owner would have had it in its day. Then you could fit a lot more games. :)

Huh, I hadn't been aware of those. Yes, the ones I got are non-parity. Dunno for sure if they're shorter, but they do look shorter.

I think he was suggesting that the caps next to the VRAMs leaked and damaged the VRAMs. This is a relatively common secondary failure mode for SE/30s. (Typically, you replace the caps and an SE/30 is fine. If not, chances are it needs either VRAMs or Bourns filter networks but not usually both.)

Not much of a conquest, but I bought a 128MB 72pin SIMM for $20 shipped and it's Mystic compatible! 4k refresh, 32x32 organization. It fits in the CC motherboard try without cutting. It's a bit too tall to fit past the screw hole on the Mystic, so you have to do the "snap in the SIMM after you...

I think it might not be quite as amazing as it seems, Trash-80. From what little I know of AppleEvents, one could cook up a parallel-processing application on System 7 using all supported interfaces. Then you'd just need a big old stack of Macs connected together with AppleTalk, and you could...

Silver-bearing conductive epoxy is a good choice for homebrew assembly of battery packs, too.

I maintained the thermistor but not the fuse. I did not have to cut away any of the battery door, but I did have to cut away a fair amount of one wall of the square "bucket" the pack sits in by default.