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Update: I had the boot conditions swapped for the two laptops. The Lombard, in rough condition, chimes on boot, but never displays video. I've left it plugged in for several hours. Its keyboard gets warm, and it seems to be running, but it displays no video, and won't display via external...

I just acquired (under a small amount of duress) both a Wallstreet PowerBook G3, and a Lombard PowerBook G3. Both are in mediocre-to-poor condition, and neither boot to OS. The Wallstreet is in better condition, only missing its CD-ROM drive. When connected to power, its fans spin up for a...

I'll likely be emailing you for a cap kit soon :) .  When soldering SMD caps to a board, do you use an iron, or is there some magic with a heat gun I'm not aware of?

I liberated a Quadra 840av over the weekend. It was in middling-to-poor condition, with a dead SCSI HDD and rust at the bottom of the case. I got it to boot with Mac OS 8.1 via SCSI2SD. However, I haven't yet been able to get networking to function with the Asante Mini EN/SC. After much...

Update: I discovered and used this amazing Apple Legacy Software Recovery CD https://www.macintoshrepository.org/931-apple-legacy-software-recovery-cd .  If you're working on a 68k Mac, full stop! Get this iso now!  I was able to boot from this CD. When I used Drive Setup, I noticed the...

My Mac IIsi is having some issues both booting from a SCSI device, and seeing any other SCSI device. The IIsi has a new scsi2sd adapter with a 7.5.3 image from http://www.savagetaylor.com/2018/01/05/setting-up-your-vintage-classic-68k-macintosh-using-a-scsi2sd-adapter/ . The scsi2sd can't see...

I made a docker container for this: https://github.com/unxmaal/docker-netatalk/ You should be able to simply install docker and docker-compose under Linux (or another OS X box using homebrew), and then run 'docker-compose up'.

I don't believe the ROM has ResEdit on it.  Patching is dumb-easy. Follow the instructions -- open each specified file (System and the update file, IIRC), click into gusd, find the 0018 offset (third from the top), click near the 03, change it to 05, save and done. Before you get lost in a...

This works now. All I had to do was, following the listed guide, and booting from the Rom-inator ROM disk, modify both the System file and the System 7.5.2 Update file with ResEdit, and restart. Thanks!

I'm working with a new (to me) Mac SE/30. I swapped in the board from my other SE/30, but didn't replace the HDD. This motherboard has been recapped, and has a Mac Rom-inator installed. The new SE/30's HDD has Systems 6, 7.0.1, and 7.5.3. I had issues getting 7.5.3 to boot, so I assumed it was...

Here's my fork of a netatalk server in a docker container: https://github.com/unxmaal/docker-netatalk This will let you run an Apple File Sharing server via container, without having to install or configure netatalk. It can also act as (and broadcast as) a Time Machine server for a local...

Update: finally got around to swapping the IWM, and it worked like a charm! Reads great from the Floppy Emu. (I haven’t tried a real FD yet.) Thanks!

This board definitely has a 344-0043-A IWM, one of the originals. I thought the Floppy EMU supported that? Am I doing something wrong there? I just picked 'macintosh' from the emu menu.

How would I test for this? I have another board, that's dead in a different way. Can I pull the IWM and swap?

I have a Mac SE that seems unable to read from any floppy drive connected to either the external or internal floppy connectors.  It states the disk is unreadable, and asks to initialize it. I've tried with an Apple external FD to external, the native built-in FD to both internal ports, and...

The prior owner of this Mac SE had installed a SE/30 motherboard in it. When he sold it to me, he was unable to get it to boot past a SimasiMac screen.  I scrubbed the motherboard, removed all the caps, and replaced them with new SMD or axial ones.  I still had some trouble with SimasiMac, but...

I'm finding a lot of opinions on CD burning, and few facts. If I have a System 7/8/9 .iso, can I burn that from, say, Win10, to a regular blank CD? Or do I need to find an ancient Mac with a burner and use Toast?

I had tried the Mac Garden Stuffit 5.5 bin, which didn't work.  Ultimately I was able to install 4.0 deluxe on the Powerbook VM, compress its 5.5 Deluxe to a .sea, then binhex that and transfer it to the CC.  I'll work on getting a proper 5.5 install over the weekend. I suspect this 7.6.1 OS...

I'm aware that the CC will run StuffIt 5.5. What I don't understand is why StuffIt 4.0 cannot extract functional binaries from virtually every .sit archive I've downloaded.

[Apologies for any breach of etiquette; I'm new here.] Over the weekend I've acquired a Color Classic with a LC575 motherboard 'Mystic' upgrade. (It came with 2 spare LC575 boards: one standard, and one with an 040 that was somehow overclocked with an oscillator and a heatsink(?!)). The CC's...