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Does anyone know if there is there an API to access these forums?  I have done a bit of searching, but I can't find any evidence of it.  I am daydreaming about writing a Macintosh TCP application to access the forums, or perhaps a "door" for my current bbs project.

Thanks, those are good tips I didn't know about.

I'm pretty sure I've performed the self-tests correctly and gotten to response, so I think I'll have to open it up and trouble shoot.

I salvaged an imagewriter from a local recycler.  It's been a long time since I've used one.  When I turn mine on, there is no movement of the print head, and all of the leds turn on steady.  There is no response from any of the buttons (feed, quality, etc).  From the manual, it mentions that...

Yeah, it's always risky to post a question like mine on a discussion board where I'm looking for recent first-hand experiences from a group of like-minded people.  Honestly I thought there might be a few people willing to share a "This worked well for me" or "Stay away from these" or "This is...

I've heard that with the color cartridges, the rollers are a hard foam (or rubber or something) that pretty much fails and disintegrates upon any attempt to print.  I figured I'd leave my cartridge alone in case there's any chance of refurbishing the cartridge using 3d printing or something in...

Can anyone tell me the best/cheapest place to get an imagewriter II printer cartridge at the moment?  I got an imagewriter at the local salvage place a few be days ago and it has a color ribbon which I'm not going to even try given the stories about these things I've read on here.

@PowerPup Thanks for those links.  Looks perfect.  I went ahead and did some tests and here's what I came up with.  Looks like it's easy to tell apart pre 1.5.1, 1.5.1, 3.5 and 5.5.

In a different thread (over in software), @Dog Cow mentioned that there are magic numbers which can be used to distinguish which version of the stuffit algorithm was used to compress a file.  Does anyone have more information on this?  I would like to build a utility that can sort *.sit files...

Thanks for that link I hadn't seen it.  I've also found Maconv, macutils, hfsutils and a few other unix things that look useful, but haven't had a ton of luck getting anything to compile.  At some point I'd like to spend more time exploring these tools in case it's useful to batch convert some...

I agree completely.  I had completely forgotten that these incompatibilities between stuffit existsed.  This has to be a major headache for any newcomer who wants to play around with minivmac or BasiliskII much less the real hardware.  I was thinking exactly the same thing over the weekend that...

So is there little hope of being able to identify the version required by looking at the file?  Last night I just started looking at the headers of a few files that I know use different stuffit versions (but they looked the same at first glance to me using 'strings').  I was hoping to be able to...

Stuffit 5.x runs under 7.1.1 but not 7.1 _and_ requires 8MB of physical ram. It's a PB 165, but I was hopping to use serial since that's what I can do with little effort.  In addition, I had this idea that I could write a piece of software that sat on a local linux box and simulated a BBS...

I have been trying to get software from macintoshgarden and macrepository to run on basiliskII and a powerbook.  Here's a diagram showing the paths that the files take... macintoshgarden.com -> linux box -> BasiliskII |...

I have my mac (System 7.1) connected to my linux pc via serial.  I can successfully transfer and then open/run *.sea.bin files from the linux machine to the mac using either YMODEM or XMODEM.  However, when I transfer *.hqx files or *.sit files to the mac, it doesn't know what to do with them. ...

Thaks for the reply.  It's looking like I'll just have to open up my macs and do an inventory.  Especially with the SMD caps.  I want to make sure the pin spacing is correct, and that everything fits.  For example, with the powerbook display caps, people list values but no dimensions, and it...

I want to order caps for several of my Macs. I've managed to find part lists for several of them, but the physical dimensions are almost never given.  How do people order caps (SMD or THT) without this information?

I just acquired a 165 and 145B, which inspired me to pull my other 165 out of storage.  Does anyone have a checklist of things that need to be done to these things to keep them happy?  I've pulled the power batteries out of them.  I've read about pram batteries... do these need to be replaced...

If only any of my PB1XXs had their doors still ;)

I don't have a duo.  Do these instructions make sense to anyone that does?