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Some cards report themselves as fixed disks, others as removable media. Try to get one that reports as fixed disk. Often, the "industrial" branded ones can be switched between fixed and removable with a utility binary available from the "industrial" brand.

Hi, I’ve got two MagicBus cards (Mac SE PDS, one "empty", one with an 68030 accelerator), and two Radius graphics cards matching. But - no cable in between. Looks like a UW-internal SCSI connection, but apparently seems to have 60 pins, not 68. Now – where do I get such cables?

Two sets of four, for me, too, please.

No need for binhexing (this is an ASCII wrapper that’s meant for email transport of Mac binary files, as email isn’t binary safe), "Macbinary" is enough and saves you ~30% transfer time, as it is efficient. You can do this on the macOS commandline, too "macbinary". If Macbinary files are...

I do not want to favour creeping featurism. But … both your board and SCSI2SD have only one (1) SCSI port. Which means, that with a Compact Mac and the external port, I can connect either SCSI2SD or 68net/Ethernet via SCSI. Not both. I could put one inside newer Macs (SE, SE/30 …), but for the...

Has anyone ever found a driver for the E-Machines Big Picture? Got one in a Mac Plus, but no drivers, no luck. And - what kind of CRT does it drive? Portrait? 1024x768 19"?

No, I’m setting up a non-trivial AT network, with RAS and the like, step by step. I thought that I’m not the first guy running an AT network with more than 3 hosts, so that someone for sure wrote some networking debugging tools beyong "DDPing" :-)

I’d use a simple serial / RS232 nullmodem cable to a modern PC, and use Kermit or the like to copy things via serial. In worst case you can UUEncode or HQX the files first, and do a non-binary/text only transmission.

Hi, admittedly, the title is a bit clickbaity. I’m looking for a System 6/7 safe software, that measures DDP/AppleTalk performance between 2 hosts. As I’m playing with ATrouting and RAS, this would really help me debugging stuff.

Thank you, maceffects!

Would you mind sharing the software for the Aura ScuzzyGraph Color Graphic Processor?

Hi, I got hold of the old Laplink Mac software of the System 5/6ish era, which was together with some 5.25" disks for MS-DOS, to transfer stuff from Macs to PCs without networking (box images) I’d love to use the Sys5 software part, but interface to something UNIXish/for macOS. Does anyone...

*push* :-)

That would be nice, thanks!

thanks for the links to eBay. I checked it before, the seller charges ~30$ postage for the lock items, plus VAT, that’ll be rather expensive. The other link is a disk lock system, not an anti-theft-system.

Hi, I’m trying to secure my SE/30 during a large conference, and I can’t afford guided security. So I wanted to make use of the "security lock" / chain symbol hole thing on the back of the Mac. But I couldn’t source a plug that goes in there. I found online a photo of that security lock thing...

Just to mention it: Some folks are working on a old/new Mac Plus implementation for the MiST of Til Harbaum. https://github.com/mist-devel/mist-board/wiki The port currently reaches ~2.5x original Mac Plus 68000 speed. This sure is far away from the 500 MHz machine of the subject, but it is...

I'm currently in contact with an author of a MPW compiler language who’s (with OS X stuff) still in business. I convinced him that’d be totally cool to have his compiler running withing MPW again. So I stuffed together a Mini vMac machine, completely with OS and MPW 3.5. But … this MPW is too...

May anyone put the controller/management software for it somewhere? I’m expecting a nice box and can’t wait to have it running! :D

@Mac128: Thanks for that URL and description. It is a real PITA nowadays to exchange data with old Macs, it is _much_ easier to do this with an IBM PC of 1986 than with a Macintosh of 1986. What a pity. The reasons I don't use Sheepshaver very often: can't emulate System 6 or older and (major...