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Ooo... that'd be cool! Sure. It'll be tomorrow, but I'll definitely get back to you!

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook/specs/mac_powerbook3400c_180.html That does appear to be the case.

So... I found one of these in a SE without - you guessed it - the breakout board... It does have a 16pin ribbon cable - which I do have (just removed for the photo). ANY idea if your MacTwister would work with it?

...or, as my 16yr old daughter would say (txt)... YW. Kids. You have all this to come. 😆

...just a down-payment on the next box of @joshc's stuff he doesn't need, nor do I, but I'll take it and toss in my storage unit on the off chance that one day there might be something in there that I *do* need.... 😜

Apparently (@max1zzz can confirm?) the Dataman 48LV does as well. I just bagged one for about $150 - not for this, but for something old it also supports.

I wonder where that came from... 🤔 Glad you're rockin' & rollin'! Thanks again @Carlito for the mod and @dosdude1 for the awesome ROM-work!

I'm good - have a few boxes of that sorta stuff from you already... 😜

Huh... it seems @Danamania has / had one... https://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist@mail.maclaunch.com/msg04431.html

Certainly fair! Trouble is I either need to ship to UK or to US (folks) and collect - the former a matter of add'l co$t, the latter a matter of 'when'. Please serve the local interest first while I work out my plans for a US visit. If I miss out c'est la vie!

Ditto -- what's the est. cost?

@max1zzz - maybe your PCB prowess could help here?

Have you given the pins on the PDS connector a good [IPA] 'scrub'? Of course, don't be too rough, but the above makes me wonder if it might be less-than-perfect electrical contact with the PDS slot? 🤔

Fair points...

What about setting up a DSLR (on tripod?) and just videoing the display connected to the Apple II? Not super sophisticated, but with a zoom lens and rigid setup (and DSLR/lens on manual focus) it could work?

Yes, one of those was the Spectre GCR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_GCR I have one I bought from new - for the very reason stated - the Atari ST (mine was a STfm boosted to 4Mb) was much cheaper than a real Mac. The 'GCR had the added advantage that thanks to some wizardry, it could...

So... work's a time drain atm, so took me 'til today to do some testing. Here are the results (using HDT 4.5.2) : Upper left is my ACARD with a 8Gb DoM, lower left is my B&W's onboard IDE targeting a 160Gb rust spinner, on the right, the Adaptec/SIL3112 targeting an old 64Gb SSD I had to hand...

Clearly... but it's interesting that the 'values' on the "A" ROMs are smaller than those on the "C" ROMs. Could 98371 be 1998, Week 37, day 1?

Also interesting... under the "SHARP" silkscreen... Top two : 98061, 98085. Bottom two : 98391, 98397.

Top two are Rev.A, bottom two Rev.C. I've not looked closely at the chip numbers, what's more obvious are the (c) dates... Top two (c)1997, bottom (c)1998.