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Wow, been a year.. but finally found some time to disassemble the Macintosh Drag and Drop system extension as well as the 8 * 24 GC control panel. I was able to reproduce the following two artifacts when running the 8 * 24 GC with acceleration enabled while at the same time having the Macintosh...

Spot welding batteries is easy and the welders are fairly cheap on Amazon. The EMM board is finicky tho and prone to failure. The memory chip is replaceable but not the EMM custom chip.

Well, I guess I can get down to 9 if I can fix the 950. Speaking of which, borrowed a stock 950 power supply from @techstep and immediately reproduced the issue so that rules out the power supply. Which means something is wrong on the logic board since the memory, drive, power supply, ROM, have...

This is very close to where I have been landing.. SE/30 IIfx Quadra 700 PowerBook 540c Power Macintosh 8500 and then as I sit there staring at the machines to drop and then the emotional aspect like what @akator70 plus some subtle things start kicking in... and I add back in: SE - the...

Interesting reading all of your thoughts. Lots to chew on.

Haha that’s cool! Do I use it is probably what I ask the most. Effort restoring not so much. I enjoy the restoration so always wanting to add more to fix it and sell it off again. I collect, then get frustrated with how much room it’s all taking, then sell. Then repeat. 😂 Thanks! I keep...

Faster compiles and IDE performance (I find running CodeWarrior on a 1280x1024 display on any of my 040s still exhibits lag in the editor window). Cross compiles are a bit nicer too. So yeah, need at least one PowerPC based machine. I could of course do development on a modern system with...

I have been trying to reduce my collection and sold a few of them recently. But having issues reducing further. For the following 11 machines, if you could only keep 5 of them, which would you let go? Macintosh SE - full memory, has a working miniscribe hard disk Macintosh SE/30 - full memory...

👍 very cool! I spent a lot of time at Cal surrounded by Sun machines.

Not Mac related... but finally cobbled together a fully working Sun Ultra 1 workstation with proper monitor, keyboard, mouse. Joins my NeXTStation Color in my non-Mac collection.

IMHO, this is a futile exercise. If you sell it, within 12 months you will look for a Performa 400 again for some obscure reason. We all have a disease. The collection never shrinks, it grows. I was meant to have just an SE. I have sixteen machines now. Sell 1, end up buying 2. Goodluck! 🤣

That looks fun, seriously! A good challenge :) you got this @joshc !

That's why for my SE/30, I cut out a notch... haha

Awesome!

Spoke too soon. Still running into problems with SCSI. Crash happened again and this time, it seems to have corrupted the disk image on my Zulu as the image no longer works even on other machines. External controller seems ok? But the internal chain seems to have an issue. Gonna have to try and...

I had put my Quadra 950 up for sale but determined that I was still getting speaker pop issues as well as some random crashes on power up. I finally got some time to debug the issues. First, the speaker pop. I had played with it enough previously to diagnose the speaker pop to the use of an...

Is it this one? I know you pointed out the Abaton already but the auction below has pictures of the sides. https://ebay.us/m/S4EHEf

Thanks @zefrenchtoon, now I know what I'm looking for. Thanks!

The model for the floppy slot cover is here: https://www.printables.com/model/1694893-macintosh-ii-floppy-drive-cover The light pipe is best printed in clear resin using a 3D resin printer. Obviously won't work with non clear material.

Sooooo awesome!