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Thanks for the video; I found it very informative. I have two 800k drives I need to tune up, unless of course you want to fix them for me feature them in a subsequent episode :)

Oh yeah, and the SCSI2SD is Hello Kitty-powered:

My new TAM’s hard drive seems to be failed or failing, and I figured I’d pick up an IDE-to-M.2 adapter and replace it with an SSD. Unfortunately, I didn’t notice the unusual screw locations; as Low End Mac notes, “upgrades may require some modification as the mounting holes in the original drive...

Plus (4 MHz): in a 512k case. Have a SCSI2SD for it, though I’d like to be able to use it just on floppies. Also have a second in parts. TAM (250 MHz): just purchased, and coincidentally arrived on Christmas. Fat back with USB, but missing its keyboard and everything not pictured. Cube (450...

I have a Quadra with both on it (Mac OS 7 and KanjiTalk 7—as far as I know, the Japanese OS was not referred to as Mac OS prior to OS 8). As I recall, I was able to switch between the two by dragging the Finder+System out of and back into the System Folder I wanted to bless, then rebooting. They...

Ah, right, I’m mixing up my terminology. I said “userspace” (non-kernel) but I was thinking “unprivileged” (non-root). Needing root was where I gave up with SheepShaver. Running network infrastructure as root on a Pi sounds totally fine to me, but running a crashy emulator as root on my laptop...

The main reason would be to bridge the physical hardware with emulators. I’m assuming this is difficult or impossible with Mini vMac. I tried and gave up with SheepShaver. If the multicast situation isn’t a dealbreaker, it might even work over Wifi. I assume wireless EtherTalk is impossible, and...

This is neat and I’m interested in trying it out (after Christmas, maybe…). I’m reminded of two other pieces of software that do AppleTalk over IP, both by bbraun: abridge (source), which bridges AppleTalk between two networks with pcap. It seems like this approach might be usable to bridge...

BalenaEtcher is a substitute for dd. I used to use dd, but I always worried that I’d typo /dev/rdisk0 for /dev/rdisk1 and delete my system. BalenaEtcher only lets you select removable drives. It does complain that the image won’t be bootable, but that’s just because it doesn’t understand the...

Have you tried initializing the SD card from Windows? What I did is: Download an image from savagetaylor.com. Use balenaEtcher to write the image to the SD card. Make “Device Size” for Device 1 at least as large as the image. Unfortunately, this will only get you a single drive...

FWIW, my SCSI2SD has been working fine with my v2 ROM ($4D1EEAE1) Plus. I’d be interested! I acquired a second, non-functional Japanese [?] Plus which appears to have an International board, though I’m not quite sure what to make of that, since Japan is a 100V country.

Using one of the SD images from Realitystorm’s blog and providing USB power would have been my suggestions. Even if you would prefer to build your own image or rely on termination power, I’d start with that to help narrow down what the problem might be. I also elected to run off an older 2GB SD...

I recently went through this with a V5.5 and a plus. The three things that tripped me up were: The three settings from the SCSI2SD Mac Plus page (sounds like you have this covered). Getting the image right. Eventually, I used one of the pre-prepared ones from this blog instead of building it...

https://photos.app.goo.gl/HecLqe9TL4PecqKW8 In the end, it was easy (as might be expected). Mostly it was a matter of getting an English OS on the Plus so I could navigate it. Haven’t yet tried the LocalTalk Bridge software. I’m still interested in knowing if there’s any way to snoop on the...

The newer one is a Quadra on 7.6, so it’s quite networking-friendly. I was able to get Fetch onto it via AFS over EtherTalk (but then switched AppleTalk back to the printer port, since now FTP over TCP/IP can be its link up the technology chain).

No, with a printer cable. But I discovered that I didn’t actually have any software on the Plus yet to use the network connection. Maybe it was successful, but I don’t know. Now I have my SCSI2SD, so once I get it booting from there I can try again.

I connected the computers. No smoke, no dice. Unfortunately, in my haste to try out networking, I failed to realize that the Plus’s “Apple File Exchange” isn’t related to AppleShare, and I didn’t find any other software to use. Floppy drive’s broken too. I guess I’ll wait until my SCSI2SD...

That thread covers my questions pretty well, thanks! I’ll give it a try. I’ve seen this assertion several times. For just two computers, is there an advantage to PhoneNet? It seems like two adapters ($10+ each) and a phone cable is more trouble than a single ($5) cable. (author’s note...

A date code on the capacitor or on the computer? The capacitor appears to say 92/47, but Nov. 1992 would be too late for a stock capacitor in a Mac Plus, wouldn’t it? I’m not sure where to look for a date code or serial number for the computer. Normally, I’d look on the case, but this Plus was...

There’s certainly a lot of information on that page, but if the answers to my questions are there, I can’t find them. Mostly, it’s discussing bridging to Ethernet or PhoneNet, which I’m not interested in. I see “The simplest LocalTalk network is simply a serial mini-DIN-8 cable from the printer...