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There are several ways to connect QuickDraw printers to Ethernet. The easiest way would be to use an Ethernet bridge designed for this purpose, as built from Apple especially for the StyleWriter and from Asante or Farallon. The next easiest way would be to set up another Mac conected locally to...

Yes, mouse tracking speed and speaker volume settings are kept in the PRAM. Before any further attempt to fix something you might consider to double check for proper polarity of the battery and also check if the battery is full. If the battery is of appropriate type, correctly inserted and...

Extended II. Durable mechanical keyswitches, excellent tactile feedback, washable (dry thoroughly before next use ;-) The height adjusting slider actually works, if the plastic mechanics get some appropriate lubricant (like a small amount of washing-up liquid, preferably spread onto the...

It is possible to use the ZIP drive even without a proprietary driver installed (or else the Mac could not mount the drive from the SCSI driver stored in ROM). What should work anyway, is to use Harddisk Toolkit (HDT) to initialise the ZIP disk. Afterwards install a system onto the disk or just...

What you want to accomplish should work at least from System 7.1 on. Such script could be used to spoof a modified current date for helpful purposes. In case a software only checks once for the current date, you even might include another script to restore the actual date after starting some...

Does the clock run normally when the computer powered on? If yes, the clock chip should be fine. Does the PRAM keep settings properly? If not, there might be something wrong with the battery connection. If the PRAM setting are kept, the battery connection should be okay. Still there might...

Formatting capabilities depend to the software. Apple's Drive Setup might need some tuning to properly use unknown drives, but more recent formatters should do well. A persistant problem with IDE equipped ancient Macs might be the lack of support for removable boot media connected to the...

Using Harddisk Toolkit you also might choose the partition to boot from at the beginning of the boot process (cold start / restart). This works not as convenient as with Option-boot on recent machines, but you easily may specify the desired boot partition holding a key combination until the...

No foam, please. Better leave some air circulating around the active parts of the board. Use some adhesive mounting tape to cleat the adaptor board into the drive cage and bolt the drive cage into the drive bay as usual. If necessary, apply some tape to the drive cage to securely avoid any shorts.

Some adaptor cables have one hole blocked, matching an obsolete, missing pin. The missing pin is to match such slotted adapter cables in a defined way only. So you can not mismatch the connector and probably damage the deviece or the host adaptor.

That is what I meant: a driver should allow the system to handle something, like a HFS+ volume. A few years ago some "driverguru" posted interesting notes on this board. A lot things should be possible for one how knows about putting bits in the appropriate order -

Just because it is available and cheap. Even most recent MacBooks sport a SDHC compatible slot. But I agree with you, that CF is the more convenient storage medium to interface an IDE host adaptor. UDMA compatible CF cards seem not to become cheap, however.

Thank you a lot for your kind advice!

One of the most interesting uses of booting pre-040 Macs into 8.1 would be access to HFS+ volumes. Are there other options, like loading a HFS+ driver using System 7.1?

Is there a speaker (reader) of Japanese language? The website trinityworks might provide several driver software solutions to fully use an Apple mighty mouse on several different host operation systems like Windows XP. Unfortunately I do not understand the Japanese text. Could a comrade with...

You might consider to read (like you probably did) and improve the notes regarding the use of flash memory in the 68kMLA Wiki. There are already some notes about the PB1400 as a test system in several configurations. Information about the proper use of mini IDE to SDHC adaptors would be most...

I appreciate the project as well, techknight, thank you a lot in putting that much effort into the solution. The artmix thing seems not to be available anymore and other much more expensive solutions are out of stock and not likely to go into production again. So what you are doing is exactly...

I also have a VGA TiBook which took a few days off. During the last weeks the machine made some ugly noise through the speakers on startup and did not boot. Reseating the RAM seemed to fix it for a while, but in the end it did not work any more. The RAM itself is known good, as I double...

Pardon, I probably missed something in this thread. Could you please drop a line about the goal of the project or a link to the previous thread? Is it about designing a SCSI SSD from scratch or just about interfacing an existing storage device? Did someone recently ask for availability of CF...

Just for clarification: usual external modems do not prefer a specific type of computer or operation system. As long as a modem is properly connected (using the appropriate cables plugged into the appropriate connectors), all you need is some software using a command set compatible to the...