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Here’s an idea. I could take a PCI slot cover, put a plug hole in it, and then screw a stiff bit of sheet metal the full width of the slot cover to its back. First, cut the loose end of the stiff bit of sheet metal to have an inwardly rounded edge; then, force it away from the body of the slot...

So, I have the thing in front of me now. Unfortunately, both GeeThree’s miniDIN-to-modem-bracket and their modem-bracket-to-case mounting techniques involve sliding one side into a pocket and then attaching the other side with a screw: So, the only advantage of mounting the mounting plate to...

I hadn't thought of your first suggestion! If it can be made to fit, that would definitely be the easiest way to do it, because it only needs the connector hole and screw holes. (I don’t know if it could work yet, because I’m not where it is right now.) Your second suggestion is more or less...

I must apologize - I was less clear than I believed myself to be. The Stealth has a long cable with a mini-DIN-8 on the end; this is in turn bolted to a bracket, the shape of which varies according to the intended mounting style. I already have everything except the correct PCI-slot-bracket...

They still make custom brackets, although not for NuBus slots any more. :¬) Assuming it works pretty much like the other kind of bracket, it’d be $24 (plus some finishing work on my part) to have one made, looks like, unless GeeThree’s PCI-mount bracket was more complex than I think.

While I'm on the subject of Stealth Serial Ports, has anyone ever seen, up close, the G5 version they sold until circa 2011? I’m really curious about how that one works, considering that the modem slot in a G5 is supposedly not connected to a real serial port any more, being rather some sort of...

I have a GeeThree brand G4+ Stealth Serial Port adapter I would like to install in my MDD G4. However, I originally bought it for the G4 tower I had before that one, so it has the flavour of mounting plate that’s designed to sit behind the cutout for a modem jack, not the flavour of mounting...

These are pretty good! I have made nothing like this myself, but I will observe that to fit in with the Sys6/7 era stylistically, they should probably be mostly black and white, with only small amounts of highlight colour. I’m still not sure (after 30 years!) whether I completely agree with...

Come to think about this a bit longer, I believe I was misremembering "gribblies", which I'm pretty sure is not a real word but rather had been made up on the spot for purposes of illustration.

Well, I stand corrected, and a little awed. Very well documented reply!

I've heard the term used to refer to random internal organs, usually after they've been messily removed. It seems like the same sort of naming sense that gave us the `lipo` program for processing fat binaries.

Hah! Yes, I used to do exactly that with FKEYs, which I was irritated to learn had not been promoted to their own filesystem objects the way fonts and sounds were. Come to think of it, I'm not sure I ever did learn what a 'gbly' was. Where should I go to get the official word on that?

I'm not familiar with the internal mechanics of this process, but if it just needs plain old concatenation, `cat` on the command line is for exactly that.

I know 8.1 can _access_ HFS+ media, but I can't recall whether it will _boot_ off of one. The two are not the same. I also seem to recall that bootability varied between the 68k and PPC versions, but I hope I'm wrong about that part.

Yep, it was the PMU. What a relief! Had to zap the PRAM before it would boot afterwards, but all in all, a pretty smooth experience.

I have now tried Mini-DisplayPort-to-HDMI adapters from two different manufacturers, to a complete lack of success. Conversation with tech support from the first company implies their product, which apparently uses off-the-shelf conversion chips, likely puts out a different refresh frequency...

Well, I am just batting 1000 today. After a few minutes’ searching around, I discovered “TestDisk” (https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download). All set to finally get some answers, I plopped the new PRAM battery that arrived a few minutes ago into the machine, hit the power button, and…...

It was the flux all along! Who would have thought? Impressive work! If I ever undertake something similar, I will definitely take your experiences to heart and use sockets on everything.

Well, I screwed up pretty severely. It turns out there were in fact only four physical drives in the machine; the illusory fifth was a RAID group that only had one member – namely, one of the drives that seemingly wouldn’t mount. In the mistaken belief that there were five physical drives, and...

Further oddness… According to Disk Utility, the machine contains five hard drives, of which only three will mount – even though it avers there are no problems whatsoever with either of the other two. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to address that problem? It looks like some of the...