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After a year and a half of hard work, it's out. Head on over and take a look. http://applefool.com/se30/

I'm getting random reboots on my SE/30. The power supply has been fully recapped, the motherboard was recapped some time ago, the ROM SIMM has had the contacts reflowed yesterday so now it actually boots. Power supply voltages are fine. No visibly damaged traces or anything abnormal. Any...

I've seen a few posting of some smart folks who dive into DeclROMs and other stuff involving the startup boot sequence. This gets me interested because in Gamba's instructions for installing 8.1 on 68030 machines, and I'm not sure if I found an error not. Perhaps we can shed some light on it...

I'm doing a test of Mojave and Catalina at the moment and having difficulty with my IIci using 8.1. If you have a box that can use 8.1 natively and have access to Mojave (10.14) and/or Catalina (10.15) please reply here or send me a PM. I might be able to get it to work, but I'm not sure...

Something I've had on my mind for awhile that will go in the next update of the Guide. Have a look and tell me what you think. I do have two questions: Is there really a +/- fixed polarity on RS422 differential pairs? Couldn't it vary from one pin to the next, like at T+56 Pin 2 is 3.13 volts...

I tried looking around for dimensions of the early Apple Keyboards and couldn't find any information. Specifically I'm interested in the dimensions of the M0115 Apple Extended Keyboard, but I suppose the others won't hurt while we're here. I know the Extended Keyboard is the size of a standard...

Hey folks. Considering swapping my two iMac G4s for a Mac mini G4 to run OS 9 and Tiger. I heard that the macos9lives forum got some nerds together and figured out how to run OS9 on Mac mini G4s. They have put together an installer set up that works right out of the box, it seems pretty neat...

Greetings. I remembered today that I cooked up this image a LONG time ago, thought I posted it here, but my history doesn't show me posting it. I'll upload it here as an attachment.

Let's start right off. The Rocket is already installed, software already good to go. Off to the races first with System 6. Let's hope the images don't go down because I won't have backup copies. Radius Rocket under System 6 with RocketWare control panel. Showing Rocket information. It's...

There are a few options for docks for PowerBook Duos. The first, is the regular Duo Dock or Duo Dock II. The second, which is probably the most common, is the official Apple MiniDock. It's a decent dock, has enough ports to make it comparable to a LC series machine or a regular PowerBook. But...

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the Five Orange Pips short These words came into my mind while I contemplated the strange Macintosh IIfx PDS bus. I have yet to hear of an accelerator for this unit which is compatible with it and uses the PDS slot. In fact, the only thing I have found is this...

After three months of work (averaging about four hours per day), I'm pleased to present Classic Mac Networking, version 3.0. It's been many hours of testing, writing, rewriting, rewriting again (like the Emergency Network Access Disks section has been rewritten at least twice), getting...

I don't have a machine that is capable of doing the feats listed below at the present time, so I thought I'd ask for some help. (This is for the Guide.) 1.) Can a Mac with an internal floppy drive, like a Molar Mac, when booted into OS X such as Jaguar, recognize 800K disks? I heard that OS X...

I'm looking to build a serial adaptor of sorts: A small box that has a Mini-DIN8 cable for connecting to a Mac with a Mini-DIN-8 port. It also has a cable for a DE-9 port as used on the 512K and 512Ke. The other side of the box, the output side, has a PhoneNET RJ-11 connector, and a RS232 DE-9...

mcdermd passed this tip on to me, it help me lift 0 pads on this 2300c inverter board rather than my other inverter board which suffered all four pads lifted (they aren't held down very well). Use a pair of dykes (diagonal pliers for the PC folk, I was taught they were called dykes) to cut the...

Dumped the IDE hard drive results this morning. CF was done a couple of weeks ago. Graphical: Text version: CF worth it? Oh heck yeah. No sounds whatsoever. Feels weird now to have a spinning disk in there. Also, if something goes wrong, it's a dual slot adaptor, not like I can't put...

I've been thinking about a 7.5.3NAD for awhile now, and it may be possible. I do have a couple of problems: The Disk Tools disks are the only ones that look like they will work. They don't support networking, in fact Disk Tools 2 pushes a Type 41 error from Finder on my Duo. This would be a...

Hey lads, What do we know about this thingy? I picked this up from the conquest of a couple of weeks ago. In box, with the Farallon RJ45 and RJ11 wires, with the transformer. Practically unused. It is meant to be a bridge between an Ethernet iMac (or similar) to a LocalTalk printer. But the...

I heard about magneto-optical disks on a internet-curiosity spree. Apparently, they were around just before the dawn of CDs, and are still around in Japan. Any other details? Experiences? Long-term durability? Seems like every long-term storage has major issues: DVD/CD, disk rot, jitter and...

G'day y'all, This PowerBook Duo 2300cTB has a memory issue (and a dead PRAM battery) leading to the following: Normally, it has a 24MB RAM card installed (or is it? Ask jt/Trash) and should total 32MB. This delightful image was snapped under 8.1. Somehow I managed to wrangle out of that...