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The Developer CD series is on MG, but that starts in 1991 with Phil & Dave's Excellent CD. It pretty much coincides with the publication of Inside Macintosh Vol VI. Although... has anyone checked to see if there's a copy of the Guide to System Software on that CD? I don't have mine handy, but...

Then sit it beside a Mac Mini running System 7.0! :D

Well, you've already addressed all the common issues, including possible gaussing effects, so having eliminated those... yeah, I'd check all the ribbon cables next.

This brings to mind old BBS ratios :D You could have a federated "coin" that provides you a certain amount of access to federated sites. Of course, these days that'd be artificial scarcity, as there's generally a glut of bandwidth to share between vintage computer users. Ooh... this actually...

There's CD authoring software for SunOS 4.1.2 isn't there? I vaguely remember it back in the day, with a 1X CD-RW drive. That said, SunOS comes with an easy way to get stuff on/off: NFS. Set up an NFS share on the guest system, and if you've got networking configured, you should be able to...

Ever used FirstClass or TeleFinder... or Hotline? All three work over a 1200 baud modem on a 68k Mac. TeleFinder's been around forever. FirstClass, almost as long. Both made the jump from dialup to Internet, and can be multi-homed and do batch updates via federation (meaning, you can have...

This means you know it isn't the logic board :) I had a Mac Plus with the cold solder joint issue; a whack on the side just behind the faceplate would often fix the issue for a while. On my Color Classic, whacking the front below the CRT was almost always related to the edge connector -- or...

The 1996 item is outside this project's window... but it sounds like it might assist with https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gZtX6244hvi54NYYr9jEbFyFjABj4hyUFESw5IWKi-0/ and https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EeaeZAwnV9VI2Aw5Ly272h7bjhK8o8_HrKL6aaG9REU/ ?

Essentially, a prerequisite to accomplishing this task is discovering that a) you can use a 68k chip for quantum computing somehow and b) there's an appropriate algorithm available... which just incidentally would crack pretty much all classic cryptographic algorithms so fast on more modern...

Reminds me of when cryptobros invaded r/crypto (a cryptography subreddit). Both cryptography and blockchains have their uses. Cryptocurrencies... I'll also leave that discussion for elsewhere. I have to say... I AM morbidly curious about whether you can use AI to create a piece of software...

Paging @MarisaG -- the proposals here are pretty similar to what already exists, except MarisaG has used existing platforms to build things out. Might be worth a discussion between the three of you though.

Instead of 3D printing... if you've got one to use as the model, or even a broken one that has all the pieces, you can get some plaster, make a cast, and then cast a new one out of the appropriate material.

It can also same some time in disassembly analysis by identifying code blocks that are already well understood; however, I've found that there's a small enough body of work for pre-system 7 68k asm available that the current crop of LLMs have no clue what to do and keep on defaulting to OS X...

Thanks! That's awesome! And since none of the disks appear to have had copy protection, flux/moof isn't really needed. I must have been using the Applesauce app in combination with something else to convert my flux images.

And yes, 7.1 needs an enabler for the 165c. System Enabler 131 to be precise.

Ah; the days of 30-pin SIMM voodoo. What I eventually ended up doing was making sure those SIMMs were always labelled as working pairs, and never broke them up. One of my expansion boards had space for 16 SIMMs, and that was a real headache to get right. I ended up pulling pairs of 512KB...

Yup. Or use a suitcase manager like Suitcase.

I felt like there was something missing here... RetroChallenge forum, using an LLM to write a coin miner for 68k Macs.... I figured it out. This needs to leverage The Cloud, and have a 3D interface (maybe using 3D glasses? 3D might be tricky on a monochrome screen though. Maybe by splitting...

Modifying code written by an LLM is also a challenge. I've found one really good use for them: distilling large volumes of text into something actionable. Sometimes I get LLMs to script up something for me as well, but I make sure they do it in a manner where I can visually check all the...

@olePigeon , isn't there a flux to MOOF converter out there? MOOF is essentially a single "best guess" flux pass plus metadata, after all.