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Agreed. Most Amazon products are adequate, but usually have little quality problems that definitely add up. I'm weary of buying things like vitamins and pain killers (Beyer aspirin, Tylenol, Advil, etc) because who knows if it's real or some sort of inferior counterfeit. Same goes for edibles...

i wonder if the key could be filed down slightly for a better fit in the keyway? Some sort of key/lock (graphite?) lubricant might help too. c

Or cleverly written to mimic one.... c

I wonder if they did that intentionally, because that song symbolically and literally represents the end of The Beatles' existence as a band. c

I'm pretty sure it's a System 7 thing. If you attempt to eject any startup disk by dragging its icon to the Trash, System 7 will refuse and display this dialog: Curiously, it will eject the disk if you choose Eject from the Special menu – at least it does in Mini vMac. Of course, if the...

Do you have access to the patched Apple HD SC Setup? I discovered years ago that if you format a Zip disk using that, it will work without Iomega drivers at all. I used several disks formatted this way, and they worked fantastically on any Mac that supports the standard Apple drivers (pretty...

Any chance you'll ever make it to VCFW? c

Indeed! But, @croissantking discovered how to get the beige G3's unimplemented USB circuits working, so this couldn't be that hard? Perhaps there's some clues in the ROM's floppy driver (is it still referred to as .Sony, as in older 68k ROMs?) Clearly it works mechanically, and electrically...

People will try a PC drive on the Beige G3 because they can, not because it's better! :D c

Agreed. Another symptom of a faulty DC board connection is a lack of sound (both the internal speaker header and headphone out/line/mic in jacks are on that board). c

I remember! It's amazing that it was almost 12 years ago! My how time flies! I still have a bunch of SE/30 and Fat Mac parts floating around from back then. I managed to sell maybe one or two as I recall, and I've been sitting on the rest. And then I had to I move it, at least twice, and...

@Xero I won't go into too many details (because politics), but I agree with you. The thing that's most disappointing to me is the higher bar to get in. Every upper level job that I know of requires, in addition to a college degree, some kind of experience, which is usually gained at an entry...

I've already established how I feel about this, but I will repeat in somewhat different (and hopefully not contradictory) terms: I wouldn't use AI for anything myself, but so long as @Xero is honest and transparent about how he uses Claude (or whatever his chatbot of choice is), what he's using...

ApriTosh! MacinGust! MacinTune! JuliTosh! c

I have a Brother MFC-L3770CDW, and it prints to all my modern stuff fine (via ethernet). for fun, I tried to see about making it work on Windows 98 once (yes, Windows 98), and I couldn't. I'd imagine the problem would be similar for Classic Mac OS. Anyone here know? That aside, I'm sure it...

Tie-grr! c

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: This is interesting. Even though it's pretty much a solved problem nowadays, this sort of device could potentially be useful for backing up or recovering old SCSI drives from the comfort of a modern-ish computer (Firewire is essentially dead, and indeed recent...

Well, technically this is possible if one uses Virtual PC, I suppose. c

How wonderfully obtuse! On my 2013 rMBP running Sequoia via OCLP, my autocorrect doesn't actually work at all in places like Mail and Messages, so I'm probably better off. And to that end, I actually turn it off altogether on my other machines, so I can spell things however I like and it won't...

I'm only going to say this once: I find the unrelenting vitriol toward @Xero over his use of AI quite disheartening, especially given his honesty and transparency. And although I don't feel comfortable with AI, I do feel that in the proper context and with adequate guardrails, it can be a...