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Alas, I cannot immediately test the fix out, as all of my LocalTalk-capable Macs are inoperable at the moment (which is why I had to do it at a Seattle Retro-Computing Society meeting the first time), but I am very impressed at how promptly you addressed the issues I encountered. To steal a...

I did type it in manually. I’m so used to the shell automatically expanding tilde notation that it didn’t even occur to me I might want to type it out the long way. So, oops. At least now you are reminded that’s a thing that can occur? My thanks for the very prompt updates!

I can indeed send you the log and the pcap! Because of obsessive completism, I had left the pcap running during the entire session; which involved trying to connect repeatedly from numerous old machines, all of which got the same error out of it – and if it was a permissions thing, that makes...

Well, I finally had a chance to try it out... and I think there may be an issue or two with the (Mac release of the?) software. Trying to connect to my Intel MacBook running Sequoia, from a Quadra 700 (admittedly, a heavily upgraded one) running OS 8.1, yielded only an error message claiming...

Home wiring is AC - you have a hot lead and a neutral return lead, and the ground is mostly just there for safety. Computer equipment uses DC, with a positive lead and a negative lead; by convention the negative lead is set at ground voltage, so you can both use the ground wire as the return...

My memory is showing its holes here. System Picker became less relevant once the Startup Disk control panel became a thing, becoming mainly useful for selecting amongst different System Folders on the same volume, but when did Startup Disk happen? Was that new with System 7?

My TashTalk USB board arrived the other day (very prompt!), and one of our fine colleagues in the Seattle Retro-Computing Society kindly printed me a case for it according to the supplied design files. Yesterday I acquired a suitable USB A-C pigtail cord – via Amazon (*spit*), sadly – and I...

I'm not likely to ever be in a position to find out first hand, but is it theoretically possible to directly swap the 7455 in one of those with one of the cooler-running chips mentioned above? Even at the same clock speed it'd net you a huge improvement in usability, just from the improved...

*boggle* I’ve used the web regularly from 1995 onwards and I somehow never ran across that one. …I think I’m glad, honestly.

That's how the GeeThree Stealth Serial Ports work - they take the serial-port pins that are concealed in the connector for the internal modem and bring them out to a traditional miniDIN-8 port.

It turns out earlier Power Mac G5 towers had modem ports that could be adapted to a miniDIN8 as well; it's only the PCIe models that went to I2S etc. This came up here last year in a thread I started... Ah! Here it is: GeeThree G4 Stealth Serial Port PCI slot bracket

Thanks for finding that, guys! I was a bit embarassed that I couldn't supply any hard information, just a vague memory. Good work turning it into something concrete!

As far as I recall there were at least two third-party utilities that let you do that. There's a few threads on the topic already. I can't recall any of the names though.

Scaled fonts can be a little sluggish on the older machines. That’s part of why fixed-size fonts stuck around as long as they did. I vaguely recall there was at least one (shareware?) utility back in the day that would generate a fixed-size strike based on a scalable font. Made things a lot...

I mean, yes, there is documentation, but not the kind you would have had access to as a developer with access to the project internals.

Realistically, “from scratch” back then would have been a lot easier – here, you are having to do detective work on defective material from decades ago, with no access to the developers or to most of the documentation. That’s in no way “easy”.

For the Altivec acceleration, I remember TenFourFox once made a point of advertising that it had used it in a _lot_ of places, including some you just described as not amenable to vectorization, which makes me wonder how that was done. I don't know how relevant or useful this observation may...

What company made THAT? Never seen such a thing before.

Nicely done! Those tube clamps come in many slightly different sizes, so congratulations on finding an appropriate specimen. (It seems like I am always short on whatever size I happen to need at work!)

Meh, I'll rather spend my pennies on the guy who's actually doing the work before I patronize a “zero-value-added” seller. Seems only fair. Open-source hardware is meant for people to improve on the original, not just to act like concert-ticket scalpers and undercut actual development.