Recent content by geerlingguy

Works great, though due to the length of the shaft, I had to get at the width adjustment from inside the case. That's a bit of a hairy operation since I don't like waving my hand around in that area haha I've printed a couple dozen of these and will hand them out like candy at VCF Midwest :D

Thanks! I just looked on Printables, and someone made the perfect little print for this: TV set / CRT alignment tool (tweaker) Even better, someone in the Makes has a picture of it being used on the SE (and someone else said they used it on the Classic), so seems like the perfect tool for the...

Oh I've never had one of those! I'll have to find a plastic bit set or maybe even 3D print one... I did notice it looked like a hexagonal shaft inside. Maybe I should look up the SE/30 repair manual before I post here next time, heh.

I'll have a table this year too. It was too much fun my first time last year, I hope this will be an annual tradition :)

I picked up an SE/30 last year at VCF Midwest, and I procrastinated until this week to even test it out. Mostly works, has a new ROM SIMM, has 20MB of RAM, yadda yadda. So far I've: Added a BlueSCSI v2 Set up System 7.5.5 with MacTCP and an Asante network card for networking (Netscape 2.0 works...

Just printed my first object with this filament — it seems to be a tad bit more oozy than others (at same humidity level), and it also popped off my textured build sheet on my first attempt (yay spaghetti!). But it's all good now, and looks like a pretty close match to the Mac IIcx case I have...

For any FireWire aficionados, I got to test a prototype Raspberry Pi HAT that adds on a single FireWire 400 port, and I wrote up a blog post about it: Bring back MiniDV with this Raspberry Pi FireWire HAT In the course of testing (and working on the video that goes with that post), I got to...

My MARCHintosh has been busy, some year I'll join in GlobalTalk, but for now I'm using it as an excuse to work through the backlog of old Macs I have sitting on shelves un-inventoried... So far: I finally put together my Pico Micro Mac — the V2 version that required some extra soldering work...

Heh, if you're me, you just kinda pick at it with snips, a flat head screwdriver, and by torquing the caps around a bit, hoping to not mess up any of the other little components around them! I decided to go that route as things are so densely packed up top.

I *was* able to boot off the USB drive, but not with the 9.2.2 Universal installer copied to it. So I pulled out a 650 MB CD-R, used `hdiutil burn` to burn the iso to a CD, and popped it in. It was a tiny bit crunch at the start, but the mechanism was pretty happy after that. I got through...

And another video, restoring my Aunt's old Mac Classic!

Thanks! I will try it out, maybe format a USB stick on the iBook, drag over the System Folder, and see if that just works. That'd be simplest. I do have an old DVD-ROM that I pulled out of a MacBook Pro years ago, I'll see if I can get that going if the USB key doesn't work. Was going to do...

I have a first gen iBook G3 clamshell; I might be able to get the CD-ROM working but I'm not sure yet. With that, I could probably find a way to burn a Mac OS install CD (maybe 8.6?) but failing that, is there a way to boot this thing off USB, or otherwise reinstall Mac OS after wiping the...

Thanks so much for posting this photo; I was worried when I couldn't find this revision board anywhere else, that I'd have to sit there and notate my own photo... then just searching here I found this! Working on recapping my Aunt's old Classic and this has saved me an hour or so :)

The Wildest Thing™ about all this is how well you've documented it, so we can relive the experience and learn something new. I'd seen a ton of weird Apple CD-ROM drives, but never knew they made a tape drive! Of course, my first exposure to tape besides cassettes was DAT, which we used at a...