Recent content by ClassicHasClass

No, it's probably fine. Try hooking up a serial connection: for some reason at least some of the SE/30 ROMs do not support the *V command. The TechStep interprets that as a lost connection.

Odd indeed! I wonder if someone had a side business modifying them. The video isn't too insightful about it though - I suspect he may have thought they were factory-original.

Very interesting (I assume you meant Forth, though). I've never seen nor heard of this. They are clearly aftermarket. My best guess is the software had to run locally, since I don't think USE FRONT combinations get transmitted.

Yes, and I said above I have a CS2 Ethernet card in my own 6500 (and TAM, but that's just because it's based on the same architecture). They were still Apple's budget Power Macs regardless. If you wanted on-board Ethernet, Apple wanted you to buy an Outrigger or an 8xxx/9xxx.

Remember that the 6400 and 6500 were Apple's budget Power Macs for home users and Ethernet still wasn't common for home use then. They were the last Performas as well, after all.

I don't have an answer to your question, just drooling over the 300MHz. My own 6500 is 275MHz, though it has a 1MB cache and a CS2 Ethernet card.

Is that *actual* Open Firmware, or a stub designed to present a faked-up OF device tree? If the latter, this originally existed as part of Cyberpunk, which was written for Shiner (and has OF) but prototyped on the 6100/7100/8100 (which don't)...

Not too hard, Commodore 1581 floppies are garden-variety MFM, so you only need to deal with the filesystem which is pretty easy to parse. But this poor guy has a 1541, so the only way would be a terminal program. I can't really tell what they're running.

Don't forget Magic Cap.

It won't harm anything. You could try a command like "probe-usb multi-boot" with a USB device connected and see what it does. Note that this may interrupt your mouse or keyboard and you may need to hold in the power button to force it back down, so this is just to test how far you get. If it...

I'd go for an FW enclosure, since the idea is maximum flexibility. You could try connecting a USB optical drive if you have one. Something like "dir usb0/disk:3,\" or "dir usb1/disk:3,\" might yield something (play with those numbers). I wouldn't run out and purchase a USB optical drive unless...

It does seem a little odd that both drives *and* the internal HD (all of which would be on IDE) don't work. Try "dir hd:,\" just for yuks to see what the hard disk is doing. If that fails in *exactly* the same way, then a controller failure can't be ruled out, though if it fails differently, it...

Okay, here are binaries and a write up. Have fun, let me know how it goes. I also tried it on one of the IBM RS/6000 laptops, too. The biggest trick was finding a name. I settled on Harpoom, because ANS Doom sounded too much like A-n-u-s Doom, and ...

Yeah, that sounds like the optical drive is shot. It should be okay with a DVD drive for reading.

Well, Mac users fight amongst themselves a lot less than Amiga users ...