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The 500 series uses three shades of gray plastic!? Just noticed that the hinge covers on the 500 series seem to be a darker gray then the LCD top cover (which itself is darker than than the keyboard /internal plastics). The hinge cover plastic looks like a match with the 500 filament: ...or...

I want to fill the "holes" in the sides my PB 500s without old batteries so decided to see how this PowerBook 500 Battery Cover would print using these new filaments. Here's an original battery cover from a PB520c next to a print of the above model with the light part being the 100 filament and...

Got some Polar Power Gray 100 PLA filament (All hail @jcm-1 !), printed a PB 1xx battery door, here's how it looks next to an original door on top of a PowerBook 165c, PowerBook Duo 230, and PowerBook 540c keyboard: While pretty good, my PowerBooks and original PB 1xx battery door are...

So weird...

Did they announce any new moderators at all then though?

Courtesy of @trag information on the logic board L2 Cache Sockets: Burndy ELF160 sockets. Burndy Version A is 25, 25, 30 - Maps to Resource article "A - 6100/7100/8100" and - Maps to Resource article "B - 6200/6300" Burndy Version B is 25, 35, 20 - Maps to Resource article "D -...

The 200 series Duos (plus the Duo 2300c) are the same color as the 100 series (except the 190 series).

@jcm-1 On the Polar website looking to buy another Retro Platinum spool and noticed a new one to me: Power Gray "Special thanks to Joe's Computer Museum for designing and funding this color, and choosing to release it to the public." Is this really new or did I miss this being out there...

Speaking of software leading to performance improvement. I saw this recently and would like to explore/benchmark at some point: https://techhub.social/@jimluther/114232494198924466 Comments from the Apple developer that made the last updates to the classic Mac OS AppleShare client extension...

Newer Tech included a network/speed testing utility with their drivers that might be of interest. "Performance" v1.3 is included with the Newer Tech EtherTech 1.5 installer (https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/ethertech-15-driver). It's vaguely iperf like. I did some 10Mbps vs. 100Mbps Ethenet...

Eric, does this mean you can update a Mac's BlueSCSI-v2 FW without removing it (or having access to its SD card): Once on this new version: Copy BlueSCSI_v*.zip firmware file to the Mac via legacy means (floppy, network, etc). Use the BlueSCSI Toolbox Transfer App (Beta version?) to copy the...

Very cool! There are some TA/KB/TIL articles that mention the LaserWriter SC archived here: https://savagetaylor.com/til/articles.html System 7: Using Personal LaserWriter SC and LaserWriter IISC - TIL07861 Power Macintosh 6100 & Personal LaserWriter SC (1994-05-01) - TIL15397 Mac OS 8.x: No...

The bit depth version being selected by monitor color depth makes sense but which one of the 7 sets of icons will be used by default? hagar, daemon, tcp, sdcard, globe, declogo, or sunlogo? I assume you can somehow configure this for a netaatalk installation? On pasting an icon in Get Info is...

As always amazing work! Super interested in the "friendly new color volume icons", looks like there are several options (each with 1-bit, 8-bit, 16-bit versions)? How will you select which is used? ...and would it be possible to substitute your own icons for one of the sets?