Recent content by geerlingguy

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...

Just finished working on my #MARCHintosh project, restoring a PowerBook 3400c and Power Mac G4 MDD. Here's the video!