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Eric, in the 2+ years since your opening post, I take it no one has come forward with a copy-protected 1.44MB floppy? May be hard because I think floppy copy protection was all the rage in the 400K and 800K era, but by the time of 1.44MB drives, software buyers were sick and tired of copy...

Why Word 6 more than Word 5? The Word 6 fiasco

I’ve been using the Portable Battery Eliminator with my Portable, which doesn’t care if the AC Adapter outputs 1.5A or even 10A because the adapter in my case plugs into the Battery Eliminator, for the express purpose of charging it’s super capacitors, which in turn allow the computer to boot...

Yikes! The Apple I certainly can't do much. Well... except sell for outrageous prices if it's an original. :) That's too bad.

Came without keyboard, display, etc. back in the day and users were expected to figure out what to do with it!

No green thread for the top of the logo on the black edition?

Wow! That's pretty neat. I think most of us are always wowed at the Apple I for having started it all, but I cannot help but feel that what really would be ground-breaking is if someone every came up with truly software for the Apple I, driving more vintage computer hobbyists to embark on such...

Yep. And if you click Compact Mac, you can see some interesting names... Scott Baret, still active today over there and on FaceBook too. Tomlee59, who is EE professor Thomas Lee at Stanford, University who created the rather famous Classic Mac Tech Info PDF. He also taught me the fast CRT...

@mmu_man I just found out that power book 150 feet are fully compatible across a broad range of machines and don’t use any rubber part at all. They are a solid piece of plastic. While having rubber bottoms is the ideal, it’s not really that practical. Rubber caps would come off and deteriorate...

@eric Here are photos of the BlueSCSIv2 PowerBook Edition sold by @jcm being installed in my PowerBook 165c for a first test... The spinning platter HDD has extra pins not offered by the BlueSCSI. What are those extra pins used for, do you know?

Does that mean @jcm-1 will provide info about the filament or sell the finished feet? If the bottom plastic part could be designed in such a way that a TPU or silicone "cap" could easily be slipped on and stay in place, that would allow swapping out only the caps in the future.

@mmu_man Do you (or anyone else) ever do an actual print based on your 3D designs? Would love to see photos if you have. The rubber bottom part of each rear foot cracks apart due to age, making a modern replacement solution important. Of course, the main issue would be to find a filament...

Is it possible to vibe-code an optimized JS JIT?

I don’t have any experience with the International Analog Boards, and I believe the Dead Mac Scrolls focuses on the US boards because I did a keyword search just now for “international” and there were no results. The Larry Pina book “Repair Secrets” does mention international boards, but you...

@larsovef Dead Mac Scrolls is an excellent resource that's available for free on the Internet Archive. Here are two example pages for you, based on what you said today... Cause of Flup, Flup: https://archive.org/details/mac_The_Dead_Mac_Scrolls_1992/page/24/mode/1up?q=flup Cause of Ticking...