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That’s going to be a subject of a different video, so no I’ve not started it yet.

@ufkel If you have the README file which mentions a v1.1, it stands to reason you must also have that v1.1 software shown in your screenshot. If so, please provide the download link. Thank you!

Wow. I've never seen that been done before. Bravo for trying something new. New mods are what make this hobby fun.

Remove the HQX encoding but keep it as a SIT file? i suppose that would work and the file wouldn't get mangled when transfered across the internet, but if you cannot even decompress a SIT file (which may be true if you cannot remove HQX encoding), then that would be a problem because the file...

Woz is smart, unlike the tech media who largely lambasts the Portable while so conveniently forgetting what Portables were like in the mid-to-late 80's and how much those portables sold for. Modern media mislabels it a "laptop" which is was not. And while it was much more competitive when...

Oh, yes. Here's my story, Scott... Back in July 2012, some folks were having problems getting registered on the MLA, so I sent a PM to a certain moderator (at the time) who I won’t name because he’s well known there, still high up in the ranks, and started there probably about when I did...

Just wanted to update this thread to say that I started using some of the apps proposed in this thread on a 128K Mac, starting out with testing on the 128K RAM edition of Mini vMac. @Mu0n , your app unfortunate seems to require more RAM so it didn't work with 128K, but the "Paint Flipper" app...

@max1zzz has extensive experience with that edition Rocket because he has cloned it... https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/reverse-engineering-the-macintosh-iicx-logicboard.905/page-2#post-33828 My Rocket, however, differs from yours because mine is the ASIC version that looks the photo in my...

Tom Levens, who ran the MLA prior to Cory. Out of all the people I've encountered in this hobby, it's hard to believe YOU would have ever gotten a Warning Point, Scott! Wow. But yeah, when forum administration isn't so great, that sort of thing can happen to even the best of people, sadly.

Listen to the official Apple mention at 8:36 here: And for the doubters, Logical Deduction that even Spock would appreciate also comes into play. 🖖 The Macintosh Portable housing is absolutely made of Polycarbonate, based on the fact those machines just don't yellow and the housing is...

What specific part number of Gorilla epoxy did you use? And, have you tested how strong the bond is to polycarbonate? I used DCM to weld the broken hinge when I did my repair (which is a different part than what you repaired). But the key difference is that my break was clean without gaps...

Thank you for those excellent questions, @luRaichu ! I don't have a Mac Plus in which to test it, sadly. And when I investigated Plus compatibility, it seems that he didn't test that either because he too doesn't have a Plus. In particular, Phil says the following: It seems the original...

Many of you are already aware of Phil Greenland's Github project where he uses ATTiny85 to replace the RTC (Real Time Clock) on SE/30 motherboards. It's neat because it saves PRAM to onboard flash memory. If you don't care about the date/time (doesn't get saved to flash), then you can forgo...

Fantastic info! Love your partial schematic too! And to think... This is your FIRST POST here on TinkerDifferent! I'd like to offer you a very big WELCOME ABOARD!

Noise suppression of ceramic caps is sometimes done by drilling holes in the board around the cap so the PCB won't act as a speaker cone, although I consider that a bit extreme. However, many manufacturers probably do that because noise surpassed ceramics are crazy in comparison to the regular...