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I like the typing feel of my M0116 keyboard that I acquired with my SE/30. My own Mac back in the day was a Classic with the far cheaper feeling Apple Keyboard II (M0487). I remember that my dad's office Macs and a friend's Mac IIfx had the nicer mechanical keyboards, so I was aware of the...

Some detailed pics, showing the disintegrated material (the light grey bloom on everything), particularly evident in the pouch in the top lid. I think this will have to be entirely remade with a new liner. And I guess I will be sticking with cotton :)

Only one of the Disk Copy versions has a Mount Image option. I think it's 6.3.3, not the 8 one. You load it then in its menu there is a Mount Image command. AFAIK, MountImage is for System 6.

Much neater, and working fine. BlueSCSI v2's Raspberry Pi Pico W WiFi antenna is oriented upwards which seems to work fine for me. I suspect that the other way up would be too close to the drive cage and floppy drive metal.

This is the new 20cm cable I ordered, for £3.84: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/394893125750 As long as the blade is kept in line and lower than 45 degrees, it follows the depression line in the cable while cutting. As you can see here, a full twist can be achieved much more easily with this sliced...

Before pic. The peak of this fold rises up very high, allowing only just enough length remaining to plug this into the motherboard.

I use the BlueSCSI v2 DaynaPort SCSI Ethernet emulation via WiFi. Then I connect to the Macintosh Garden FTP using Fetch. If you inspect an FTP URL from the download links you can determine the credentials used. Fetch is incapable of navigating the folder tree since the top level folders...

Well I've ordered a new cable from Shenzhen for a few pounds, to cut up. I will post photos.

The BlueSCSI v2 needs to be mounted upside down for best placement of the Raspberry Pi Pico W WiFi antenna - otherwise it would be up against the metal drive cage. So it needs one full twist of the SCSI ribbon, which is what made me think of slitting the cable.

10 pin cut interval. Interesting, thanks for sharing.

ChatGPT suggests, based on my description, that it's likely a polyurethane (PU) coating on that lining fabric which has hydrolized. May have served as a moisture barrier. It's not too optimistic of a simple cleanup, rather suggesting replacement of the lining. That would be pretty tricky since...

Some cleaning tips I could find here: A mention of disintegrating fabric:

I was lucky enough to get one of the official carry bags with my Macintosh SE/30 but it's got some sort of material rot problem where it's shedding black powder on anything I put inside. It has a tear at one of the seams and through this I can see that the main white foam padding layer is fine...

I'm certain I have seen official Macintosh internal SCSI cables with multiple slits in them to ease folding and cable routing, and even for improving airflow. In my own SE/30 I have to put two 45 degree folds in my SCSI cable and can only just do this. Would slitting the cable help in this...

Try different SD cards would be my suggestion. The first few I tried (old low capacity ones from a drawer, because I figured they only need to sustain 10MB/sec) sort of worked fine. They'd boot but then I'd install something and then I'd get the boot question mark floppy. These cards had worked...