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Sorry. I should have clarified. The board in my photo is from a 4400... which is basically the board most of the clone machines. Save a buck however you can on the clones, right? I seem to remember reading something about the MFM prototypes not being about to read 800K floppies?

There are unpopulated ICs on the board near the connector. I feel like that's somehow related.

Thank you to everyone who participated in this year's #MARCHintosh event celebrating all things Macintosh! Consider leaving your #GlobalTalk servers up for a few more days to capture any remaining greetings, and keep the spirit of community and innovation in your heart the whole year round!

Depends on what you're doing... and how bad you want to save a PDS slot. A recent firmware update for BlueSCSI (RC2 "MARCHintosh Edition") significantly improves networking speeds.

BlueSCSI networking.

Glad you got it working!

From memory, Apple's advice in "the old days" was to NOT use the higher wattage PSUs with non-color PowerBooks (especially the active matrix models) because it could cause display damage. I'm sure the exact technical reasoning is buried in a tech note somewhere.

Cool New Tools by Kalleboo for #MARCHintosh!

I gotta admit, I'm pretty excited about this one. Bob "Dr. Macintosh" LeVitus is one of my favorite tech writers. Books, newspapers, magazines, blogs... you have no doubt read his work. He helped folks keep the faith even in some of the darkest times!

I process the approvals for the event... and as long as you don't make your request at like 4am CST, it usually goes pretty quick.

Be sure to check out the #MARCHintosh 2026 kick off stream... this Saturday, February 28th 2026 at 7pm CST

If you're setting up Snow for the first time for MARCHintosh, this archive will save you a lot of headaches: https://archive.org/details/macroms It includes not only ROMs for the machines themselves, but also ROMS for things like video cards and odd accessories. Check it out!

Send me a PM, please.

I picked one up a couple of years back. Connectors and everything. If you want it, it's yours for the cost of shipping.

Mac84 ;)