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    Recapping PowerBook 100 Series 7.5v 2A AC Adapter

    It's interesting that a few folks (myself, Gough and this person) have measured 7.6v - 7.8v or so after a full recap. I've made the decision to leave well enough alone and not adjust the pot, under the assumption that there's a bit of loss through connectors and cabling and it's unlikely to...
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    BlueSCSI v2 - DaynaPORT WiFi!

    Ah, that's great to hear -- 1.2.2 and 1.2.5 are the versions of the specific SCSI/Link driver from 7.5.3 and 7.7.2 Asanté installers, respectively: I suppose it's possible that there's something odd on my LC motherboard that's causing the boot crashing when the SCSI/Link is chosen -- again...
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    BlueSCSI v2 - DaynaPORT WiFi!

    I'm curious as the current state of System 6 and the Dayna WiFi feature? I'm able to get it to work just fine with either 1.2.2 (1993) or 1.2.5 (1996) versions of the Asanté driver -- but only before a reboot. The next restart involves a bus error right after "Welcome to Macintosh". Easy enough...
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    Making bootable disks for the Canon Cat

    This looks neat! I will try on my Cat — as soon as I repair the broken plastic guide on the floppy disk track, which I think your recent blog post detailed how to fix with a piece of metal available at a hardware store…
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    PLI Turbo Floppy 1.44 for the Macintosh - SCSI Floppy

    OK so it turns out the Black NeXT SuperFloppy does work on the Mac 👀
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    PLI Turbo Floppy 1.44 for the Macintosh - SCSI Floppy

    A few more notes: 1) There are two different products from PLI called "SuperFloppy": - A platinum SCSI device, with presumably a standard 1.44 drive capable of reading both MFM (1.44M) and GCR (400k and 800k) disks. - A black SCSI device, with a Sony 2.88 drive using a combined data and...
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    PLI Turbo Floppy 1.44 for the Macintosh - SCSI Floppy

    This is interesting because it’s very similar to the 2.88mb “PLI SuperFloppy” which they made for the NeXT. Also SCSI, in the same kind of case, but in black and with a design that matched NeXT peripherals. The use case was for NeXT Cubes, after the introduction of the NeXTStations which had...
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    Disk Jockey v3 for macOS is out!

    These are all good points, and I think to a certain extent the use case for Type/Creator -> extension might be limited to cases where modern apps have a chance of reading the file...? 8BIM/JPEG -> .jpg seems like an obvious winner... probably even PICT files -> .pict, since software such as...
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    Comm Slot II 10/100 Ethernet Cards

    I have an AsantéFast 10/100 card in my 660 and would be happy to contribute to any benchmarks... I'm sure the NuBus interface itself is the limiting factor there....
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    Disk Jockey v3 for macOS is out!

    Thanks for all your great work on this! Is there a way for folks to contribute more TYPE/CREATOR codes (in the right-hand column), for either better description and/or suffixing of appropriate extensions in some cases? Apologies if I've missed where the code is hosted...
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    Recommend me some older Mac-centric books

    I have about seventy books that I categorize as “Classic Macintosh’, a list is online here: https://www.librarything.com/catalog/pleonard/classicmacintosh There’s a bias towards graphic design, typography and DTP, partly because those are what really gave the Mac a market foothold despite it’s...