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    10-14-23 total/annular eclipse

    Kind of a bust in the Bay Area due to the clouds, but got a few decent shots pretty much the same way!
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    Prototype Commodore 8250 Mini Drive Board

    What makes you conclude it's a prototype? It looks like it has a daughtercard in, but that could just be a repair.
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    Tiger OSX - OS9 not recognized as startup volume

    Did you install the OS 9 disk drivers when you partitioned it?
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    Ode to the PowerBook 100

    For me, I found the Portable more appealing than the PB100 because the PB100 is basically a miniaturized Portable - but the Portable was first, and weirder. Then again there aren't many 68K PowerBooks I like. I do have a 540c but it has an iffy display connection I keep putting off dealing with.
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    MacOS 9 and system monitors

    I hadn't considered a VBL approach and I agree that makes things simpler, but if something's hogging the CPU, it should still need to yield to let the process monitor actually display anything, I would think.
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    MacOS 9 and system monitors

    Back on my MDD Mac. The tool I was thinking of is ProcessInfo.app: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/processinfo-131 It does have CPU load and a nice graph, but remember, it won't necessarily be accurate if something pins the CPU.
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    MacOS 9 and system monitors

    There's a couple nice process explorer tools the names of which currently escape me (not with my Macs at the moment), but I don't remember if they did CPU load. Difficult to do accurately in any case because classic Mac OS is cooperatively multitasked. An application that hogs the CPU, and many...
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    FTP Question

    How much RAM do you have? ;) Jokes aside, Classilla prefers to be on a system with at least 128MB of RAM and the default allocation is sized for that. If you have less, then leave it alone (but consider virtual memory or RAM Doubler if you'll use it a lot). If you have more, then you might...
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    FTP Question

    If you increase Classilla's memory partition, you may have better luck with large structures like that.
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    Canon Object.station 41

    Woo! Not familiar with repair on this unit, but nice score.
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    Macintosh Portable M5120 Display issue

    Boy, it would be something if you could get a dongle working with that. You can take my money now.
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    Hey there from California

    Welcome also from California.
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    The spawn of AtariLab and the Universal Laboratory Interface

    This is about the AtariLab, but here it's being run on a Commodore 64 using the Hayden software (getting the thermistor recalibrated was a pain!). Also includes a look at the Universal Laboratory Interface, its successor. Warning: contains math and abuse of electronics...
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    Cloak and Dagger (1984) a must for 8 bit Atari fans

    One of my favourite movies as a kid. ISTR that it was actually on Atari's video game hardware of the time, though (similar, based on the 6502 and POKEY, but not directly compatible). I don't think there was ever a home computer port of it but it plays very well in MAME.
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    For the love of old tech + rant on all things modern

    It's a wonderful IDE. Well-thought out, lots of features. By CW Pro 6 or 7 it was so finely honed for great workflow. Everything at your fingertips.
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    PB 1400 with very bad hinges

    Yeah, you're in bad shape here. On my 1400 (see https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/10/refurb-weekend-powerbook-1400.html ) I was seeing similar evidence when the front bezel cracked. What happens is that the screws in the metal hinges/clutch assembly tear out of the plastic in the back and then...
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    Apple Interactive Television Box (STB) Prototype Adventures

    That string comes from the STB Finder's DATA resource. I have the full disassembly, so I should be able to figure out the checksum and framing.
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    For the love of old tech + rant on all things modern

    My regular workstation is a POWER9 16-core (64-thread) Raptor Talos II running Fedora. It works well, but I had to do a lot of personal work to make it work "sanely," and some things still don't work as nicely as they should. (That's Linux, not the hardware.) Also, I've yet to find any laptop I...
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    Apple Interactive Television Box (STB) Prototype Adventures

    What pins on the T1 network port are TX and RX (and are there hardware flow signals)? I have some modular connectors I can break out from it.
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    Apple Interactive Television Box (STB) Prototype Adventures

    Hey, thanks for the article plug (we chatted in E-mail). Good find with the OWO disc. That Telia ROM is quite something. I'm going to burn that for my STB3 and see how far it gets. This may be a better foundation to build upon than the USA ROM.