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The IIsi was the first Mac I owned personally, so I have a soft spot for them. Glad to see this one lives.

I finally got around to refurbishing my troublesome IIci with a MacIvory III, the last and most powerful of the NuBus Lisp coprocessor boards running Genera, and a direct descendant of the MIT Lisp machines. This machine all told has cost me over $6000, first the $4500 purchase price - which...

I'd start with forum.vcfed.org or you could ask on the cctalk list. There are many PS/2 specialists in both places.

I'm sure it will be epic once you get the LCD back in the right position ;) How much RAM does it say is installed? That said, it seems like the hard disk is shot or erased. While you can run NetBSD on it, it really ought to run the original AIX. Plus, you can do tricks like...

queen-bee.honeycomb.net? Looks like it may have been at this company in the past: https://www.honeycomb.net/ At least you have the key! My EVT "ESB" prototype ANS had to be forcibly opened.

Stay safe.

The ANS is Open Firmware, but a slightly later version (1.1.22 on my production ANS 500 and 700). I dumped the ROM over the serial port when I was experimenting with Power Mac NetWare (Shiner was the target system, and one ghost of it remains in its Forth words).

Note that you'll need WebAssembly for this because it's actually running on a Mac emulator. Any chance of getting it to run on a _real_ Mac?

Sure, by all means. I can also see if the tracks line up where they should.

Yes, that's the same drive and that sounds correct for the track counts. Disappointing that it still doesn't work. Are you able to use that drive to copy the disk the Cat will read and write (using the commands above)? Does the Cat read the copy?

I have a red ZuluSCSI (the newest RP2040-based board) in my QuikPak A4000T and it works great, though it's connected directly to motherboard SCSI.

Many folks may be unaware of the oddball WorkSlate from Convergent Technologies, a 1983 slab portable with a 6800-family CPU where everything is a spreadsheet. It was a commercial failure after seven months and Convergent took millions of dollars in losses on it. A printer/plotter (with the...

Lovely to see these things live again.

I don't think it's a caps problem with the Canon drive (though if you're able it probably wouldn't hurt), but I am suspecting the drive you mastered the floppy with. Can that drive write 720K? I used an off-the-shelf cheap Teac PC drive which can. Similarly, since you can write your own disks...

Excellent! Please let me know if the examples work. You may be only the second Cat system to try them! I'll also be interested to hear if your drive has a similar issue with the track 0 switch.

The real question is whether this has an impact on service lifetime and/or burns those systems out sooner.

Just please say the iMac G4 isn't working. It's obviously in good enough physical condition for you to attempt it, so it would be a shame if it were otherwise operational.

Heck, I still have a version I use for classic Mac OS and PowerPC OS X.

Wonder what mine would go for then, given that it has a 500MHz L2, max RAM, buzz-free PSU, CommSlot II NIC. Not that I'd sell it: I got it for a very nice price from a collector who knew it would have a good home. I agree I get way more wear out of my 7300 and MDD. However, I like the look of...

But it has an Ethernet cable. There's got to be value in that.