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YEAH! And it WORKS???@!!!! Is it re-capped yet? Going to need it if not. Lots of resources for this step are available, and it’s important. Mine sat unused for years before I inherited it. It Worked the first few boots, then everything started going south (no offense to anyone down-under, of...

Getting closer to reshelling my SE/30. . . Printed my version of the brightness knob, finally: Clarity isn’t perfect obviously with FDM printing, especially with something this thick. Early on I had a hell of a time printing with this, but eventually dialed in great settings for printing on my...

There was a time when I was seeking a decent price on an eMac base. I have come to realize that I should have just been satisfied finding a base at any price. You can get them attached to an eMac if you are lucky, or you can sometimes find folks selling just the base for about $100. Not long...

YES. and I would be interested in getting one in clear resin once you figure that out. FDM T-GLAS is probably fine, but clear resin would be better for sure. As far as I am concerned, the knob model was just my way to give at least just a tiny bit back to the community from which I have gained...

Oh no. . . I just looked up Design68 and now I am falling down that rabbit hole. I have built several mech keyboards over the years==even hand-wired, soldered diodes etc. etc. but these were all USB. So now I guess I am going to have to do figure out a “clear” ADB solution like yours. Thanks a...

Question @wottle how did you do the silver/clear cord on ADB mouse? I assume it’s from another device perhaps? Was there already ADB (4-pin DIN) connector or did you find an S-video cable, or put together your own connector? I am planning to 3D print a replacement brightness knob using the...

I just received my MacEffects case TODAY! I previously received the programmer’s switch, mouse, and speaker. I am really looking forward to transferring my restored SE/30 into the new shell. Your’s looks great, especially that keyboard! Here’s mine fresh out of the box!

I never joined the Discord, but I have joined plenty of others. . . not sure why I didn’t. I think I will now though. Here’s a closeup of my working custom ROM chip in case it helps. This was before I put a sticker over it:

@cjbrunner I seem to recall ordering the wrong eproms on my first attempt. I dunno what I was thinking, staring at part numbers for a while. The wrong ones where actually the wrong number of pins—an error that I could have easily avoided. And actually, I never ended up needing a ROM since my...

Hiya, Neighbor! Lemme dig around and see what I can find. I am pretty sure I ordered the wrong thing from someone on ebay, then eventually the right thing (both attempts to source a BIOS chip succeeded but I dunno what I was thinking the first time as I had mis counted the pins. Lemme dig...

I will definitely try to get it working over ethernet or wifi, but having never synced I am pretty sure I needed software packages first to be able to support the card i have. Thanks for the details on Quick Figure. That sounds like what I read but I couldn‘t recall the specifics. Now I know...

The eMate restoration continues. My last updates here were related to the battery which continues to work fine. My problem was getting the eMate to sync. Having done some troubleshooting now on another thread here: Connecting eMate to Mac OSX - "there was no response" I now have a working...

At long last, I have the eMate syncing over serial using NCX on my M1 Mac mini running OSX Sonoma. @splorp it is important to note that NCX does indeed work on this version of MacOS at least. I will need to try again after upgrading to Sequoia. TLDR; I needed the null modem cable and a...

IT WORKED! Using the diagram in the linked thread above, I was able to create a 8-pin MiniDIN to DE (DB) 9-pin female with a 9-pin cable breakout that had screw terminals. I verified one of my cables was simple a straight-thru so I cut it in half and mapped the pins to wire colors. . . and just...

Thanks for that link to the macrumors thread. A nice image pasted in there should make testing my 8-pin cable a breeze. I suspect what I have are straight-through which is likely my issue. I don’t have the (DB) DE9 breakout but that could be really handy, as I have a bunch of long 8-pin cables I...

I don’t know if this helps, but I tried another shorty DB9-MiniDIN8 adapter—maybe from an old Palm cradle. This time, the eMate error said that it failed and to check your cable connection. That is definitely a different error message which is puzzling.

I don’t have any indication that it is a null modem cable, but I could check pin continuity with a multimeter. Are you saying that it SHOULD BE a null modem cable? I am definitely familiar with the concept as I grew up with using modems and BBS systems, and doing file transfers between...

I have an eMac running OS9. I have a Palm USB to Serial adapter. I have a Keyspan USA-19HS USB to Serial adapter. I have a DB9-MiniDIN8 serial cable. Theoretically, I should be able to make a connection to the eMate. Tried the Palm adapter first. Had to install Palm connect software which went...

Today, I tried connecting my old PB5300cs. This is booting into OS8 off of a PC card Compact Flash adapter. No internal HDD. I also happen to have the Orinoco Gold wifi PCMCIA card for it, so I could at least get it connected to the internet and get files downloaded. After messing with .img...

Today, I tried the NCX software and my USB-to-serial cable on a pair of older machines: First alternate attempt: Mac Mini (intel 2014) running MacOS Monterey 12.7.6. Same result. I can see the cable fine in NCX software, can select it in preferences, but pressing DOCK on the eMate, choosing...