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  1. JDW

    You on Mastodon?

    Nope. :-) Back in the day, I was only into basic dial-up BBSs.
  2. JDW

    You on Mastodon?

    I grew weary of FB for the exact same reason. I didn't care for what my "friends" were eating or their chain-mail style memes. However, I chose to say on FB because I live outside my home country and still have a lot of friends and family on FB. It's a way to keep in touch. But more than...
  3. JDW

    Snooper 2: Motherboard Pixel Images Extracted! ENJOY!

    Thanks for doing that. Interestingly, it's more of a Mac Plus motherboard drawing than a 128K drawing due to the connectors and the two torrid coils. And yet, the RAM chips to the right of the CPU are clearly from the earlier motherboards. Have a look at the obvious differences... Plus...
  4. JDW

    Snooper 2: Motherboard Pixel Images Extracted! ENJOY!

    Thank you! I was actually thinking about just that while taking a shower this morning, prior to reading your post. I installed it in Basilisk II, set it to SE/30, restarted, launched Snooper, and boom! Got the SE/30 motherboard. So I will slowly add these to the opening post so anyone can...
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    Snooper 2: Motherboard Pixel Images Extracted! ENJOY!

    https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/snooper-20 I edited my opening post to add that Macintosh Garden download page. It's a great app to use regularly anyway, screenshots aside. Thanks for the link on your website, by the way. A lot of people overlook what kind of caps are best...
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    Snooper 2: Motherboard Pixel Images Extracted! ENJOY!

    Starting with this post, I found that Snooper 2 has some interesting motherboard photos, worthy of extraction. If you follow that discussion, you will see that it concluded with the finding that we cannot extract them from the PICT resource of the Snooper app. The only reasonable method of...
  7. JDW

    Snooper serial loopback plug

    Although Bruce is probably happy about the extra attention brought to this thread with each subsequent post, it is only right and proper that I start a new thread to address that, which I have done here...
  8. JDW

    Merry Christmas to all, and to all a Black Knight!

    @Ron's Computer Videos Spaceward Ho! is one game I played for countless hours back in the day, and it too has special CMAS graphics on Dec. 25th...
  9. JDW

    Year End 2022: Seasons Greetings & Best Wishes!

    @Kai Robinson kindly offered us some wonderful well-wishing last year, and with it being Christmas today here in Japan I felt compelled to do the same. Forum membership has grown considerably in 2022. I know everyone here at TinkerDifferent would like to extend a huge thank you and warm...
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    Snooper serial loopback plug

    Shift-Return merely opened the PICT resource with the same View by PICT setting. However, it doesn't crash immediately when I first open it, which gave me a chance to click the View menu and choose "by Name" -- that avoids the crash. I also don't see an "Open Template..." command. However, in...
  11. JDW

    Snooper serial loopback plug

    After reading your post today, I tried opening the PICT resource of the Snooper 2.0 app using ResEdit 2.3.1 on a real SE/30 (no accelerators) using both a BlueSCSI and a MacSD, running 7.5.5, 7.1 and 6.0.8; but in every case I get a BUS ERROR when I click the scroll bar's down-arrow 3 times. I...
  12. JDW

    SMC ROM SIMM Prototype

    I truly hate rubber bands. Using them to secure broken RAM SIMM slot tabs is easy, but they degrade and break after a few months. Some people say to "hot glue" RAM inside the slots, but that is silly when you are a crazy vintage Mac fan like me who often changes out RAM SIMMS! :-) I added...
  13. JDW

    About to get the MacEffects treatment

    That MacEffects case certainly makes a clear difference! :) Don't chuck your old SE case because it looks to be in good condition from what I see in your photo. (The one SE case I have is beat up pretty bad, and the poor Apple logo on front is scratched up like crazy.)
  14. JDW

    Disk Jockey, a disk image file maker for your retro stuff - Beta for version 3!

    Yes. I have both a hacked and stock version for use with a stock or non-stock SE/30 ROM, in addition to a System 6 System folder, and System Picker can select among them... My external BlueSCSI has June 2022 firmware, and it was that unit in which my PNY 16GB SD card suddenly died. The card...
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    Disk Jockey, a disk image file maker for your retro stuff - Beta for version 3!

    Yesterday, something happened when I was using an external BlueSCSI and my SE/30 froze but later refused to boot. I put the microSD card into a full sized SD card adapter and then put that into my modern Mac, but it can't even see it in the Finder or Disk Utility or SD Card Formatter. Seems...
  16. JDW

    SMC ROM SIMM Prototype

    Amazing work, @Kay K.M.Mods ! Curious if anyone knows a way to use a Mac (modern or vintage) to accomplish the "Split" in step 4 so a Windows computer is not required.
  17. JDW

    Logic Board - Macintosh SE Reloaded

    @iPhil64 I found this Amazon kit (also on Amazon Japan), which has round holes, but I don't think it is gold plated. It should be because the price is expensive at $75!!! https://www.amazon.com/Kigauru-240PCS-Socket-Connector-Sockets/dp/B0B5KLM1P6/ Can you post either a Cart or a complete list...
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    SE/30 Reloaded - Lets build it!

    Basically, you are telling me that the "special technique" is MONEY. 💸😅 US$285 (Amazon USA) or JP¥29,500 (Amazon Japan) to buy the Hakko FX-951 Solder Station and a T12-K blade tip. Hmmm... :unsure: @Kay K.M.Mods , do you buy the official Hakko T12-K from Hakko Japan eShop, or do you buy the...