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I made some time after work this evening to test all 3 of my BlueSCSI units (2 of which are now overclocked) on a PowerMac 9600/300 with a Buffalo 400MHz G4 (7400) CPU card installed. All were connected externally, with the internal type BlueSCSIs connecting via OverEasy II Rev.B. The minimum...

Hi, Folks! I have 3 "high quality" (well constructed) BlueSCSI units that I acquired from @Kay K.M.Mods, each with different processors... After a discussion with @eric yesterday, I decided to proceed with overclocking these units to see what would happen. My rather straightforward method...

My first computer was the 128K in 1984; and at the time, I had a 300 baud Maccessories portable modem, which included a nifty soft case... Back then, even that pathetically slow modem cost $140... But it still cost less than the $200+ that was common for 300 baud at the time, and 1200 baud...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

@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...

@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...

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...

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...

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...

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.)

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...

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...