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I have a small number of DOS systems used primarily for word processing - they are really quite efficient in terms of what you can do with them and how well they work. My preference is a Compaq Portable III, though finding one in good working condition can be hit and miss, particularly due to...

Admittedly on a Mac rather than PC, but that's my experience of .hda files in Basilisk II also. The workaround is perfect however. I thought it odd that occasionally I saw comments about setting up .hda files for BlueSCSI use in Basilisk, when they never mounted for me!

My primary PDQ is Model M4753 233MHz with 96Mb RAM, 512Kb Backside cache Mac OS 9.2.2

I haven't used a CD module in the Wallstreet at all, but both the PDQs read CDs just fine. I rarely use CD (I almost always have floppy modules installed) but they do seem to work when I've needed them. Before I got a BlueSCSI external, I used CDs for almost all the software installs. I tried...

In my two PDQs and one Wallstreet, I have https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GRMUQRG/ and https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07F8P7VY3/ They all seem to work perfectly.

Oh WOW! I didn't even think to try that, but you're right, just tried and it works a charm! Thanks, that saves a great deal of laborious time!

I'm probably totally misunderstanding what you're suggesting, but while I can create a BlueSCSI .hda in Disk Jockey (excellent software!!) I can't see any way to then add or mount it in Basilisk. Basilisk can mount the Legacy CD just fine of course, and I can create a 'bootable' .dsk for...

I have a couple of Apple IIc models - an original ROM 255, and a later ROM '0'. Both have 5.25 floppy drives on the right-side edge. I don't think the Mac is compatible with the 3.5 inch external drive that was available for the IIc, but BMoW Floppy EMU can be used with both IIc and compact Macs...

Satisfied customer here too! 2 vintage compact Macs returned to active service with very rapid turnaround!

I had thought that if this was cap-related, it would tend to keep the more contrasty screen if it had been very recently used and adjusted - that was my experience with a PB 165. Otherwise, when adjusted, my 1400cs seems pretty clear of ghosting or artifacts. But it is 25 years or so old!

Mine starts up with that same washed-out screen every time, even when very recently used, when the display had been correct. I'm inclined to think - since it has been recently used with the screen correctly adjusted - that it may not be caps so much as the setting not being kept in PRAM as it...

My 1400cs boots up like that. It settles down after a couple of minutes though, and fades towards normal, or the contrast button can do it faster. I think a sign of capacitor degradation.

It's not quite the same graphic, but I wondered the same thing.

That looks like it could be perfect for the job - I even see what I guess are extensions which may be right for this: USB_Card_Support_1.4.1 I think I'll give that a try! Thanks!

OK, absent a working solution to reading an install CD on my G3/266, I've decided that I need to try and backup the existing HD, to copy that back to a replacement. USB is the obvious, and it has 3 PCI slots of course. So, next question is, does anyone know of a PCI USB card (don't mind how...

That would be a good guess I think. Not that retrobrighting threads don't crop up almost everywhere, but that one was lengthy and quite expansive if I recall.

There was once a very detailed and technical discussion somewhere in the vintage systems community on plastics. It was specifically related to retrobrighting if I recall, but ranged over a number of associated topics. It went over my head of course, and I don't remember where it took place...

A bit of an exhumation on this, but, I've experienced fragmenting plastics on as late as 2009 MacBooks, where several that I know of were breaking apart on the wrist rests and front edges. I also have a 1988 Zenith 'laptop' which is as fragile as anything else I've seen - including suffering...

It's been stored elsewhere, so I'm not sure what has been happening to it. I looks the same from the outside, but not when opened. Either that or my memory is going! I'm not sure how the keyboard and screen might be related in this respect, but I admit that it's a bit of a coincidence if they...

Just wanted to add that my PDQ ejects like it's very angry. First time, when I didn't know to catch it as it departed, it spat the PC Card almost 10 feet across the room!