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Pascal is amazing! Unfortunately I've only experienced Borland's Turbo Pascal on CP/M and DOS systems. That said... The code looks fine, but I would like to see a semicolon after the WriteLn statement - but I recall that ISO dialects of Pascal is OK to skip it before an End. Are there maybe...

I've completely forgotten about these! I got a regular SATA SSD (connected with adapter) in my iMac G3. But I'm afraid that this beast might be too fast for a PwrMac G3 Desktop as the computer only supports UDMA mode 0. I suspect that these fast devices only go down to 33 or 66 MB/s in...

Thanks! I did spent "some time" turning every stone that I could turn. When you run out of options you have to improvise. Well, I didn't. Just the reboot process was too cumbersome. Even if I would get used to reboot via XPostFacto to get into the other OS, I would probably forget sometime and...

You find the System Enabler in the Systems Folder. An SE/30 doesn't need one since it was already on the market when 7.1 was launched. But you need a Mac machine to poke around... Catch 22. Honestly, I think writing a boot floppy in Windows is your easiest/best way forward. I write floppies...

I’ve finally managed to install Jaguar! But I cheated… I’ve done several experiments with removing combinations of the RAM sticks (2x 64M vs 256M), removing the firewire card and the CF adapter. It didn’t do much difference. I also gained a bit experience with Open Firmware. Instead of...

[Update] I think I've figured this one out. According to the documentation the Star Tech supports "IDE/ATA 33/66/100/133 motherboard", and according to Low End Mac the Beige G3 has a 16.67 MBps IDE bus. Even if the G3 technically supports UDMA, it's still the more uncommon "slow" mode 0...

My SE/30 is stock and has the original ROM. It boots just fine from a hard drive where I got System 7.1 installed. No hickups. Perhaps there's a System Enabler on your System 7.1 disk? System 7.1 could get superspecific with which computers they work with. For instance a boot disk for an LC 475...

Maybe I could be a bit clearer, but what I do is that I replace the harddisk or CF card on respective bus and set the StarTech card as the same (master/slave) as the drive it replaced. That is, I swapped the drives. Also, the CF-card is set to slave and boots normally. The ROM is $77D.45F2 (rev 3).

Introduction My usual setup: IDE bus 0: the original hard drive (cable select/master) IDE bus 1: the original CD-ROM (master), passive IDE to CF adapter (slave). I’ve got the StarTech IDE2SATA adapter that I just pulled out of my iMac G3 (2nd gen), together with its Sandisk SSD. It works...

Yesterday I worked on the Power Mac. I tried to install Jaguar through my BlueSCSI (which has a CD-ROM mode), but got the same behavior as the real SCSI CD-ROM when I booted the install CD. Forbidden symbol from the installer, rebooting and only get black screen - removed the battery, waited...

Introduction I’ve recently gotten a Power Macintosh G3 Desktop 266 MHz, 384 Mb RAM with a working 4Gb hard drive with a semi-corrupt partition. After some investigations I found out that it had a failed install of Jaguar (10.2.3) on it. But the hard drive also had a working version of OS 9.0...

So both your harddrive and your BlueSCSI is connected? Blinking ?-floppy indicates a SCSI bus conflict. Your log indicates that your BlueSCSI drive has ID 0. Solution: You need to rename the file on your card from HD00_512 [stuff].hda to HD10_512 [stuff]. hda, so not both your harddrive and...

It's not much to see. It's just a black screen and an external harddrive that blinks away while the computer is booting. I thought it was more important/relevant to show that the analog board is still working in the SE/30. Also, I believe that the GIF's that you linked to are the same as this...

A buddy of mine has 3D-printed a holder for three LR44 coin cells. He uses a metal strip to connect the bottom battery to the connector in the computer. Good enough, I guess? It's not like keeping the time (over time) is super important on a Plus anyway. I'll imagine that one would need to...

You're probably right that I need to remove the old caps first before I can completely trouble shoot the board. But I would prefer to get the video working before putting the new caps in - or it'll be even harder to pin point the problem. I did another brush yesterday with the toothbrush and...

Introduction So I’ve bought a known defect SE/30. I got it for about €70 with the carrying bag, some documentation and original (and blank) floppies. An over all OK deal. It was known from the listing that the screen was black. When I started the computer for the first time the screen was black...

I've enjoyed my iMac G3 Indigo quite a bit as a jukebox. Fire up iTunes (MP3's) or Vox (FLAC's) in Tiger and play some music in the background while working on something else on my modern computer. It's also my goto machine to play audio CD's. When I got the computer a few months ago, the left...

1. When you upgrade your OS Apple installs new Apple drivers on your hard disk. So I guess it's possible. But given how easy it is to just drag and drop the content of one drive to another (and that it's easy to create new drives on a SD card). You might be crossing the river to get water, when...

I'll keep that in mind! I've been considering to get a SSD solution instead of the CF card, so I may comfortably install Mac OS X without wearing out the CF quickly.

Looks sweet! I got an Indigo myself and am somewhat worried about this. But I also like that it's as quiet as my Mac Plus (especially with the hard drive changed to a CF card). However, I'm curious how do you cool the logic board? There's no vent holes there (or I might have missed them!).