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The 5.25" floppies appear to be FOG library disks:

Wife and I went to an estate sale today and found a lot of neat 80's computing promotional materials and catalogs, books, and TRS-80 and Osborne software. I initially saw the Osborne and CP/M books in the bedroom (a little light bedtime reading?) and grabbed them because I own a couple...

Oooooh...gonna have to download that.

Tons of disk images available at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_apple https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_apple_games Sometimes you need to click "SHOW ALL" under the "DOWNLOAD OPTIONS" section for a particular item to see the download links for the...

Dunno...I'm scared to try it :)

This thing sounds like an answer to a question nobody asked :)

Was it uncommon for these devices to have a female ADB input on them to chain other devices on like keyboards usually have? This joystick has a passthrough...

Ya, I thought that was weird too. So far, the only "practical" use I've seen someone use this for is as a short extension when the ADB connector for their device physically interfered with the port they were trying to plug it into :confused:

Ah, I see that's the infamous EGRET. Hope it's ok...

I think you're talking about the Dr. Bott MoniSwitch: https://lowendmac.com/1998/moniswitch-adb-a-kvm-for-adb-macs/ Apparently you could still have to reset the ADB bus sometimes if you moved the mouse too soon after switching.

Got it disassembled and made some progress today. I gotta say, it was pretty slick removing one screw, pulling a couple tabs, and just lifting that whole middle section, drives, PSU, and all, straight off: I recapped both PSUs, and then turned my attention to the rather fishy smelling logic...

I dunno...back in the box it goes though :)

Wayback Machine came back online. Here's the purchase page for this device from 2004: I notice it doesn't mention keyboards or mice, so maybe this was meant for devices that were more tolerant of being connected/disconnected and didn't have pass-through connectors to continue the ADB chain...

No brand or manufacturer markings. These are the only mentions of this thing I've found online: http://powermac6100.blogspot.com/2006/07/usb-optical-mouse-with-power-mac-6100.html https://www.fixya.com/support/t102382-2_cpus_one_keyboard_adb So apparently the model number was MD4-103. I...

I just found this buried in a box: I know hotplugging ADB is generally frowned upon and has even damaged some boards. I wonder if this thing is safe to use, or if it would change ADB bus IDs and screwball my mouse settings or something?

I finally have time to try to get this thing working. After turning it on a few times with progressively more components installed and checking voltages until I was comfortable the PSUs weren't going to fry anything, I switched on both PSUs (secondary one first) and stood back...no magic smoke...

me too

Now I kinda wanna play with my CP/M Apple II card. Kind of a similar idea I guess...platform compatibility by just slapping a native CPU on a card :) I've got this new-in-box one for the IIc too, but my IIc's still need fixing up:

I remember playing 2-player DOS Doom over serial cable to an actual PC with mine when I was a kid.

Finally got this thing 100% done! full recap of the PSU and logic board replaced HD with a BlueSCSI new thermal paste on both CPUs added a slim, quiet 80mm fan behind the inlet vents 264MB RAM on the Mac side 32MB RAM on the PC side (PC wouldn't boot with a 64MB EDO SIMM installed :rolleyes:)...