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I can’t fault them for that. . .as it also preserves the supreme clarity of the top shell. And maybe not all internal PCBs or microswitches are the same. In any case, the button works beautifully now. I was afraid I would never get used to the stiffer button—especially fatiguing with a drag. The...

How big does the brim have t be again? I printed mine with a brim because I didn’t want it to pop off the print bed it is so tiny. . . but that was slicer generated. I could make one with a .2mm brim built in. This is something you could probably knock together with a straw and baking soda +...

Ok, time to add another tiny update to this thread. . . My MacEffects clear mouse shell is great, and I even added handmade clear ADB cord. But the button which is a flexing portion of the upper shell has always been very difficult to click. Maybe this is true for others, or maybe it's just the...

Hey, everyone. . . I was obviously late to the party the first couple go-rounds with GlobalTalk, but now that my SE/30 is restored and many of us have access to networking via BlueSCSI2 or other methods, GlobalTalk still seems to be a fun experiment—especially for those of us just getting their...

Thinking about this a little more— given the inevitable electrolyte leaks happen across all of the boards in roughly similar locations, we have good techniques to find the common issues, but now that I am long past the point of frustration or impatience, I find that the variances from case to...

To my point, I think the question is too broad— you would need to ask, what Address lines could be broken between chip X and chip Y, or from the bus to chip X and so on. A broken address line to the sound chip, for example, might be fine until audio kicks in. That was the case while...

SO, I think the generalization gets mistakenly applied because address and data lines are on a “bus” and many components are tapping into that bus in parallel. I am perhaps oversimplifying it, but in my case, D31 may have only been broken between CPU and SCSI (or more likely, it was D31 on SCSI...

My SE/30 had a broken D31 to the CPU—something I did not find until I had problems mounting a SCSI drive. A bodge fixed it after some tedious continuity testing which was a balancing act front-to-back while trying to hold my probe on the right CPU pin. Perseverance pays off and a quick bodge had...

Thanks for sharing your journey! It is inspiring to see another example of someone taking on an SE/30 restoration project. Having been down that road myself, I know how much of an exercise in patience this really is. Mine took me a year, though I was working, and certainly not troubleshooting...

Ok, so the Wayback Machine was having some issues, down etc. but I did eventually a screenshot of the www.awkwardtv.org page with from Jun 7, 2012 showing content related to ATV OSX with 10.4.7. It’s just a screenshot, so no links to this content, but with some digging (and a functioning wayback...

Yeah, Last night I opened the original zip, mounted the .dmg and checked the version details. By the way, there is an easy way to determine the OS version if you know where to look: /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist It was definitely a 10.5.8 or something, NOT a 10.4 tiger...

Interesting. I am pretty sure that #4 on linked page was the image I shared. I later described upgrading my ATV using some iDeneb resources per the old akwardTV forum, but I thought this was a Tiger starting point. I assume from the comments on that page that someone has actually tried #4 and...

It looks like @scj312 grabbed the zip file I made with my old Tiger image (from original ATV Hacking, AkwardTV etc. days) and uploaded to the Garden: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/mac-os-x-apple-tv-1st-generation Which is good, because my old Mega upload is long since scrubbed.

Ok, I did a little sleuthing- - - @jmacz stalking on another forum. I am guessing this is another great restoration in a long line them. This is probably a MO drive, am I right?

Also, that ”Macintosh SE/30” is unique. . . A stock SE/30 name badge is next to the apple logo, not over on the right like the SE. Still, I love it!

@JDW This is your chance to dive into TinkerCAD! Or maybe Onshape? Honestly, I find I can knock together almost anything with TinkerCAD on my iPad fairly quickly. This is one of those little projects that’s really hard for someone else to design without being able to take a bunch of...

@wottle I noticed the bevel too. Hmmm. Until @jmacz shares the details we are left to speculate. I also see there is a crt/flat panel bezel adaptor—so pretty sure this is some kind of video display conversion as well, since that HDD icon is definitely dark blue! :unsure:

OK, so a matte white case looks pretty sweet, but thanks to your profile link, I am THRILLED to find your model of a PB5300 rear port cover! I used to search for this model once in a while but it has been a few months. Thanks for creating that. I can’t wait to try it!

Here’s my updated ADB Mouse with the MacEffects clear shell. This includes a clear homemade ADB cable as discussed previously, and my TPU strain relief fully assembled:

I just posted over in the 3D Printing forum my new ADB Mouse Cord Strain relief: https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/apple-adb-mouse-cord-strain-relief.4661/ This thread has been about 3D printing to be sure, so instead of a complete cross-post, you can check out the details at the link above...