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I’ve been following this thread with a growing sense of excitement. I started my career at NASA 35 years ago as a C and FORTRAN programmer. The idea of dusting off my programming chops and translating them into the classic Mac world somehow sounds oddly appealing. Looking forward to the classes...

Yeah, C16 definitely barfed its goo and made UH1 grungy. I scrubbed it but didn’t remove it for my initial test. I’ll take a closer look at it and definitely will test the NuBus slots once I acquire a card. Thanks!

Hey all - I recently acquired a Mac IIci. Although it is not the IIfx on my Holy Grail list, it is a close second. While I was running skiprope simulations on my IIfx in the early 90s, many of my NASA colleagues were doing work on the IIci. As you can see, it was a little rough looking. Very...

Do you by chance have any other SCSI devices attached to your Classic? @eric would understand the reasons better than I, but what I observed in my older classic Macs is if I have two SCSI devices attached and the devices have different SCSI hard disk drivers, say one is using Lido and another...

Out of curiosity, which version of MacOS are you using? I has a similar problem on my SE/30 when booting with any of the System 7 variants but booted fine under 6.0.8. This pointed to a serial line problem which I missed in my initial troubleshooting.

James, I fired up my SE with 4 MB RAM this afternoon, booted it into System 7.1.1 from an external BlueSCSI with the DB 25 connector, and was able to run SCSI Director Pro 4.0 just fine. I ran a successful test on the original spinning rust 40 MB SCSI drive. My SE is the Rev A board with an 800k...

I’ll second what @retr01 said - the Disk-O-Matic part of Disk Jockey is fantastic! Here is my use case. I started with disk images over a year ago and not knowing what we all know now. I formatted those images using Lido. I also grabbed a number of disk images for which I had no idea how those...

The plastics in the AEKII seem more robust than the later plastics, but I still took care in the disassembly process. I had no issues with any of the plastics breaking. Some of the tinkerers more knowledgeable than me might know more about the ABS formulation that led to the brittleness in the...

I did a complete disassembly and immersed the case in soapy water to clean, then used IPA to clean stubborn stains and sticky residue from stickers. I found disassembly to be the sure way to clean out the dust bunnies, stains, and other grime that accumulates over time. If you have doubts about...

I used the iFixit guide when I did the same with my AEKII, and the guide seemed fine to me. https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Apple+Extended+Keyboard+II+Teardown/42138

I have MS Office 2001 on my Pismo, which is what I ran back in the day. Still seems to work fine.

It looks like a near twin of the Quadra 630 I was working on today.

I’ve seen the same “Volume Hash Mismatch” on my MacBook Air 2014 running OCLP and the various releases of Monterey, under the same conditions you cited (after a reboot). So far, I’ve just ignored it. I haven’t seen any references elsewhere that talk about this message. What do you think @The...

The backstory from the 1990s on the NASA shuttle flight and a Macintosh IIfx.... In partnership with the Italian Space Agency, NASA flew a mission on the Space Shuttle called the Tethered Satellite System which would deploy a spherical satellite attached to the end of a 20-km long conducting...

On my grail list is a Mac IIfx. In my early days at NASA I had one in my office (which was unheard of back in the day) to run simulations for one of the Shuttle flights I was working. I managed to keep the IIfx until the mid 90’s when the tide of Windows PCs became too much for the bosses, and...

In my collection of 68k Macs, I’ve acquired a series of Apple ADB keyboards: Apple Extended Keyboard M0115 from 1988 Apple Extended Keyboard II M3501 from 1989 and 1990 Apple Keyboard II M0487 from 1990 and 1991 AppleDesign Keyboard M2980 from 1994 I’m sure there are others I don’t have. I...

I bought the 68040 below from Eric Woo last summer for my Mystic CC. I’ve overclocked it to 40 MHz with no issues I’ve seen so far, with plans to push it even further in a few weeks.

One would think this would be simple, but apparently I am an idiot. I am unable to update the drivers on any mounted volumes on a classic Mac, no matter what utility I use (SilverLining, Drive Setup 1.5/1.7.3) because the options are grayed out. I can't figure out how to update the disk...

Here is my SE board. It is the Rev A edition that reads 800k floppies.

Hey all, I just got done with some partial experimentation that is leading me to a question. The experiment consisted of an internal BlueSCSI and an external BlueSCSI. All of my original drive images were formatted with Lido, since I started with it a long time ago before folks noted the...