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@YMK I wish to thank you. Your kind suggestion of using automotive tape was the best solution in the end. What I did was determine that some soft-side velcro I already had in my possession was shorter in height than any open-cell foam I could find on Amazon, so I tried that. And it didn't...

It's a bulky and very heavy CRT scope from the 90's, so I can only assume you are pondering it because of the low prices on EBAY and because you either have an affinity for CRT scopes or experience with LeCroy? Even so, due to a close relationship between the two companies, many modern SIGLENT...

@YMK Thank you for the advice. I actually have automotive tape in my parts inventory! However... Close observation of my closeup photos show that the original cushion Apple used was open-cell, low-density foam, which is very soft and highly compressible. I believe I'm right about that...

Below are photos of my 5126 Macintosh Portable's Keyboard with ALPS ivory switches. (Closeup photos below show more yellow than reality. They are ivory.) Note the SQAURE PADS on either side under the spacebar. The ends of that metal support bar hit the pad rather than smack the metal frame...

Unfortunately, it's not possible...

10/23/2024 UPDATE: @phipli ultimately provided the final solution: Use a scriptable Finder version 7.1.2, 7.1.3 or 7.1.4, install AppleScript 1.1, write the appropriate script, save as Application, then use Easy Keys to Assign the CMD-DEL keystroke. Perfect for System 7.1! (Start reading this...

@Ron's Computer Videos Thank you for the seller warning. Folks, this is what I love about Tinker Different. Freedom to inform others about important matters that have the potential to impact everyone. It never ceased to amaze me how the owner/dictator of another forum which shall not be...

@phunguss Holy 3D-printed cow! Your work is amazing!

Well, I have confirmed the problem exists in System 7.1 too. The problem is Wake from Sleep causes a Freeze under 1 condition: WIFI was active (as per the special flashing of the BlueSCSIv2 "ACT" LED) when you put the machine to Sleep. Before I installed the DaynaPort drivers, I tested Sleep...

Yes, I highly recommend it. Here's the product page: https://androda.work/product/macintosh-portable-battery-eliminator/

I guess I am the only person now interested in this thread. That's perfectly fine. Talking to myself has yielded rewards in the past, and it shall also reward the reader as I make new discoveries such as that which I am now about to say. I found the following Github post by "benjamink"...

Macintosh Garden link to Asterax... https://macintoshgarden.org/games/asterax

I was able to get it setup under System 7.5.5 on my Macintosh Portable today. Can't use Open Transport (any version) on the 68000 processor, so I used MacTCP (classic networking). Same setup as under System 6.0.8. I got Turbo Gopher v1.08b4 to work, and I can access Gopher sites like System 7...

Okay, no replies. That means, I need to clarify to provoke people to reply! :) When I said the ACT LED was flashing in my previous post, I meant in that special way it does when WIFI is active, not when there is disk activity. Seems pretty clear there is a wake-from-sleep bug taking place...

Bad news, folks. I just got BSv2 WIFI to work under System 6.0.8 on my 5126 Portable, but I am finding that whenever the ACT LED is flashing, if the machine is put to Sleep manually or goes to Sleep automatically, when I press any key to wake, the machine freezes. For details, see the ending of...

As described in my earlier post, I was successful in getting BSv2 WIFI to work properly with Open Transport running under System 7.1 and higher. Today, I shall describe my experience getting BSv2 WIFI to work under System 6.0.8 running on a Macintosh Portable which has a 16MHz 68000 processor...

I should add that even though my 5126 motherboard had been professionally recapped, the person who did the recapping asked if I minded if he used radial caps for C16 and C8, and I gave him the OK on that. Typically, radials have better specs than most axials anyway, so I didn't mind. However...

@eric I have a good number of useful modern Intel Macs that are not bleeding-edge modern in that they only run macOS up to Monterey 12.7.4. The problem is that your awesome Mini vMac apps require 14.2 (Sonoma) or newer. Any way to make that OS requirement a tad more flexible? Monterey really...

More benchmarks with the 5MB RAM setting (i.e., maximum CPU performance), and with BlueSCSIv2 using the MacPlus code in the .ini file: Below labeled "Mac SE" is an unaccelerated 8MHz Mac SE compared to 5126 Backlit Portable ("This Machine") at left (Speedometer 3.23): Below is the same SE...

Below is a photo of the 5126 motherboard by @Branchus , and we can see C15 is the hybrid / power manager area in the lower left: When I had my 5126 recapped, there was a fair amount of trace damage in the area of C24, C15 and C26. Meaning, some traces had to be rebuilt with overlaid wire...