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  1. Trash80toG4

    How much of the 128K/512K hardware has been reverse engineered?

    Wondering how far off "reloading" a board with reverse engineered hardware might be? Thinking in terms of a new build 128K/512K hybrid board that can go either way at boot, depending upon which side of the repurposed programmer's switch is held down. Has the Integrated Wozniak Machine been...
  2. Trash80toG4

    Keyboard repurposing: USB/ADB converter boards

    Found a couple of great links for Laptop KBD conversions: https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Make-a-USB-Laptop-Keyboard-Controller/ https://hackaday.com/2018/12/04/teensy-liberates-the-thinkpad-keyboard/ Conversion of some PowerBook KBDs are listed, but target is the PB1400 KBD, which hasn't...
  3. Trash80toG4

    How do I turn off email notifications . . .

    . . . wasn't getting them and now my mailbox is being carpet bombed. :eek: Wasn't clear to me when I tried to tweak preferences yesterday, that's the first time I've looked to change anything, so I know I didn't initiate the bombing campaign.
  4. Trash80toG4

    Macintosh II Rev.A - Reversing the Discrete IC Implemented Origins of NuBus

    This project has been several years in the works, but I've never had the Initial Release Macintosh II in hand. Thanks to a heads up from jeremywork over at the MLA, one is tracked to be arriving within the next 55 hours, but who's counting? This initial release of the DCaD series would be the...
  5. Trash80toG4

    TinkerTips - Tools of the Trades, Arts, Hardware and . . .

    I've got some crazy projects in the works ATM so I decided to start . . . whatever this turns out to be? Some tips will be very basic, some advanced, some garnered from source materials, experts and hard won experience leavened with some crazy creative problem solving over the years. I made...
  6. Trash80toG4

    Memory Morass: Jailbreaking the Discrete IC Bank A limitations Apple imposed on all but top tier Macs + SimmSpender 3.0

    Been hacking away at limitations of the IIsi for many years and it's time to revisit that project and expand it to other Macs: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/simmspender%E2%84%A2-iisi-memory-expansion-hack-reboot.29912/#post-327163 LCIII memory expansion now underway by @max1zzz...
  7. Trash80toG4

    TinkerTales from the crypt . . .

    Technology available to us for tinkering has advanced by leaps and bounds since the G4 era. Mac hacking and most any other kind of tinkering has benefited so very much from advances in 2D and 3D CAD/CAM since I made the move from the Big Apple to the Bermuda Triangle of NC. So much has happened...
  8. Trash80toG4

    Rebuilding the ComputerLab from spare leftovers and scrap . . .

    I've mentioned the flood that ruined all the carpet in my ground floor apartment here and there. In the show your desk thread I documented some of the in process changes to what remained of the setup. Here's the low rent rebuild, sans the nice seven foot bookcases that supported what I'm...
  9. Trash80toG4

    MagicBus+ Dual Purpose PDS Passthru for SE, FPD/TPD compatible with Full PDS option

    I've been mentioning this concept here and there for a month or two, but finally put together the start of a thread. Baseline Radius MagicBus Adapter for non-accelerated SE with TPD card: Pencil lines denote config of full size opening in chassis. MagicBus integrated in Radius 16...
  10. Trash80toG4

    68000 CPU interface replacement for Killy Klip - Photos of alternatives wanted

    We need a reliable replacement for new build accelerators (e.g. my long running MicroMac Performer Redux project) I'm lucky enough to have a pair of Killy Klips for my SE/Plus/Classic Performer, but new version will be for SE and Plus only with passthru for Radius FPD/TPD cards as well as a...
  11. Trash80toG4

    Three Slot Riser for 6400 - In search of the Mythical Slot C - Take 2

    trag and I played a bit with CSII some time back and messing around with that Pseudo-PCI implementation has cropped up again at the MLA, so I figured some feedback here might be fun: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/three-slot-riser-for-6400-in-search-of-the-mythical-slot-c.31510/ Even...