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Unfortunately, I've never owned any Atari HW (yet), apart from playing on my friend's old beater 2600 as a kid in the 80's and in the 90s owning the awesome but ahead-of-its-time networkable Lynx handheld. I'm under the weather with a flu, so I've been watching a lot of retro films to chill...

Hold onto your hairpieces Video is here >> Backstory: Back in the mid 90's my first job out of college involved what was then hyped as the "Multimedia" development revolution. I had the pleasure of meeting various people pivotal in using the Mac and the burgeoning QuickTime technology for...

Thanks to @jcm-1 for his assembled BlueSCSI complete with LED. Massive performance increase on my SE/30. The Speedometer 3 scores for the Internal and External BlueSCSI on are the left side of the screenshots compared with the SCSI2SD.

Here's an example: On my Mac SE with a 16Mhz 68000 SpeedCard it takes 8 seconds to search for a term across the entire Bible. So about 16 - 20 seconds on a non-accelerated SE or Plus

Thanks to @JDW and his excellent video on recapping the Mac SE & SE/30 power supply. My recap passed the smoke test and I was able to successfully adjust the voltage.

Hi - Here was my process, which was actually fairly easy My source for the KJV data was a comma delimited file from this excellent project: https://github.com/stephenharris/insert-bible-verse/tree/master/assets/scripture I used NotePad++ on Windows to convert the CSV to tab delimited format...

Thanks. yeah, I was impressed how well it works under the resource constraints of the SE and System 6. The database contains 783,137 words so it is pretty amazing that a full text wild card search completes in a reasonable amount of time.

@JDW . . . Just curious, what did you end up doing with your site? Did you stay with FM, or move to a different solution? Darrell Johnson

FileMaker Pro 3 really served my needs when I could not find any vintage Bible software for my Mac SE running System 6 that would allow full-text search (without taking forever) and function on the 9 inch 1 bit display. Using my SE/30 running System 7.1.1 as my Filemaker Pro 3 development...

My two cents. Reducing complexity sounds better than endlessly engineering for edge cases.

I would recommend you contact Rob Blessin at The Black Hole. He is the worlds expert on NeXT black hardware: https://next.blackholeinc.com/contact-us/

@JDW and @retr01 - Great points about the reason an SE has value. I completely agree. I would add to that the SE is far less complicated and therefore more robust and resistant to the effects of aging. I love my SE/30, but it's more complex with a denser board and many surface mount caps...

@Zane Kaminski I agree JDW. As a fellow SpeedCard user I can't wait to see the 68000 come pretty close to SE/30 speeds, which was the Nirvana back in the day for the SE.

Great discussion on the sound issue. Despite the distorted sound I still really enjoy my SuperMac SpeedCard on my SE and would love to see the WarpSE come out, even if the sound issue is still in progress. I'd hate to see solving the sound issue become a block to getting the board out. No...

Visited my best friend a few weeks ago. "I have a few old Macs if you want them". Me: :D:D:D:D:D After a dusty trip into his attic I have a nice haul. More details on the others coming . . .but: My first find was a Power Mac G4 MDD Dual 1ghz with a matching Apple Studio Display Completed...

The Big Mess ‘O Wires Wombat is awesome. Now I can take the brilliant Unicomp mechanical keyboard with me on my classic Mac gaming.

Weird. I wonder if you could try to connect a serial terminal and see if it also becomes unresponsive. https://software.majix.org/irix/admin-serial.shtml#:~:text=Using%20a%20Serial%20Cable,PC%20or%20whatever%20you%20like).

How about Ian at SGI Depot? http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/sgi.html

This is more exciting than when I ordered my SE's first accelerator from Mac Warehouse in 1990!

I've found that in upgrading the SE with a 16mhz 68000 SpeedCard , a good thing about using a faster 68000 vs 030 is better stability and compatibility. It seems much less crash and fuss than my 020 Radius 25 or my Mobius 030. Also the SE's 16 bit data path tends to hamper the advantage of the...