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Hi all, I’ve got the Duo 2300c that I just got working and need to test the modem. ZTerm crashes and I’m afraid to bother with Claris Works cause it’s for System 7 and installs a bunch of crap. Anyone know of a good term program that will work on OS 8 wether it’s native PPC or not?

Hi all, I just dragged my G3 Kanga out from hibernation for the last 25 years and although the bottom of the shell enclosure is crumbling apart so bad I had to piece it all together with packing tape, the rest of it is in decent shape but it has the commonly occurring display issue with a...

Is anyone out there interested in buying some brand new reproduction battery packs for the Lombard / Pismo? Im going to take a shot at building and 3d printing some new ones. I purchased a small lot of dead batteries and will be pulling the connector and electronics out and then buying new...

I thought it would be funny to teather my PowerBook 180 to my mobile WiFi hotspot and send a text to a friend while at the beach or Starbucks or something. I found this post where someone was sending an iMessage from a 68k Mac a couple years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30489003...

A friend gave me a Superboard II and I just started to troubleshoot it but could use some help from someone familiar with this board. Anyone out there? So far I’ve confirmed the following: • 6502 is good (tested on Asteroids arcade board) • 2114 RAM good • Character generator chip good...

Anyone have or know where to find information on setting up a BlueSCSI on an Atari ST? Looking for an alternative to an UltraSATAN.

With my new retro OG bag, my WiFi BlueSCSI and my hipster mustache I am now equipped for a Starbucks session 😆

If any of you want to fix the issue where the powerbook freezes up (for several minutes) after waking the powerbook from sleep, I came up with a hack workaround "fix"... The issue is that when you wake up the powerbook, the Pi Pico doesn't boot up fast enough when the powerbook "spins up the...

Curious what would be faster to increase your physical ram from 8 MB to 16 MB using either 32 but addressing and virtual memory or using Connectix RAM doubler. I’m sure a BlueSCSI is faster than a physical HD but is it as fast as SSD and how much slower is it than physical RAM? Connectix RAM...

I’ve got a PB180 that I put a BlueSCSI in and it’s working great with a 500mb disk image but I put a 2GB image in and I get the happy chime, happy Mac icon, and then a death chime. is there a maximum partition size on these PowerBooks?

I just got a 30L ultrasonic cleaner and so far I’m not too impressed. Maybe my expectations were too high but aside from it not cleaning any corrosion of my boards it’s not even cleaning the flux or any gunk off. I can tell no difference. temp at 45c and I run it for 30 mins. it did annihilate...

So power banks don’t work to power the external BlueSCSI because they only pull about 20ma and that’s not enough to keep a USB power bank from shutting off after a few minutes. So I took a 300mah lipo, a usb charging circuit and a 3.7v to 5v boost converter I had lying around and whipped up a...

Hi all, I’m working on a IIcx board repair and need to know if I should be seeing any activity on the NuBus address and data lines when no cards are plugged in. There’s no activity on any of the pins. Just stuck high or low. When I power the board on or hit reset all I get is a sad Mac chime...

Anyone have some details on what these cards might be? I know one is RAM but what are the others and how much RAM? I dint have them in my possession yet to try them or take better photos but will soon.

Anyone know of a way to print to an ImageWriter II (preferably over Wi-Fi) from a modern MacBook Pro?

I read somewhere that the Spectre GCR can directly read SCSI Mac hard drives. If anyone knows, does this mean I could plug a Mac formatted Jaz drive into the scsi port on an ST at STacy for example? I thought the ST’s hard drive port was ACSI not SCSI .?.

I just realized that the “Metal Stamp” sound that you can set in CodeWarrior when the compiler successfully finishes is the exact same “Gate Slam” that Prince of Persia makes after a gate opens and slams shut. And I believe Prince of Persia came out in 1992 or earlier prior to the first version...

Hey guys, I’ve acquired this RAM plus more expansion card for a portable. It’s showing 5MB in the finder. but there’s 4 switches and two cards sandwiched together. Any idea what this card is and what all it can do?

I have the macintosh portable adapter and the desktop BlueSCSI working well on my portable but when I wake the computer from sleep the BlueSCSI takes several minutes to “spin up” and start working to the point it is faster just to hit reset and reboot the machine. is this a known issue and is...

Hello all who might be interested in this sort of thing, I finished going over this pretty bad board, I fixed all the broken traces I have found so far and re-capped the board. I finally got the power button to kick the power supply on so the power circuit is now working. I rigged a bench...