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  1. rcrook9190

    I Bought 8 x 16MB SIMMs from tindie.

    And they don't work. Does anyone know of any reason these would not work in an SE/30? https://www.tindie.com/products/siliconinsider/purpleram-64mb-16mb-x-4-30-pin-dram-simm-kit/ Any suggestions would be appreciated. RSC
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    G4 Cube FireWire issue

    Hi folk, Been steadily working through the issues with my cube. Two things now haunt the beast 1. The DVD drive eject is not powerful enough to eject the disk. It tries but the disk gets hung up on the foam insert of the case. 2. Neither FireWire port seem to work. With the DVD drive being a...
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    Building a bootable multi-OS install Drive

    Hi Folk, I have vague memories of a youtube video with details of setting up an external drive (firewire i believe) to boot and install different versions of OSX/macOS. I am not sure it's specific to the PPC or will work on both PPC and Intel. Does someone have useful links on how to create...
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    Apple 2GS Serial Issue

    I am having issues with the serial ports on my //gs. I am getting random characters being generated somewhere on the logic board itself. I want to find a Zilog Z8530VS SCC chip to see if this is where the issue lies. But I am having problems finding a source for this chip. My question is...
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    BlueSCSI Linux Testing on a P4

    I have been doing some testing of a Adaptec AH3940 Dual channel Ultra SCSI PCI adapter in a Dell Dimension 3000 P4 PC running the latest version of debian 11 i386. My Initial testing involved reading a couple Mac SE/30 volumes off an existing BlueSCSI DB25 model I had been using. I mounted the...
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    Canberra Retro Computer Fair 23rd July.

    Not sure how many Canberrans are on here but I will post anyway. The inaugural Canberra Retro Computing Fair will be help 23rd July at the Gordon Community Center starting 12:30 PM. It wont be very big as we will be gauging the interest with the first one. The address of the Gordon Community...
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    Sun Type 4 Keyboard.

    I have a Sun Workstation IPC I am restoring and am looking for a Sun Type 4 keyboard locally in Australia. I was wondering if anyone on here might be able to help?
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    Emulation and Virtualization on a Macbook Air M1

    Just a bit of messing around for #MARCHITOSH. So I got a Macbook Air M1 a couple of weeks back and have been tuning it up for the daily driver. Got the minicom and Termius sorted with my ftdi consoled homebrew Z(1)80s. Got my MiniPro working with brew ( and Win11 ARM ). I then started on the...
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    SCSI2SD, RaSCSI and BlueSCSI

    I have a SCSI2SD 5.1 in my SE/30 and want to swap it out with a BlueSCSI. Couple of issues/questions/notes. 1. Is there a way to take an image of the partitions created for the SCSI2SD and "convert" them to an hda images usable on RaSCSI/BlueSCSI? 2. I am running the ROMinator II on my SE/30...
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    debian on G5 boots but systemd freezes the system.

    Following Seans video I got debian 11 installed on my Dual 2.0 Ghz g5 but when it boots systemd throws an error (shown below) and just stops. I have treid a few things (systemd debug included) and could not determine the process aborting. (journald so even init=/bin/bash didn't help) Any...
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    Apple //gs ASTEC AA13591 Cap map.

    hi, My Apple //gs has been randomly tripping the earth leakage breaker. I decided first swipe was to recap the power supply. Here is a cap map for the ASTEC AA13591 Power supply from the beast. Share as needed.