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Definitely confirm the drive jumpers. If the SCSI ID and term jumper blocks were connected to the tray, the ANS backplane is doing the work for you. When you disconnect it, the drive will not be terminated and be likely ID 0. 256K cache was not a standard loadout for the ANS (it came with 512K...

The answer to your GEOS question is, have the GEOS disk in the drive and tap the RESTORE key. The answer to your other question is, de gustibus non disputandum. :)

Interesting. Do you have cache installed? Which speed CPU? A very stupid question: is the drive terminated/has a sane ID? The ANS backplane does this for you but otherwise you'd have to jumper it connecting it to any other system.

That seems surprising - did you use the 2.0 ROMs or the pre-production ROMs? What happened when you tried? Since you have an ESB there, it's possible there's a hardware difference that 9.1 doesn't like. My own ESB is busted so I can't confirm that. Crashed like how? You wouldn't need to mount...

No, not vapourware at all - Wheels was very popular with power users for a time (early-mid 2000s) but it has steep system requirements and wasn't anywhere as widely used as regular GEOS. GUIs have never been particularly popular in the C64 scene and only GEOS had wide currency because it...

At last check, https://cbmfiles.com/ but it doesn't look like it's been updated in some years. "Click Here Software will be making available for free downloading the following applications for the Commodore 64 and the Commodore 128: Wheels 64, Wheels 128, plus all the major GEOS apps such as...

Last I heard, Wheels was still commercial software (though whether Maurice is actually selling any copies is another question). As another data point, I rarely used GEOS back in the day and for me it was mostly a curiosity; it was too slow for the tasks I needed and it wasn't as easy to program...

I remember talking about that back in the day. Seems like there were too many issues to iron out in the end, as I recall.

These things happen.

This really does sound like a power or power circuit problem. Check the components on page 1 of https://github.com/nickpunt/nubus-se30/blob/master/Schematics/bomarc/Macintosh%20IIci%20Schematic%20(bomarc).pdf - do they all look operational?

Very nice. I just have some Aldus Persuasion presentations from the Mac Portable era, though these were clearly done on a colour Mac. https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2024/03/an-apple-district-managers-macintosh.html

Neat! But I was really hoping the Logicware OS 9 version made it out somehow. I think that will now be lost after Burger Becky passed away. Can't really test this one until they add 10.4.11 support, though.

Fascinating. A second 2.26NT ROM in the wild, though the one I have from @dbinreno has production labeling.

The ADTpro cable should work. What did you set your Open Firmware variables to? Remember that port 2 is ttya, not port 1.

The Quantum image appears to be HFS+. It is named "dStore." It will mount, but it doesn't look like there's anything in it other than the Desktop Folder, so it would not have been bootable. It may not have been in use - possibly a pull from something else that they were planning to repurpose...

Much later ROM than I would have thought. It would be very interesting to see what's on those hard disks.

For comparison, this is my Shiner EVT 2: https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2021/10/shiner-esb-apple-network-server.html The colour of this board looks slightly different, but that could be the camera.

Since you have an EVT (similar to mine), I suspect you may have the pre-production ROMs on those. There is no way to tell from the chips themselves without firing it up.

Oh, don't get me wrong: everything is possible if you add sufficient hardware. But on the stock Apple-1, it would indeed be difficult.

Difficult. The Apple-1 does not have addressable video memory, just two ports to get a key and print a character. It can't even backspace, and clearing the screen is actually done with a hardwired circuit. Additionally, because of the way the shift registers used to generate the screen are...