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  1. MacOfAllTrades

    Could "Too much" blueSCSI data/drives/apps slowing down my Mac Plus?

    I have a MacPlus. It has a BlueSCSI v1. It's worked great but I've noticed it's a few symptoms and I'm not sure the cause. I'm not assuming it's blueSCSI's 'fault' so don't get me wrong! I mainly use it just for keeping a diary in WriteNow. So 95% of my use is I just double click on the...
  2. MacOfAllTrades

    Retro tech meetup in Ann Arbor, MI (45 min from detroit)

    Link: https://www.meetup.com/allhandsactive/events/297107871/ Saw this - thought any SE Michigan folks (or even nearby Toledo, OH!) might be interested! I’m hoping to bring several old macs.
  3. MacOfAllTrades

    Mac Plus screen flickers dim during warmup

    I have a Mac Plus I redently got. It was in tired shape but working. I recapped the analog board and reflowed the solder joints for all (3?) of the connectors. Everything works great except on a cold start (eg mac been sitting for hours) the screen kinda flickers dim momentarily every few...
  4. MacOfAllTrades

    PowerBook 190 power jack reflow (5300 prob similar)

    From my research into these, it is very common for the power jack to loosen. May have even been part of a recall. Anyway i read somewhere (likely an old 68kmla comment) where someone said they used to have to repair them a lot and the first thing theyd do post repair is to hot glue the jack to...
  5. MacOfAllTrades

    Dollar Store find - Mac Plus scsi power diode

    Was recapping the analog board on a new Plus that I got and I wanted to add the diode to have the scsi port power my blueSCSI. I didn’t have a diode on hand and didn’t want to put in a single-diode order from like digikey because shipping would eat me alive. So i started thinking where might...
  6. MacOfAllTrades

    Ahh what happened to the lisa documentary??

    Not the Verge’s one but this one: Been like a year since I heard early 2023..?
  7. MacOfAllTrades

    This will help you get MacintoshGarden files from your Mac via ftp

    Hey all, I hope this is the right forum for this - please correct / delete me if I'm wrong. Since I got my blueSCSI v2 with wifi running I've wanted to get files from Mac garden directly from my SE/30. FrogFind isn't enough to help me navigate either Macintosh Garden or Macintosh repository...
  8. MacOfAllTrades

    Driving a miniscribe motor to make vintage sounds

    Why? To hear the miniscribe sounds while I use my blueScsi wtf? My miniscribe never worked and I gave up on it, so I figured I’d try to drive the stepper motor with some modern circuitry with the hope being that one day I could signal it by the activity indicator on a blueSCSI. how’s it going...
  9. MacOfAllTrades

    68k Determining if screen is set to color vs b&w at runtime in Sys 7

    Wondering how to determine current color depth in System 6 and 7. For example - if my app wants to know if it should show color or not - it should check something no doubt that tells it whether the current screen (GDevice likely) has color or not as well as what bit depth it's set to. Best I...
  10. MacOfAllTrades

    ThinkC MacDock dev progress -- Like today's macOS Dock but for System 7

    4/30 Update -- RELEASED!!: See Git page at this link Download the .sit file directly from the Releases page (or direct download here) ---- original message follows: I filled up a few of the pages in the Study Group 2 thread with questions and progress on this program. It started as the...