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The 90's Mac underground scene is back for the month of March at The Crow's Nest BBS - download the latest Mac releases, read some HackAddict/Happle Mac underground G-Files, browse the message forums, and play some old-school door games all from your vintage Mac! The Hermes II v3.1.1 BBS...

I had an empty Mac SE case sitting around doing nothing and recently ran across Jesse Argenbright's conversion of an SE with a Mac mini on FaceBook. I thought I could do something very similar - I already had a Raspberry Pi 3, Wombat ADB to USB converter, a USB hub, and a 3D printer so I was a...

Hey guys, I recently acquired a IIci that just gives me a gray screen upon boot. I've got 12V and 5V at the HD power connector, so I'm assuming the PS is good. The board has some corrosion in the expected places near the surface caps, and C10, C13, and the IC at UD13 basically fell off with a...

Since I set up CQ II BBS almost 2 years ago now, several new Mac BBS's have popped up (or I just recently discovered them!). Let me know if I've missed any. NAME ADDRESS SOFTWARE Applefritter BBS bbs.applefritter.com NovaTerm Captain's Quarters II cqbbs.ddns.net:6800 Mystic BBS...

Love me some blinky HD activity lights! I'm sure someone else has already done this mod, but the IIsi has an extra lead on the speaker / power LED leads that's for SCSI activity. So I just ran a wire from the extra lead to the green wire lead of the LED power light. That way I've still got...

It's the one year anniversary of Captain's Quarters II BBS going live! After 3200 calls, 2100 message posts (ok, 3/4 of those are by me, but hey!), 272 downloads, and 9 uploads - leeches! :), the vintage Mac Mini that hosts the BBS is still going strong! We've been adding new features all year...

Hey guys, I recently found a better terminal program than MacSSH for telnet BBS'ing called Black Night. Unlike MacSSH, it supports X, Y, and ZModem downloads! It also freatures full ANSI emulation and is compatible with System 7 - OS 9.2.2. Setting it up for telnet and ANSI emulation is a bit...