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A Thing I designed a while back and finally got around to fitting and testing today. https://github.com/MDBenson/G4MDD_SFXMount/

Hi, Long story short I bought a Mac Pro 3,1 a while back for very little money and it worked then it didn’t. I chalked it up to bad luck and scrapped it. I bought another one yesterday, with 2 3.2 Quad-cores and 32GB RAM BUT it’s also dead. No fans, no power LED, and no chime. Powers up for...

So, I have been working through building and using netatalk 2.3 on Debian 12 (bookworm) on my Mac mini server. I will share my progress so far and carry on discussions here: So far I have: Successfully cloned out the 2.3 branch, built it and installed it. N.B.: if you are a little confused...

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...

Hi All! I was recommended to join and ask you all by some reddit users and Joe, regarding a SyQuest Disk recovery I had attempted and see if there's any suggests on making this initial recovery work or if I should send them somewhere else. I have a 8.5.1 Mac OS and an external SyQuest disk...

I just finished cleaning, recapping, and reassembling an SE. It had a MicroMac MultiSpeed accelerator in it when I got it. The machine boots to the '?' disk without the accelerator installed. With the accelerator installed, I get this: So I'm guessing one of the SIMMs is bad (I think there...

Dear Tinkerers, I've recently bought a Bluescsi for my Macintosh Plus. However, Every disk image I could find online for the mac plus was System 7.0 and up. (system 7 and up requires 4MB of ram) My mac plus has only 2mb ram installed. I was able to get it running on 7.5.5 but now I have less...

Racer Cinema Productions Intel Swamp Years Challenge Hello there and welcome back. The MacYak PowerPC challenge was proven to be a success and, I decided to come up with my own challenge involving Macs that are also nearing obsolescence. For those of you who don’t know, The Swamp Years of...

Hello there, I am trying to create a dial in server with one of my old Macs. A local phone line aka a FritzBox is available so that’s no problem. I want to be able to dial in from a PowerBook (or something other) to another Mac wich then shares his Ethernet or Wi-Fi connection via modem...

This is essential reading for anyone that has a classic macintosh - download now!

It's that time of year again... where the days shorten, the nights grow gray and dark, and home improvement stores puts out all their Christmas decorations - seriously, what is up with that?!? Join me on Sunday, October 24th at 8am Central for an evening of ghouls and ghosties as we explore...

Configuring a BlueSCSI for use with a classic Mac WITHOUT having a second classic Mac to lean on is lot easier than you might think. https://youtu.be/szXAcwyee9g It's even easier when the creator of BlueSCSI, Eric Helgeson has agreed to give away one BlueSCSI to one lucky viewer at a Q&A /...