Apple Network Server MacOS based ROMs found

[trag]

Hmm... what do we think of this?

I equipped two different DIMMs with those back around 2008. I had zero luck getting them to work.

That was the start of the PEx ROM project. James in Britain sent me a few sets of those sockets with the agreement that I would make him a PEx ROM DIMM, but I could never get the socketed version to work. That is part of why it took so long.

If you're already ordered them, I hope you have better luck.

Given the situation with the ROMs does anyone want DIMMs made at this point? I had a couple of requests; one on this topic and one in PM.

 

[mizerable]

I equipped two different DIMMs with those back around 2008. I had zero luck getting them to work.

That was the start of the PEx ROM project. James in Britain sent me a few sets of those sockets with the agreement that I would make him a PEx ROM DIMM, but I could never get the socketed version to work. That is part of why it took so long.

If you're already ordered them, I hope you have better luck.

Given the situation with the ROMs does anyone want DIMMs made at this point? I had a couple of requests; one on this topic and one in PM.

I did already order the ones on ebay, ill lyk if i have any sucess. i also am not particularly confident, especially having messed around with these chips already, but if it does work, itll be nice for when/if we can make a modified ROM image, im just kinda tired of soldering lol. i feel like, using a binder clip to get the appropriate force would prolly work, since thats almost def the issue...hmmm...i can figure this out, looks arnt important right?

Im personally for now good on a rom, i have all the parts coming to make another, hopefully i dont have issues with the board again, i cannot for the life of me to get the one i had to work, gave up, ordered a new board.

A lot went wrong with the second rom, 4 torn pads, worked tempararily but was buggy, desoldering the roms again to reflash got me nowhere, and even using the faster chips i used oringially didnt work.

Kinda at wits end, ordered 2 more rom sticks, gonna make one with the sockets on it, regardless of it working or not, and a normal one that hopefully works, and then im not making another, this shit hurts my brain idk how you do it man. doing 2 has killed me, but then again soldering and desoldering 10 times on the same board with no success blows.

 

[trag]

Kinda at wits end, ordered 2 more rom sticks, gonna make one with the sockets on it, regardless of it working or not, and a normal one that hopefully works, and then im not making another, this shit hurts my brain idk how you do it man. doing 2 has killed me, but then again soldering and desoldering 10 times on the same board with no success blows.

It helps when you get the reward of having them work. In my experience, reworking these boards more than once is usually pretty dicey. I don't understand it either, because on visual inspection, they look fine, but then they just don't work.

I assembled almost 200 of these when I was making and selling Beige G3 Rev. C ROMs back in the early 2000s...

Remember to relax your shoulders and don't tense up when you're hunched over. Being able to not hunch over is even better.

 

[mizerable]

It helps when you get the reward of having them work. In my experience, reworking these boards more than once is usually pretty dicey. I don't understand it either, because on visual inspection, they look fine, but then they just don't work.

I assembled almost 200 of these when I was making and selling Beige G3 Rev. C ROMs back in the early 2000s...

Remember to relax your shoulders and don't tense up when you're hunched over. Being able to not hunch over is even better.

I work standing, i dont think i could sit n solder, wouldnt hit me right...

Good to know that my decision that the board may just be bad, is based in truth, i was starting to go crazy not being able to find anything wrong...

Thanks man, will update with what does and doesnt work.

 

[Mr. Macintosh]

The work being done here is incredible!!! Thank you so much @trag for making these and @ClassicHasClass for the very very detailed testing! Plus @mizerable for additional testing.

The fact that we have come this far already is amazing. Yes both current rom sims have pluses and minuses, but something tells me with the brilliant work of @joevt and others, maybe one day they might be able to fix some of these things. Think about it, even last year we never thought that it would ever be possible to run macOS on an ANS, and here we are!

 

[trag]

So far I have a two requests for ROMs. I'm going to leave the request line open until 5/22/26 (Friday) and then fire up the soldering pencil.

It looks like there are four different ANS/MacOS ROMs in the .zip file that joevt kindly created.

https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/apple-network-server-macos-based-roms-found.4756/post-46005

I've seen discussion/requests for 2.0 and 1.1.20. Is there some reason there is no interest in 1.1.22 or 2.26B6? I can't seem to sort it out in the discussion.