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 and we have working video! now for the most important question of the day: what version of Mac OS should i put on it? i'm going to create a SCSI disk image for my SCSI2SD using BasiliskII and the instructions at https://www.savagetaylor.com/2019/12/19/how-ive-setup-the-scsi2sd-that-i-use-in-my-lc-475/ @tubetime As a new hire at Apple I authored the 7.5 installer script. I moved on to doing software engineering on the OS by 7.5.3, but that always gives me a nice feeling to see it still running. before i can use the Apple IIe card, looks like i'll need to recap it. 😬  @tubetime I like to think you have a stock room full of capacitors. @tubetime I recapped my SNES a few months ago to protect it. Unfortunately I think it has some problems with one of the ICs. Graphics are all weird. Also replaced the vreg even though the output from that looked fine. I was having trouble because I was putting the *volume* image into the SCSI2SD rather than the *disk* image. turns out partition tables are important lol @tubetime Such a comforting boot screen. Diagnosing Extension conflicts not so much. I mean it's a large volume but should it really take an hour to mount? @tubetime wow I forgot all the partition options the Classic era disk formatting tools had. trying something else. unfortunately this didn't seem to work, I suspect the HFS partition needs to come before the ProDOS partitions. well this explains why it was hanging. there's probably some setting on the SCSI2SD that's not exactly right. @tubetime Seeing this is dredging up ancient memories of playing with not-new SCSI gear as a kid… staring at the baroque arrangement of peripherals, utterly confused as to why it wouldn’t just WORK. @kgutwin it's still a confusing mess when it comes to USB 3.0/3.1/Gen 1/Gen 2/3.2 Gen 1x2/2x2 and all the weird alternate mode issues. turns out this hang was caused by the SCSI2SD firmware, which was uhh shamefully out of date. with the latest version it works and i can partition the drive! it also turns out that MacOS wants to be the first data partition (i had the two ProDOS partitions first.) but it works now! @tubetime Memories of SE30s, Classics and a few Quadras in a graphics shop I worked at in 92. I used Filemaker Pro to manage work flow and create job tickets. Great relational database program. only had these poscaps hanging around. yes they're very fancy but they'll work. wow, it totally worked! is it an Apple IIe or is it a Performa 475? why not both! i figured out how to change the startup sound to "Quack" which makes me think of the Quapple (my Apple II ISA card that i cloned a while back) @natemartinsf it's super clean! also dang you're on mastodon too, i will follow you asap time to check the capacitors on the motherboard. there really aren't that many chips on it! I was also able to remove it without any tools. just bend some tabs and it slides right out. @tubetime copyright 1982 on the ROM--wow!  @tubetime Definitely a #Macintosh #mainboard: I've not seen and #PDS "slot" sockets anywhere else... i found a tech manual. this is a very clean design. most things are tidied up into the two big custom chips, MEMCjr and Prime Time. heh, they even put the bus sizing features in this chip. motorola removed that in the '040 (the '030 had it) and it caused innumerable problems for 68k computer designers. the Commodore folks solved this on their '040 Amiga CPU card by using a raft of ten (10) GALs, which burned a ton of power. @tubetime This post suggests power management. https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/where-to-find-341s0851-c-1990-apple-lciii-boot-issues.37152/ @tubetime I feel like that's the spiritual successor of the SE's BBU which turned a half dozen or so PALs into a single chip @tubetime Oooh that looks fun. Alas all I have in the classic mac world is a Mac SE with no slots. @tubetime @tubetime Yeah I've had mixed results with the SCSI2SD and random old hardware. A particularly weird one is suddenly the same one I've had forever stopped working on my Microvax. Used to work, now doesn't, no explanation. @tubetime any recommendations for 68000 emulators? I remember using one must be nearly twenty years ago now, but it had a nice gui with the register contents and possibly a few LEDs. Had to build a 68k dsp in college. Would love to play with some assembly again. @tubetime Never even crossed my mind that this was even a thing… 😮🥳  @tubetime @tubetime TIL modern 9v batteries use 3x 1/2 AA 3v cells and not 6x AAAA 1.5v cells anymore! @w4www_raker only the energizer lithium ones, the others use the weird thin stacked cells thing @tubetime |
a perfect fit!