The Macintosh Portable was Apple’s first foray into mobile computing. This early laptop, err, luggable, weighed in at 16 lbs due to the 6V sealed lead-acid battery and desktop floppy and hard drives. But because of this, the Snow White designed case is roomy inside and a prime candidate for a overhaul. My particular Macintosh […]
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ImageWriter II Color Ribbon Fix
If you’ve attempted to use an original color ribbon in your ImageWriter II recently, you’ve quickly found out that the pinch rollers inside the cartridge have disintegrated over time. More specifically, the foam that goes around the rollers that pull the ribbon through the cartridge have fallen apart and turned to sticky dust. I recently […]
Using AppleTalk with QEMU 9 on Raspberry Pi 5
I recently built QEMU from scratch on the Raspberry Pi 5 and wanted to document my steps. My goal was to run two different Mac emulations: a 68k and PPC Mac, specifically with AppleTalk networking functioning over Ethernet.
Installing an Ethernet card and video card and other upgrades for a Mac SE/30.
(The following was a Twitter thread on March 10, 2021 for #MARCHintosh.) But there’s only one slot, you say? It’s all a matter of using a clever part to adapt a pass-through.