I stopped in a Goodwill computer store today to check out what they had. The prices were good on some items, OK on others. However, one display that I was drawn to was NOS floppy d…

Nice, I did not know they made also a combo drive. But as far as I remember I used several sorts of drivers with my PB180 and a SCSI ZIP 100 (probably with help of SCSI probe or HD…

two NeXTstations Click to expand... 8-o Doooooo iiiiiiiitttt!!!

You might also try to connect the iomega disk drive with inserted HFS formatted disk to your Mac, drive ready while booting. Probably this will cause an appropriate drive to load …

Ram yes, changing it out did not work, one of the first things I did. Was using 4x 128mb dimms, interleaved. Battery is full 3.6v. El Nino? lol

P.S.: make sure you have got a SCSI version of the zip drive; the Parallel Port version for PCs might sport a connector of the same physical dimensions, but experiments to connect …

Will the thing boot from an external USB DVD drive?

To produce a Mac usable floppy disk on a PC follow the instructions given in our 68kMLA Wiki -> HFVExplorer. You might also try to connect the iomega disk drive with insert…

Very cool, blade 1000s are seemingly really spiffy UNIX workstations.

After a night of test installations today I managed to install a stable version of 9.1+ onto a 7200 with Sonnet G3/400/1MB L2/224MB RAM, ATI Rage, 1GB Harddisk and a TEAC CD burner…

You need to set the new DVD drive as "slave", which basically involves bridging a pin on the DVD drive's data/power connector to force this. It is currently set to cable select wh…

Wow, nice conquests!

A guy selling UNIX gear at a computer show I went to in March told me about a recycler in the area, and I finally made it over there last week. There were a number of interesting t…

I had a friend who had the same system and a similar problem - namely that no matter what version of OS 9.2x he tried from various torrents, it wouldn't boot up off the CD. After…

I bought a USB diskette unit and copied the Omega driver onto a PC format diskette usning a modern computer. I will see (next week) if the SE30 can read it and install it from that…

And if this wasn't about PowerPCs, I'd mention the holy grail of clones - the Radius SkyLab :O

Id go for a PowerWave Stargate with Nubus/PCI. } just because nubus is teh win

Battery? El Nino?

i have tried everything Click to expand... Not only that, but it seems to be stopping your shift key working most of the time.

I bought a USB diskette unit and copied the Omega driver onto a PC format diskette usning a modern computer. I will see (next week) if the SE30 can read it and install it from that…

Have you tried different RAM?

Hello again. I am still searching for a reason as to why my Kansas 9600 logicboard bit the dust a few months ago. I ran this machine since new, almost 12 years(or more) of service …

You need to set the new DVD drive as "slave", which basically involves bridging a pin on the DVD drive's data/power connector to force this. It is currently set to cable select wh…

Link Cost $15 shipped, not too bad hopefully. I plan to max my second Macintosh LC out with one of the sets and save the other two for later projects.

i have tried everything, but it just dosn't boot, and the old cd drive is destroyed so i can't install the system, anyone knows why this happens? just an incompatible drive?, the f…