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Mac Classic

• MacTCP programming guide
• Motorola MC68000 CPU as part of an FPGA design
• Poor man's SCSI via parallel port revisited
• Yes, info on the SWIM chip, and Macintosh Portable
• Great article on classic Macintosh CRT and analog board
• Very interesting story about first cloned Macintosh computer
• OSP PCB finish, classic Macintosh SCSIProbe
• Convert MacPaint to PICT on a classic Macintosh
• Bill Gates famous Mugshot photo
• Another custom box making company
• MacSD, another SCSI to SD device, and others
• Determine capacitor values to use with crystal oscillator
• Using a crystal connection to drive a dedicated AVR timer
• Can you read the contents of mask ROM with a microscope photograph? Yes.
• The PIC microcontroller understood in context
• Macintosh hardware projects, RaSCSI, hw. info, X68000 computer, VIA datasheet
• Macintosh SE/30 boxing and packaging
• Kai Robinson on Twitter, Macintosh SE Reloaded on GitHub, identifying counterfeit ICs
• Researching computer boxing, cardboard and styrofoam, and Macintosh SE original box data
• FluxEngine, a flux disk imager on the cheap
• Retrobrighting with less chemicals, no chemicals?
• Great website info on a historic Macintosh hardware engineer
• IWM, SWIM, and Apple schematic design templates
• Lots of great tech: RaSCSI, Scuznet, MacOS cross compile, and more
• Reverse engineering the Macintosh SE main logic board project, how to digitize a multilayer PCB
• Searching for Open Hardware designs in vintage computing, history of Floppy Emu, and the crux of mass production and Open Hardware
• QEMU now supports PPC Mac emulation!
• SCSI over parallel port, revisited again
• vtools, a modern proxy on the web for vintage Macintoshes
• PotatoFi's blog, and NanoPi
• Good tricks for dealing with stubborn through-hole desoldering
• Wow! SPARC CPU on an FPGA, and ideas of a classic Macintosh FPGA
• Drag soldering, a technique for those fine-pitch surface-mount chips
• Digi-Key blog article on long-term IoT sensors, and ithium thionyl chloride batteries revisited
• Larry Tesler cut and paste
• Year 1920 problem on classic Macintoshes, multisync monitor signals, paint removal, soldering
• Great article on proper technique for surface-mount capacitor removal
• Updates on rubber decay and preservation
• Many useful tips and tricks from 68kMLA
• Lots of interesting info from 68kMLA
• Lessons learned with cable design
• More information on leak-resistant lithium batteries
• Raspberry Pi AppleTalk bridge
• Computer and television video signal standards
• Capacitor repair info on vintage Macintoshes
• Imagewriter emulator!
• More insightful vintage Macintosh knowledge
• Disk imaging software info
• Useful server for vintage Apple II and Macintosh
• Lots of useful vintage computing and vintage Macintosh information
• Mystery MacSE expansion card identity solved, still figuring out how to use it, misc. information on vintage computing
• macOS Catalina has dropped 32-bit support
• Info on removing Macintosh SE logic board
• Interesting story about restoring Macintosh Classic and hard disk drive
• Scans of various vintage Macintosh manuals
• Recap capacitors in a Macintosh 20SC Hard Disk power supply
• Mystery of the lost hard drive company
• Disk Copy 4.2 file format and file tags
• Important info updates on Macintosh hard drive imaging
• MacBinary and BinHex are reasonably easy to process
• Plans on developing my classic Macintosh serial disk imager software
• Why MacTerminal had limited handshaking support
• Review of Macintosh Classic software development tools, and also evolution of ROM/BIOS programming
• The trick to understanding MacBinary
• Details on how to develop a Macintosh dd
• To those who are leaving the vintage computing community...
• The fading Apple II and Macintosh Classic user groups
• Reflections on the awesome innovation of the 1980s and 1990s
• Connect a classic Macintosh to the Windows SMB network
• Clever way to copy a disk image of an old Macintosh hard drive
• Best way to bootstrap a classic Macintosh
• Macintosh Classic disk interface
• Review of some different Macintosh Classic emulators
• The forgotten Silicon Beach Software company
• Apple Older Software Downloads Archive
• Kermit and serial communications on a Macintosh Classic
• Copy a Windows 9x disk image over the network
• Copy a Macintosh Classic hard disk image over the network
• Supplies to construct a classic Macintosh serial cable
• Info on Macintosh serial cables and I/O port connectors
• Get myself started on 3D printing
• Important info and lessons learned from the black and white Macintosh family
• Macintosh SE second monitor, battery replacement info
• SCSI on Macintosh Classic?
• Lots of useful information for my classic Macintosh SE