James @baldengineer@qoto.org

@48kRAM Well that's a bummer!

@nulleric It worked great to double the capacity of floppies! But, for some reason, windows won't read the micro sd card I stamped with it.

Must be some kind of new modern DRM.

Check out this Pi Pico development board an e14 community made (and then sent me!)

It has some nice features. The board files are available to get your own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kv5MwaRqbk

Anyone check out these new standalone "Active EMI Filters" from TI yet? I find their description... intriguing.

https://www.ti.com/power-management/power-supply-filter/products.html

and

PR: https://news.ti.com/ti-pioneers-industrys-first-stand-alone-active-emi-filter-ics-supporting-high-density-power-supply-designs

So, eventually, I could that Call A.P.P.L.E has an old software list that contains a disk image of the "Basic Connectivity Set." Which contains a bunch of System 7 tools and a single System 6 INIT.

But, ClarisWorks still says the toolbox isn't installed, even with that INIT.

Then. I found out that Zterm doesn't rely on it.

So, that gets me where I was going.

@Computeforloot It was super odd. I bought a lot of four "for parts" IIGS with a bunch of other random parts. Each computer had a W65C02 taped inside, and 3 of them had 6502s in the CPU socket. So, 7 total processors, of which, 5 are functional.

I sincerely think someone was very confused when troubleshooting them.

@Computeforloot And backward!

Where do you get Communications Toolbox for System 6?

Replaced spinning rust platters with @BlueSCSI.

And now I can get to important work.

(This is not the Macintosh with the bombed logic board.)

#MARCHintosh

@retrotheory Doubtful. It depends on what condition the ASICs in that area are in. The SCC and RTC may have lost some of their pins.

Remove. Your. Batteries.

@foone I wonder if the manufacturing workweek lines up with a fiscal quarter end.

SHIP IT. SHIP IT ALL.

I wish 2FA Authenticator apps supported QR-Codes when logging into a site. Why do I have to search for the site/service every time?

@48kRAM Caught your NABU Unboxing VOD just now. Thanks for doing it. This is the first one I saw.

Those surface mount ceramics were probably an early monolithic design. So same cap as a disc, just rectangular. Also, we take standardized case sizes for granted today. I have an app note from the early 1980s that uses some snark about this surface mount fad.

@GustavinoBevilacqua also, it’s backwards …

@GustavinoBevilacqua It’s supposed to be a 65c816. This one isn’t even a CMOS variant. It makes no sense this one would be in a IIgs.

Not what I expected to see when I opened up an Apple IIgs with a note saying: "Failed CPU test."