Documenting my retro computing one project at a time
So MARCHintosh is now over and I am exhausted. Let me explain. Firstly, What is MARCHintosh and what’s with the name? Very simply #MARCHintosh is a month (March) where a group of retrpcomputing enthusiasts work on projects based on 68K and PPC…
Leave a CommentI acquired a working PowerBook 2400c/180 from a friend a while back and thought it might be a good project for the PowerPC Challenge for 2024. It has to be something small enough that I could take it with me on Summer…
Leave a CommentThe final step in a month long conquest was to get the IIe Card to boot from the AppleShare server. In its standard configuration it turned out pretty simple. However it did take a while to work out on two fronts. The…
Leave a CommentI only had two steps left to complete my challenge, getting the IIe Card seeing the server and getting the IIe Card to boot from it. The end was in sight and it seem like a very simple thing to get the…
Leave a CommentNow I had the IIe card working, it was time to tackle the server. I was going to cheat a little and just connect to my A2SERVER running on my Raspberry Pi but I felt that wasn’t in the spirit of my…
Leave a CommentI thought this was going to be a lot easier than it was. My very first Mac back in the day was a Macintosh LC with IIe Card (as I was upgrading from a IIgs) so I was familiar with how it…
1 CommentI finally got around to having a think about the project and I came up with the following requirements- Hardware required Apple IIe Card 68K Mac that the card works in SE/30 for AppleShare server 2x LocalTalk connectors Software required System 7.1…
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