1 Nov
2012
1 Nov
'12
4:46 a.m.
On Nov 1, 2012, at 1:24, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
I have a well-treated Macintosh SE/30 that I'd like to fix up.
Problem 1) Whenever the CPU is doing something or something is being read or written,
faint warbling screeches can be heard coming from inside. The volume control does nothing
to quell this noise.
I've had a number of machines that did that; I guess it's just
microphonics on the bus lines. It's not harmful, though I
guess it could be annoying. I always thought of it as a
crude CPU activity meter. :-)
Problem 2) The image on the monitor is canted a few
degrees clockwise -- enough to be noticable and irritating.
There's probably a monitor yoke adjustment for that,
but I'll leave that to the more skilled folks. I can look
in my copy of the Dead Mac Scrolls (which only
covers up to the SE, but should be close enough).
Problem 3) I've figured out how to format a Mac
floppy under Linux and transfer files by floppy, but I'm unclear how I should get two
needed utilities: binhex and unstuff onto a Mac floppy without mangling the resource and
data forks.
I might be able to cook up a floppy image you can
just dd onto the disk (no worrying about resource forks
then). I'll try to do that today; StuffIt Expander should
really be all you need, since it handles most common Mac
file interchange formats (.sit, .bin, .hqx and even .zip, which
was never common on the Mac until OS X).
After that, if you find an Ethernet card for it (they don't go
for all that much on eBay), you can run a 2.x version of
Netatalk on your Linux box to act as a file server (they
dropped AppleTalk support with 3.0, and most systems
you're likely to run on the SE/30 don't do AFP over TCP.
- Dave