@lukaszjokiel I prefer #PiSCSI since it has some more features like the Web control interface or the printer device

Successfully printed the case. Everything assembled together. Now I can start messing around with PiSCSI and Mac SE 😁

#3DPrinting #RetroComputing #PiSCSI #MacSE #VintageTech #TechProjects #HardwareHacking #RetroMods #ClassicMac #DIY

The case for PiSCSI is already printing. Only 8 more hours and it will be over 😆 First time printing with PET-G so I'm sure to mess something up 😉

#PiSCSI #3DPrinting #RetroComputing #TechProjects #PrintingInProgress #DIY #macintoshse

@piscsi is only 4 stars away from 500 - consider giving them a star (and a follow)!

https://github.com/PiSCSI/piscsi

#PiSCSI #retrocomputing #scsi #vintagemac

I’ve been wanting to get in on the #MARCHintosh action a little more than I have—but the month has been pretty crazy. Fortunately it’s a nice snow day today, so I’ve been trying to get stuff working with #globaltalk , #piscsi and #BlueSCSI The SE/30 has a NIC card, but it’s only showing two megs of Ram. The joys of retro tech.

Wie finde ich heraus, warum mein Mac Classic dieses Image nicht booten will, was mit dem Mac Plus einwandfrei funktioniert? System 7.0.1, von @3rz optimiert (meine ich jedenfalls 😉) #MARCHintosh #piscsi

this is Ryza! she's a PowerBook 180 in fairly good condition and the nicest 68k Mac i own.

this MARCHINTOSH, i'm going to try to upgrade Ryza with a WiFi-capable PiSCSI (fka RaSCSI) so i can test and someday play Atelier Esri, my homebrew Atelier demake.

i'm also going to try out a brand new JCS PowerBook 1xx battery. and while i'm in there, i can at least inventory the capacitors and check the PRAM battery.

unfortunately, like most 180s, her active matrix screen is developing "tunnel vision", slowly fading from the corners inward as long as she's on. (it reverts when she's not, but it can take multiple days, far slower than the fading).

fortunately, Ryza has video output and is capable of driving a VGA monitor or capture box, so i won't need to rely on her screen too much.

#MARCHINTOSH #VintageMac #PowerBook #68k #PiSCSI #AtelierEsri

I have continued futzing around with the #Apple #Macintosh #PowerBook 145B. My weekend project was to remove the ancient, decrepit SCSI hard drive (functional, but loud as heck) and replace it with the #Androda #BlueSCSI, a custom PCB with a Raspberry Pi Pico W attached to it. (The Pi Pico W also gives the PowerBook an internal WiFi connection, something the original never had.)

Fortunately I already have some experience working with .hda disk image files from last year's #PiSCSI project, so I had some ready-made virtual hard disks loaded with software I've barely touched.

Today at @mediaarchaeologylab I found a floppy disk for the 1995 Norton Disk Editor, a low-level diagnostic tool that I can't imagine there was much consumer demand for. The disk editor contains some hidden gems of MacIntosh lore I was previously unaware of.

The UI says "The Disk Type bytes identify the type of Macintosh file system in use on the volume. If the bytes are $D2D7 (or 'RW' - standing for Randy Wigginton) then the volume is an MFS volume. If the Disk Type bytes are $4244 (standing for 'BD' or "Big Disk") then the volume is an HFS volume."

(Edit: I don't know if Apple had its own version of ASCII, but while in traditional ASCII hex 0x4244 = "BD," ASCII hex values for "RW" would be 0x5257, not 0xD2D7, so that's...weird)

Randy was employee number 6 at Apple, and a neighbor of Woz. Turning your initials into magic bytes buried in the filesystem you designed seems just so...early Apple.

The PowerBook is now completely silent when it runs. It doesn't have an internal fan. The hard drive motor was the only thing that made any noise (aside from the speaker, of course).

And the BlueSCSI? With a 128GB MicroSD card, it has about 1600 times as much storage as that old 80MB hard drive.

#RetroComputing #RetroMac #MakeShitMonday

The Nov 2023 version of the #PiSCSI software, hot off the presses: https://github.com/PiSCSI/piscsi/releases/tag/v23.11.01 … it might be the best version yet for your #SCSI equipped #VintageMac #retrocomputing. :)

Quadra 700 did not like #piscsi and then I remebered termination. Weirdly it worked just fine on the 950.

Feels just a tiny bit ridiculous to emulate a #scsi device with GHz device for a 33Mhz #computer
#piscsi #rascsi #retrohardware #vintagecomputing

Looks like #samplerspa is no more (?) #piscsi #rascsi

#macintosh #theoldnet #bluescsi #piscsi @MuseumJoe #apple

Love me a good new old stock SCSI cable. I wonder if that lifetime warranty is still good?

In theory this should let me connect my #PiSCSI and external CD-ROM drive at the same time. But will it work with the IIfx’s weird SCSI termination behaviour?

#RetroComputing #VintageMac

@thatKomputerKat I thought the #PiSCSI had support for emulating one of the SCSI ethernet cards? Not Asante but Dayna something.

I *knew* there was an advantage to being an infosec researcher with an interest in #retrocomputing

ClamAV has a vulnerability that can only be triggered when it scans a specially made HFS+ partition file. HFS+ is the partition format for Apple Macs starting with Mac OS 8.1.

My experience with the #PiSCSI and #sheepshaver #emulator has prepared me for this day. Lookin to make me some #retromalware 😜

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-clamav-q8DThCy

#PiSCSI 23.02 is now available for download!
https://github.com/PiSCSI/piscsi/releases/tag/v23.02.01

- Improved configuration file handling
- New logo in web interface
- Improvements to creating and loading ISO images

Thank you to everyone who has contributed and reported errors!

The #PiSCSI also came with a heat sink, which wasn't pre-attached, and I saw no mention of in their wiki - none of the pics I saw of it featured a heat sink!

But it must have come with one for some reason, right? So I attached it before connecting the PiSCSI up to my IIfx out of an abundance of caution, and boy I'm glad I did. That thing gets HOT!!!

My #PiSCSI finally arrived today, so I quickly jerry-rigged it up (forgot to buy a DB25-CEN50 cable, whoops) using the internal SCSI connector and did a quick performance test to compare it against my #BlueSCSI

The PiSCSI has the _slightest_ edge in read performance, by 60 KB/sec. But the BlueSCSI wins in every other metric, especially in write performance.

And I'm happy with that, because my plan is to continue to use the BlueSCSI for the OS, Apps, Games, and Docs drives, and to use the PiSCSI exclusively for CD images (so that they can be hot-swapped without me having to power down the system and change the card out).

Just a little bit of #RetroComputing for the evening.

I’m too tired to read a script tonight, so just downloading some software with the #Powerbook5300 with its newly installed #System8_6.

Thanks to #PiSCSI I was able to install clean OS and get the #FarallonEthernet adaptor working again.

I love this… SO much.