Notes

My BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Desk Accessory for System 6+ is now available:

https://jcs.org/bluescsi

It lets you view your current network name and signal strength, and change networks on the fly without having to edit your BlueSCSI configuration

Perfect for taking your 68k PowerBook to the coffee shop (but who would do such a thing?)

When you run out of filament 27 hours into a print and continue with a different brand that doesn't have the same finish 🤦‍♂️

Me: Ah crap, why didn't USPS scan this package when I dropped it off? It's been 5 days now, where is it? Did I lose it? Did it get damaged? I'll have to send this customer a new one. Maybe I should visit the post office again and see if they can--

USPS: lol we just found it in Denver

The water wheel is now turning. [2]

I've made the first formal release of my Wikipedia reader for classic MacOS:

https://jcs.org/wikipedia

The second batch of 10 batteries sold out quickly yesterday (thanks @ActionRetro!) so I had to make them all last night, but it will take a while to charge+discharge+recharge each of them before shipping them all out.

I've ordered a 3rd batch of battery packs and will hopefully have more for sale by the end of the week.

A translucent battery, what'll they think of next

Charm is the viscous grease with which he oils his flim-flam machine!

A SCSI disk emulation device like BlueSCSI/SCSI2SD but using CompactFlash... from 1999

https://www.ebay.com/itm/305144502751

Off to the post office... thanks everyone!

After many test builds and case design tweaks, my first batch of new PowerBook 1XX (140-180c) batteries is now available for sale:

https://www.tindie.com/products/jcs/powerbook-1xx-battery/

I have a small number of salvaged battery doors if your PowerBook doesn't have an old battery with one to swap over.

Apple M0110 vs Vortex M0110

I don't think I've ever seen a 5 1/4" floppy drive with an eject button before

https://www.ebay.com/itm/186106481893

Why do so many cheap electronics have their USB-A ports upside down?

My wacky goal was to try to do this transparently on the wire, with the BlueSCSI intercepting TCP packets of plaintext to remote IPs on port 443, then do TLS and send out encrypted traffic, read the reply, decrypt it, and send back plaintext on the wire to the Mac. This way applications on the Mac wouldn't need to know anything about TLS, they could just connect to things on port 443 and get plaintext.

But this was too difficult to do because the plain/cipher packets wouldn't match up one-to-one, so I'd have to answer the Mac's TCP connection and buffer data, then create my own outbound TCP connection to the server with hand-crafted TCP packets built using the Mac's IP (since the Pico doesn't have its own stack/IP), and shuffle data between both TCP conections. That meant adding a TCP state machine, trying to find/maintain the current time (needed for x509 validation), etc.