![]() ![]() I was amazed that I remembered how to configure the AppleShare Server as I hadn’t done that in at least 25 years. Once the software was installed it was just a matter of launching the AppleShare Server software, sharing a volume and configuring a guest user. I could have made floppy discs of all the images for an authentic experience but I was aware that the RetroChallenge is only for the month of October so I needed to get a hurry along. I had a BlueSCSI connected externally with the images for System 7.1 and AppleShare 3.0.3 so I could do a fresh install of all software on the server. The good news was the SE/30 booted up from its internal hard drive with no issues and the floppy drive was working fine. As with the LC475 the logicboard, analogue board and PSU were all professionally recapped 2 years ago so I had my fingers crossed I wouldn’t run into similar issues to the LC475. ![]() Therefore I was stuck with a LocalTalk to LocalTalk setup which was pretty much the way it was back in the day anyway.įor the server I chose an SE/30 with 8MB of RAM and a 200MB hard drive. The other reason was my Cayman Gatorbox PSU decided to pack it in. 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 original Challenge. Now I had the IIe card working, it was time to tackle the server. RetroChallenge 2022/10 – Getting AppleShare up and running I now had the Apple IIe Card running a IIe inside my Macintosh LC475, now to get the AppleShare Server running… ![]() For details on how to partition the drive see Jays Graham’s KansasFest 2021 presentation Apple IIe Card Partitioning, it was an invaluable guide to something I genuinely thought I knew how to do. After a bit of cleaning with Iso Propyl Alcohol and applying some lithium grease the drive finally worked.Īfter all the hardware failures I was finally able to install System 7.5.5 (Note: you have to install 7.5.3 and then update to 7.5.5) and the IIe card software, partitioned the card with one HFS (Mac SD) and two ProDOS volumes (PDOS1, PDOS2), installed ProDOS 2.4.2 on them and I was ready to go. Before I sacrificed these precious drives I decided to do a bit of maintenance on the faulty internal drive. I didn’t have any spare internal drives but I did have a few working external 800kB drives but only two Apple SuperDrives so was reluctant to open them up for the internal HD drives they contain. Finding an internal HD floppy drive that worked was more of a challenge than I expected. I tried multiple floppy disks with the same result. I powered on the LC475 and inserted the Install 1 disk only to have the drive make weird noises and eject the floppy. This was where I hit the next old hardware snag. I made floppy disk images with another Mac in preparation for the software install. I went for 7.5.5 as it is the most stable on the LC475 while still supporting the Apple IIe Card software. Once I got a blank image on the BlueSCSI and I could get it to appear on the SCSI bus I was ready to install software. I won’t go into details on these solutions here but I decided on the BlueSCSI for the LC as it was the simples to setup. I have a large variety of these SCSI to SD/CF card solutions such as the Block Devices - AztecMonster, SCSI2SD and Volume Devices - BlueSCSI and RaSCSI. After about the 10th dead/dying/screeching/howling hard drive I decided to break my own rules and go for a more modern solid state solution. The hard drive was dead, no problem, I had plenty of old SCSI drives. ![]() After the RAM check I got the (all too familiar these days) flashing question mark. The logicboard and PSU were professional recapped 2 years ago so I wasn’t anticipating any problems there. I powered up the LC475 and got a reassuring startup chime. Boy did I run into some hard drive and floppy drive issues. It has the added advantage of being easily accessible for installing the card and dealing with any hard drive and floppy drive issues. I chose an LC475 because it is the fastest Mac capable of running the IIe Card as it has an LC-PDS slot and supports 24-bit operation. The biggest issues all turned out to be old hardware related. 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 worked. I thought this was going to be a lot easier than it was. RetroChallenge 2022/10 - Getting the Apple IIe Card working ![]()
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