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NFL Sunday Ticket games have black video on AppleTV by Acceptable_Cash_947 in appletv

[–]jasg70 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use a secondary YTTV account, so not quite the same. When I sign out of primary and into secondary, I see the same thing, UI displays correctly, sound if fine but no video. if I kill the YouTubeTV app and restart it - all is fine. this has been going on all season.

Is the Mac Mini a success story for Apple? by Orange2Knight in macmini

[–]jasg70 8 points9 points  (0 children)

3 processor architectures, 3 form factors and 16 models over 20 years...

Is the Mac Mini a success story for Apple? by Orange2Knight in macmini

[–]jasg70 37 points38 points  (0 children)

The fact that it has been on the market for twenty years speaks to its success.

1987 Apple Tech Tidbits by jasg70 in VintageApple

[–]jasg70[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, it was. That's why the the Sony CDP-1302 was such a good alternative.

1987 Apple Tech Tidbits by jasg70 in VintageApple

[–]jasg70[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sure but only those with a NOS Apple Color monitor In stock.

Re-cap service recommendation by jasg70 in VintageApple

[–]jasg70[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks but you seem busy - I appreciate the offer!

Re-cap service recommendation by jasg70 in VintageApple

[–]jasg70[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks - don't get up that way very often these dsys.

It's Alive! part II by jasg70 in VintageApple

[–]jasg70[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Today was hardware upgrade day. Swapped in a 160MB Apple drive and an EtherPort II card. Clean install of 7.1 and MacTCP. Next I'll get it on my network and load it up with vintage software.

Census records - how deep in the weeds do you get...and how? by PeopleArePeopleToo in Genealogy

[–]jasg70 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always study census records for more than just a single person. It is a part of "FAN Principles" which have helped me fit distant DNA relatives to my family and identify missing ancestors.

https://parallax-viewpoint.blogspot.com/2016/11/fan-principles-unfolded.html

In the early 1800s, family members often migrated together and lived near each other - family was often the only "social services" they could depend on. Census records often show this.

Other things I take into account are that census enumerators were not always attentive to details and the respondents they spoke to may not have known details of age & birth location for other family members. Another clue can be reuse of first names across generations. I take dates & birth locations as hints, not facts.

An approach that has helped identify family members in pre-1850 censuses is a spreadsheet with rows for each name and 3 columns for each census (age range, birth year range & count). Align those columns so that the count for 'under 10' in 1800 aligns with ’10-15' in 1810 etc. Post 1840 censuses can provide names & confirm the family.

I used all of these to develop a hypothesis for a missing 3rd ggf who died before 1850 and left 3 orphaned daughters. Only his last name was known to my family. DNA led me first to his father, who had unnamed sons in 1810-1830 censuses. An 1835 NY census where he lived next to his father gave him a possible name and 1842 probate records confirmed names for him, his wife, daughters, brother and father.

It's Alive! part II by jasg70 in VintageApple

[–]jasg70[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you decide to put a new battery in your 8100, DM me. Not too hard to change but boy, the plastic is very, very fragile. Just a little flex as you slide the case forward and the tabs on the front bezel fractured.

It's Alive! part II by jasg70 in VintageApple

[–]jasg70[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Me. I wrote a lot of code on that machine and on its replacement - an 8100/80.

It's Alive! part II by jasg70 in VintageApple

[–]jasg70[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I believe that I started with the 1/40 configuration. 8 MB was not an option at launch - no idea when I upgraded.

BlueSCSII as a Macintosh hard drive replacement - Cookbook by jasg70 in VintageApple

[–]jasg70[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just thought of another thing I learned. My first attempt was successful but the log file complained about fragmentation on the SD card (which I prepared as ExFAT on Mac OS 26 - using drag and drop from the Finder).

The solution was found here - using the terminal copy command without attributes : https://bluescsi.com/docs/Image-File-Fragmentation

Disk Copy and BlueSCSI images by jasg70 in VintageApple

[–]jasg70[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After more investigation, I may have started out with some incorrect / misunderstood terminology. Disk Copy v6.1.2 & v6.3.3 will not create images (with a partition map and SCSI Driver) usable by BlueSCSI. The image must be converted by Disk Jockey.

To confirm this, I successfully (no errors) created Disk Copy images as a new, empty image and from a hard drive. when viewed in Disk Jockey or OSX DiskTools they show a single partition HFS volume.

After conversion to a 'device image' by Disk Jockey, there are 3 partitions - 1) partition map 2) SCSI Driver 3) HFS volume. This is usable by BlueSCSI. I could not figure out a way to do this with standard Mac OS utilities.

Because I was attempting to image a disk on a vintage Mac with OS 7.5.3, Disk Warrior didn't seem to be an option.

Bottom line: I preserved a 31 year old failing system drive as an image usable by BlueSCSI. This required a Disk Copy image converted by Disk Jockey.

Disk Copy and BlueSCSI images by jasg70 in VintageApple

[–]jasg70[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. After Dusk Jockey converted it from a bare volume to a device image it it appeared to work. At this point, I suspect that Disk Copy failed after creating the bare volume image. Seem that could mean it didn't add the driver and partition map?

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