I'm hoping this can be a repository for specific repair help/information for the Powerbook 3400c. Macdrone has been doing sort of research/experimentation on re…

Greetings! I am a long time reader, new member and first post. I think its fantastic that there is people who are into these awesome machines and there is a sit…

I have a handful of 400k drives in various states of disrepair. Some show signs of life, but don't read floppies, some appear as dead as a door nail. I've searc…

Hi all, I've a stock, un-upgraded 128K which is coming up with 040001 Sad Mac error immediately at startup (and slight graphic corruption). From the following l…

Hi, As this is my first post on the forum, I will first introduce myself : My name is François, I am 33 and I am from France. I am a Mac fan since I'm a kid and…

Hi: Recently i bought a SE/30 that came with this expansion card: { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightb…

I've cut out the board and made a note of where the wires came from. There were 4x 26650 lithium cells. As I can't tab or solder them myself and I don't think t…

I'm trying to actually get to the point where I build this thing. Here are some pictures of the modules I've worked on, used for testing, etc. along the way. Th…

This is going to be differnt for each machine, but what is the highest system version you have ever gotten to run on a Mac 512K or 512Ke? Since the 512K require…

So I happen to have a Radius 24X, 24XP, and 24XK. According to LEM, the 24XP appears to be the budget card. It doesn't do the higher 1152 resolution, though it …

Putting my SE/30 back together and want to make sure my screen is adjusted properly. How were they adjusted from the factory? Completely edge to edge or should …

After 10 years, it seems like these are starting to fail at an alarming rate! So far, I’ve seen 3 bad dual pump cooling units with each one failing due to a clo…

Hi there! The title says it all - I've recently acquired a Macintosh Portable "demo unit" (much alike the one who was being sold on ebay a couple of weeks ago) …

From personal notes: Kennect Technology For a couple of years, Kennect offered some interesting disk products which allowed the use of PC format disks with non-…

Last year I got an Apple PC Compatibility card without the cable, so I can't do much with it. This evening when I was walking around (an about to leave, again) …

After about 15 minutes of prep/soldering, I bumped up my Pismo to 500Mhz from 400Mhz. so the setup is: PowerBook G3 500Mhz/1MB L2 100Mhz FSB 768MB RAM (256MB lo…

Has anyone used this compact flash SCSI card? It's an Adtron S25CF card. Picked it up recently as a "total shot in the dark" purchase to replace a SCSI hard dri…

http://www.metamage.com/code/MacRelix/ MacRelix is a Unix-like environment that runs on Mac OS, formerly called Lamp (Lamp Ain't Mac POSIX). MacRelix supports t…

If you were to buy a Mac SE/30, is it better to get one with everything original inside than the souped up one? (such as IIsi ROM, hard drive, old capacitors, e…

Has the true root cause of this ever been determined? It doesn't appear to be caps, nor the backlight. Is it a manufacturing defect of some kind? Is there any w…

Any words of wisdom on how to resize a window when the bottom right hand corner is off the screen? I have run into this problem a number of times on my SE/30 an…

I have 3 prodrives now that exhibit the spin up, and spin down without any head actuation. I noticed on all 3 drives when paying close attention, What appears t…

If you drop a Quadra 700/900 ROM file onto HexEdit and find this selection (approximately): 0xBE344 : 0xC342B This is a special sound that might be currently ta…

I have a powerbook 100 that when started up chimes, but then it fails to boot. If I put a floppy on its external floppy drive it will eject it (no matter what's…

I found a guy that has just a PB 500 series LCD panel, but no context to go with it. As such, he doesn't know exactly what member of the PB 500 series it came f…