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I have a 9600 and the SCSI bus is 10mb/sec. I also have an SSD and a regular SATA HD hooked up to a Sonnet Tempo SATA PCI card. I find that copying files from a…
· 2 posts · started 1 Oct 2014 - 19:40 · last 1 Oct 2014 - 21:59
Troubleshooting
Did the recap on my SE/30. No luck on getting it up and running, it is still a Simasima SE/30. Reading http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~shamada/fullmac/repairEng.html#Sim…
· 7 posts · started 30 Sep 2014 - 02:05 · last 30 Sep 2014 - 21:42
Hardware
While I'm waiting for parts and money to come in for various motherboard repairs, I decided to fix up a few floppy drives. I took them apart, cleaned them up, a…
· 4 posts · started 28 Sep 2014 - 22:56 · last 30 Sep 2014 - 21:11
Hardware
So I bought one of the relatively cheap TTL CGA/EGA/RGB to VGA converters (GBS 8200). Was like $20 + shipping. Would it be possible to run the signal directly f…
· 25 posts · started 21 Sep 2014 - 22:15 · last 30 Sep 2014 - 02:13
Hardware
First up, I was reading about DOS card for the 6100 and how it could also be used in Quadra because without the 6100 angled adapter, it uses Quadra style PDS sl…
· 9 posts · started 12 Sep 2014 - 01:59 · last 29 Sep 2014 - 20:43
68k
Thanks again to Uni for the recapping, my Color Classic is now back and working great. I moved over the AztecMonster 2.5 to CF into it, because the internal SCS…
· 10 posts · started 15 Sep 2014 - 16:03 · last 29 Sep 2014 - 08:05
Software
Hello there. I have a question with something. I'm trying to hook up an external CD Rom drive to a Macintosh Performa 476. I'm thinking I might just need a driv…
· 13 posts · started 2 Sep 2014 - 20:17 · last 28 Sep 2014 - 20:43
Hardware
A couple years back I was given a Powerbook G4 1.67ghz 15" (a1138) from a friend http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g4/specs/powerbook_g4_1.67_15_h…
· 3 posts · started 24 Sep 2014 - 02:37 · last 28 Sep 2014 - 19:22
Hardware
Hi, I'm looking for schematic diagram to my TDK 699-0153 power supply for Mac LC II. Do you know where can I get it. I want to repair my Mac Greetings Kamil
· 4 posts · started 25 Sep 2014 - 20:35 · last 27 Sep 2014 - 23:43
Networking
Well I stopped by Goodwill today and picked up a nice rolling office chair for 8 bucks. But I spotted one vintage apple product... A lonely cable all by itself.…
· 3 posts · started 27 Sep 2014 - 02:07 · last 27 Sep 2014 - 04:25
68k
A few weeks ago, I sent off several boards to be recapped. They all came back yesterday and I got to open the box today. Inside were the logic boards of my SE/3…
· 2 posts · started 27 Sep 2014 - 03:08 · last 27 Sep 2014 - 03:19
Hardware
Got home late from the Dr's appointment yesterday which sort of angered me for the delays. But along the way one of the local schools made a trash pile of old c…
· 11 posts · started 25 Sep 2014 - 17:48 · last 27 Sep 2014 - 03:02
PowerPC
I picked up a Gigabit G4 logicboard 400MHz CPU with heatsink for $8 and change to experiment with. I currently have it mounted in a Full Tower Alienware case, t…
· 1 posts · started 27 Sep 2014 - 01:26 · last 27 Sep 2014 - 01:26
Hardware
I was looking through the Powerbook 500 series developer note: http://tech-insider.org/mac/research/acrobat/9405-a.pdf And thought it was interesting that the P…
· 4 posts · started 26 Sep 2014 - 17:11 · last 26 Sep 2014 - 22:56
Software
I was looking at some pictures of Apple Display cards and noticed some has 512k soldered onboard + 2 slots for 2x256k upgrade, and some has 1MB onboard and no s…
· 1 posts · started 26 Sep 2014 - 21:01 · last 26 Sep 2014 - 21:01
68k
251653134885 on eBay, not mine. Starting at cheap 99 cents bid so no price bashing please! Seller says it is a Color Classic II but when I took a closer look, t…
· 9 posts · started 24 Sep 2014 - 02:48 · last 26 Sep 2014 - 14:52
Hardware
An 8 kilobyte text file on an HFS+ drive shows up as roughly 30MB on a 1TB HFS drive (Mac OS Standard). That's what I get anyway. Large file sizes aren't too gr…
· 10 posts · started 24 Sep 2014 - 06:32 · last 26 Sep 2014 - 05:45
Hardware
As a favor to dad, I recapped his IIfx for him. It was just two (2) caps - 47µf @16 cans that goes bad, they are on the right side, one under the power switch a…
· 5 posts · started 20 Sep 2014 - 17:53 · last 26 Sep 2014 - 02:32
Peripherals
So I pulled out the Duo 230 today to test it's operation, and it chimes, screen comes on, then the speaker starts squealing and it shuts down with the smell of …
· 13 posts · started 9 Sep 2014 - 23:34 · last 26 Sep 2014 - 02:27
Development
*** YOU MUST HAVE 1GB OR LESS MEMORY FOR PROPER FUNCTION OF THIS APP ON A G4! ***if you have more than 1gb memory, shutdown, open up the power mac g4, and remov…
· 9 posts · started 24 Sep 2014 - 02:02 · last 25 Sep 2014 - 14:19
Hardware
I’d like to obtain and use a P630 as my main 68k machine. I’d also like to use a large-ish LCD display with it. The color depth is of no concern. Were there any…
· 5 posts · started 9 Sep 2014 - 02:07 · last 25 Sep 2014 - 01:37
Hardware
My Centris 610 still has the stock 80MB hard drive and it's now 21 years old so I should do something. But i don't want to replace or change OS so it will still…
· 16 posts · started 23 Sep 2014 - 05:56 · last 24 Sep 2014 - 22:38
Hardware
Saturday I went out to a local recycler thinking I could snatch up some more vintage Macs for less than $40 a piece (got an SE/30 and some IBM 5150s for $18 eac…
· 8 posts · started 23 Sep 2014 - 16:39 · last 24 Sep 2014 - 15:08
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