BTW what does the jumper at J103 and J106 do (towards the front center of the board)? There's no Jumper on 103 but there is on 106. Tempest

Already tried resetting the PRAM (got the second Chime) and reseating all the RAM and the ROM. Nothing. I have a disk in the drive, that's what I'm trying to boot from, but it ne…

I've heard that you can use two normal terminators in a row and it acts similar to a black terminator on the IIfx. I don't have a citation for this though.

I was under the impression that the IIfx had NO electrolytics on the logic board. I could be wrong, but that's what I seem to remember. I know for sure that the Quadra 700 doesn'…

Known to whom? He's got the earliest Mac listed in that database, that's all we know.

Actually, if I recall those Macs were taken directly off the production assembly line and not given to the team until the Mac shipped, which was not until late January. Until confi…

Thanks, Mars. (What a great club.) Any advice re how much gets borked? Motherboard and processor card only, or more than that?

Welcome to the club...

My point is that mine is the oldest known production Macintosh. And I'll proudly trumpet that until someone produces an older one. Click to expand... My point was that we kn…

Well, I seem to have had a triple-biorhythm low kind of day on Saturday - either that or I was just stupid! Managed to lose my glasses AND fry one of my Pismos, all within two hour…

(Then again, according to your database, I have the oldest known production Macintosh, period...) Click to expand... I know that you're saying "according to the database", but …

Leaking capacitors do not usually explode; they usually leak a barely visible (as in, transparent) conductive liquid which spreads widely, being oily. The solution to this is (a) …

What do you think, Bunsen? Does this post warrant being changed to a sticky or should I send you a revised post with all the info needed? Let me know via PM, please. Thank you. …

Hmmm. Using an SE/30 with NetBSD installed to take place of the PeeCee. That is very interesting. Keep us posted if it works. 73s de Phreakout. :rambo:

(Then again, according to your database, I have the oldest known production Macintosh, period...) Click to expand... I know that you're saying "according to the database", but …

Hm, I wonder if the "family pack" license would let you install on multiple VMs on the same hardware? Click to expand... There's no such thing as a "family pack" license for OS…

In what ways, specifically, did the G5 outperform the mini? I don't think anybody actually said that things which were completely disk-bound would be better on a mini, although I d…

Can you explain a bit more? I'm not sure what you mean by 'wash the logic board' (unless you mean physically cleaning it with some sort of cleaner). Tempest

So cool! Ok, you'll always find people who do have more than you do… Greener grass, they say? AFAIK, DP1 and DP2 never made it on CD to mainstream developpers. Or did they? I…

This behaviour sounds just like that of my 840av before I washed the logic board. (I know, it needs new caps really.) Much a-goo about everything, as it turned out, though on first…

But I can definitely justify to the management to buy ONE Xserve and run multiple copies from with the proper licensing. Click to expand... Consider also the new Mac Mini Serve…

So YOU perhaps are to blame for that blasted 1/4 tracking and spiral encoding??? Click to expand... No. Those tricks were likely to fail on non-Apple+Shugart floppies, since th…

Nice! Anyway, you are missing Mac OS X DP1 and DP2 see my collection here http://freeweb.siol.net/jstarc4/Mac%20OS%20History%20Collection/Mac%20OS.html I didn't update the pag…

Ironically, I'm a month late for the Winter Challenge. (And, really, deep down, this isn't that much of a technical accomplishment. As was pointed out on Vintage Computer Forum, …

Anonymous Freak, This is now literally Insanely Great! You deserve a microbrew on us! I hope you're entering this into the RetroChallenge 2010. Better tell James and John on Re…