I'm more inclined to say the PSU is the problem, probably because my II+ was exhibiting similar problems and swapping in a modified AT PSU solved most of the problems. The quickes…

Easy causes could be loose chips (give a solid push with your thumb on any socketed ones) or a marginal power supply (try with no cards (especially the disk drive card) installed).…

Yes, it did cross my mind when you joined up. The other macdan is a bit of a Powerbook guru. In fact, he might have just given me the clue I need to make the UJ-841 drive bootabl…

Well I bought a Monitor II, Apple IIe, Disk II, Parallel Pro Card, 80 column card, etc. It was complete in all the boxes, with manuals and disks, and extra parts with only little u…

MacDan says they'll take any standard laptop optical drive [] ]'> Click to expand... Well, that's a coincidence in names!

The wheel turns ever slow, and yet it doth turn... I'm typing this on the Lombard right now. It's got OS X 10.2.8, 512MB of RAM, the original 333 CPU and logic, a new 80GB 5400rp…

basically worthless Click to expand... [!] !]'> /me hugs Duo collection. No, don't cry my pretties, he didn't mean it

Does anyone have or ever use a Koala Pad Touch Tablet? What are your opinions on it? How much do they typically run for these days? Click to expand... Here's an article you mig…

Does anyone have or ever use a Koala Pad Touch Tablet? What are your opinions on it? How much do they typically run for these days?

More realistically you could enable ink as is on the mac, then install vnc server and client on the machine and newton respectively. Sure it might be a bit laggy, but it will be a …

Someone did actually do this, in the Classic OS of course. So it'd certainly be possible, although improbable. You would need to write an advanced enough driver that made the Newt…

Impressions on speed and battery life. Speed: There are broadly comparable start-up times; the system, however, seems marginally slower in saving a file for some reason, but not …

I just love my iBook SE (366 Clamshell). however, the battery seems to be completly dead. The iBook was running OS X, so i installed Mac OS 9 to run the Battery Reset application…

I don't even know if this would be, but hear me out: The newton handwriting recognition lives on in Mac OS X as inkwell. It only shows up when you plug in a graphics tablet. There…

Great! Love to hear your impressions on speed, battery life, etc

Following repeat problems, I replaced the ram chip, and now there is no trouble with Virtual Memory enabled or off. Ram must have been bad, though the particular component has give…

Driverguru, the "Nike" you're describing was a shipping product from not that long ago. It was an add-on to the iPod, not a custom MacOS portable device. And "Nike" wasn't a code…

On the other hand, what is it with beige motherboards dying? I replaced the one in mine twice over the years. Both times the symptoms were a non-booting OS X install, OS 9 bootin…

Thank, Frank. That should be easy to find. On the other hand, what is it with beige motherboards dying? I replaced the one in mine twice over the years. Both times the symptoms…

Oh, yeah...there seems to be a decent amount of interest in Apple prototype stuff but no "complete" database of information about these.

Where is in on the motherboard? Click to expand... If you're looking at the CPU ZIF socket, the Grackle is north a bit, between the ZIF and the drive connectors. In fact, the G…

Holy crap, I found it here: http://www.theapplemuseum.com/index.php?id=45'>http://www.theapplemuseum.com/index.php?id=45 Click to expand... That page is interesting but…

Where is in on the motherboard?

Just making sure, is the MachSpeed Control a cache enabler?

Yeah word. How do you identify which version of the Grackle IC you have? And Rev. F ROM? Never heard of that one. Click to expand... Rev. F? Must've been the "scientifically-pr…