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upgrading Apple Colour Classic — #27

ok so my 575 pcb come and i have fited it but no sound put the old cc pcb in i have sound 8-o .. i can see the sound go up and down and the top menu flash when the vol is a…
68kMLA Hardware by galaga Sun, 18 Jul 2010 - 02:26

WGS 9150, are they rare? — #19

Adding an ICS9178 is also how one converts the Turbo601/66 into a Turbo601/100 (well more like 90 to 96). Click to expand... So, You're the one behind the Turbo601/66 chipping…
68kMLA Hardware by trag Thu, 15 Jul 2010 - 16:47

WGS 9150, are they rare? — #18

You know, yes original 601 ppc's look awesome.. but yeah.. was remounting the heatsink on my new 9150 board today and cracked the chip- why? because it doesn't actally touch the bo…
68kMLA Hardware by defor Thu, 15 Jul 2010 - 06:20

IT BURNS! — #23

i had an imac slot load 500mhz fail from heat. I never could fix it so i trashed it. it would power up just fine, but then after a little bit, you could see the picture pulling in…
68kMLA Hardware by techknight Sun, 11 Jul 2010 - 05:16

IT BURNS! — #22

I've blown one PAV assembly in a G3/600 from excessive heat. The machine still worked, but it took a while to build up the required charge for a successful illumination of the tube…
68kMLA Hardware by iMac600 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 - 14:06

IT BURNS! — #21

The Rev A-D (233mhz-333mhz) had the internal fans. The ones with 350mhz or higher don't have fans. Having a 333mhz and 500mhz indigo the only problem I found was burning discs. I …
68kMLA Hardware by mac-man6 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 - 07:20

IT BURNS! — #20

it wasnt much of a problem back then, but nowadays the hot-cold-hot-cold of convection cooling, or poorly fan cooled components have a tendency, and a strong one at that to break t…
68kMLA Hardware by techknight Sat, 10 Jul 2010 - 05:35

PowerBook 150 Failure. — #28

your going to have to take a magnifying glass and light to the logic board. the smoke may had very well come from a circuit trace opening up like a fuse. seen it a few times. if it…
68kMLA Hardware by techknight Sat, 10 Jul 2010 - 05:02

PowerBook 150 Failure. — #27

RAM went to hell? In my Classic, when one of the RAM modules went to hell I saw the same behavior. Each boot was a crap shoot.
68kMLA Hardware by Paralel Mon, 5 Jul 2010 - 20:38

PowerBook 150 Failure. — #26

Well, I plugged it in today for giggles, and whaddya know, I got a chime and the mouse screen. I get varying results though, like sometimes i get chimes of death, and once or twice…
68kMLA Hardware by Mars478 Sun, 4 Jul 2010 - 20:11

Wallstreet and PDQ information thread — #12

I need to load Gauge Pro on my new Wallstreet to see if ASP was on crack when I checked the thing out. : It's gonna be Beater2 when I'm done loading utilities and drivers on th…
68kMLA Hardware by Trash80toHP_Mini Fri, 2 Jul 2010 - 02:47

Wallstreet and PDQ information thread — #11

I recently obtained a Wallstreet II PDQ 300MHz running OS 9.2.2 with 192MB RAM & an 8GB hard drive with 4.6GB free. I have a G3 Pismo 400MHz running Tiger quite good. I was…
68kMLA Hardware by mike-stock Wed, 30 Jun 2010 - 08:01

asking for opinion: WGS 8150 vs. Radius 81/110 — #30

If I remember correctly, it was only true for 68k models (2GB limitation in ROM or something). Click to expand... Nope, Drive Setup in 7.6 and later installed the 'ruby' patch …
68kMLA Hardware by yuhong Mon, 7 Jun 2010 - 08:23

6500 PSU voltages & outputs? — #10

Hey Johnklos, Thank you for your response! I meant 5 volt rather than 5.5 volts - it was a typo - fat finger syndrome here hehe I was wondering because I have a CC modded wit…
68kMLA Hardware by BeniD82 Sun, 6 Jun 2010 - 23:11

6500 PSU voltages & outputs? — #9

Is there a way to figure out how much the maxium wattage would be per rail? :?: For example: - Maximum watts per 3.3v line - Maximum watts per 5.5v line - Total combined watt…
68kMLA Hardware by johnklos Sun, 6 Jun 2010 - 20:56

6500 PSU voltages & outputs? — #8

ohms law states w = I*V so for example 12 volts with a MAX of 5 amps = 60 watts (keeping in mind MAX means the most it can handle before killing itself, and really should not be …
68kMLA Hardware by Osgeld Sun, 6 Jun 2010 - 20:44

6500 PSU voltages & outputs? — #7

Is there a way to figure out how much the maxium wattage would be per rail? :?: For example: - Maximum watts per 3.3v line - Maximum watts per 5.5v line - Total combined wat…
68kMLA Hardware by BeniD82 Sun, 6 Jun 2010 - 20:25

DVD in a Quadra? — #11

I just saw this thread. I have an external DVD-RAM hooked up to my SuperMac S900...I know I thought about hooking it up to my Quadra 700, and I can't rememebr if I did (or didn't),…
68kMLA Hardware by Blessed Cheesemaker Mon, 17 May 2010 - 04:21

New Retro Computing Magazine!! — #19

If PDFs are made available, I'll get one. Interested in the bootstrapping Macs article at the least. Best, John
68kMLA Software by jwmcfarlin Sat, 15 May 2010 - 19:50
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