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Living in an OS 9.X - ADB/SerialMac World . . . — #47

The flyback transformer (FBT), also called a 'line output transformer' (LOPT), is a special transformer which is used to generate high voltage (HV) signals at a relatively high fre…
68kMLA Hardware by Trash80toHP_Mini Wed, 16 Sep 2009 - 01:58

Living in an OS 9.X - ADB/SerialMac World . . . — #46

just look on kiji for a nother imac, just plop in the hard drive and done, no changing transformers, if you do somthing wrong you are DEAD I just got a g4 and that replaced my g3…
68kMLA Hardware by Mycatisbigfoot Wed, 16 Sep 2009 - 01:40

So, Beige G3's. — #58

Mine is a Desktop model. 333MHz overclocked to 350 192Mb of RAM at the moment I think 8Gb hard drive iXMicro Twin Turbo 128-3D video card PCI USB card Currently running 10.2…
68kMLA Hardware by Hrududu Wed, 16 Sep 2009 - 00:16

Wallstreet and PDQ information thread — #3

Been there, done that. I got a huge box of Wallstreet parts (and I do mean nothing but misc parts) over a year ago and built 5 units out of them (plus some ebay parts).
68kMLA Hardware by Unknown_K Wed, 16 Sep 2009 - 00:07

Wallstreet and PDQ information thread — #2

One thing I can report is that I once installed a logic board from broken up a 266MHz Wallstreet II into a nice little 12" machine (more vram & better graphics chip). I d…
68kMLA Hardware by beachycove Wed, 16 Sep 2009 - 00:03

Overclocked MolarMac problem — #1

I have a MolarMac which came to me overclocked (via installation of a B&W ZIF G3) to 400MHz on (as I recall) an 83MHz bus. It worked fine - in fact it ran like greased ligh…
68kMLA Hardware by beachycove Tue, 15 Sep 2009 - 23:52

Wallstreet and PDQ information thread — #1

This thread is created as a place to look at the real differences between these two revisions. The hope is that this will be based on physical hardware at our disposal instead of …
68kMLA Hardware by MacJunky Tue, 15 Sep 2009 - 23:40

Adding a second hard drive to an SE 30 — #6

I did this, over 5 years ago. I might have some old pictures somewhere, even. It was no professional job...I used electrical tape for traction and pencil eraser bits as spacers. …
68kMLA Hardware by ChristTrekker Tue, 15 Sep 2009 - 23:08

Adding a second hard drive to an SE 30 — #5

Apparently no one has seen what I have crammed into an SE/30, which illustrates very clearly what is "possible": Think "hand made bracket." The possibilities truly are endl…
68kMLA Hardware by JDW Tue, 15 Sep 2009 - 23:05

My School computer lab just offered me. — #16

There is also an extra 1.25Ghz eMac! Click to expand... Thats what the emac's are the 2005 verson, but they have no spekers, as the kids riped them out as well as the door tha…
68kMLA Hardware by Mycatisbigfoot Tue, 15 Sep 2009 - 22:47

Living in an OS 9.X - ADB/SerialMac World . . . — #45

What's a flyback? (transformer?) Why should they be so hard to replace? This POS will be MINT . . . . . . after I polish the scratches off the top edges of case! Click …
68kMLA Hardware by Osgeld Tue, 15 Sep 2009 - 21:55

Adding a second hard drive to an SE 30 — #4

I haven't seen 2 hard drives, but I have seen some extended brackets that were for adding a hard disk to a 2-floppy SE / SE 30. I expect with one of those and a bit of creative wir…
68kMLA Hardware by H3NRY Tue, 15 Sep 2009 - 21:22

Adding a second hard drive to an SE 30 — #3

I'm sure it's possible. People have managed to cram two floppy drives and a hard drive into those cases (with a custom mounting bracket, of coarse). It all depends on the size of t…
68kMLA Hardware by Flamingtoasters Tue, 15 Sep 2009 - 21:22

Living in an OS 9.X - ADB/SerialMac World . . . — #44

You must be thinking about the original Wallstreets because the rev 2 models did fit the whole screen in 640x480 and 800x600 modes on the LCD (you were stuck with 1024x768 on the o…
68kMLA Hardware by Unknown_K Tue, 15 Sep 2009 - 20:52

Living in an OS 9.X - ADB/SerialMac World . . . — #43

Since we're supposedly a family/youth friendly military organization . . . : . . . .and, as a mod, I've been setting a very bad example of late . . . :I . . . …
68kMLA Hardware by Trash80toHP_Mini Tue, 15 Sep 2009 - 19:31

Adding a second hard drive to an SE 30 — #1

I have a hard drive from a dead LC that I wants to add to my SE 30. I have seen people adding a CD drive but I haven't heard about adding a second hard drive. Has anyone done thi…
68kMLA Hardware by madcow Tue, 15 Sep 2009 - 19:30

Living in an OS 9.X - ADB/SerialMac World . . . — #42

What's a flyback? (transformer?) Why should they be so hard to replace? This POS will be MINT . . . . . . after I polish the scratches off the top edges of case!
68kMLA Hardware by Trash80toHP_Mini Tue, 15 Sep 2009 - 19:22

My School computer lab just offered me. — #13

wow i would take, it, but in two years i am geting every singal mac from my school!!!!!! all of the emacs and the ibooks and even some pc's uck the ibooks and the emacs are going…
68kMLA Hardware by Mycatisbigfoot Tue, 15 Sep 2009 - 12:25

Some questions Here — #11

well there is no battrie and it did boot befor, I have a 7200 that wont boot with a dead one, i am going to rig, a pc bower box to the weird plug so i can use the mac and install 7…
68kMLA Hardware by Mycatisbigfoot Tue, 15 Sep 2009 - 12:01

Living in an OS 9.X - ADB/SerialMac World . . . — #41

That Blueberry, Tripod Mounted CRT might not be quite ready for the gutting knife yet, I get a full five minutes out of it before I ever see a jitter and then I've only seen one po…
68kMLA Hardware by Mike Richardson Tue, 15 Sep 2009 - 10:35

Living in an OS 9.X - ADB/SerialMac World . . . — #40

woz's idiot, blue jeans/designer t-shirt wearin' partner coming back without a REAL COMPUTER GUY (read:the woz, obviously [] ]'> ) to keep said idiot in line. Click to e…
68kMLA Hardware by Bunsen Tue, 15 Sep 2009 - 08:54
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