Well good news and bad news. I decided to take a look at the Developer Note for the LCIII and it states this. The Macintosh LC III uses a new floppy disk controller circuit,…

Keep in mind that plexiglass is much more subject to scratching and picking up dings than real glass is. Click to expand... I would be more concerned about distortion from the …

There is the early 800K 3.5" drive for the Apple II which has its own 6502, buffer RAM, and IWM chip inside and which talks to the host like a HD20. There is the 400K Sony drive in…

These are good prices, but shipping and border duties drive prices up, as does the differential on the dollar. My figure was in $CDN. Am still pondering, but on a certain auction …

well most of my movies are just burned dvd's so it wont not need the decoder, and i think its on the dvd drive, if im not mistaken Click to expand... You are mistaken, I'm afra…

at around $100-125 for 2x512MB chips Click to expand... Try around half that, with a warranty. Heck, get one 512 and a 256, that should be plenty.

I was looking at bare bones LCD panels, and I can find them for around $20 or so for an 800x600 panel. / Plus, an LCD controller was around $100 anyway. Click to expand... Ov…

I wonder if I still have that. Click to expand... While searching for it, please also remember to keep an eye out for your MacDraw schematics.

Just to make things interesting, Apple has a bunch of different floppy drives with different software interfaces which all plug into the floppy port / IWM / SWIM / IBM chips. There…

het it in a few days Woot!!!! its a indgo with fire wire, and also has a matching floppy disk dive, (USB) from what I know there is no air port carrd will make new thread with the…

Well about the time I pulled out the soldering iron I realized something. If I want to understand how the drive works it would be much better to spy on it while the Mac is using it…

I did some research and found that the SWIM and pretty close to the IWM. I took a look at the Linux Mac floppy driver code and apparently a command is sent to the drive it switch i…

Hope life doesn't throw too much on your plate mate - do take care, and thanks for all your hard work with this collection of hoodlums over time!

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I bet Trash80 feels left out... Click to expand... Nope, not a bit! Admin's not my bag, wouldn't know where to begin. I had to pass on Tom's offer over on 'fritter to take over…

Why are we worried about a chunk of green plastic? These machines were built for as many hard drives as their are plugs. The cooling systems on these machines are fine. As long as…

So? He kept the site up and running. He updates phpBB, etc. You don't have to make lots of posts to be the Administrator.

~tl posts infrequently. Look at his profile.

I'm with Wally. I only understood about 10% of what he was talking about, but I'm with Wally.

Page 293 in the normally authoritative source differs with reality. 8-o Two actual SE/30 boards before me have a current limiting device, F1 in the ADB power net. In one inst…

Bump I finally got around to trying this out, but haven't had much success so far. I borrowed an Adaptec 29160N card from a friend, which has a 50-pin connector, and hooked up the…

The IIfx has a 1A fuse between the SWIM chip and the RFI filter, the SE and SE30 do not. There is a 470 Ohm resister in line with the 5VDC line powering the ADB signal line, that …

..."still not totally sure about doing the soldering myself. the current cylindric capacitors are seated in a little piece of black plastic. when removing the old capacitors, does …

Friendly reminder it's ADB

The older LCs used more powerful supplies than the newer ones. If you're restoring an original LC, I would *guess* that it's best to put in the more powerful version.