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Reconstructing Apple I BASIC from a Cassette Tape — #10

Uuuurgh... Unfortunately, yes. I have tried to load from cassette. It was horrible. Eventually I said screw it and recorded the cassette tape onto the computer - that worked much b…
68kMLA Hardware by chris Tue, 15 Jul 2008 - 04:27

Reconstructing Apple I BASIC from a Cassette Tape — #9

Am I the only one here who has ever actually loaded a program from a cassette tape? Click to expand... I have a Realistic™ tape recorder specially designed for computer use (it…
68kMLA Hardware by luddite Tue, 15 Jul 2008 - 04:14

Reconstructing Apple I BASIC from a Cassette Tape — #6

Am I the only one here who has ever actually loaded a program from a cassette tape? Click to expand... Definitely not. I've done it as a kid on a Commodore CBM (don't remember…
68kMLA Hardware by QuadSix50 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 - 03:27

Reconstructing Apple I BASIC from a Cassette Tape — #4

Am I the only one here who has ever actually loaded a program from a cassette tape? Click to expand... Certainly not, ZX-81, ZX Spectrum 48k and CBM-64. The CBM-64 was the mos…
68kMLA Hardware by porter Tue, 15 Jul 2008 - 01:32

Reconstructing Apple I BASIC from a Cassette Tape — #1

Folks, I don't think you can get any geekier than this. Retro reverse engineering: Reconstructing Apple I BASIC from a Cassette Tape If my wife ever found out that I found this S…
68kMLA Hardware by QuadSix50 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 - 00:40

MacOS 8.6 on "Sawtooth" G4 — #22

I've got 8.6 running on my 400 MHZ sawtooth. In college, I found a G3 Powerbook restore cd. I mounted the ASR image and copied the System Folder to an empty volume on my sawtooth. …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by theartesians Mon, 14 Jul 2008 - 03:25

Peeling Clamshell — #1

In the last week the rubber skin on my graphite clamshell has started peeling away from the bottom part of the case, where I tend to rest my palms. It's only a 2 inch section along…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by luddite Mon, 14 Jul 2008 - 02:04

Apple IIe - Pop pop, fizz fizz — #4

Replacement power supplies aren't all that hard to come by, but they'll usually cost you more than a complete IIe. I've heard that long periods of disuse cause this... if you have…
68kMLA Hardware by luddite Mon, 14 Jul 2008 - 01:59

Apple IIe - Pop pop, fizz fizz — #3

As everyone knows, electronics run on magic smoke. When the magic smoke escapes, they don't work any more.
68kMLA Hardware by Bunsen Sun, 13 Jul 2008 - 20:00

Apple IIe - Pop pop, fizz fizz — #2

I sell lots of IIe's and this only happened to one customer, I think it was caused by the aging caps in it, I was not there so I can not say for sure, another power supply should f…
68kMLA Hardware by Patnukem Sun, 13 Jul 2008 - 10:14

Apple IIe - Pop pop, fizz fizz — #1

Well that's something no user wants to hear. I picked up my Apple IIe at a recycling event today. I powered it up for the second time ever. Got it all hooked up to the monitor, got…
68kMLA Hardware by funkytoad Sun, 13 Jul 2008 - 08:46

Massive quest for everything PowerBook 2400c — #7

One of mine did the deathbead GLOD thing, where it would work sometimes and then degrade, before finally not cooperating at all. A new power board cured that problem. I figured tha…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by tomlee59 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 - 20:40

Dead G4 (Sawtooth) AGP — #6

all fixed now I had to press the magic reset button next to the pram battery and a phone call to macupgrades where I got the Sonnet 1.8Ghz prosessor and they advised to select the …
68kMLA Hardware by Retroman Fri, 11 Jul 2008 - 19:20

So, Beige G3's. — #33

... The longterm puzzle is to find a Gefen EXT-VGA-2-ADC adapter so that they can share a 17" ADC Studio Display. Click to expand... eBay's @#$%&* software fritzed on m…
68kMLA Hardware by equill Fri, 11 Jul 2008 - 11:51

Dead G4 (Sawtooth) AGP — #5

The PMU of the Sawtooth and later Macs is a little more all-encompassing than the PMUs of older PowerBooks. Newer PMUs are rather more wide-ranging, and Apple describes them as 'c…
68kMLA Hardware by equill Fri, 11 Jul 2008 - 11:18

Dead G4 (Sawtooth) AGP — #4

does that switch do the same or more ? Click to expand... Well, er, it didn't have a sign on it saying "Do not press this button".....
68kMLA Hardware by porter Fri, 11 Jul 2008 - 10:40

Dead G4 (Sawtooth) AGP — #3

I hit the reset button by the pram battery and it started to work ( well at least it's starting up now) I still got to figure out why Leopard is not booting what is that reset but…
68kMLA Hardware by Retroman Fri, 11 Jul 2008 - 10:32

Lisa and Mac Portable Parts in Australia — #4

The video output is an issue with the Processor, I did test with a good I/O Board. The machine won't power on without a good I/O i thought??? Click to expand... That's what I w…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by macdownunder Fri, 11 Jul 2008 - 09:55
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