Cheers Elfen. This machine is 1 of a haul of about 20 macs I got from a guy in cork who spent years 'fiddeling' with macs. When I got there they were all in a mobile home, that wa…

trag said: That makes good sense. That's the dream. Run out of chips. Clean out a tiny portion of my attic. They are cool chips. A tiny piece of me squeals, "No, hang on to …

techknight said: The Toshiba has a weird little setup which is A-1, and its shared with I/O16. It appears I/O16 becomes A-1 in byte mode. But A-1 is not A1. And it doesnt rea…

techknight said: The portable and backlit portable both use 100ns ram. This is my first time making a ram expansion so if I have the logic wrong its a simple matter of moddi…

The Toshiba has a weird little setup which is A-1, and its shared with I/O16. It appears I/O16 becomes A-1 in byte mode. But A-1 is not A1. And it doesnt really explain what A-1 ac…

The portable and backlit portable both use 100ns ram. This is my first time making a ram expansion so if I have the logic wrong its a simple matter of modding the VHDL and flashin…

Typical SE, though the scratches and other things on the board looks like somebody tried to tamper or repair it and did not know what they were doing. Fourth pic down, looks like …

techknight said: I would rather have the Toshiba SRAMs trag. Why? Less CPLD lines I need the better. I will end up using an XC9572XL CPLD as the memory address chip select d…

oh man this is pretty exciting. 

I would rather have the Toshiba SRAMs trag. Why? because they are 16 bit and plus they have both an upper and lower byte access mode. This is a requirement for the 68000 as there i…

The portable keeps the card hot at all times however there is a standby signal. But I wouldnt use it. 3.3v logic isnt a problem. The question really wasnt about the design. More a…

i'd deffinatley buy one since i only have a 1mb card for my portable and as the onboard ram is bad there is a good chance the upgrade card might be bad aswell Even at $6.88 a chip…

Heres a few pictures of an SE I got in a lot last year. The front case is totally smooth. Back case looks like ordinary se case. Don't know whats original or swapped. I opened it…

techknight said: I have been thinking, I was going to design and build a RAM expansion card for the portable, with the potential to max it out at 9MB.  Question is, would an…

Isn't the Portable's RAM actually psuedo-static, not static? Just spitballing, but if you could make a board that could take a BGA here's a 4Mx16 70ns Psuedo-RAM that's $5 a head: …

I was wondering if anyone tried recapping the bad power supply in a PowerMac G5. If that is the problem with them. Is bad caps the cause of so many PowerMac G5 logic board Issues.

My 5120 doesnt have any expansion cards, and I had noticed decent cards are hard to come by, if not impossible.  Soo...  I have been thinking, I was going to design and build a R…

Thanks Joe from Des Moines. I posted an update on his medical thread: https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/23626-medical-update-916-health-scare/&do=findComment&…

I hope Elfen is feeling better soon! Joe from Des Moines sends his best.

Hello, The 17'' PowerBook I had a while ago was badly dented on the left hand and side of the lower case. So I decided to tap the damage out with a tack hammer. I managed to tap o…

Okay. If that's the case probably what I'd suggest is going to iFixit, browsing their take-apart/repair guides, and following one just remove the top case. (The instructions for th…

Its the 17in model. As is, if you have it resting on a desk or your lap, you can't hardly tell that there is something wrong. But if you inspect the machine, yes it is damaged in i…

Elfen said: He just received as a large screen Powerbook G4 from a friend who upgraded to an Intel MacBook Click to expand... Out of curiosity, when you say "Large Screen…

Might be cheaper to get a dead one in nice cosmetic condition off eBay than to try and professionally hammer out all the dents.

This is not Elfen posting but his youngest daughter, he's in the hospital for observation as it looks like its a bad allergy issue that is he undergoing. Details tomorrow when I ge…