Thanks for the confirmation that I should do the analog boards too. I've heard of "Macintosh Repair & Upgrade Secrets" - while Alibris has somone selling a new copy for $9…

What are folks' opinions on doing pre-emptive replacement work on the analog board? Click to expand... It's a must, really. Capacitors that are over 20 years old and very susce…

So I did a little more searching, and here are the motherboard capacitors used in a 128k: 33µF 16V, 2 pieces 4.7µF 35V, 1 piece Got that info from here: http://retromaccast.ning…

Thanks for the tips! I'll contact trag regarding the SE/30 caps. However, that still leaves the Mac 128k, and capacitors in power supplies/analog boards in these compact Macs. I…

http://www.archive.org/index.php Always been a great tool for download of files from defunct websites.

Excellent! where(how) ever did you find this archive?

Shame about the 7600 but I do prefer the tower case design of the 96xx series and will get it all running one way or another. TAM shipping bill was included in an agreed overall p…

Most versions of System 7 were exceedingly unstable on the 6100 and other PowerMacs, in my experience. I would suggest going up to 8.1 unless you have some special reason to hang …

A 9600/G4/400 with a SCSI-IDE converter is nothing to be sniffed at! Even with a dead 7600 in your hands, that's a pretty good set of scores. May I ask what the shipping bill for…

It sounds as though the Powerbook is booting from the internal drive still. You can't format or erase the disk that you've booted from, as that could potentially leave you with a …

:'( That indeed was a really nice Macintosh. Just keep everything around until a power supply might come your way.

System 7.1 will run well in 8MB of physical RAM, but System 7.1.3 will run even better. It takes a little work, since you have to 'construct' it for yourself, but it allows many r…

Very interesting... I was overly dramatic in my last post ignore. It seems that these roaches do it for money. But on the other side they are doing a good to the world by keep…

Aw that sucks! That was such a nice machine!

Well the weekend just gone I had a proper look over the 7600 G4 and found that in the optional zip drive bay it had a 30 GB IDE hard drive with a SCSI adapter on it! WEIRD.... Any…

There's several different types of recyclers that I've experienced. 1. Non-profit computer recycler. These guys are great. I was there on a Saturday once and they had a U-Haul dri…

So heres the update, i can't initialise the drive using Apples hd sc program. It says the device is still mounted or that i file is in use, even after i drag the hard drive to tras…

Here is a link to RAM Doubler.

Eh, it's frustrating, huh? I volunteered at a computer recycling drive and missed a PowerBook G3 and what appeared to be a excellent condition Thinkpad. Along with other stuff only…

That 80MB hard disk has to be after-market, surely. Maybe their hard disk died and they replaced it with the only SCSI disk they had available.

Hurray, more 15 year old software to look for xx( .

I can verify that once you take RAM Doubler out of the system folder, restart and try to copy it again, it won't work. RAM Doubler requires an installer disk to work, unfortunately…

Last question for now (maybe ) To back up something like ramdoubler do i just got to take the 80kb file in the extentions folder, or is there more of it hiding somewhere?

As far as installing System 7.1 goes, its just like any other Mac, however be aware that you'll need to ensure that if you're running the installer from System 7.1, that the boot d…

via a floppy disk install involving roughly 30 or 40 floppy disks from memory. Click to expand... 8-o :O xx( :lol: :?: 8-o :'( :O LOL Thanks for the tips, i'll try out…