Because the extension improves performance greatly, enabling all the optimizations available. When I boot with my Sonnet G3 400 MHz in an 8500 without any extensions, everything ru…

I haven't been able to check the lone parts LC that I have; sorry. But maybe the motherboard caps leaked while it was in the box. It's certainly possible, given the age of the …

LUCKY! :O :O The Goodwill here has few computer-related things most of the time, but there was one time where I went there, and they had probably 20-30 computers in total. Onl…

Yeah, I've since loaded it up on my machine, and I'll agree, it runs beautifully. I've even installed my copy of iWork '08 on there, and since learnt that "G4/500 required" is mere…

Tiger runs like a peach on my 600MHz slotloader. Just throwing that out there Nice score by the way! I've fallen in love with my iMac in the short time I've had it thus far - i…

I did the eMate-wireless trick from geektechnique and it works! Dead thread or not, suckers like myself keep reading them every now and then. Jelle

I will make new, more and better pictures this weekend. Your speculations make me curious too. Even though I have always been wondering what the advantages of NTSC were/are, next t…

No. The Plus' Agency label is centered and the port indent area is double in height. Apple did that on the Plus to allow third party connectors which the original design forced App…

That's a Plus rear bucket that's had the 512Ke labels stuck on it, no?

Hold on a tick, how exactly did they modify the port area? It looks custom to the Plus layout and doesn't look like the usual kludged together kind of mod. I don't think I have see…

I've gotten deals before.

If $35 exceeds one's budget for a vintage Mac, EBAY is certainly not the place to be shopping! I paid $25 plus shipping in the past simply for 128k ROMs pulled from a Mac Plus log…

Well, it went over my budget. I may want a //c mouse, but not *THAT* badly.

A subject of some humorous debate on Cubeowner.com. What is a Cube? Original? Certainly. Hot-rodded? Those who have a "daily driver" cube have all hopped up the CPU and GPU, instal…

I have no intention whatsoever to bid on it, nor did I post that to encourage anyone here to bid on it. I was merely using it as an example when talking about the overuse of the w…

JDW, that auction is interesting... It's not TOO far from me (~160 mi,) so I think I'll bid on it. (And so we don't get into a bidding war, I bid an amount that will make price+s…

When I spotted this Mac 512ke auction, I couldn't help but remember this thread. The seller is basically selling a Mac Plus but he is pitching it heavily as a 512ke because he fee…

For those 68k diehards that see this and think that I've sacrificed the authenticity of this logic board by removing the original PROMs and installing newfangled socketed PLCC Flas…

but there was never really a call for a dual-floppy LC since most color software took up more than one 1.4MB disk, especially those that came out right after the LC was released. …

UPDATE I have acquired some PLCC-32 to DIP-32 adapters and installed them in place of the onboard ROMs of this Mac IIci. { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next":…

Anonymous Freak – check this out regarding 128K SIMMs. Click to expand... D-OH! :I Obviously I was wrong on the capacity of the individual SIMMs, but I was also wrong on t…

If you just want a functional compact Mac, then you would be better to get a 512k or 512ke motherboard until you can manage to get your hands on a 128k motherboard. The 128k is a v…

It's my understanding that the SegmentLoader only read program segments FROM the floppy disk, and didn't write them back to the disk. Is that true? Click to expand... Usually s…

I have to say that it will be a lot of work to get that board back to original condition or at least functionally original. The missing chips will have to be found and if the RAM o…

Could the Mac with this adapter take advantage of color in any way? Click to expand... Yes, it could. I designed it so the pixels were clocked out at 14.31818 MHz with color bu…