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Assembling the Fastest OS 9 Machine — #25

Did the 1.42s come as FW400? I've only seen the 1.25s as FW400, though I imagine you could just get the 1.42 out of one of the FW800s and bolt it in. Click to expand... In my c…
68kMLA Hardware by Floydy Thu, 17 Dec 2009 - 06:52

Assembling the Fastest OS 9 Machine — #24

My setup works fine on that B&W, I have a Radeon video card in the 66mhz PCI slot (the model with the fan before they started naming them 7000 and took out T&L). I …
68kMLA Hardware by Floydy Thu, 17 Dec 2009 - 06:45

PS/2 to macintosh mouse translator — #3

ps/2 mouse to 128 mac is dead easy with a mcu (I recently did it for my //C but the pinouts are abit different ) basically there's 2 signals per axis, it works like a normal rotary…
68kMLA Peripherals by Osgeld Thu, 17 Dec 2009 - 04:56

PS/2 to macintosh mouse translator — #2

I saw some posts here recently about such hacks, dunno where, but I think KBD translation was included. You might want to contact Silicon Valley Bus Company, they had a product ca…
68kMLA Peripherals by Trash80toHP_Mini Thu, 17 Dec 2009 - 04:05

PS/2 to macintosh mouse translator — #1

Anyone seen one of these yet? being able to use a ball or optical PS/2 mouse on an original macintosh 128/512/plus without using the original mouse. I am making such an adapter an…
68kMLA Peripherals by techknight Thu, 17 Dec 2009 - 03:27

Mac Plus and External SCSI — #17

1) External drive must supply termination power (the power supply in the Plus is too feeble to do the job, so the design team decided that the external box should supply term power…
68kMLA Peripherals by tomlee59 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 - 02:11

IIci - Bringing back my 1st Mac — #8

OK, here is the promised story: I purchased my first Mac, a IIci in November 1990. I had been using IBM PCs (XTs and ATs) for the 5 years prior that I spent as a student at The O…
68kMLA Hardware by IIciNov90 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 - 02:05

MacII PSU -> ATX Conversion . . . — #16

Bunsen...Have you taken your pills? Click to expand... No, I ran out. Can I have some of yours? Click to expand... Sure you need some vicodin?
68kMLA Hardware by Mars478 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 - 20:56

quicksilver ps fan bad — #3

It should say on the fan I would expect it to be 12V dc thanx for the comments michael
68kMLA Hardware by madmann Wed, 16 Dec 2009 - 20:43

quicksilver ps fan bad — #2

It can be replaced, but you will have to open the power supply to do it, obiously you should have it unplugged, but there's some hefty filter capacitors on the AC side that can pac…
68kMLA Hardware by Osgeld Wed, 16 Dec 2009 - 20:23

quicksilver ps fan bad — #1

The fan on my quicksilver 2002 power supply is making a lot of noise ie all most dead. can it be replaced or is another ps in order? thanx
68kMLA Hardware by madmann Wed, 16 Dec 2009 - 20:12

IIci - Bringing back my 1st Mac — #7

Running it through an empty dishwasher with no soap and clean water makes a fabulous job of it, as it happens, but most likely the same magic could be worked by sticking the thing …
68kMLA Hardware by beachycove Wed, 16 Dec 2009 - 19:45

6500 Motherboard in a Performa 575? — #14

Gotcha,thanks. Interesting discussion thanks for all the info. My main goal though is to find a motherboard other than the 575 board that I can put into the 575 chasi…
68kMLA Hardware by MacClassic10 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 - 18:52

6500 Motherboard in a Performa 575? — #13

Interesting discussion thanks for all the info. My main goal though is to find a motherboard other than the 575 board that I can put into the 575 chasis. Because the 575 motherboar…
68kMLA Hardware by Gil Wed, 16 Dec 2009 - 17:57

6500 Motherboard in a Performa 575? — #12

Interesting discussion thanks for all the info. My main goal though is to find a motherboard other than the 575 board that I can put into the 575 chasis. Because the 575 motherboar…
68kMLA Hardware by MacClassic10 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 - 17:26

6500 Motherboard in a Performa 575? — #11

6500 board in a 5200 or 5300 chassis / 3.3v regulator hack Click to expand... I was able to pop a 5500 board into a 6200 Click to expand... Huh. I actually thought …
68kMLA Hardware by Bunsen Wed, 16 Dec 2009 - 16:04

Assembling the Fastest OS 9 Machine — #23

I'm happy with my B&W G3 with maxed out RAM (1 GB), upgraded 1.1 GHz processor (well, it's advertised as 1 GHz but the setting goes to 11, er, I mean 1.1), and OS 9.2.2. I'…
68kMLA Hardware by Emehr Wed, 16 Dec 2009 - 14:13

6500 Motherboard in a Performa 575? — #10

There is an exception. The hack *MUST* be done for the 5400 board. However, the 5500 board will work *WITHOUT* the hack, but there might be issues with PCI. I'm not sure if this is…
68kMLA Hardware by Gil Wed, 16 Dec 2009 - 14:13

6500 Motherboard in a Performa 575? — #9

Bunsen is correct - in order to use the 6500 board in a 5200 or 5300 chassis, you must do the 3.3v regulator hack mentioned by johnklos.
68kMLA Hardware by LCGuy Wed, 16 Dec 2009 - 13:58

Assembling the Fastest OS 9 Machine — #22

The fastest current PPC system I have is only a B&W with a G4-450 CPU upgrade (needed for a Matrox RTMAC setup I have). Click to expand... When current, Matrox stated, …
68kMLA Hardware by Unknown_K Wed, 16 Dec 2009 - 13:43

6500 Motherboard in a Performa 575? — #8

Is there any all-in-one Macs that a 6500 motherboard will plug into? Click to expand... the 5xxx series AFAIK. Click to expand... Without mods, only the 5400 and 5500 from …
68kMLA Hardware by Bunsen Wed, 16 Dec 2009 - 11:45

Assembling the Fastest OS 9 Machine — #21

An overclocked 1.42 GHz Mirrored drive door will probably be faster than a 7447a because the Apple processor has 2 megs of L3 cache in addition to 256k of L2 cache as compared with…
68kMLA Hardware by Bunsen Wed, 16 Dec 2009 - 11:05

Adding an LCD to a Color Classic — #16

Don't see why that should be a problem - The VGA output looks pretty standard, and 67HZ is about as basic and common a sync rate as you can find. But if for any reason it is an is…
68kMLA Hardware by Bunsen Wed, 16 Dec 2009 - 10:00
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