Definitely looks like a video-board (graphics-card) to me

I scanned the board. It covers a good half of the logic board. TOP: BOTTOM:

No time to look for the SM, but I glanced at Guide To The Macintosh Family Hardware and if I take a look for that 34 pin header, I'll bet I find the pinouts for it in that tome! …

I would take out the card, but would that involve discharging the CRT? This is my first compact, so I'm not familiar with the inner workings yet, and quite frankly I'm scared to de…

Actually jt, I found that information in an eBay auction for a Conner CP-3045 hard drive: http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Macintosh-Portable-5120-5126-40mb-Hard-Drive_W0QQitemZ3702996…

You need to format the drive in a computer running system 7.x or equivalent. Click to expand... Based on my test with a USB drive, you can format it with a disk utility. Sinc…

I would take out the card, but would that involve discharging the CRT? This is my first compact, so I'm not familiar with the inner workings yet, and quite frankly I'm scared to de…

Puits qu'alors c'est la version 466 puis comme elle m'a dit quelque chose au sujet du mode de disque de cible, elle n'a pas su ce qu'était il comme quand elle a obtenu à son livre …

In the past, Dell was notorious for using non-standard power supplies; sometimes even including non-standard pinouts! Click to expand... Yup. I avoid Dell power supplies for t…

Firewire etais seulement dans le 466MHz

I have a ttl monitor (well really old multisync, ttl to vga level rgb, anyone want the beast?) and they do indeed use the 9 pin, but so does RGB ect

IIRC, those 9 pin connectors were for TTL Monitors . . .

There were a number of display adapters available for the SE. It could be Lapis, Radius (inc Pivot) or a few other manufacturers. If you can pull the PDS card and look for ident…

That's news to me, did you find out what the HDD interface is on the Portable? Where did you find that information? Check out the Links Project in the Peripherals Forum. One of th…

I *THINK* it's for a external display (Lapis I think)

Hi guys, Wow, it's been a long time since I posted! I've been very musically active recently and so unfortunately have not been able to do much with my computers. I still have a…

Wow! Pictures!

I opened my SE 4MB dual 800k today for the first time. I'm still terrified of CRT's, so I could not touch anything. However, I noticed that there is a DE-9 port in the expansion po…

The Pismo is just such an elegant beast. It's a lovely lovely computer. I can see that this will supplant the 1400s as my main texting laptop. I think the fact that there are so ma…

Yes. PC100 and PC133 are 100 percent compatible. The latter will throttle down to 100Mhz speed when mixed with PC100 or 100Mhz bus on the computer. 73s de Phreakout. :rambo:

This is not a standard ATX power supply. This is a custom-form-factor Micro ATX power supply. Click to expand... I thought that might be the case from the size of the box it c…

This is not a standard ATX power supply. This is a custom-form-factor Micro ATX power supply. In the past, Dell was notorious for using non-standard power supplies; sometimes eve…

there was only one indigo version with fire wire it's the 366MH verson I think, but I am not looking to play dvd movies on the computer, I might once in a while but not often. as I…

Will (just about) any low density PC100 or PC133 SODIMM work in a Pismo? I see that in fact is is not hard to find much cheaper ram if you leave "Apple" out of the eBay search. I …

. . . This was something I was looking for back in the days of the IIfPEx Hack . . . . . . which was lost in the storage room disaster. Anyways, if anyone has a DOA …