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IIsi ROM SIM gives death chime in my SE/30s — #12

The System 8 UI looks absolutely awful in monochrome. The System 7 one was finely tuned to be minimalist and work on small monitors. The System 8 UI assumes only madmen run monochr…
68kMLA Hardware by porter Thu, 16 Jul 2009 - 23:55

Powerbook 180c issues — #5

You mean "à propos de cet ordinateur", missed it on my way to control pannel like 5 times... there is 2 lines for memory, integrated memory is 8192kb, total is 16384kb. Is that in…
68kMLA Hardware by ryan55 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 - 23:40

IIsi ROM SIM gives death chime in my SE/30s — #11

...running OS 8.1 on these systems, but I never thought people actually did it seriously, since a 16 Mhz 68030 is probably not the best CPU for running such an OS. Click to expa…
68kMLA Hardware by JDW Thu, 16 Jul 2009 - 23:36

Powerbook 180c issues — #4

http://www.academ.com/info/macintosh/pbook.shtml is the link. (the info is at "The Rest Of The PowerBook 100 Series") To check, just click on the Apple logo on the top-left and…
68kMLA Hardware by JRL Thu, 16 Jul 2009 - 23:35

Powerbook 180c issues — #3

I would check the specs, but i forgot how to do so, especially in french , can you remind me how to do so? It has 4megs of ram i beleive. The sticking drive is not too bad, on …
68kMLA Hardware by ryan55 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 - 23:25

Powerbook 180c issues — #2

I'm thinking you will be able to use the AZERTY keyboard normally in English fine, as it's just a different keyboard layout, not something that uses different software. Also, the …
68kMLA Hardware by JRL Thu, 16 Jul 2009 - 23:00

IIsi ROM SIM gives death chime in my SE/30s — #10

Interesting, I never knew about the horizontal lines - I always thought it was done to make the SE/30 a 32 bit clean system. I've read on Gamba before about people running OS 8.1 o…
68kMLA Hardware by LCGuy Thu, 16 Jul 2009 - 22:43

Powerbook 180c issues — #1

I didn't use the word problems in the title because i mostly have small issues with it. I'll list 'em here... The battery is dead and will not hold any charge. This i'm gonna live…
68kMLA Hardware by ryan55 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 - 22:37

Pair of 840avs — #15

I promised pics, but due to working alot, I leave my camera in the car. I brought it in to take a few pics, so I might as well snap a few others. Quadra from the front: { …
68kMLA Hardware by coius Thu, 16 Jul 2009 - 17:08

Macintosh Portable issues — #4

I've also acquired a bunch of motherboards with various problems. One a random note, washing the motherboards in the dishwasher seems to help clear up the leaked electrolyte from t…
68kMLA Hardware by bd1308 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 - 15:17

LC II Buying info? — #12

I had the one floppy and hd config lc ii, but i made a post on free cycle and i found somebody who said i could have 5-6 b&w g3s and that they have a ton of old beige macs …
68kMLA Hardware by zerotypeq Thu, 16 Jul 2009 - 14:45

Macintosh Portable issues — #3

Ive been on close contact with Houlton, who rebuilds and sells Portables on ebay. I have purchased a brand-new rebuilt battery last year, and the portable remains plugged in 24/7 a…
68kMLA Hardware by bd1308 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 - 14:44

IIsi ROM SIM gives death chime in my SE/30s — #9

When swap my stock SE/30 or the IIfx ROM sim in, both work fine. Click to expand... Von I really hate to say it, but such is strong evidence that: (1) You have a bad IIsi ROM, …
68kMLA Hardware by JDW Thu, 16 Jul 2009 - 14:17

Recent conquests — #3

Yeah I posted up in the TAM thread too - what can I say, I'm pretty excited and it's still weeks away! Secondly the 7600/G4 should be good fun to play around with.
68kMLA Hardware by macman142 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 - 13:28

Recent conquests — #2

I read about the TAM over on MacTalk...very cool! Good score on the 7600 too, apart from the 80MB HDD, it sounds like a nice machine, especially for free.
68kMLA Hardware by LCGuy Thu, 16 Jul 2009 - 07:46

Maximum HD capacity on a 6100 — #8

Isn't 2GB the max file size on HFS, not the max volume size? Power Macs certainly came with >2 GB hard disks before Mac OS 8.1 was released. Click to expand... In my exp…
68kMLA Hardware by porter Thu, 16 Jul 2009 - 05:30

IIsi ROM SIM gives death chime in my SE/30s — #8

I think a better idea would be removing/unplugging the hard drive, all of the memory, any installed cards, etc. and just try to boot the Macintosh SE/30 with the bare motherboard a…
68kMLA Hardware by Von Thu, 16 Jul 2009 - 05:13

Recent conquests — #1

Been inactive a little while on the forums, but added two items just recently to my conquest list. Was lucky enough to pick up a PowerMac 7600/200 with a Sonnet G4-400MHz processo…
68kMLA Hardware by macman142 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 - 05:08

Maximum HD capacity on a 6100 — #7

Isn't 2GB the max file size on HFS, not the max volume size? Power Macs certainly came with >2 GB hard disks before Mac OS 8.1 was released.
68kMLA Hardware by ~Coxy Thu, 16 Jul 2009 - 04:48

LC II Buying info? — #11

Dual-floppy LCs were rare. I only saw one batch of them in the field when they were in service (they were in a school library). I believe Apple also sold LCs and LCIIs with only on…
68kMLA Hardware by Scott Baret Thu, 16 Jul 2009 - 04:34

Maximum HD capacity on a 6100 — #6

Umm.. I don't remember any 2gb limit on HFS. Click to expand... You may be thinking of HFS+. A hint is the range of a signed 32 bit number.
68kMLA Hardware by porter Wed, 15 Jul 2009 - 22:07

Maximum HD capacity on a 6100 — #5

Umm.. I don't remember any 2gb limit on HFS. I remeber that the custer sizes were huge after 2gb's, but there is no limit, and I have a quadra 630 sitting right here(need to put it…
68kMLA Hardware by Outlander Wed, 15 Jul 2009 - 19:38

Maximum HD capacity on a 6100 — #4

As long as you are running system 7.5.3 there really is not a limit you will reach anytime soon. Click to expand... You mean apart from the 2Gig partition limit of HFS?
68kMLA Hardware by porter Wed, 15 Jul 2009 - 19:08

IIsi ROM SIM gives death chime in my SE/30s — #7

but its important to some people, hence why ... Click to expand... they bastardise IIsi or IIfx machines. I would consider a IIfx far more worthy than an SE/30. Just remember …
68kMLA Hardware by porter Wed, 15 Jul 2009 - 19:03

Maximum HD capacity on a 6100 — #3

Aaaa... the 6100 doesn't use IDE. It uses SCSI and I don't really remember an upper limit on the size of the hard drive. As long as you are running system 7.5.3 there really is not…
68kMLA Hardware by Outlander Wed, 15 Jul 2009 - 18:58
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