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IT BURNS! — #20

it wasnt much of a problem back then, but nowadays the hot-cold-hot-cold of convection cooling, or poorly fan cooled components have a tendency, and a strong one at that to break t…
68kMLA Hardware by techknight Sat, 10 Jul 2010 - 05:35

PowerBook 150 Failure. — #28

your going to have to take a magnifying glass and light to the logic board. the smoke may had very well come from a circuit trace opening up like a fuse. seen it a few times. if it…
68kMLA Hardware by techknight Sat, 10 Jul 2010 - 05:02

PowerBook 150 Failure. — #27

RAM went to hell? In my Classic, when one of the RAM modules went to hell I saw the same behavior. Each boot was a crap shoot.
68kMLA Hardware by Paralel Mon, 5 Jul 2010 - 20:38

PowerBook 150 Failure. — #26

Well, I plugged it in today for giggles, and whaddya know, I got a chime and the mouse screen. I get varying results though, like sometimes i get chimes of death, and once or twice…
68kMLA Hardware by Mars478 Sun, 4 Jul 2010 - 20:11

Wallstreet and PDQ information thread — #12

I need to load Gauge Pro on my new Wallstreet to see if ASP was on crack when I checked the thing out. : It's gonna be Beater2 when I'm done loading utilities and drivers on th…
68kMLA Hardware by Trash80toHP_Mini Fri, 2 Jul 2010 - 02:47

Wallstreet and PDQ information thread — #11

I recently obtained a Wallstreet II PDQ 300MHz running OS 9.2.2 with 192MB RAM & an 8GB hard drive with 4.6GB free. I have a G3 Pismo 400MHz running Tiger quite good. I was…
68kMLA Hardware by mike-stock Wed, 30 Jun 2010 - 08:01

asking for opinion: WGS 8150 vs. Radius 81/110 — #30

If I remember correctly, it was only true for 68k models (2GB limitation in ROM or something). Click to expand... Nope, Drive Setup in 7.6 and later installed the 'ruby' patch …
68kMLA Hardware by yuhong Mon, 7 Jun 2010 - 08:23

6500 PSU voltages & outputs? — #10

Hey Johnklos, Thank you for your response! I meant 5 volt rather than 5.5 volts - it was a typo - fat finger syndrome here hehe I was wondering because I have a CC modded wit…
68kMLA Hardware by BeniD82 Sun, 6 Jun 2010 - 23:11

6500 PSU voltages & outputs? — #9

Is there a way to figure out how much the maxium wattage would be per rail? :?: For example: - Maximum watts per 3.3v line - Maximum watts per 5.5v line - Total combined watt…
68kMLA Hardware by johnklos Sun, 6 Jun 2010 - 20:56

6500 PSU voltages & outputs? — #8

ohms law states w = I*V so for example 12 volts with a MAX of 5 amps = 60 watts (keeping in mind MAX means the most it can handle before killing itself, and really should not be …
68kMLA Hardware by Osgeld Sun, 6 Jun 2010 - 20:44

6500 PSU voltages & outputs? — #7

Is there a way to figure out how much the maxium wattage would be per rail? :?: For example: - Maximum watts per 3.3v line - Maximum watts per 5.5v line - Total combined wat…
68kMLA Hardware by BeniD82 Sun, 6 Jun 2010 - 20:25

DVD in a Quadra? — #11

I just saw this thread. I have an external DVD-RAM hooked up to my SuperMac S900...I know I thought about hooking it up to my Quadra 700, and I can't rememebr if I did (or didn't),…
68kMLA Hardware by Blessed Cheesemaker Mon, 17 May 2010 - 04:21

Power Macintosh 5260/100 arcing — #6

i put a PCI based logic board in there and it works fine. only the original logic board does it. even after capacitor replacement. dunno. oh well. I have another logic board of the…
68kMLA Hardware by techknight Fri, 7 May 2010 - 04:03

What kind of disks does my Disk ][ use? — #15

Some trs80's required hard sector disks. Click to expand... No TRS-80 used hard sector disks. (Speaking here as a former owner of examples of both the Model I/III/IV and Color …
68kMLA Hardware by Gorgonops Fri, 30 Apr 2010 - 22:46

What kind of disks does my Disk ][ use? — #14

I seem to recall that it requires hard sectored disks Click to expand... Some trs80's required hard sector disks. I just bought 50 dd 3.5in floppies off them.... $75aud...
68kMLA Hardware by barana Fri, 30 Apr 2010 - 08:50

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #19

there is some graphical characters on a apple II but most of the graphics is real graphics, maybe there could be a driver to output graphics to serial made, and for a ton of progra…
68kMLA Hardware by Osgeld Fri, 30 Apr 2010 - 04:57

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #18

Any reason you couldn't just use it over the serial port as though your modern desktop were a terminal connected by serial to the machine? Click to expand... If all you're look…
68kMLA Hardware by H3NRY Fri, 30 Apr 2010 - 04:47

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #17

Any reason you couldn't just use it over the serial port as though your modern desktop were a terminal connected by serial to the machine? Then you could have whatever font you wa…
68kMLA Hardware by Nathan Fri, 30 Apr 2010 - 03:44

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #16

why not just use an sram chip with another avr microcontroller to copy video memory into and just have the ATmega 328 read the sram for video data? Click to expand... I guess y…
68kMLA Hardware by Osgeld Thu, 29 Apr 2010 - 21:35

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #14

Can the expansion cards access all of the normal system memory? If so, you could certainly access the video ram directly. Otherwise, why not just use an sram chip with another avr …
68kMLA Hardware by Nathan Thu, 29 Apr 2010 - 20:09

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #13

if you want to spider-web your apple with 30 gauge jumpers maybe you could only do low rez then yes, but your still sampling the video data and then post processing it to output, s…
68kMLA Hardware by Osgeld Thu, 29 Apr 2010 - 04:52

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #12

Making an add-in card to replace the onboard video out and having it read the video portion of the ram makes more sense than trying to capture the output frame by frame. Perhaps it…
68kMLA Hardware by Nathan Thu, 29 Apr 2010 - 04:03
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