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…
68kMLAHardwareby noidentityWed, 31 Mar 2010 - 00:09
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…
68kMLAHardwareby MultiFinderSun, 28 Mar 2010 - 22:22
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…
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…
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…
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…
68kMLAHardwareby Anonymous FreakThu, 25 Mar 2010 - 04:19
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…
68kMLAHardwareby Dennis NedryWed, 24 Mar 2010 - 06:50
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.
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UPDATE
I have acquired some PLCC-32 to DIP-32 adapters and installed them in place of the onboard ROMs of this Mac IIci.
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68kMLAHardwareby Dennis NedryWed, 24 Mar 2010 - 03:29
Anonymous Freak – check this out regarding 128K SIMMs.
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D-OH! :I
Obviously I was wrong on the capacity of the individual SIMMs, but I was also wrong on t…
68kMLAHardwareby Anonymous FreakWed, 24 Mar 2010 - 02:06
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?
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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…
68kMLAHardwareby QuadramanTue, 23 Mar 2010 - 20:58
With 128K the OS is forced to swap out program segments to the 400K floppy, and it is SLOW!
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It's my understanding that the SegmentLoader only read program se…
To get the board to work (as 128K) you need to plug 74LS244s into the 2 big sockets, and resistor packs into RP2 and RP3. The resistor packs need to be 10 pins each with 5 individu…
Now as you can see from the pictures, there are two chips missing/removed from the mobo. My question is, can i still start(power on) this mac without the MacMemory RAM board? ... D…