I finally found a copy of Cliff Joyce's masterpiece "Calculator Construction Set" thanks to waynes.com. I haven't tried it yet (I really don't want to unshrinkwrap this rarity!) bu…

The 68060 didn't scale well, either. The fastest versions lack the MMU, FPU, or both. Too many transistors for a wafer that size back then. The fastest 060's required separate chip…

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You could try removing the drive and physically hold it in your hand and twist it back and forth vigorously, as if trying to make the platters inside turn back and forth. This com…

If the drive doesn't spin, the bearings are likely "frozen up" and the spindle motor can't break it free to start it spinning. You could try removing the drive and physically hold…

If System 7 had been on the market for 2 years by the time the LCIII was released, then it's not surprising that you can't run System 6 on it. You can't downgrade a system to a ver…

The 68060 didn't scale well, either. The fastest versions lack the MMU, FPU, or both. Too many transistors for a wafer that size back then. The fastest 060's required separate chip…

I'm trying to get a HyperDrive 20 to work. The drive sits in a Mac Plus and seems to physically dead, as the logic board on the drive is working, but the drive doesn't spin up. I …

Are you saying it definitely is NOT in the IIci ROM? Click to expand... Yep, as far as I can tell, it is not in there. The one ting the IIci and fx have in common is tha…

I can date these "animation" frames back to the IIfx, but after the IIci. Click to expand... Are you saying it definitely is NOT in the IIci ROM? The one ting the IIci and fx …

Very interesting. It's not animated on the LC III/Performa 450 either as far as I can tell. But the LC III ROM also contains normal 32x32 images of the complete happy mac and sad…

Not on mine. It just starts with the completed face. Unless it's too fast for me to see that is. Tempest

Isn't that just how it is? (Like your animation) Click to expand... Are you saying that it is indeed animated like this on the actual Macintosh Classic machine? I just spotted…

Isn't that just how it is? (Like your animation)

Here's what it would look like animated:

I need to score a complete set of OS X install discs soon. I have every version of Mac OS from 7.5-9.2.1 and am starting to bring some OS X capable machines back to life and have n…

I admit that I do not own a Mac Classic. Intrigued by the command+option+o+x bootable ROM ability, I peeked inside this ROM. I found this by importing the ROM as a fairly tall ra…

I have a 1.25ghz DP G4 MDD with a Radion 9000 pro video card running 10.5.8. I have it connected to a Sony 46" LCD TV via a DVI-HDMI adapter. I use it mostly as a PVR, a video play…

[edit - oops question posted to wrong thread] To save going over the same ground again, here are previous '060 and Coldfire discussions: viewtopic.php?p=106530#p106530 abo…

I found a link for the Tiger patch - they didn't make it easy. Archive it while you can, it probably won't be there forever. http://tcsupport.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/tcsupport.cfg/ph…

My MDD is temporarily offline for repairs, but the highest I have used was 10.4.11. It works great! As I recall, there were only a couple of features which didn't work, and they we…

In the consumer market, the LC III was sold as the Performa 450. It's identical except for the sticker on the front of the case, and some accessories that came bundled with it. L…

I can confirm that the LCIII definitely does support 24 bit mode, in fact when an LCIII has a flat PRAM battery, or no PRAM battery, it boots up in 24 bit mode by default. And it d…

For that Apple IIe card keep in mind IIRC you need to run that in 24-bit mode. 32-bit mode won't work. So the IIe card in a LC III may not work since I"m not sure you can run t…

Yes, both of my LC III's were from a school. I think the guy I got them from had a trailer full of them. LC's and the AIO LC models must have been very popular with schools and th…