I'm not sure if the space between the two nubs needs to be clear... so a full axle might not work.  a nice tight-fitting bit of metal (perhaps as simple as a bit of clothes hanger …

Could do a rod, or drill out the one side and glue a rod into it.

The different angles of door is something I have not been thinking about much. Your argument makes lot of senses... But how do you suggest I proceed to repair that little pin that…

meall said: I have an external III floppy that I could "destroy" to repair the main unit, but I'm looking at a better/cleaner solution. Click to expand... You'll need to …

Bunsen said: What size is your SATA drive?  There's a limit of ~128GB on the older Macs. Click to expand... I've tried 32 GB & 64 GB drives so far, either whole o…

What size is your SATA drive?  There's a limit of ~128GB on the older Macs.

I couldn't get a ZIF PATA - mSATA adapter to work on my MBA.

So you probably want an ATA-6 drive unless someone can correct me there. I had a similar problem.

Trying to figure out ATA compatabilities A drive out of the 3400c is a 2 GB Travelstar DCRA-22160. The specs say it is ATA2 Fast/Enhanced with an external data transfer rate = 16.…

I'm glad you sorted that out. I hope now things will be easy for you when you replace the floppy drive. You should be able to replace the drive guts with another working one like a…

Great news. Like Byrd said, its a compatibility issue. Have you tried it on an older machine like a 1400?

It's likely related to what ATA standard the 3400c and Pismo support, and backwards compatibility of the mSATA drive and/or adapter. I'd try another cheap adapter. In other news,…

I have an Apple III I bought many years ago from a member of this forum. Can't remember who, sadly! I have not started it in years, but I know it needs some care. The first thing …

In a bit of experimentation I have been trying various SSD schemes in my PB 3400c.   Compact Flash cards in the HD spot with a generic Asian CF-to-IDE adapter work just fine as do…

NJRoadfan said: All the original files from Apple are 800k Disk Copy 4.2 images in self extracting archives. To install on a HD you need all 6 disks. Disk 7 is used for Apple…

I love my two NuPower batteries - they are both getting weaker, alas. I keep babying them along.

I assumed it was a power management issue as it won't charge batteries anymore (hasn't for years) but that could of course just be dead batteries! (One of them was a new NuPower Ma…

I would guess it was a power management issue with the software.  Like shutdown every 15 minutes.  It only asked you because you were using it.

Yes , strange. Maybe a virus, there was some : http://lowendmac.com/2015/classic-mac-os-viruses/ Can get them with old downloaded games sometimes. Install Desinfectant.  Happy t…

I booted from a 9.1 CD and it wasn't doing it, so I did a fresh install... and it's ok now. Genuinely confused as to what caused it (~15 years playing with Macs and I've never see…

Have you tried booting from a system cd , see if it does the same ?

I know this isn't a mechanical problem, as I've gone so far as to unplug the power button to see what I can do here. I know the power button works, because it can boot the thing f…

(Elfen you were right, the floppy that I normally put disk tools on had died.  The SCSI CD drive will no longer boot either the c or cs, but I think it may be a termination issue. …

Ok so the 5300c's bus is fine; this is at least partly a drive issue.  The drive in question, with a jumper, spins but isn't recognized.  Without a jumper it spins and shuts down i…

I was going to say, Elfen, if you can clue me in to any factors you think might affect the cards, I can test them systematically and make like a grid along with a correlation of th…