I'm glad I did that to the CPU card I got for my MDD then. Damn thing seems to run hot enough as it is.

Regardless of whether a machine appears fine, you should replace the foil between the CPUs and the heat sink the first time you take the heat sink off. Heat sink compound is alway…

I am amazed that it didn't happen sooner! My MDD was regularly +150F, yet it didn't complain for five years. Meanwhile I had a feature creep situation with a project for recasing i…

So the problem was the CPU daughtercard? It seems this is a common issue with overheating. I've experienced it viewtopic.php?f=13&t=13430 And other have too viewtopic.php…

IT'S ALIVE!!! I collected all of my MDD bits together tonight and set about methodically testing. First I tried combinations of RAM sticks - they can't all have gone bad! And unli…

How about a B&W G3 with the 17 in display :rambo:

I'm not sure when those two dropped of the first page. Must have been when I was rearranging things last time new smilies were added in. They've been restored to their rightful pla…

I'd like to be the first to complain that having the new smilies buried behind the "View more smilies" link makes it far too much work to use the new smilies! Click to expand...…

The most primitive stand alone Apple LCD was the blue & white 15" Studio Display at 1024x768. It is a multi-sync display so it will display 640x480. The earliest LCDs from …

My, that's pretty.

The closest "match" you'll be able to find is likely IBM's first LCD desktop display, the 9507, which was meant to go with their low power PS/2e desktop computer. (Which was basic…

I happened upon this thread and thought I would add my two cents. Hope this is useful and not a "me too" sort of deal. I have a IIci that I made out of two IIcis, and I was think…

Interesting. Seems like that would make a number of things more feasible, eh trag? Click to expand... Yep. Affordable PCB prototypes makes a *lot* of projects more feasible.…

as a much more active member of hobby electronics than here I find trag's post a little bit too negative, 1 its not THAT bad and 2 no one said this had to be on par with dell's pro…

Interesting. Seems like that would make a number of things more feasible, eh trag?

I found a cheaper circuit board prototyping service which makes this project feasible. Here's the link: http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/fusion-pcb-2-layer-10cm10cm-max-10pcs-p-3…

You can find my story here: http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=13353 Regards, Emiel

Nice Mac history. I look forward to your IIfx story in Mac II, Quadra & Centris later. Glad to meet you.

Yeah, definately something to look into. For now, I'm just saving the iBook as a rainy day project xx( .

Things are settling down a bit to be sure. What has been a major stressor though is the medical bills for the cancer treatment. Insureance is wonderful and without it i'd surely b…

Holy heck dude :O I feel for ya buddy - I tend to have the opposite reaction - the crazier life gets, the more I show up here for my daily dose of (relative) sanity. Glad to h…

I've been dealing with a lot lately. A few deaths in the family, my wife's cancer , trying to find a job, helping out a friend whose mom died and psycho sister is making proba…

Not sure if anyone else has mentioned this directly, but the early Dual USB iBooks with Rage graphics did not suffer from the GPU problems that the later Radeon models did. In fact…

G'day - nice to have you here. Impressive Mac history too!

I don't have access to an external HDD.. (well I do, but its over 128GB..) Click to expand... That wont matter if it is an external HDD - If it is a firewire HDD then it could …