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Macintosh Plus fizzling on startup — #8

When a CRT is fired up after being off for a long time, there is often a sizzling or crackling sound sort of like it is taking a deep breath. It is caused by the inside of the tube…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by H3NRY Thu, 8 Oct 2009 - 04:46

Possible 68k Conquest — #4

They all sound good to me, but for some reason the IIcx with B&W tabloid monitor sounds real cool (is it actualy a grayscale monitor?). Grayscale full page monitors are rar…
68kMLA 68k by Unknown_K Thu, 8 Oct 2009 - 00:39

Possible 68k Conquest — #3

I second JRL, at least grab the SE and the Portrait Display, and grab the SE/30 as well if you can.
68kMLA 68k by LCGuy Thu, 8 Oct 2009 - 00:33

Possible 68k Conquest — #2

I may have an opportunity to pick up the following for free. One Mac SE with 20MB internal HD & Gemini 68030 card One Mac SE/30 with 20MB internal HD One Mac IIcx with ta…
68kMLA 68k by JRL Wed, 7 Oct 2009 - 23:46

Possible 68k Conquest — #1

I may have an opportunity to pick up the following for free. One Mac SE with 20MB internal HD & Gemini 68030 card One Mac SE/30 with 20MB internal HD One Mac IIcx with t…
68kMLA 68k by jkoci Wed, 7 Oct 2009 - 23:44

Is it possible to turn an iBook into a Deck? — #16

Totally been done already. Click to expand... :lol: Totally not what I have in mind. if anything MS Bob is pretty much what we have at the moment. I needed the laugh though. …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by AusNick Wed, 7 Oct 2009 - 07:33

G4 Mini going to OSX after linux — #26

PowerPCs will boot from USB: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060301112336384 http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20061017084322177 You can also use anothe…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by netfreak Wed, 7 Oct 2009 - 05:43

Mac Plus analog board - Q1 looks smoked — #2

Of course. Should just need to replace the damaged components and it will be good as new. Are you good with a soldering iron? Dr. Lee's document should be useful here.
68kMLA 68k by Mac128 Tue, 6 Oct 2009 - 19:02

Macintosh Plus fizzling on startup — #7

If its the insulation around the high voltage components breaking down, the problem will be related to humidity rather than temperature.
68kMLA Troubleshooting by shred Tue, 6 Oct 2009 - 11:23

Idea! Macpedia! — #11

How do you add a new page? Edit: Never mind, I figured it out.
68kMLA Troubleshooting by agg23 Tue, 6 Oct 2009 - 02:39

G4 Mini going to OSX after linux — #25

PowerPCs will boot from USB: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060301112336384 http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20061017084322177 You can also use anoth…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by johnklos Tue, 6 Oct 2009 - 01:23

Video playback on Plus/Classic — #65

OK Nevermind I figured it out. You would think I would have thought to download it on a Mac running OS X :
68kMLA 68k by agg23 Mon, 5 Oct 2009 - 23:39

Video playback on Plus/Classic — #64

You can specify text/binary transfer mode in Fetch. In 4.x there's a dropdown menu under the "get" and "put" buttons... not sure about 3.0.3.
68kMLA 68k by luddite Mon, 5 Oct 2009 - 23:13

TWO boxed QuickTakes for the price of One — #1

I bought a QuickTake 200 camera in box on eBay recently...I waited 2 weeks, and it still did not arrive. Finally, it arrived today, and I was pleasantly surprised with TWO QuickTak…
68kMLA 68k by Gil Mon, 5 Oct 2009 - 21:26

Video playback on Plus/Classic — #63

How am I to get the MacMovies App to my old macs? I usually would download something in Mac OS X then transfer it over via FTP server but my old Mac thinks the app is a text file.…
68kMLA 68k by agg23 Mon, 5 Oct 2009 - 21:08

Is it possible to turn an iBook into a Deck? — #15

Stage 1 What I propose here is a stand alone App. Just so a person can move around in a room and maybe do stuff. Coded to run as low-end as possible, that way it won’t keep peop…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Gorgonops Mon, 5 Oct 2009 - 17:03

Is it possible to turn an iBook into a Deck? — #14

Okay, an iBook is out, so…what would it actually take? And I don't mean to reinvent the LC. For the sake of argument, say we've got the bones of a generic laptop. And all it's b…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by AusNick Mon, 5 Oct 2009 - 16:33

Idea! Macpedia! — #10

Maybe stuff like that could go in a 68kmla.org/wiki/Articles/The_name_of_the_page with /wiki/Articles being an index? Click to expand... Generally speaking, we shouldn't have s…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by ChristTrekker Mon, 5 Oct 2009 - 15:05

Idea! Macpedia! — #9

I think it is very disorganized and hard to find many things of value (sorry but I do). Does anyone else feel this way? :?: Click to expand... Certainly there are a lot of a…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by ~tl Mon, 5 Oct 2009 - 14:25

Idea! Macpedia! — #8

Yes, I suppose we should modify the 68kMLA Wiki instead of making a new one (at least now I don't have to host it) but I don't like the layout of the wiki very much. I think it is…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by agg23 Mon, 5 Oct 2009 - 13:37
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