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Trouble booting blue & white g3 — #1

I recently received an old 400mhz blue and white g3 from someone and intended to use if for some pre-OSX stuff I have. I managed to get it to start up, and was able to boot from th…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by infinitymb Thu, 11 Mar 2010 - 15:51

M0001 flyback transfomers — #1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230415157626 Get em while you still can.
68kMLA General by Quadraman Thu, 11 Mar 2010 - 08:20

Mac SE/30 SCSI problem — #3

Turned out to be leaky caps! Cleaned it up and it works. But I snapped one cap off so I ordered a set of caps to replace 'em all.
68kMLA Troubleshooting by TjLaZer Thu, 11 Mar 2010 - 06:18

MIDI performance on a Macintosh Classic, good? — #3

I want to get down to a couple of ms of MIDI jitter. So far I'm at about 5ms with my computer setup. I'm now only recording simple note on/off events to make sure nothing is cloggi…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Man-Machine Thu, 11 Mar 2010 - 05:27

MIDI performance on a Macintosh Classic, good? — #2

You will be limited to the number of tracks you can run on a Classic. Performer is the best of the lot in those days. But you will run into the same problem if try to jam too much …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Mac128 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 - 04:06

MIDI performance on a Macintosh Classic, good? — #1

Because MIDI latency and jitter on modern computers is a problem. I've been contemplating in either get a dedicated hardware MIDI sequencer or an old Mac for MIDI sequencing, so I …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Man-Machine Wed, 10 Mar 2010 - 21:31

Week old bid pays off — #2

Nice score! [] ]'> I'm in the situation of needing to nab a second beige plus for its bucket and whatever else I can swap around to get my multiply upgraded 128k/beige pl…
68kMLA General by Trash80toHP_Mini Wed, 10 Mar 2010 - 04:00

Week old bid pays off — #1

Nothing too big but managed to pick up a power board for my 128k for $25 shipped. I made that bid a week ago and didn't think it would win, but I guess demand for these is slackeni…
68kMLA General by Quadraman Wed, 10 Mar 2010 - 00:55

iBook G3 500MHz Questions — #21

Thanks for the replies, guys. The iBook seems to work when it wants, but so far its doing what I've asked it to do, I just wish it would stop doing these random "bombs". I might co…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by wardsenatorfe92 Tue, 9 Mar 2010 - 04:22

iBook G3 500MHz Questions — #20

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…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by protocol7 Mon, 8 Mar 2010 - 14:18

Removing personal data on a Newton 2100 — #2

There should be a reset button on the back. Check out this page http://www.pda-soft.de/2x00_disassemble.html to ensure it clears everything you want it to...
68kMLA General by macgreg Mon, 8 Mar 2010 - 06:29

iBook G3 500MHz Questions — #19

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…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by tyrannis Mon, 8 Mar 2010 - 00:25

Removing personal data on a Newton 2100 — #1

I am giving my Newton MP 2100 to a friend and I want to remove any and all personal data on it beforehand. Is there an easy way to reset it back to factory settings/data. I do no…
68kMLA General by Orion Sun, 7 Mar 2010 - 22:01

iBook G3 500MHz Questions — #18

Congratulations on that iBook G3! The 500 or 600MHz (Rage128) models are the pair of dualUSB iBooks I'll still admit to having wanted when they were new, and I'll also admit I woul…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Cory5412 Sun, 7 Mar 2010 - 20:19

Macintosh SE FDHD — #4

Liberation in hostile territory - nice work.
68kMLA General by tyrannis Sun, 7 Mar 2010 - 19:07

Macintosh SE FDHD — #2

Congrats, even thought the guy was kind of a ****head himself! Without motivating myself to go downstairs and turn on one of my compact Mac's, I believe the occasional "static pip…
68kMLA General by aftermac Sun, 7 Mar 2010 - 14:25

Small score: PB100 — #9

Well, spanking it, dropping it and tapping it gently with a sledgehammer didn't help. Salvation came in the form of a PB160 with a bad screen that generously donated its hard…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by oldmossinger Fri, 5 Mar 2010 - 04:13

Screen longevity — #15

I have two 150's here that have entire sections of the screens dead. They partially work, but those dead areas make it impossible to really use them. Click to expand... I have …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Dennis Nedry Fri, 5 Mar 2010 - 02:00

Screen longevity — #14

I have a ton of old Thinkpads with great screens from the mid 1990's, yet a few newer with some pink or dead bulbs. If I had to guess I think the older smaller screens had bulbs th…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Unknown_K Fri, 5 Mar 2010 - 01:36

Screen longevity — #13

I have two 150's here that have entire sections of the screens dead. They partially work, but those dead areas make it impossible to really use them.
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Quadraman Fri, 5 Mar 2010 - 00:57

Mac SE/30 SCSI problem — #2

TjJazer, Try rebooting the SE/30 off of the floppy drive. Then run Disk First Aid or Apple SC HD Setup or some type of equivalent hard drive utility program. We just need to che…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by phreakout Thu, 4 Mar 2010 - 00:20

Mac SE/30 SCSI problem — #1

OK my spare SE/30 is having a major problem! I think it's the SCSI chip. Which is not socketted! It will hang on boots and reboot, and after messing with it, SCSI is dead on the…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by TjLaZer Wed, 3 Mar 2010 - 06:30
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