Tragically, Gamba took his own life. Wally learned this sad news from Gamba's sister. She has been keeping his site going, as I understand it, although it is unclear for how much l…

Turning off Virtual Memory seems to have cured it, for now anyway. Many thanks. I also turned off the memory check in the Memory Control Panel, which cured another problem whereby …

I remember having a problem involving the hard drive not showing up on my PB 180c, too bad it had been sitting there for a good year without fixing itself

The whole mod took me about 50 hours, the machine will eventually support an auto inject/eject iphone dock on the top, I'm working on the mechanism now. The system was build to pu…

Replace the drive #1 Maxtor is not the best drive out there. #2 its probally a 40 or a 60 you would probally be better off with a new 120 or something like that i have owned macs …

Extensions Manager is your friend. Disable everything and then add it back in progressively. As a starting point, try turning off Virtual Memory (not just disabling the control pan…

O.M.G. No words to describe this.

I've shifted in to 640x480 on my Apple Multiple Scan 17" monitor with Mac mini and OS 10.5.6

My 8600/200 604e with 256k cache, which has an Adaptec scsi pci card and 9 GB 68-pin drive, gives a repeated "bus error" message on cold startup in 8.6. Essentially, it gets to the…

Very nice modification. Shame that OS X won't support the resolution. Wonder if you can get a CRT tube that will got higher than 640x480 in the same dimensions.

Back in the day when Gamba was with us (RIP, Gamba.) Click to expand... Wait what happened to him?

Are there any DIP switches on the card that need adjusting, or have you tried adjusting the backside cache speed using CPU Director? JB

I've been running this 8500 with a Sonnet 500MHz G3 processor for years. I've had no issues with it and I've been quite satisfied. I've rigged this machine with 768MB of memory, …

Just out of curiosity, regarding all this thread, didn't Apple have more than one manufacturer for the CRTs? I'm thinking something like that wouldn't be any different of a situat…

If you've got an SE there's about a 50/50 chance of having one or the other from my observations. The Samsungs are rare in Classics and Pluses/pre-Pluses. As I mentioned in my stic…

Check Scott's stickied thread on CRTs - the compacts used CRTs made by both Clinton Electronics and Samsung.

Just out of curiosity, regarding all this thread, didn't Apple have more than one manufacturer for the CRTs? I'm thinking something like that wouldn't be any different of a situat…

COOOOOOOOOOL

You type PR#1 at the BAISC (]) prompt to output anything typed. As per paper they can use tractor feed or normal loose leaf depending on what mode you have it in.

Wait what paper does it use as well?

I don't have applesoft or anything else! Just the command line after doing Control-Reset and playing with it.

Also almost every dotmatrix printer ever can self test. With my model, you can either hold down TOF/QUIET while you turn it on or hold down line feed while you turn it on. The Imag…

You can test the printer by typing PR#1 at the Applesoft prompt (assuming the printer card is in slot 1)... after that all output should be redirected to the printer. Type somethin…

I Have an OkiData printer as well! It came in a bundle with my ][e! I am not sure if it works as I have no way of testing it, because my ][e has no software. Mine is Okidata Microl…

Found this at a salvation army today, had no sticker on it so the guy said I could have it for $3.50. Came with two manuals and a somewhat dry but still decent ribbon. Self tests j…