It could well be the power manager. You can reset it - I forget the key combo, but perhaps Apple's support pages have the info.

That is indeed a beastly conquest! Might I ask where you found it? I agree with you that that is about the best pre-G3 Mac there is, and possibly some way into the G3 era. A 350…

Hi, Today I picked up a WorkGroup Server 9650/350 - nigh on my idea of the "ultimate" Mac (just short of a Quad G5!). Super expandability with a super case to work on. Total cos…

When I jiggle the power plug in the back of the powerbook, the socket feels a bit loose. It worked well all afternoon today after I did that....I think my son in his enthusiasm has…

Ahh ok, I was confusing the lack of the bumps on the old machines. Its surprising how distracting it is to touch type when I'm used to the home key bumps on the H and F. Hmm mayb…

I didn't take the PRAM battery out. Will a dead PRAM battery keep it from booting? Click to expand... Yes it will. Unplug it and it should boot up when you press the power bu…

:'( :'( :'( *whimper* I wish I hadn't sold mine back in the day...

I didn't take the PRAM battery out. Will a dead PRAM battery keep it from booting?

Actually, I take that back. It looks like a power problem. After the two-fingered power manager reset, I can get a pointer to appear, but as soon as it tries to spin up the hard di…

yea my time is limited as well, but its something im going to work on a little bit at a time. i was reading that alot of older software wasnt compatible with 128K roms, so i might …

Here are a few of my faves. (click for full size) The famous picture used on screen in many Macintosh II promo shots: A nice rendition of the "Chrome Apple" logo, with slight …

Or a fabric (or even paper) seamstress measuring tape works great.

The spotty one is called Arabesque, I have it in 1600 by 1200, and also I have another treat: Arabesque: Flying Apple:

so i could use a USB flash drive, or SD memory Click to expand... Now you're talkin! I've been thinking the same thing. Just don't have time to take on a project like that.

Mine might be bad cappy. I'll investigate. Right now it just clicks, but won't boot.

It's an Apple thing. Many older typewriters had no bump on ANY key. Even the pre-ADB Apple keyboards are missing the bump. It was with the ADB era (and the //c, for that matter,…

I'm using my SE/30 as a distraction free writing machine, but one of the biggest issues I have is the keyboard home keys on the D and K keys. Its an "Apple Keyboard" Did the Keybo…

yea. well the reason i am asking questions like this, because in my spare time, i have a 512k system here, i was going to start modding it. keep it strictly for a mod machine. my …

I second this suggestion. Worked for every pismo I had that did not turn on.

A0 is called UDS (Upper Data Select) and LDS (Lower Data Select) at the 68000 chip. That way, it can read either byte singly or both together. You're right, A0 as such doesn't usua…

Use a flexible steel or plastic ruler.

Yea i was making it harder than what it really was. the ROM is 64kilobytes total, 32K in each chip. but each chip is on a 64K addressing system, so in theory it can address up to 1…

My Macintosh IIfx. Still running after eleven years. In early 1999 I got a gift from a colleague, a graphic designer at the printing company where I had a job as printer: an old M…

Wouldn't the curvature of the screen create a major problem in this scenario?

To start with, A0 selects the low or high byte ROM for 8-bit read, then A1 - A16 select the individual byte in each ROM out of 65536 possibilities or 64K, so 2 x 64K = 128K bytes o…