Make sure you have that case as ventilated and cool as possible. I had the firewire counterpart eat my iTunes hard drive interface for lunch.
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68kMLAHardwareby QuadramanThu, 25 Feb 2010 - 18:24
Found a 128k that needs work for $150 on ebay. Got $12 Bing cashback and $3 ebay bucks. 8-o
It's the early model that just says "Macintosh" on the back, no "128k" after it. …
68kMLAHardwareby QuadramanThu, 25 Feb 2010 - 18:02
Does the guy you got the IIfx from still have any Mac II's?
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Yeah he had two Mac II's and another IIfx. Are we sure the Mac II power supply is compatible wit…
Does the guy you got the IIfx from still have any Mac II's?
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Yeah he had two Mac II's and another IIfx. Are we sure the Mac II power supply is compatible wit…
Pluses have a beige case, though. How can they yellow? I thought the platinum colored Macs were the ones with yellowing issues.
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They just turn "more" yellow.…
68kMLATroubleshootingby Dennis NedryThu, 25 Feb 2010 - 17:16
Here's an option, although it is fairly expensive. But if time and hassle isn't worth it to you to find a cheaper one, follow these links. These two run ~$60 range.
http://cgi.e…
68kMLAHardwareby Dennis NedryThu, 25 Feb 2010 - 17:04
So what's the fix to something like this? Complete replacement of the power supply?
Tempest
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That would certainly work. There are people on this board inclu…
So what's the fix to something like this? Complete replacement of the power supply?
Tempest
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That would certainly work. There are people on this board inclu…
68kMLAHardwareby Dennis NedryThu, 25 Feb 2010 - 16:02
Such lists are easily obtained from magazine archives on Nexis. However, they should not be taken too literally. They tend to be aggregations of press releases, and actual products…
While rummaging through my magic plastic shoe boxes™, for the IIfx/CD Tune-Up Post, I found my disassembled (imagine me having one of those : ) 1400 KBD! So while arranging for a…
68kMLAHardwareby Trash80toHP_MiniThu, 25 Feb 2010 - 04:16
Be really interesting if it could be made to the look like the mac os completely with highlight on click for the navigation buttons or even drop down menus. Would need rounded/beve…
All compact Macs up to and including the initial release SE have signatures inside.
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Give or take a signature or two. Every time they modified the inside of t…
I have Never seen the silvery coating in any 128,512, Ke, or Plus...
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Neither have I. My eyes have only see the matte gray coating that feels slightly rough …
68kMLATroubleshootingby JDWThu, 25 Feb 2010 - 00:18
Fellow 68kmla'er wthww gave me a SCSI DVD-RAM drive last July, but I've never done anything with it. If someone figures out what drivers are needed, I too would be interested.
I saw an old review of a prototype G4 upgrade from Daystar that had 2m cache vs 1m cache in the production model and the results weren't impressive. Running about 20 apps and bench…
I think most of them have the coating, even as far back as the 128k. My 128k has it, I just assumed they all did. Here's a photo of the guts of a 128k, with the coating:http://kcom…
68kMLATroubleshootingby Mac128Wed, 24 Feb 2010 - 23:08
Apple's devious plan for incorporating binary emulation seamlessly into the existing Mac OS was very clever, but it also meant they wasted loads of effort making a new CPU act like…
scsi dvd roms are out there and fairly plentiful, just expensive!
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I just bought an external Fantom Drive for $20 + $10 shipping on ebay. 8-o
So it seems …
68kMLAHardwareby QuadramanWed, 24 Feb 2010 - 22:35