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IT BURNS! — #22

I've blown one PAV assembly in a G3/600 from excessive heat. The machine still worked, but it took a while to build up the required charge for a successful illumination of the tube…
68kMLA Hardware by iMac600 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 - 14:06

IT BURNS! — #21

The Rev A-D (233mhz-333mhz) had the internal fans. The ones with 350mhz or higher don't have fans. Having a 333mhz and 500mhz indigo the only problem I found was burning discs. I …
68kMLA Hardware by mac-man6 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 - 07:20

IT BURNS! — #20

it wasnt much of a problem back then, but nowadays the hot-cold-hot-cold of convection cooling, or poorly fan cooled components have a tendency, and a strong one at that to break t…
68kMLA Hardware by techknight Sat, 10 Jul 2010 - 05:35

PowerBook 150 Failure. — #28

your going to have to take a magnifying glass and light to the logic board. the smoke may had very well come from a circuit trace opening up like a fuse. seen it a few times. if it…
68kMLA Hardware by techknight Sat, 10 Jul 2010 - 05:02

LC520 accelerator — #19

left-over 520 motherboard is a plug-and-play upgrade for a Color Classic / Someone here might even want it Click to expand... viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13785
68kMLA 68k by Bunsen Fri, 9 Jul 2010 - 13:01

LC520 accelerator — #18

Yea, it is unfortunate that they released the Color Classic at the same time as the LC III, but they based it upon the much slower LC II! What is even worse, the Color Classic II t…
68kMLA 68k by yuhong Thu, 8 Jul 2010 - 22:06

MacOS 8.6 on "Sawtooth" G4 — #61

Got the Mac OS ROM file, been really busy at work (where the Sawtooth project is underway), so I dropped it into a 1st gen slot-loading iMac DV at home (also a special-case machine…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by khmann Thu, 8 Jul 2010 - 21:52

LC520 accelerator — #17

Your left-over 520 motherboard is a plug-and-play upgrade for a Color Classic. It's not a huge leap in power: 16MHz '030 --> 25MHz, and 10MB RAM limit --> 36MB, but …
68kMLA 68k by Bunsen Wed, 7 Jul 2010 - 23:16

MacOS 8.6 on "Sawtooth" G4 — #59

Desperately in search of Mac OS ROM 2.5.1 to get 8.6 running on a PowerMac G4 SawTooth. I have scoured the abandonware archives and used my status as Apple Certified tech to check…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by khmann Wed, 7 Jul 2010 - 03:43

LC520 accelerator — #16

If you get an LC575 board, make sure you also get the back panel off an LC575 Click to expand... In fact, Apple once sold both in an official LC 575 logic board upgrade for the…
68kMLA 68k by yuhong Tue, 6 Jul 2010 - 20:15

PowerBook 150 Failure. — #27

RAM went to hell? In my Classic, when one of the RAM modules went to hell I saw the same behavior. Each boot was a crap shoot.
68kMLA Hardware by Paralel Mon, 5 Jul 2010 - 20:38

PowerBook 150 Failure. — #26

Well, I plugged it in today for giggles, and whaddya know, I got a chime and the mouse screen. I get varying results though, like sometimes i get chimes of death, and once or twice…
68kMLA Hardware by Mars478 Sun, 4 Jul 2010 - 20:11

Wallstreet and PDQ information thread — #12

I need to load Gauge Pro on my new Wallstreet to see if ASP was on crack when I checked the thing out. : It's gonna be Beater2 when I'm done loading utilities and drivers on th…
68kMLA Hardware by Trash80toHP_Mini Fri, 2 Jul 2010 - 02:47

Wallstreet and PDQ information thread — #11

I recently obtained a Wallstreet II PDQ 300MHz running OS 9.2.2 with 192MB RAM & an 8GB hard drive with 4.6GB free. I have a G3 Pismo 400MHz running Tiger quite good. I was…
68kMLA Hardware by mike-stock Wed, 30 Jun 2010 - 08:01

The original CRT iMac's popularity today — #18

Looking back at this article after finding an original Bondi Blue iMac (not sure of the revision) at a school it made me wonder. That ebay auction did end up selling for $350 but …
68kMLA PowerPC by Strimkind Wed, 30 Jun 2010 - 07:20

Service videos for 1xx/2xx/5xx on ebay — #27

Now this is an odd find: On offer is a VINTAGE COLLECTABLE - BRAND NEW Apple PowerBook {x00} Series Video Service Course as part of the Apple Service Training Courses. This b…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Baboon! Tue, 22 Jun 2010 - 18:13

Wanted: Advice on performing 68040 upgrade for Q605 — #29

Yeah, like that's gonna happen. They are like $250-$300 each in bulk according to Freescales' site. Click to expand... Well, they did eventually make a 40Mhz 68LC040, which is …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by yuhong Sun, 20 Jun 2010 - 23:48

asking for opinion: WGS 8150 vs. Radius 81/110 — #30

If I remember correctly, it was only true for 68k models (2GB limitation in ROM or something). Click to expand... Nope, Drive Setup in 7.6 and later installed the 'ruby' patch …
68kMLA Hardware by yuhong Mon, 7 Jun 2010 - 08:23

6500 PSU voltages & outputs? — #10

Hey Johnklos, Thank you for your response! I meant 5 volt rather than 5.5 volts - it was a typo - fat finger syndrome here hehe I was wondering because I have a CC modded wit…
68kMLA Hardware by BeniD82 Sun, 6 Jun 2010 - 23:11
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