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Somebody from the old IRC channel has the 840AV version of a RAM card that used 8 x 72 pin SIMMs (32MB max each for 256MB total). I think Newer technology sold it. It was pretty fa…

I have seen only one of these, on eBay a few years back. It sold for something outrageous even then, before the prices of nubus-era equipment began to go up. As I recall, the writ…

Samples & pictures here: http://web.me.com/henryspragens/stuff/Apple_II_Music/Apple_II_Music.html If there's interest, I'll post more.

I tried installing a 400mhz processor I pulled from a B&W G3 and it didn't work at all. (I assume the bus speeds are wildly different) Click to expand... B&W bu…

Daystar RAM PowerCard. I'm pretty sure it was not addressable as system memory, just as RAM disk, print spool, and disk cache. FWIW I have been searching for this and any similar …

That's some great information. Thank you for sharing the results of your real world tests. That's the best kind of information to see and it is rare.

ok lets start again.I found a color classic on new zealands ebay trademe.co.nz it would not boot.. so when it came i looked inside bad caps. replace the caps and booted it up …

Thank you all for the replies. I'm a work now so I'll have to open it up later. The seller offered me a partial refund or to take it back entirely. You think I should hang onto it …

What does it use for sound synthesis? And is there a voice editor?

Could be, or a Pismo. If in doubt, ask them to turn it over and read the specs off the compliance sticker on the bottom. Click to expand... The thing is, I don't like to ask q…

Thank you all for the replies. I'm a work now so I'll have to open it up later. The seller offered me a partial refund or to take it back entirely. You think I should hang onto it …

Could be, or a Pismo. If in doubt, ask them to turn it over and read the specs off the compliance sticker on the bottom. Seems like they go cheap if the seller a: does a ba…

This tech note:http://developer.apple.com/legacy/mac/library/technotes/hw/hw_520.html states that: "There is no way that the Macintosh operating system can recognize NuBus RAM an…

Also, just missed out on a Lombard that went for 21 pounds (I bid 20). I think it was a Lombard, I spent hours looking at pics and specs trying to find out. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/…

1 can a dead pram battery(3.6v) stop the hdd from working2 Network Access Disk image. dose it see hdd's Click to expand... Possibly but you should have tested that right off th…

3 to 4 hours last time on the Indigo, swapped the hard drive out (hence the Tiger donar for the Blueberry) + changed the CD drive for a combo. I wish I'd thought of doing the FSB …

The only way I can even think of would be to run a PC hardware emulator like QEMU or Virtual PC, then run "Hackintosh" OS X inside that. It would be dog-slow, though. (Hrm... Yo…

We are only allowed to place rack units in the data center I've tried micro-atx boxen clipped to the side of the racks behind panels and got whacked for that pretty hard. Still…

It gets really confusing when you wander into one of the NuBus cards that actually is a video card plus network card, such as the E-Machines ColorLink series. I have one with RJ-4…

Now display seems to always lit. When it is lit I hear a noise. Is it normal? But I continue to get this message "No battery reserve power remains. The Macintosh will go to sleep…

It definitely sounds like a bad capacitors issue, which also is associated with Simasimac. Symptoms include low volume or no sound at startup, zebra-like pattern, checkerboard or …

I'd imagine very very old LCDs couldn't be any harder. Click to expand... It is stupidly easy in the displays in the 1xx series.Like, mars478 could do it.. though he might brea…

It's a hard repair, I must say, but not the hardest I've done. I did this upgrade to my Graphite with a 20GB HD, it dissassembles the laptop completely, just to get to the HD.

Ye-ouch! I'm hoping mine was 'just' the motherboard and the processor daughtercard...at current used prices, plus shipping to and from, the damage on mine might be as low as $80 o…