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G5 LCU O-rings — #4

I spent a good hour just flushing the whole system so I'm preetty sure anything that was in there is not there anymore. Anyways, I was poking around and I found a part number for …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by CelGen Sat, 12 Dec 2009 - 03:05

Old School & New World. — #5

I have to say, that G3 is a really nice example of a high end Mac setup from the mid to late 1990's, especially with those external SCSI drives.
68kMLA PowerPC by LCGuy Sat, 12 Dec 2009 - 01:34

Topic of the day: Superdrives and thier DONTs. — #16

After reading this entire thread, I would like to second Porter's excellent question that would put an end to all the speculation: What component smoked? I know the starter of th…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by JDW Sat, 12 Dec 2009 - 00:47

Topic of the day: Superdrives and thier DONTs. — #15

I'm fairly certain that "whoop-whoop-whoop" and "flup-flup-flup" or "whup-whup-whup" are all best efforts at describing the same thing: Power supply in self-protect mode. A current…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by tomlee59 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 23:43

Book conquest — #4

(Ps. noticed the "Designing Cards and Drivers for the Macintosh Family" there? Maybe I should someday try to build the mythical Nubus USB card, as that book has all technical infor…
68kMLA Hardware by Trash80toHP_Mini Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 23:00

G5 LCU O-rings — #3

auto coolant (mixed properly) should not effect aluminum, since a lot of cars use aluminum radiators in them just make sure you get all that gunk out, some of it looks crystalline…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Osgeld Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 22:09

G5 LCU O-rings — #2

That looks bloody awful! I'd check out your Yellow pages for an o-ring distributor (usually found in an industrial part of town); you could also consider using gasket silicone but…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Byrd Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 22:04

Book conquest — #3

Wow, now that's some good reading. Where these hard to get?
68kMLA Hardware by Christopher Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 21:54

Book conquest — #2

Woah! That's a lot of nice books. Good job, enjoy them and be sure to scan all of the pages on to the internet
68kMLA Hardware by Mars478 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 21:51

Idea! Macpedia! — #15

How is it confusing? Why do we need a SECOND wiki for it? The 68kMLA Wiki allready fills the role of a "68k MacPedia"
68kMLA Troubleshooting by macgeek417 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 21:35

My first conquest! (no, not just pictures) — #31

http://www.wreckcenter.com/68k/ Here're the images. Click to expand... It would have been nice if you'd taken the little TM and R marks out of the file and folder names.
68kMLA Hardware by Dog Cow Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 20:44

Topic of the day: Superdrives and thier DONTs. — #14

depends on the differences of mine and your interpretation of whoop-whoop-whoop sound. Drive model JU-268A026C is what i used. Click to expand... If you can record the sound it…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Mac128 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 20:23

Macintosh Portable dilemma — #13

. . . back again, looked into it, got bored & stopped, but there's probably enough info in this version to do just about anything you want to do with a Mac Portable or i…
68kMLA Hardware by Trash80toHP_Mini Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 20:09

Topic of the day: Superdrives and thier DONTs. — #13

smoke from analog board, and then chirp-chirp-chirp from the analog board. Click to expand... Pina suggests checking the resistance across CR5. Anything higher than 3.6K Ohm ma…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by techknight Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 18:52

Re-Install System 7 on LC III Hard Drive — #5

It's a disk 'image'. It contains all of the neccisary HFS formatting. THe disk burning app reads byte 1, writes byte 1. reads byte 2, writes... etc
68kMLA 68k by macgeek417 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 16:51

MacII PSU -> ATX Conversion . . . — #8

The difference is that Apple didn't even use connectors that *LOOK* like an industry standard. (And, at the time, there was no ATX standard.) Click to expand... The standard w…
68kMLA Hardware by Trash80toHP_Mini Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 14:59

Clamshell iBook AirPort under OS9 — #4

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120120 Software update for OS9 is not really maintained by Apple anymore, so far as I can see, and so seldom if ever works. You have…
68kMLA Networking by beachycove Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 12:32

Clamshell iBook AirPort under OS9 — #3

I don't know. I wasn't able to get it working under any sub versions of OS 9. Also, if there is an update available, I can't get it. The MacOS update utility has always been hit a…
68kMLA Networking by CelGen Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 11:38

Where to find Inside Macintosh and Tech Notes — #7

Ah.... so it's actually the paper copies before (and including?) Vol VI that are worth picking up, assuming you want to do any development for System 6 or lower? The hardware info…
68kMLA Development by Bunsen Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 06:22

MacII PSU -> ATX Conversion . . . — #7

^ What Anonymous Freak said. Not because of any grudge against Dell for being aholes with an industry standard, but because I can't be bothered wading through the interwebs trying…
68kMLA Hardware by Bunsen Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 06:18

MacII PSU -> ATX Conversion . . . — #6

In the past, Dell was notorious for using non-standard power supplies; sometimes even including non-standard pinouts! Click to expand... Yup. I avoid Dell power supplies for t…
68kMLA Hardware by Anonymous Freak Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 06:01
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