My guess is that it's not even getting to the point in the boot sequece where it tries to read from a floppy. Video would defintely help here. It seems to be past the ADB check sin…

I haven't specifically killed a Pismo, I killed a Classic 2 and PB 150, by rushing, which you and I alike have done. I know nothing about Pismo's save for that they are nice powern…

I am the owner of the oldest known to the vintage computer collecting community, operational, production Macintosh. Click to expand... Please don't go out of your way to explai…

Do we know if he's been saving them, or just having them ephemeral as they run through? Alright, here's my fully qualified claim: I am the owner of the oldest known to the vintag…

Tried the PRAM reset again, no dice. I suppose the disk drive could be bad, but its not even hitting once. It's like the system is just sitting there waiting for something.

I picked up an XLR8 MACh Speed G3 (supposedly a 400mhz 1mb cache upgrade but it could be anything as the ZIF processor could of been swapped) processor upgrade and a Sonnet Crescen…

Known to anyone confirmed by any source. I don't personally know of any earlier Macs. I'll have to go through the eBay database I am building, but yes. The earliest in the M0001 da…

Make sure you get at least to the third chime when resetting the PRAM. Not everything is reset only on the second chime. We also can't rule out a bad floppy drive. Do you have a…

BTW what does the jumper at J103 and J106 do (towards the front center of the board)? There's no Jumper on 103 but there is on 106. Tempest

Already tried resetting the PRAM (got the second Chime) and reseating all the RAM and the ROM. Nothing. I have a disk in the drive, that's what I'm trying to boot from, but it ne…

I've heard that you can use two normal terminators in a row and it acts similar to a black terminator on the IIfx. I don't have a citation for this though.

I was under the impression that the IIfx had NO electrolytics on the logic board. I could be wrong, but that's what I seem to remember. I know for sure that the Quadra 700 doesn'…

Known to whom? He's got the earliest Mac listed in that database, that's all we know.

Well I tried this on my old VERY dead Mac SE last night. Obviously I couldn't power it up to see my handy work, but I was able to get a feel for how the yoke moves and how hard I …

Actually, if I recall those Macs were taken directly off the production assembly line and not given to the team until the Mac shipped, which was not until late January. Until confi…

Thanks, Mars. (What a great club.) Any advice re how much gets borked? Motherboard and processor card only, or more than that?

Welcome to the club...

My point is that mine is the oldest known production Macintosh. And I'll proudly trumpet that until someone produces an older one. Click to expand... My point was that we kn…

From what you describe, you're pretty much stuck with a small ThinNet segment to the existing hub. This means two T connectors, two terminators and a segment of cable. I'm a bit s…

Well, I seem to have had a triple-biorhythm low kind of day on Saturday - either that or I was just stupid! Managed to lose my glasses AND fry one of my Pismos, all within two hour…

(Then again, according to your database, I have the oldest known production Macintosh, period...) Click to expand... I know that you're saying "according to the database", but …

Leaking capacitors do not usually explode; they usually leak a barely visible (as in, transparent) conductive liquid which spreads widely, being oily. The solution to this is (a) …

What do you think, Bunsen? Does this post warrant being changed to a sticky or should I send you a revised post with all the info needed? Let me know via PM, please. Thank you. …

Hmmm. Using an SE/30 with NetBSD installed to take place of the PeeCee. That is very interesting. Keep us posted if it works. 73s de Phreakout. :rambo:

(Then again, according to your database, I have the oldest known production Macintosh, period...) Click to expand... I know that you're saying "according to the database", but …