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Power Macintosh 5260/100 arcing — #5

This is a problem located on the logic board. Click to expand... After further thought, there is also a slight possibility that the problem does lie in the shell or dirty logic…
68kMLA Hardware by Dennis Nedry Mon, 15 Feb 2010 - 07:23

Screen Adjust on a Mac Classic? — #23

Oh, okay. What I meant by "touching" was what to hold while rotating the yoke. Because he was asking what was "safe" to handle. If this is not the best thing to do. Thanks for warn…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by PowerPup Mon, 15 Feb 2010 - 05:54

Screen Adjust on a Mac Classic? — #22

BTW, the yoke doesn't carry high voltage, so it's safe to touch the coils if you have to to break it loose. Or since you know you're going to rotate it anyway, loosen the clamp and…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by tomlee59 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 - 05:51

Screen Adjust on a Mac Classic? — #21

The parts you want to touch are marked in red, they are white and made of plastic. Click to expand... No, no, no. Those are the very last things to play with. What Scott, I an…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by tomlee59 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 - 05:49

Installing OS 9 on Clamshell iBook — #5

Is there a certain reason you want Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X to be on separate partitions? Installing Mac OS 9 on the same partition would be the easiest way. Sounds like you shouldn'…
68kMLA Software by PowerPup Mon, 15 Feb 2010 - 05:30

Screen Adjust on a Mac Classic? — #20

(Edited for being a bad idea. ) Just follow Scott Baret's guide and you should be fine. (His steps describe exactly what I did. 8-o )
68kMLA Troubleshooting by PowerPup Mon, 15 Feb 2010 - 04:59

Need help identifying this Micron Xceed card — #5

Here is a flickr set of my (since sold) XCeed Color 30HR, which looks like the one in question. Micron bought Xceed at some point, it looks like. JDW, if I'm remembering correct…
68kMLA 68k by cangrande Mon, 15 Feb 2010 - 03:39

GS RAM cards? — #7

Ahh the IIGS.. My favorite machine of all time!!! If you are looking for a LOT of what was available for this machine please visit the "What is the Apple IIGS" website. it's loc…
68kMLA Hardware by ppuskari Mon, 15 Feb 2010 - 03:06

Power Mac 8500 Hard Drive Replacement — #2

Well, I was going to tell you to grab an ACARD 7200 series scsi to ide bridge or scsi to sata bridge, but looking at prices on ebay and other places it looks like they are WAY WAY …
68kMLA 68k by ppuskari Mon, 15 Feb 2010 - 02:52

moving a file down to the bottom of a list of files... — #3

I use option-8, the "bullet" and it works great for what you're doing. Has anybody got the ASCII special character sort list handy to post? :?: Click to expand... Option + 8 …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Dennis Nedry Mon, 15 Feb 2010 - 01:01

Macintosh SE/30 Screen zapping. — #1

Ok So my screen has those diagonal lines and I notice that the screen has like a lot of static electricity in it. I had my hand on screen and turned it on and it zapped the %#$&amp…
68kMLA Hardware by VideoGamer24385 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 - 00:57

Power Macintosh 5260/100 arcing — #4

However, i noticed when you turn the power on to the unit, it bongs and starts right up. even if you shut down, it will turn off then back on and start up. without pressing the pow…
68kMLA Hardware by Dennis Nedry Mon, 15 Feb 2010 - 00:37

GS RAM cards? — #6

ProDOS is the name of the file system, just like Macs use HFS. GS/OS is the operating system which does the windows, toolbox, program launching, etc. Click to expand... Gotcha.…
68kMLA Hardware by H3NRY Mon, 15 Feb 2010 - 00:26

GS RAM cards? — #5

The IIgs can do Appletalk with a mac using the serial port, you just need a version of GS/OS installed with the correct driver. There are also HFS drivers for GS/OS 6 that let you …
68kMLA Hardware by Dog Cow Sun, 14 Feb 2010 - 23:52

Good 640 X 480 LCD to use on IIci — #3

If you'd consider getting a newer LCD and using a Mac -> VGA adapter, a display with 1280x960 native resolution will produce a superb, unbelievably sharp image when set to 6…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Dennis Nedry Sun, 14 Feb 2010 - 23:48

IIfx Monitor? — #16

COOL! I think I have a Spectrum in my pile o' curiosities, so that's good to know.
68kMLA Hardware by H3NRY Sun, 14 Feb 2010 - 23:30

PowerBook 5300c reborn — #3

You should be able to use that ORiNOCO card with OS 8.1, you just need version 6.3 of the ORiNOCO software, which you can get here.
68kMLA Software by LCGuy Sun, 14 Feb 2010 - 23:12

IIfx Monitor? — #15

Here's a bit of information I just found: Q: When I connect my display to my Spectrum card, instead of getting a usable picture, I get a distorted, scrambled image. I know the mon…
68kMLA Hardware by aftermac Sun, 14 Feb 2010 - 22:41

IIfx Monitor? — #14

It could just be a bad card or the card was loose. I know the monitor works though. I'll try again tomorrow. Tempest
68kMLA Hardware by Tempest Sun, 14 Feb 2010 - 22:16

Old Quadra, new monitor — #2

The green tinge is probably because the quadra is putting out sync on green, and the monitor isn't expecting that. The added sync signal boosts the zero (black) level on the green …
68kMLA Hardware by H3NRY Sun, 14 Feb 2010 - 22:09

IIfx Monitor? — #13

A Spectrum 8 and a Multi-Scan monitor ought to work together. Get one of those 15-pin to 15-pin adapters and set it to emulate the basic Apple 13" RGB display to start with. Actual…
68kMLA Hardware by H3NRY Sun, 14 Feb 2010 - 22:02

GS RAM cards? — #4

The IIgs can do Appletalk with a mac using the serial port, you just need a version of GS/OS installed with the correct driver. There are also HFS drivers for GS/OS 6 that let you …
68kMLA Hardware by H3NRY Sun, 14 Feb 2010 - 21:49

IIfx Monitor? — #12

What you need is a "Mac Liberty Adapter", or its equivalent, They plug into any DB-15 Apple Video Port and have either an HD-15 SVGA Connector or another DB-15 Apple Video Port on …
68kMLA Hardware by Trash80toHP_Mini Sun, 14 Feb 2010 - 21:42
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