Ok... an update. I decided the solder joints probably didn't take due to me not cleaning the pads after desoldering, and hence them possibly having electrolyte still on them. Thi…

But that soldering job .. I am not going there. Click to expand... Please do go there. It's rubbish, I know that. I was actually wondering if cold solder joints (it was very di…

Double check your work (make sure the + and - of the capacitors is in the correct spot). The video needs the 1uf 50V capacitors to work. No bong means either the capacitor on the …

Double check your work (make sure the + and - of the capacitors is in the correct spot). The video needs the 1uf 50V capacitors to work. No bong means either the capacitor on the …

The difference, if measurable, between CF and SATA on a polled I/O SCSI bus on a 16 MHz m68030 is going to be so insignificant as to be noise. Click to expand... Pure speculati…

Hi there. Meet my Macintosh Classic II. { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The requeste…

Well thats weird. Now all the keys are working. I'm happy, but still, I'm convinced there's a problem there somewhere. By the way, if there's one thing for sure, surfing the net o…

Ok, I'm actually typing this from the 180c now. The 6, 7 and 8 keys have actually come back to life. However, the t, y and , keys have now died. Any advice?

Update, my USB flash drives don't work in 8.6 and I get an error type 1010 trying to installing 9.2. But as of now I have 10.0 running and with 8.6 on a different partition. After …

The difference, if measurable, between CF and SATA on a polled I/O SCSI bus on a 16 MHz m68030 is going to be so insignificant as to be noise. Any CF (except perhaps the slowest, o…

Hi, My SE/30 could connect to network, the hard disk damage, I replaced the disk and ran the system installed 7.5.3 and upgraded to 7.5.5, I installed drivers for network card, b…

...unless you are using a decent PowerMac, a CF card will not hamper you much. Click to expand... I don't want to be hampered at all. Indeed, I want a speed boost for reads an…

I suppose the SCSI bus is hindered by age, and by a dog-slow system bus. Click to expand... Very much so. These are not SE/30s and not SCSI but you get the idea. http://poopr.…

The Macintosh Bible is great too. I reread my 3rd edition recently and it gives me a nice warm nostalgiac feeling, of the days where there was enthusiasm and trepidation of the oft…

Thanks, Wally. I appreciate it. I'll just throw these in the random parts bin, and not keep them for Plus repair. I have a small supply of actual BU406s which I bought after t…

G-AH! I just realized that this post has gotten moved to the wrong forum! This is NOT a list of "for-sale" items. This was just a list of items, a few of which happen to be for …

games system wise - what would people be doing with them? Click to expand... Well, one of my ideas, for example: Using a Gameboy to emulate a serial LCD (HD44780 or a graphic …

So I've recently dug out my PB180c for the retrochallenge, since I can't use the LCIII (with me not being able to get a 3G signal downstairs where said LCIII is and all). It works …

R26 is a fixed resistor, not a variable pot. 73s de Phreakout. :rambo:

Could you (OP) Post a pic of your Gemini please

Electronics contact cleaner sprayed into the volume control on a pair that I acquired a couple of years ago worked magic on them; static had been a problem but the contact cleaner …

Actually that was where I went first.... Nothing for the ethernet card UNLESS I had internet connected to the thing, then HP's driver search would work...

I won an eBay auction a while back for a new pair of black Apple Design Speakers II. After I had won and paid for them, they refunded my PayPal money several days later and never …

In the earliest days of the retrochallenge it was a straight date cutoff, of ten years I believe, however this was changed a few years ago because 1994 seemed retro then, but 1999/…

multi touch is cool, and it will be the future of handheld lite systems (ie ipod) but for current normal day to day computer use it is more gimicky then useful and yea, I would ra…