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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

Book conquest — #1

Hi, I just got something nice in mail yesterday - 13 books of the Inside Macintosh series I was missing, which I caught from a single eBay auction. Now I can really start warming …
68kMLA Hardware by Toni_ Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 21:24

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

G5 LCU O-rings — #1

I have two complete Liquid Cooling Units (with two 2.5ghz processor boards each) and both have unfortunately leaked. I can confirm at least one set of processors work (the other wo…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by CelGen Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 18:52

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

Macintosh Portable dilemma — #12

Yes the adapter sounds great - *if* you have the time to rig one up, and ultimately will be useful if you can then modify it the other way around: to power a standard 3.5" or 2.5" …
68kMLA Hardware by Trash80toHP_Mini Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 04:31

Imac g3 Bondi — #8

Disk Drive is a no Go, as well as the hard drive it wont mount, I am taking the hard drive out and puting it in my g4 power mac and going to test it, them and going to toss the dvd…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Mycatisbigfoot Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 04:24

Macintosh Portable dilemma — #11

Yes the adapter sounds great - *if* you have the time to rig one up, and ultimately will be useful if you can then modify it the other way around: to power a standard 3.5" or 2.5" …
68kMLA Hardware by Byrd Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 03:36

Topic of the day: Superdrives and thier DONTs. — #12

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 Mac128 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 03:33

Imac g3 Bondi — #7

its not ram, as i looked on apples site and 3 dings are ram 4 is a rom, problem so i am thinking a bad frimware upgrade happend, so what I did was swap out the disk drive and the M…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Mycatisbigfoot Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 03:14

Interface information for 400KB Floppy drive — #43

my original idea which i never started or attempted, but ill throw it out there for you if you want to do it this way: My idea was to make an external floppy emulator that plugs i…
68kMLA 68k by techknight Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 03:12

Clamshell iBook AirPort under OS9 — #2

Two thoughts: 1. There is an Airport update available for OS9, as I recall, and though one would have thought it included in 9.2.2, you never know.... Worth a shot? 2. I mostly u…
68kMLA Networking by beachycove Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 02:37

MacII PSU -> ATX Conversion . . . — #5

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 Trash80toHP_Mini Fri, 11 Dec 2009 - 02:32
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