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My "Redneck Repair" to the hard disk. Simple enough, when there's nothing to secure the drive in... improvise! In the great war that us 68k Mac…
Okay, I've read the famous PDF about classic mac procedures, and I'm pretty sure I need to fix the solder connections on the J1 connector. I'm a little unclear on exactly what to d…
Here's what I get for leaving iMacs on the curb.
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68kMLAHardwareby Mike RichardsonFri, 17 Jul 2009 - 22:54
As for that 575 Presenter thing, it sounds like a part of a video out kit designed for the LC575
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Yup:
We discussed it in general here –
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I had a bit of time yesternight to look at the Apple Macintosh CD which is for the 7200, 9500 and a few other Macs. It's dated 1996 and says that it has System 7.5.3 on it. However…
68kMLAPeripheralsby Dog CowFri, 17 Jul 2009 - 18:53
I set 4 broken iMacs on the curb last night, as well as an IBM typewriter, some dead stereo equipment and a broken Apple StyleWriter, all from the (overcrowded) warehouse. I could …
68kMLAHardwareby Mike RichardsonFri, 17 Jul 2009 - 17:25
The necessity for the system battery to approach its full 7.5V (NOTE: not full charge) before a depleted backup battery will recharge you will find many references to in these foru…
I took a quick measurement of the biggest dent, and it seems to be 1mm, maybe a little bigger give or take. The other two noticable dents are definitely not bigger than 1mm.
I did this quite a few months ago with same setup (Classic and a IIgs). Amusing, yes, but it's easier just to use a disk with AppleShare and put the Finder on the Classic, IMO.
68kMLANetworkingby Dog CowFri, 17 Jul 2009 - 15:51
Use Extensions Manager to do that, you don't have to do it manually. Or for a more thorough job (ie shows and moves things that EM doesn't show) seek ye a copy of Symbionts. Also…
First things first, I'd probably think about removing anything that isn't standard, such as:
- SuperClock! (I've never had any problems with it, but there's a first time for every…
Macintosh SE is together and running System 7.1, although i'd like to get System 6 running on there eventually.
Macintosh 512k unfortunately now doesn't want to start at all. This…