Then it's a board problem for sure. You need to clean the remaining corrosion (pretty much broadly the area between the power connector and the PCMCIA enclosure. I again recommen…
68kMLATroubleshootingby raouldukeSun, 21 Jun 2015 - 00:45
The short story is that I don't know... I will have to look over all of this but even then that's super weird. I assume you've tried reseating the cable a bunch of times.
One thi…
68kMLATroubleshootingby raouldukeSun, 21 Jun 2015 - 00:29
Continuation:
So I took apart the Kanga and found a small PRAM battery leaking (see pic).
But where is the big damage? You can see both sides of the logic board in high resolution…
68kMLATroubleshootingby MikeatOSXSun, 21 Jun 2015 - 00:13
I was challenged to up the ante and use my LCIII for a couple of days. With Mulberry, BBEdit and MS Office I was able to work quite happily - although I did later run into some dif…
68kMLASoftwareby VMSZealotSat, 20 Jun 2015 - 23:33
Yes I've already cleaned boards with leaking batteries (PowerBook and Amiga), but their damage was visible when I opened the case.
This Kanga is really new to me, shipped from NY.…
68kMLATroubleshootingby MikeatOSXSat, 20 Jun 2015 - 08:08
You should not have a PRAM battery in the machine if it is not working properly (I forgot what this thread was about). Yes your batteries are in surprisingly bad shape lol. Well …
68kMLATroubleshootingby raouldukeSat, 20 Jun 2015 - 02:46
BTW: I tested the Kanga again with an original Kanga boot CDR and it seems, the Kanga is booting to desktop, because it's reading very long from the CD-Rom and then sits there wait…
68kMLATroubleshootingby MikeatOSXSat, 20 Jun 2015 - 02:09
I created a topic about that battery and mentioned the polarity issue... I put the batteries back in their original place beneath the speaker panel but putting it in the HD case i…
68kMLATroubleshootingby raouldukeSat, 20 Jun 2015 - 01:50
Continuation of the story...
As I have to do more testing with the "sleeping beauty" (the Kanga), I created two NEW working backup battery packs mixing the old PowerBook 3400 &…
68kMLATroubleshootingby MikeatOSXSat, 20 Jun 2015 - 01:46
If you want more power in a Lisa you would like my MISA or LACINTOSH.
https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/25212-is-it-a-lisa-is-it-a-macintosh/
I wonder if I could attach …
Just as an update. This is still on the docket, I'm talking to wthww about it right now, but I think this is our highest priority. Some errors with the infrastructure at our host c…
68kMLATroubleshootingby Cory5412Fri, 19 Jun 2015 - 00:52
For reasons already mentioned by Cory5412, I have difficulty considering machines running older versions of Mac OS X to be "retro" anything, and I don't find the idea of using it t…