well im a fulltime musician for the last 15 years - I gig fri,sat and sun usually. that's a nice job..you get paid for doing something you love and people thank you........that nev…

Fair play to you! Stress is bad alright...hope it works out for you...what's your job description now? Messing around with Macs...nice one!

an update people First off- ive created a new profile as I couldn't change my name falen5. I have done nothing with the TAM   since last Tuesday week.......because I packed up th…

Mine runs SSW 7 - I even have the restore CD for it.  Works great

polyfuses will open up permanently if the current flowing through far exceeds the maximum rating, itll blow the reed apart. 

Ha! So was I to some extent. People remember me as the first one in the 'hood to own a computer! But like you said, lets not hijack... So... TechKnight - I knew there was mention…

don't want to be hijacking this thread elfen. Sure the brother got me an SE from the place. I was the only one in my city, of my age with a mac (that I knew of).

I remember before 9/11 meeting a guy from that area who also worked for Apple, Falen. He commented how he loved the 5300ce (which I had out at Barnes & Noble Coffee Shop at…

and techknight doesn't even like computers

falen5 said: would you believe I worked in Boruns electronics in mahon, cork , Ireland, and we made trimpots, network resistors and those fuses. I never knew at the time tha…

that is quite an interesting story!

would you believe I worked in Boruns electronics in mahon, cork , Ireland, and we made trimpots, network resistors and those fuses. I never knew at the time that the network resis…

Those are polyfuses. they are supposed to blow, and self-reset. 

This is great work! A much major improvement! Why was the scsi chip removed? There is a fuse (F2 and F3 right there!) that sometimes blows and makes your SCSI bus look dead. Chec…

Good Luck. Let us know what happened.

now your taking ozyman - good clean job - - onwards!

good job man!  

on a socket

If he hasn't got one, I know I do. My (Procrastination Plagued Project) Pile-o-1400s stretches approx 30" across the bottom of a bookshelf. The limiting factor is the Cracked Lid C…

I might want one!

I have a spare 1400 active matrix display assembly. I may even have two, I gotta check.

S short for STN, otherwise super twisted nematic.

techknight said: Oh dear gosh..... Click to expand... lol Removed the chip with Chip Quik and used 30 AWG wires. Just have to wait for a new IC now.

Is the ROM on a socket or soldered in?

CTRL-RESET doesn't drop me into BASIC. It just restart over again (like a power on) Thanks very much for the explanation Gorgonops. I found a ROM replacement on ebay. I'm gonna tr…