I was going to mention the Plus's lack of internal termination, but LCGuy beat me to it. Try to use a short SCSI cable to the first external device and made sure that the device n…

This week I finished off my first reel of 500 47uF tantalum capacitors. Woohoo. I haven't been keeping records so I'm not sure exactly how many old Mac logic boards repaired tha…

If you're going to use the hard drive with the Plus exclusively, you're best to format it with an interleave of 3:1, which you can do in Hard Disk Toolkit, or I'd imagine most 3rd …

The donor has found the keyboard, which I can collect tomorrow. There is ein Gott im Himmel, evidently.

As reported over on Conquests, I just have acquired my oldest Macintosh yet, a nice-looking Plus. Having (ahem) a plethora of peripherals in the perimeter of the Plus, I think I m…

hard drive: free, 256mb of memory: free, receiving a free computer for setting up a computer for some one: priceless

well today i got a new computer.....its a G4 "SawTooth"!!!!! here are the specs: 450mhz G4 768mb of ram 18gb hd and it will soon be running 9.2.2 or mac os x server :beige:

Sometimes keyboards just do that. I had a Dell keyboard a few years back, and the b, n, m, comma and space bar all went out at the same time. The day that happened (prior to the cr…

The very first time I took apart an iBook (also to replace the hard drive) and put it back together, I put one of the long hex screws in the middle, instead of the short one. Cl…

The very first time I took apart an iBook (also to replace the hard drive) and put it back together, I put one of the long hex screws in the middle, instead of the short one. Cl…

I got it put back together. Only 3 extra screws. That's pretty good for me. :I :I :I :I :I :I :I :I Click to expand... Well done! I had 4 left over after replacing the…

I got it put back together. Only 3 extra screws. That's pretty good for me. :I :I :I :I :I :I :I :I Click to expand... Well done! I had 4 left over after replacing the…

I got it put back together. Only 3 extra screws. That's pretty good for me. :I :I :I :I :I :I :I :I

I know, I know, I'm going to hell. But it works. It's also non-permanent, if I have to go in later and fix it for real.

If that's the case, no amount of glue will fix the damage - you'll have to strip the iBook down more to resolder the pads. JB Click to expand... If the pad is lifted off - so …

If that's the case, no amount of glue will fix the damage - you'll have to strip the iBook down more to resolder the pads. JB

The speaker cable isn't superglued in, it just clicks in with a tight fit (male connector). I've done the same as you - but in my instance just the red and white cables came out. …

The speaker cable isn't superglued in, it just clicks in with a tight fit (male connector). I've done the same as you - but in my instance just the red and white cables came out. …

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both do the same thing. I tried to run the hardware diagnostics and it just locked the whole machine up. hmmmm.... I copied the ethertalk extensions and overwrote what was alread…

Worth it for the Radius card alone. Click to expand... Concur! The 800k SE/Radius16 was my main production machine and I ran it constantly, the '16 has an onboard FPU and a dau…

both do the same thing. I tried to run the hardware diagnostics and it just locked the whole machine up. hmmmm.... I copied the ethertalk extensions and overwrote what was alread…

Gott im Himmel! It's not worth real money, is it? And mine looks almost new.

I just got a PowerBook G3 Lombard yesterday, and everything worked fine, but as of today, the Command key no longer works. I tried resetting the PRAM - but it doesn't work, cause t…

I can report back that I what I collected today was more limited than originally anticipated, as the chap decided that he would keep most of his collection. The software I had hope…