buy a 2.5mm minijack socket Click to expand... The hard part is going to be finding one that matches - it's non-standard. IIRC, longer than normal and with four contacts rathe…

I remember I got that a lot with my Performa 578. I washed the motherboard, and it went away. Could be cap related, although there are other possibilities.

I hate the ones even more when I dream about getting a nice new car...and I wake up and I'm all happy about being able to go for a drive in my new car and all....and then I realise…

You've just about got the breaking points listed. The original ][ machines could add ][+ ROMs to get Applesoft, which was a requirement for several programs. Likewise, they could…

I liked my iBook G3 while it worked. The dreaded GPU issue is now showing it's ugly head. I thought about repairing the mobo, but the hinge is also bent. Being a G3 I will more th…

I like the paneling, and the printer is a great add-on. As is the retro looking stereo gear (I assume) off the left side of the photo.

Even Tantalum capacitors have a service life just like Aluminum electrolytic. While the aluminum ones might leak with age they generally fail open (no big deal) while tantalums fai…

One last question - wouldn't Tantalum capacitors normalize the audio to an extent because of their high ESR ratings? Click to expand... If you had actually used the 'Search' fe…

I finally got it working! The cable that I had purchased was not a cross over cable and the Mac requires one to hook up to the Roland so a bit of splitting and soldering was in ord…

Was there an upgrade path for original Apple II users? If so how far could one go before having to buy a whole new computer? II Plus IIe IIe enhanced IIe Platinum IIgs

I have a Quadra 700 here that constantly gets bus errors at startup, right before it would load extensions. Often though, this does not happen. The ratio is about 50/50 if I had to…

Very well written. Enjoy that machine. Click to expand... Thank you very much, I did try to do that one right! jt =8-D

Yeah, I was thinking that it would be better to buy a 2.5mm minijack socket rather than desolder it from the iLamp board, but it's all a bit of a moot point anyway because I sold o…

Question then comes down to. What I am thinking of that requires hard sectored disks. Click to expand... I can't imagine what you're thinking of. ;-) Hard sectoring refers t…

One last question - wouldn't Tantalum capacitors normalize the audio to an extent because of their high ESR ratings?

There was a thing called "macipgw" which seems to have gone to oblivion. I use my own program which does the job on my local network and runs on NetBSD. I wrote a daemon program w…

A bit of insight on the floppy drives... Click to expand... And for further reading: http://www.vintagemacworld.com/drives.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Ex…

A bit of insight on the floppy drives... There were five different non-Powerbook external 3.5" drives produced by Apple during the 1980s and 1990s that plugged into the floppy dri…

Is there any usable information on doing it with Linux? Is OS 9 not an option, either?

I also didn't suggest an early Intel iMac or Mac Pro. Click to expand... You didn't make that distinction, so lets go for a Quadra 610 with built in 486SX.

Have you tried saving on a different volume?

Fabulous. I've got a G4 running Leopard - are there any third-party applications for OS X that can handle this? I can also run OS 9 if necessary. Click to expand... No Leopard …

Fabulous. I've got a G4 running Leopard - are there any third-party applications for OS X that can handle this? I can also run OS 9 if necessary.

Screw the keyboard - Timbuktu it. } Click to expand... Actually, thats a good idea. When I get it up and running with OS 8, i'll put a VNC server on it.

Thanks, guys. Question then comes down to. What I am thinking of that requires hard sectored disks.