meanwhile you got me fired up to rip apart my sony adapter, its simple enough 1 switch apple (and its natural refresh rate) and forced 60hz vga (which is kinda crappy for a crt, bu…

Yeah I'll try a CRT and I'll update.

that is true, most decent lcd's will let you get away with 60-72 hz but usually in the standard form of VGA, whereas multisync (most after the mid 90's) vga could handle pretty muc…

Another thing I just thought of...when old Macs run at 640x480, they traditionally like to run at 67 Hz (the refresh rate used by a lot of Apple displays). This works fine on just …

Have a look at the processor - the Mac Classic uses a 16 Mhz 68000, whereas the Classic II uses a 68030. Alternatively, try holding down Command-Option-X-O at startup. If it is a C…

I have some VGA CRTs... Not apple ones sadly. This adaptor has worked before on another monitor. Which I tested it on. Here are some pictures of the device.

With all the issues they had, even back when they were new, I'd imagine that a working 1710 series display would be rather hard to find nowadays.

Either that, or depending on what gear you're in, you'll soon see a flashing set of red and blue lights in your rear vision mirror.

You said you've got some CRTs, maybe you could try one of those...there is a chance that the adaptor may be faulty.

I'm a little confused as to the advice being given here ... First, what kind is your hard drive and what is it attached to presently? To use the 1.0 disk image, you need a Mac th…

What you really want is an old, but undeveloped design. Well, at least that's what I want, what I really, really want … to make out of the spare parts I have from a plastics-chall…

OK. So the Display is a NEC MultiSync LCD 1530V And Guess what the Adaptor is also made by NEC! Oh the Irony! It is still doing nothing. The Machine has no hard drive in it. A…

Hi! I've been thinking. The only real way to make sure we still have powerbook 5XX machines that aren't in a million pieces for any meaningful amount of time is to make a new enclo…

Contrary to popular opinion, going past the red line means you'll need a new gauge. psssh. //wthww

There is probably a better answer, but for starters if you're using system 7 it should say on the "About this Macintosh" page (from Apple menu) the model of the Macintosh that you'…

Those dates indicated System 1.1g (the May 1984) Indeed, there is a "cleaner" .img file out there which has all of the original dates.

The report post button looks like this if you are using the theme that puts the avatars on the correct side subsilver2: { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "…

OK. I would say you probably have no bot registrations and are looking at about 100% human spam registrations right now, most likely Chinese or Russians. The Mac question might hel…

I would agree with TL that handling the spammers as it currently stands is not so difficult. Many of them do post one or two things within an hour or so of having signed up, but ev…

Oh man... I had that monitor for years until it went *pop* one day and never worked again. It was a BEAST to move around for LAN parties & whatnot, but I LOVED that monitor…

Now I just gotta get room for it all. Click to expand... If you say so. Nice little conquest, it's like the broken eMac I picked up just for the combo drive in it.

I picked up a broken quick silver yesterday for the handles I needed for my quick silver inside the qs was a superdrive, zip drive and a ati rage card got that for 10 bucks then th…

Oh, they're definitely 4mb SIMMs. I did a little searching and found that I was installing the SIMMs into the memory expansion card, and not the slots on the motherboard. So my n…

Sorry, it's a green wire. Although I'm pretty sure that doesn't matter

What is a Powertoggle? Click to expand... When you turn it on, wait for it to chime, and quickly shut it off and back on. It bypasses the need for a PRAM battery to be able to…