I posted this to mac68k.info, but I will repost both here and at ThinkClassic.org to increase exposure and maybe get some input. Hi, I'm trying to figure out of…
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Yesterday I've changed the hard disk(2GB) with a bigger(40GB) in a 233MHz 12'' Wallstreet.Worked for a while(formatted with OS 9.2) but today when I started the…
So I can kind of envision some Apple Exec calling the Factory floor and saying.... uh guys, you know those 10,000 boards we were all set to send out? well... ye…
I am looking at my odd Q700. For whatever reason, I thought the 800 used the same case. Nope. Although there is an 800 proto in a 700 case. So did other models …
So, I lifted a pad on my LC III - my pride and joy. Can anyone tell me where and how to run the trace wire to get it sorted? See the photo for the problem locat…
Anybody have PowerLogix's Switch_Demo.sit software? The only links I can find to it all lead to the same dead end on PowerLogix's mostly dead web site. I have a…
I've sort of asked this before. I need an SD > PC Card adapter for a Kanga. It can be Cardbus or PCMCIA; I'd just prefer it works safely. I'm open to oth…
I recently got my color classic put back together and there's a high pitched noise I'm trying to diagnose. I'm not an analog guy so I can't tell what it is. The…
I have a Lisa that has yet to start up, but I have a little time to work on it now. I got a power supply with the Lisa that was assumed non-working (since I don…
Ok my age is showing, and I am more mechanically inclined then electrically inclined. I can read the values on the capacitors, which seem to be different than t…
Hi, everytime I connect to a ftp-server with my Fetch 4 client and download files bigger than 5MB my machine freezes. It´s no problem with System 7.5.... My mac…
I have heard, that if you put a bootable ZIP disk with system 7 on it into a zip drive on a machine running OS 8 or later, it will overwrite the driver. Making …
What is number or name of this diodes? This is mac classic analog board. { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", …
Hi, i have a old Classic. But the problem is in low voltage. In most of time it working fine, but sometimes the hard disk is slowing or is totally stops (common…
So I need to replace these 6.3v 1500uf caps and these 6.3v 1000uf caps Can I use these as replacements?? Any help would be appreciated... sorry about my sideway…
As you may have seen in my post in the Compact Macs subforum, a friend helped me recap two Macs over the past few months. The Classic II was a dismal failure, b…
Hi all, I just added to my growing mac collection with a couple of 512s. One of them has a 400K drive which is totally dead and I think beyond my ability to rep…
Hi I have a 512K that has a slight display jitter when the floppy drive is accessed and after being on for about an hour will start a nearly inaudible high pitc…
Hello all, Due to all of the assistance found here and through watching YouTube videos and perusing other forums, I have successfully recapped my LC 475's mothe…
I have been testing today two 20 SC i got for cheap, unfortunately none of them are working properly. Both show the smiling mac on startup, but one of them goes…
This video was posted a month ago. It's a guy talking about his SE, and (like him) I haven't ever seen the error code it's displaying. The code is 00000003, 000…
So, I'm not only at the beginning stages of getting my SE/30 to a restored state, but I'm also learning more and more about. One thing that I justed checked was…
So I am finally back to working on my 475, the one I posted about back in December. Still the same death chime issue. I decided to hunt down the data sheet for …
Dear all, I'm a bit of a novice as it comes to recapping, and I intend to get a bit of practice in before attempting to recap my LC 475 and LC III. However, I c…
The 40S slowly starts to spin, there are a few short bursts of reading for a system folder. When I popped in a 7.6 disk tools disk, Drive Setup says the drive i…
Hi everyone, As you probably all know, the Lisa was the precursor to the Macintosh and shared a lot of the same hardware and software. I'm going to look at addi…
Wasn't really looking for another machine, was rather looking to get rid of some units, but monday, a lonely 20" Imac was lying on the street, just side by side…
Hi folks, I finally found a 128K here in Toronto. But the A/B is dead. As I have a spare board (known to be in very good condition) that I took with me from Chi…
Hello All, Great site! I signed up to this forum about a week ago, and I've spent some time going through the previous posts. Although there is a wealth of info…
So, I just booted up my clapped out and flakey Dual 2.0 G5 which works sometimes when it feels like it, and it is for the moment, running without a glitch... I …
I'm having trouble getting my TransWarp card working. It passes its internal system check, but it keeps crashing when I try to play Ultima V with it. I've done …
Argggg….Due to the fans starting really soon after boot, wanted to change the thermal paste, so disassembled it. Was very difficult to remove the board. It was …
I recently dug my old Mac Plus out of the closet, and was hoping to copy the data off the hard drive in order to use it with a mac plus emulator on the PC (Vmac…
http://www.audioease.com/Pages/Legacy/dont forget about this (perhaps a sticky is applicable for this info?)Quote 2001-2008VST WrapperMark Of The Unicorn's Digi…
Today my everyday use machine, a 12in screen Powerbook G4 1.5GHz, died horribly. Apps slowed to a crawl, noisey fan, palm rest on the case by HD side heats up, …
Hello guys! While still trying to get my two Pluses working, last week I've bought a nice Macintosh SE (the FDHD model) for about 60 euros including shipping (t…
i had the need for one, so i made one. { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The requested c…
Hi, I was happy to discover this forum recently. I hope someone can help. When cold, my Mac 512K powers up, boots from disk, and runs perfectly fine for up to a…
I just finished fixing up a Mac 512K. It works like new, including the internal floppy drive. But the external 400K drive is making me mad. It is a SONY OA-D34V…
Back in October I told the story of a little boy's first Sad Mac. If anyone wants to read it the link to the post is here. Well, the story continues! In January…
Hi, My PB160 boots up with a white screen. I do no see "Happy Face" or "Sad Face." Hard drive sounds like it's spinning. I connected it to an external monitor, …
My Mac SE is pretty flakey (crashing randomly with different errors each time), sometimes as often as every 10 minutes. It came with a dead 20 MB hard drive but…
http://www.synack.net/~bbraun/plusrom/index.html ( Rob's Post on his site ) The Mac Plus (and associated machines) have 1MB of contiguous address space around t…
This thing has been one problem after another. Booted it up today to see this: { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previ…
When the disk is inserted, the read heads go straight to the center, stop, then eject the disk. Is this just a disk drive issue or does it go deeper?
So I listed my powerbook 140 for sale in the marketplace, and this weekend i thought id test it to make sure it still works. Dead. Got my Fluke 117 Multimeter, …
Okay... So let's not start with whether the SE can run a version of Unix or Linux (etc). If it had an FPU, maybe I'd be more interested in trying but my origina…
So I'm trying to figure out any sort of method to get information onto my imac without having to buy stuff. I'm a windows person so naturally I just have no ide…
Hi all. The Wikipedia article about "Power-on self-test" talks a little bit about the Macintosh POST. It says this about Macs after 1998: "In the event of an er…
I think I have a disk with some early versions of BASIC for the Mac on them but it's hard to search using "Mac" and BASIC" on Google to do some research. I have…