I have a 9600 and the SCSI bus is 10mb/sec. I also have an SSD and a regular SATA HD hooked up to a Sonnet Tempo SATA PCI card. I find that copying files from a…
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Did the recap on my SE/30. No luck on getting it up and running, it is still a Simasima SE/30. Reading http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~shamada/fullmac/repairEng.html#Sim…
While I'm waiting for parts and money to come in for various motherboard repairs, I decided to fix up a few floppy drives. I took them apart, cleaned them up, a…
So I bought one of the relatively cheap TTL CGA/EGA/RGB to VGA converters (GBS 8200). Was like $20 + shipping. Would it be possible to run the signal directly f…
First up, I was reading about DOS card for the 6100 and how it could also be used in Quadra because without the 6100 angled adapter, it uses Quadra style PDS sl…
Thanks again to Uni for the recapping, my Color Classic is now back and working great. I moved over the AztecMonster 2.5 to CF into it, because the internal SCS…
Hello there. I have a question with something. I'm trying to hook up an external CD Rom drive to a Macintosh Performa 476. I'm thinking I might just need a driv…
A couple years back I was given a Powerbook G4 1.67ghz 15" (a1138) from a friend http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g4/specs/powerbook_g4_1.67_15_h…
Hi, I'm looking for schematic diagram to my TDK 699-0153 power supply for Mac LC II. Do you know where can I get it. I want to repair my Mac Greetings Kamil
Well I stopped by Goodwill today and picked up a nice rolling office chair for 8 bucks. But I spotted one vintage apple product... A lonely cable all by itself.…
A few weeks ago, I sent off several boards to be recapped. They all came back yesterday and I got to open the box today. Inside were the logic boards of my SE/3…
Got home late from the Dr's appointment yesterday which sort of angered me for the delays. But along the way one of the local schools made a trash pile of old c…
I picked up a Gigabit G4 logicboard 400MHz CPU with heatsink for $8 and change to experiment with. I currently have it mounted in a Full Tower Alienware case, t…
I was looking through the Powerbook 500 series developer note: http://tech-insider.org/mac/research/acrobat/9405-a.pdf And thought it was interesting that the P…
I was looking at some pictures of Apple Display cards and noticed some has 512k soldered onboard + 2 slots for 2x256k upgrade, and some has 1MB onboard and no s…
251653134885 on eBay, not mine. Starting at cheap 99 cents bid so no price bashing please! Seller says it is a Color Classic II but when I took a closer look, t…
An 8 kilobyte text file on an HFS+ drive shows up as roughly 30MB on a 1TB HFS drive (Mac OS Standard). That's what I get anyway. Large file sizes aren't too gr…
As a favor to dad, I recapped his IIfx for him. It was just two (2) caps - 47µf @16 cans that goes bad, they are on the right side, one under the power switch a…
So I pulled out the Duo 230 today to test it's operation, and it chimes, screen comes on, then the speaker starts squealing and it shuts down with the smell of …
*** YOU MUST HAVE 1GB OR LESS MEMORY FOR PROPER FUNCTION OF THIS APP ON A G4! ***if you have more than 1gb memory, shutdown, open up the power mac g4, and remov…
I’d like to obtain and use a P630 as my main 68k machine. I’d also like to use a large-ish LCD display with it. The color depth is of no concern. Were there any…
My Centris 610 still has the stock 80MB hard drive and it's now 21 years old so I should do something. But i don't want to replace or change OS so it will still…
http://www.ebay.com/itm/201177491293 Don't know yet if it's 1360 or 1600. I hope it's a 1600.
Saturday I went out to a local recycler thinking I could snatch up some more vintage Macs for less than $40 a piece (got an SE/30 and some IBM 5150s for $18 eac…
I wonder who built these for Apple? Funny, I expected they would have a local talk interface, but apple went for the Centronics Dongle.
Does anyone know what parameters are actually stored in the PRAM in the Powerbook 500 Series? Since my PRAM battery is dead (actually, missing, I just took it o…
So, I just attempted recapping my SE/30. I still have horizontal stripes on a cold boot not otherwise though. I think initialization may be a bit delayed. On a …
What adapter do I need to buy to hook my Mac up to my PC via the serial(localtalk) port? I recently discovered that the port is a none-standard min-din 9. (and …
Does anyone know the speed, either 255 ns or 100ns for the PCMCIA standard implemented on Macs, and also whether they operate in byte mode or word mode with com…
I've always noticed that you've got the same desktop icons when going to and fro a different OS or at least a different install of the same OS. How can I separa…
It seems to be getting harder to find the 512KB SIMMs. Someone want to run some off using these: http://www.ebay.com/itm/271605768758?_trksid=p2060778.m1438.l26…
Hi all, A few months ago I installed a "new" IDE HD to my TAM - a 100GB 2.5" 7200RPM drive. It works, but has always been really slow, I'm suspecting it is on i…
I'm sorry to have to ask another question about a particular item and if it will work with a CC, but information is scarce about this. Will HYM94500S-70 be okay…
It ran on my PowerMac 7100 with OS 8.something (it died long ago), and I'm pretty sure it's a screensaver. I think it had something like 3D Enabled in the name,…
Has anyone figured out, done or otherwise documented the maximum amount of maximum RAM on a Mac II Series Mac and with what type of RAM? I know of one case - Ma…
I accidentally posted this in the wrong forum but I couldn't figure out how to delete it there. Sorry! Does anyone know if you're supposed to connect passive or…
Does anyone know if you're supposed to connect passive or amplified speakers to a Performa 6400? I heard that the built in subwoofer acts as a regular speaker b…
To authorize Cubase VST/32 5.1. I have to run "Cubase VST/32 5.1 Authorizer". But I have audio waveforms redraw problems.I have to run "Cubase VST/32 5.1 Author…
I managed to finally get myself an Apple //e, but it is missing three of the four feet. I did some googling and found some references to a Radio Shack item, but…
This would be my second PowerBook Duo 230, which I obtained from eBay for a mere $15, sold as-is for parts, as the previous owner could not get it to power on. …
Heres a few pictures of an SE I got in a lot last year. The front case is totally smooth. Back case looks like ordinary se case. Don't know whats original or sw…
Incredibly, another PowerBop appeared on ebay-fr about a week and half ago. Scored it . That one is complete with the antenna and second SCSI port on the side. …
USB works fine in OS8 with the Apple 1.4.1 USB driver. Has there ever been some kind of workaround for USB in System 7?
So I was checking on some floppies that I have, in my SE/30. One may have been dirty? Now my floppy drive has failed, I fear. I now keep getting an error that t…
It's been nearly three weeks that I've been screwing around with this. There's a freezing issue on my 9600 when I've 1) got -any- CPU upgrade in the machine and…
Okay I am now 3 for 3 on hard drive not working in my 700. Starting to lose my mind. First drive is a Hitatchi U320 146GB SCA-2 80pin drive with adapter system …
I have a two Pismos with two dead batteries. One is original, other one is aftermarket. When I first got the Pismos, the batteries did try to charge when first …
Hello, I've recently acquired an old apple mac Se/30 and decided to face the challenge of getting it onto the internet so I bought a Dynaport Esi/30 Ethernet ca…
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As the original thread :http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=1680.msg8911#msg8911may be a bit long and confusing in some ways, here we try to put brie…