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Has anyone spoken to any of the mods on 68KMLA? Is it gone for good? Does anyone know exactly what happened? Does anyone want to try and recreate the site? Does anyone have a back up of the site?
Inquiring minds want to know.
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I no longer have a clue how many residents there are - I think they are waking up while I'm asleep and multiplying
While browsing the local Craigslists this weekend, I happened upon an SE/30 that someone was ready to throw out: Free for the taking!
I promptly picked it up, brought it home, and surveyed the package. The SE/30's serial number is F10281HPK03...evidently indicating a production date of July 1990. I have the Mac, an M0116 Keyboard, an ADB Mouse II (newer than the computer itself), and a bit of a surprise: A third-party Fujitsu external floppy drive. No floppy disks, though.
The Mac is hardly unblemished: The front bezel is cracked and chipped in a number of places from either mishandling or past shipping damage, and it's come loose at the bottom. The floppy drive is dislodged from its slot opening, and the case sounds like it has something rattling inside.
I wanted to open the case and inspect the guts for exploding batteries and obvious physical damage, but I didn't have a Torx driver of the right size and handle length available at home. So, holding my breath and crossing my fingers, I turned it on. Surprise: It worked, and burst into life with System 7.5! What's more, I discovered through Finder that both the hard drive and the memory had been upgraded from their original specs...to 231MB and 20MB, respectively! But not all was perfect: There was no sound, and the monitor had a speck of bad phosphor producing a dead pixel blob.
So...it's a fixer-upper. I'll be looking forward to seeing what I can do with this machine.
I promptly picked it up, brought it home, and surveyed the package. The SE/30's serial number is F10281HPK03...evidently indicating a production date of July 1990. I have the Mac, an M0116 Keyboard, an ADB Mouse II (newer than the computer itself), and a bit of a surprise: A third-party Fujitsu external floppy drive. No floppy disks, though.
The Mac is hardly unblemished: The front bezel is cracked and chipped in a number of places from either mishandling or past shipping damage, and it's come loose at the bottom. The floppy drive is dislodged from its slot opening, and the case sounds like it has something rattling inside.
I wanted to open the case and inspect the guts for exploding batteries and obvious physical damage, but I didn't have a Torx driver of the right size and handle length available at home. So, holding my breath and crossing my fingers, I turned it on. Surprise: It worked, and burst into life with System 7.5! What's more, I discovered through Finder that both the hard drive and the memory had been upgraded from their original specs...to 231MB and 20MB, respectively! But not all was perfect: There was no sound, and the monitor had a speck of bad phosphor producing a dead pixel blob.
So...it's a fixer-upper. I'll be looking forward to seeing what I can do with this machine.
no, dont worry, the site is not gone for good! basically wat ive heard from the mods and other users is tht the vdeck server went down, and hopefully tom levens will be able to get the backups and put it on temp hosting.
THE 68KMLA SHALL RETURN!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Que dramatic, yet glorious music!)
THE 68KMLA SHALL RETURN!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Que dramatic, yet glorious music!)
Looks like that poor little guy was dropped at one or twice in its life. But it's all fixable. The screen looks great from this photo. The speaker many be detached from the connector or broke off when they dropped it. Again - fixable. A truly excellent find!
Congrats, a free SE/30 is always great.
Never seen one of those floppy drives before.
Never seen one of those floppy drives before.
Very nice, love the floppy drive
No sound is probably a capacitor issue.
I talked to tomlevens a bit a day or two ago. He said that a backup has been located, and they are just waiting for the company to get it to them so that they can pop it back up.
Also, the old forum archives are back up at:
http://www.68kmla.net/archive/
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PPC Macs:
Also, the old forum archives are back up at:
http://www.68kmla.net/archive/
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PPC Macs:
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- B&W Power Macintosh G4
- Power Macintosh 6500/225
Could be caps, just also maybe the chip. Seen one or two boards that needed sound chip replaced.
Thanks for the comments! The screen output is a bit jittery...I'll bet that's a capacitor issue, too. A recap could be in order down the road.
I'll be working on this machine pretty slowly, though, taking things a step at a time. Is an SE/30 bezel interchangeable with an SE's?
I'll be working on this machine pretty slowly, though, taking things a step at a time. Is an SE/30 bezel interchangeable with an SE's?
The bezels are interchangeable but there are cosmetic differences.
But go to Home Depot or some other Home Service Hardware place and see if they got ABS Piping, for they will have that Blue ABS Glue. The Glue should be strong enough to save the case and wipe it clean if you get it on the case while it is still wet. Bleach should be able to remove the blue if it stains the case and you don't remove it time.
But go to Home Depot or some other Home Service Hardware place and see if they got ABS Piping, for they will have that Blue ABS Glue. The Glue should be strong enough to save the case and wipe it clean if you get it on the case while it is still wet. Bleach should be able to remove the blue if it stains the case and you don't remove it time.
My mistake. ABS Glue is not blue, but can be green, milky white, clear or any other color but blue. Blue is for PVC piping.
For fixing Macs with ABS casing, use a q-tip to apply the glue to both sides of the break, hold together (a few seconds) and then let go after it dries.
For fixing Macs with ABS casing, use a q-tip to apply the glue to both sides of the break, hold together (a few seconds) and then let go after it dries.
Elfen is right, bezels are interchangeable, the main difference is the label (SE on the right SE/30 on the left)
Both here, and perhaps rather more at Applefritter, there has been concern and enquiry about the seeming, or perhaps temporary, demise of the 68K MLA. Various internaladministrative or mechanicalcauses for the shut-down have been floated by many familiar screen-names, and the silence from the Army's officials has occasioned comment.
However, the cause need not be internal. Consider Applefritter's published and ongoing attitude to software distribution, to be no more explicit than that. Consider the 68K MLA's sometimes cavalier attitude to the same matter. Look at this as an example of the same attitude transplanted from there to this Forum.
It is not a remote possibility that 68K MLA is off the air while it is being 'cleansed' under pain of ... you name it.
Verb. sap., gentlemen of the PPC MLA.
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However, the cause need not be internal. Consider Applefritter's published and ongoing attitude to software distribution, to be no more explicit than that. Consider the 68K MLA's sometimes cavalier attitude to the same matter. Look at this as an example of the same attitude transplanted from there to this Forum.
It is not a remote possibility that 68K MLA is off the air while it is being 'cleansed' under pain of ... you name it.
Verb. sap., gentlemen of the PPC MLA.
de
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After spending a week searching for a T-15 screwdriver, I finally got the case open today! Observations so far:
* A screw strut had broken loose and was rattling in the case.
* The hard drive and floppy drive are mounted crooked, and there is no LED present anywhere. The HD bears an Apple sticker, so it was probably scavenged out of another Mac at some point.
* Peering inside, it looks like the original purple Tadiran battery is intact. Good thing it's not a red Maxell, but I've got a good mind to take it out anyway.
I'm now at the "discharge the CRT" disassembly step, and feel at a bit of a loss. Most of the tutorials say to use a discharge tool (what?) attached to the grounding lug (where?), and I've never done this sort of work before.
* A screw strut had broken loose and was rattling in the case.
* The hard drive and floppy drive are mounted crooked, and there is no LED present anywhere. The HD bears an Apple sticker, so it was probably scavenged out of another Mac at some point.
* Peering inside, it looks like the original purple Tadiran battery is intact. Good thing it's not a red Maxell, but I've got a good mind to take it out anyway.
I'm now at the "discharge the CRT" disassembly step, and feel at a bit of a loss. Most of the tutorials say to use a discharge tool (what?) attached to the grounding lug (where?), and I've never done this sort of work before.
I hope that is not the case! What happened to AppleFritter, did they get into trouble for something (or do they have a strict no-warez rule)? (I'm not on there so I'm not familiar with it) Is it actually illegal to discuss or even link to warez though, or just to upload/host/use it? As wouldn't Google get shut down otherwise as they link to warez, serials etc, as well as all the warez forums that have a disclaimer saying they're not doing anything wrong because they merely link to warez and talk about it, as opposed to hosting it?
From what I can make out it seems as though something went wrong with the server that it was on, though what the delay with getting it back up is I don't know. Someone on the 68k Facebook group, which I'm not a member of but have been keeping an eye on for news of what's happeneing, said that another site they know of went down on the same day as it was on the same server, which seems to me like quite strong evidence for that cause.
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Further to the above, I just found this from one of the admins, confirming that it was a server crash and that the 68kmla will be back (
), so stop worrying so much everyone! 
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Main system: custom C2D 2.66GHz tower/4GB RAM/2600XT 512 MB/500GB HD/XP Pro x86+Vista Business x64
Main Mac: Beige G3 minitower (Sonnet G4 500MHz/640 MB DVD/USB/Radeon 32 MB/OS 9.2.2+10.4.11)
Discharging is not that hard. Read this link on how too and how to build a discharge tool:
http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~shamada/fullmac/repairEng.html#DischargeCRT
Also, it looks like your flyback has a bleeder resistor, so if it was off for a while it will discharge itself. Given about a couple of days to a week any Mac would discharge itself.
The bend drive frames sounds like your Mac was dropped at one time in its life and recently, and yet your CRT Tube survived. Congrats on that.
http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~shamada/fullmac/repairEng.html#DischargeCRT
Also, it looks like your flyback has a bleeder resistor, so if it was off for a while it will discharge itself. Given about a couple of days to a week any Mac would discharge itself.
The bend drive frames sounds like your Mac was dropped at one time in its life and recently, and yet your CRT Tube survived. Congrats on that.
Ahh...I just need some alligator clips, then.
I did find one additional detail on the computer that I thought was interesting: A sticker on the analog board that said "800-We-Fix-Macs, Date 9/27/94, Tech KP," with a California bay area telephone number. I wonder how many hands this machine may have passed through before it came my way?
I did find one additional detail on the computer that I thought was interesting: A sticker on the analog board that said "800-We-Fix-Macs, Date 9/27/94, Tech KP," with a California bay area telephone number. I wonder how many hands this machine may have passed through before it came my way?
Even on CD its fairly easy to find: Look for any LC/Performa 520, 550, 575, Mac IIvx, or Quadra System CD. I have an LC575 System CD and it has 7.1, along with CW2.1, ClickArt, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, At Ease 2, among other things.
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