On 02/04/2016 04:44 PM, Louis Ciotti wrote:
Very cool. I have wondered if anyone used an old mac for schematics, I
am a an electronics geek, and I have wanted to atleast make on schematic
and PCB layout using vintage mac hardware.
I use a G4 to run VectorWorks, which was once called MiniCAD.
After you get the case opened and before you start monkeying with the
flyback transformer and its high voltages have a look at the low voltage
power connectors associated with the vertical analog board.
I have found dozens of cracked solder joints and crimp joints where the
wires fit into pins
My SE/30s are still unpacked from a recent move. But I moved my G4 back
to OS 10.3.7 so I could talk with the SE/30. The problem was that
Appletalk over ethernet was no longer supported by OS Next as of 10.4.0.
System 7 on the SE30 really wants it. Printers were supported, just not
older
At 22:51 +0100 6/16/14, 'Keith Jamison' via Vintage Macs wrote:
a bunch of good ideas that follow others.
Nobody has mentioned fixing capacitors with a dishwasher. It's anything but
permanent but if it works it pretty much proves the caps have leaked acid. Hot
water is OK. No detergent. Be
At 18:39 -0800 2/25/14, Peter R wrote:
Sounds like you might have a short somewhere after the harnesses.
Yep. Check the solder joints on the connectors that probably got unplugged
during the work.
I can't prove it but I really believe that the larger solder joints don't get
quite hot enough
At 15:51 -0800 2/1/14, Tom Frikker wrote:
Interesting... if it's not the analog board, maybe it'd be some capacitor on
the main board or something? I have no clue...
On Saturday, February 1, 2014 6:45:44 PM UTC-5, Notgoing Totellyou wrote:
yeah when he slides his plus main board in there it
At 8:22 -0800 11/13/13, Scott Lawrence wrote:
How would I go about having a second System folder on it for System 6.0.8?
(without resorting to booting from floppy. ;) )
Personal experience:
I actually use an SE/30 as a file server for my Linux and OS 10.3.9 or earlier
Macs. There I have
At 7:44 -0800 11/11/13, Jeff Walther wrote:
On Friday, November 8, 2013 3:19:37 PM UTC-6, Scott Lawrence wrote:
SCSI Drive does not function either on the internal or external chain
connectors with appropriate terminaton
(doesn't work without termination either... i had to try it. ;)
SCSI probe
At 23:22 -0700 10/20/13, Mike Carpenter wrote:
Could I tell if any of the caps are bad from a visual inspection or do I need
to get a tester?
With good light and a lens look not at the capacitor but at the circuit board
below it. If you see any evidence of spotting by a liquid it's probably
At 11:20 +0200 10/19/13, j...@jagdt.com offered some needed comments on
capacitors.:
concerning the question of how drying electrolytic capacitors will influence
the function of old radios etc. the main difference is digital to analog.
ANALOG
--
In case of old radios or also an old
At 21:51 -0400 10/6/13, Wesley Furr wrote:
OK...I've been working on replacing the capacitors on an LCII. I made the
stupid decision to start with an LC (only have one) rather than an LCII (of
which I have 4). Anyway...after half-damaging a few pads attempting to
de-solder, I've left that the
The 80 pin jobs have a capability for transmission of 16 bit words. They're
supposed to understand that the extra bits should not be used if the connection
is only for 8 bits.
But. . .
They seem to require proper termination of all 16 bits while they use only 8.
I have a few of those disks
At 08:59 -0500 6/3/13, Geoffrey Oltmans wrote, and I snipped a bunch:
Well I tried the patched SC Setup but to no avail... wouldn't recognize the
drive. I did manage to get it working again though with a copy of FWB HD
Toolkit. The drive is now booting again on its own. Go figure.
On Fri, May
This 8500 running OS 9.1 and my favorite versions of Excel, MPW, Interarchy,
and Eudora has come up with a problem.
It can't keep time! It seems very accurate to the second when compared to a
Ubuntu Linux box and an OS 10.3.9 Mac but it's off by precisely four minutes.
The Date and Time
At 15:52 -0400 5/6/13, Hardware Mack wrote:
was i? hold on let me flip through the last 14 messages...
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Chris Tofu
mailto:rampaginggreenh...@yahoo.comrampaginggreenh...@yahoo.com wrote:
Weren't you given 2 replacement part #'s?
I have more 2N3906 and 2N2907 s
At 12:56 -0700 5/3/13, Notgoing Totellyou wrote:
I have the CPU card here and its missing a transistor.
i can't find a replacement anywhere.
Anyone have any lisa parts laying around?
it reads : AMPS 4258 EBC
you can see the spot behind it, it's missing .
\
Transistor Data Book edition 48,
At 09:45 -0800 3/4/13, Clark Martin wrote:
It may have been that there was simply a bad solder joint on that transistor.
Replacing the cap may have jostled the solder joint enough to return it to
working order, briefly.
After I retired from launching navy rockets I worked on radio
At 02:58 -0800 1/29/13, Haemogoblin wrote:
Btw can someone please confirm for me that i've replaced C1 with a
suitable component. I bought a 10uf 50v non polar capacitor to replace
the possibly defective one at C1.
I have an SE30 apart here and C1 on that analog board is about 1/2 inch long
At 13:25 -0800 1/28/13, Haemogoblin wrote, and I snipped:
Hi there
Thanks, I'm just an enthusiastic hobbyist :)
I checked the tube in a dark room and it does glow, very dimly. Also tried a
floppy disk and found the machine will boot from it. I've checked the
brightness knob and it makes no
At 06:02 -0800 1/22/13, Haemogoblin wrote:
I`m not a trained electrician or electronics engineer and I've now reached the
limits of my knowledge for fault testing this machine. So was wondering if
there's anyone on here, that might be able to advise me.
You sound more like an engineer than you
At 08:53 -0600 12/29/12, No No wrote:
Just coming in, in the middle of this. If it hasn't been mentioned, if you do
it yourself, make sure you get low esr capacitors. I believe the esr stands
for electronic series resistance. I could be wrong about the exact meaning.
I did not use low esr
At 12:10 -0800 12/5/12, Pablo Vasquez wrote: , and I snipped most of it to keep
the archive size down.
Thank you very much Doug! Your comments are very refreshing. Below I answer
your questions.
Your pictures show what appears to be a least squares fit of a decaying
exponential curve that is
At 06:25 -0800 12/5/12, Pablo Vasquez wrote:
Here in Chile we use this Mac IIci to control a 1.2 meter radio telescope
specially designed for galaxy mapping at Columbia University. Currently this
antenna, called Southern Millimeter Wave Telescope, has a twin brother up
north, called Northern
At 19:40 +0200 10/21/12, Antonio Rodríguez wrote:
Sorry for the slight off-topic, but I need help with maintaining a service
that is useful for the vintage Macs community.
Many of you may remember me from the old Compact Macs list. Since 2003, I host
a public FTP with many rare to find
At 05:26 -0700 7/12/12, dadof39 wrote:
Correct, it's a SuperDrive. I suspect it's simply not clean. Would
appreciate any advice.
On Thursday, July 12, 2012 1:48:27 AM UTC-4, Dylan McDermond wrote:
On Jul 11, 2012, at 9:44 PM, John Carmonne
mailto:carmo...@aol.comcarmo...@aol.com wrote:
The
At 15:29 -0700 6/16/12, sami lappalainen wrote:
Hi,
ok, thanks.
I got first program transfered to mac classic. hexbin4.0 (read
somewhere it should be able to convert the files on mac back to mac
understandable form..it does only .hqx..)
6.0.7 won't recognize .hqx files for some reason(needs 7.5+
At 20:46 -0700 5/2/12, Muralikrishna Golconda wrote:
Thank you for your suggestions. I have attached a photograph of the frayed
cable.
What I think I see the power cable is the wiring that connects a wall-wart or
under-the-desktop power converter that provides low voltage power after
I have one on the same board that yielded an L2 inductor a while ago. Give the
request a day or two to see if there's one in Belgium and then ask off line
with a copy and pasteable address.
Best address is dmcn...@macnauchtan.com for that.
Doug
At 16:01 +0200 4/4/12, Nico Vanden Eynde
Colorado Springs, 80919
I have a bunch - at least 6 - of 640 x 489 Apple monitors which I think are
M1212 but I'm not sure and don't have the time to pull them off the stack right
now. None has been turned on in the last three years.
Numerous Nubus video cards
Numerous older SCSI and floppy
It appears that nobody has mentioned Netpresenz and Anarchie (now Interarchy)
from Stairways Software.
Netpresenz is an HTTP and FTP server that runs on OS 7 and perhaps earlier.
Interarchy is the client but it has much more.
With Netpresenz running on vanilla OS 7.5 it's possible to use
At 09:52 -0800 12/14/11, Jon Gilbert wrote:
Comments in line:
When going to Radio Shack to buy some capacitors to replace aging ones on my
Macintosh Portable motherboard, I noticed that their selection didn't quite
match with what Apple had used.
What Apple Used:
470mF, 25V, 105 deg. C
220mF,
At 18:19 -0500 12/14/11, Dylan Woods wrote and I snipped a bunch.:
Thanks for the capacitor tips, as I'm about to try my first recap ever, on my
newly purchased se/30.
There have been lots of postings, especially on the SE/30. Lots of discussion
about how to remove. The two soldering iron
At 16:47 -0500 12/8/11, Scott Holder wrote:
On 08.12.2011 16:14, dale-gmail wrote:
snip
Apple did NOT setup/build a software bridge to connect/translate
AppleTalk protocol to Ethernet protocol.
all their software (apple ip gateway and apple localtalk gateway)
only connects the AppleTalk
protocol
At 15:54 -0800 11/21/11, Dylan Woods wrote:
Thank you so much for your help, all.
whacking the left side of the screen does cause the floppy disk
question mark icon to flash on the screen briefly. I've never soldered
anything in my life, but am willing to give it a shot.
I know that I'm going to
At 10:32 -0800 11/20/11, anthonyschr wrote:
Ah. I had understood that the Plus simply did not feature built-in
termination, requiring the user to use a terminator. Recently, I've
been using a black inline terminator with the apple logo on it, and
have not been daisy-chaining the SCSI devices. I
At 13:39 -0500 11/10/11, Jake Tesler wrote:
How do I connect the two?
On Nov 10, 2011, at 10:24 AM, Jake Tesler wrote:
Has anybody found a way to successfully transfer files to and from a Lion
mac and a sys7.5.3 PB1400?
Enable the FTP server on Lion or run an FTP server on the PowerBook.
At 11:58 -0800 11/10/11, Dylan McDermond wrote:
On Nov 10, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Doug McNutt wrote:
Lion will not allow you to send files to any FTP server even if you have a
username and password. It's apparently a security thing.
What? I just used FTP via command line to send a file to an FTP
At 15:57 -0400 11/1/11, Charles E. Fox wrote:
At 02:04 PM 01/11/2011, you wrote:
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:34 AM, Charles E. Fox cf...@cogeco.ca wrote:
-- Many years ago when I did TV repairs we used to apply stuff called
corona dope. Try Radio Shack.
Interesting suggestion. I did a
At 09:15 -0700 10/17/11, QuoVadis wrote:
What makes you say it has a colour CRT? I don't see it, or am I
missing something?
At 01:09 -0700 10/14/11, gio wrote:
you can see it at http://www.flickr.com/photos/91379880@N00/6242620937/
All I did was to click on that URL.
The case shows a color
At 01:09 -0700 10/14/11, gio wrote:
i seem to have a problem with my old Macintosh display. i took a shot
of it and you can see it at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/91379880@N00/6242620937/
A 1984 Mac with a color CRT??? Perhaps it got repaired by the iPhone 4
What's inside of the box in the
At 11:44 -0700 9/27/11, Jonathan Sip wrote:
I recently did an install of OS 7.5.3 on an external hd and when I boot up my
Plus with the new OS, I have to hold down the shift key to turn OFF
extensions, otherwise I get an error message, and prompt to re-start.
Any suggestions on how to get the
At 21:00 -0700 9/25/11, GuyWithGuitars wrote:
I did it folks! And I must say, a pretty fine job. My SE/30 is singing
again.
It's not as much difficult as it is PREPARATION and PATIENCE.
SNIP
So which capacitor was the critical one?
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At 09:42 -0700 9/26/11, Jeff Walther wrote:
On Sep 24, 10:54 pm, GuyWithGuitars countjim...@gmail.com wrote:
Batteries Plus carries it - but it's $14. Eveready #523 equivalent.
That's too rich for my blood.
Frys has a $6 battery which is the right size, but only delivers 3V.
However, I believe
At 19:13 -0700 9/19/11, GuyWithGuitars wrote:
Can someone tell me which cap(s) will fix the no-audio? The addage 'if
it ain't broke, don't fix it' applies here. Until it doesn't run, I
see no reason to replace them all and risk messing up (another) SE/30.
At 15:23 -0600 9/1/11, Doug McNutt wrote
At 12:52 -0400 9/20/11, bigcl...@aol.com wrote:
x-charset ISO-8859-1Whoop - sorry - forgot to TRIM (so many things to
remember)
DAN - is what you're reading now in straight text and NOT HTML.
Please confirm. Thanks.
Bigclaim
That looks much better.
Your web mail client seems to be this.
At 11:54 -0400 9/19/11, bigcl...@aol.com wrote:
Virtually every single Yahoo group in existence has an identifier in the
subject line before the message (and other entities follow that standard as
well such as google groups)
That's one reason I detest Yahoo groups. Another is that Yahoo does
Flicker on a CRT monitor is often a bad solder joint or a loose connector that
can heal itself as the temperature goes up. If it's more than that I agree
with Glen.
One test for loose things is to give the monitor a good whack with the palm of
your hand while it's flickering. If things
At 16:18 -0400 9/19/11, bigcl...@aol.com wrote:
DAN
*yawn*
2 issues here
It appears you are claiming I STILL have HTML in my email. Do I? Where? IN
what form. Please describe what is coming through that constitutes HTML and
Ill fix it.
Please send a message to yourself.
When you get it
One of these days I shall try this but I wouldn't mind if someone else tried it
first.
Newer Mac's still have modems inside. The most apparent use is to support FAX
but I suspect that they are really capable of handling good old serial
communications with AT commands.
The likes of old SE's
At 08:18 -0700 9/1/11, GuyWithGuitars wrote:
Can someone tell me definitively which capacitor(s) (c1, c2, c3, etc)
are for the audio on a Mac SE/30? I have an SE/30 that is running
great except for the audio. There is no audio.
I made an attempt some time ago to replace all the caps and ended up
At 13:39 -0700 8/29/11, MacPlus99 wrote:
I got a problem with my monitor, on boot the monitor wont turn on and
to get it on you have to hit both sides at the same time. I'll have to
do the same thing with I insert a floppy but after I hit it lightly,
after about 5 min of use I'll have to do it
Deliberately top posted.
No. Don't do that. It makes long subjects get truncated. Many clients can't
get the Re and the [xxx] sorted properly leading to even more difficult sorting.
List-ID: vintage-macs.googlegroups.com
is already present and is a unique identifier for this list. Almost
At 10:11 -0700 8/13/11, GuyWithGuitars wrote:
So, if I leave the IIci system overnight, it will fire back up the
next morning and last for about 15 minutes before suddenly just
powering off - like the plug was pulled and I have to wait again for a
number of hours before she boots up again.
Check
At 13:53 -0700 8/11/11, Ivan Kowalenko wrote:
The post indicates that he used a Keyspan USA-19HS for USB-Serial
communication with the VT220. Apparently it plays very nicely with his
Mac Pro running OS X Lion (10.7). Does the Classic II speak RS232 or
422?
I have a Color Classic and a Classic II
At 06:33 -0700 7/25/11, hitoshi wrote:
I need helps here for 2 problems.
1. Mac Classic.
When I turned on two sides of the screen wobble and keep on changing
patterns. After a while, it sometime start up. What would be the
problems for this? Is it display or HD? The system is 7.01.
2. Mac SE
At 12:08 -0700 7/25/11, hitoshi wrote:
Doug:
I will check and clean the joint for Classic. I suspect power
supply system might be a problem.
As for SE, I can boot up with floppy with system 6.04 but it does
not see HD at all. I used HD set up but it did not see HD at all.
One more useful
At 10:28 -0700 7/17/11, QuoVadis wrote:
I just rearranged my NuBus-cards/HDDs/floppy-drives collection for
proper storage, when I came across a strange little box:
It's white, made of metal. At the back it sports 3 ports. One labelled
'A' which is a Mini-DIN8 connector (fits a Macintosh serial
At 18:15 +0200 7/15/11, Gorka L Martinez Mezo wrote:
A few months ago I purchased through LEM swap a nice Macintosh IIci. The
computer arrived in good overal condition and had been carefully cleaned both
inside and outside. Afer a quick check, I hooked an ADB keyboard and an Apple
color display
At 10:57 -0700 7/9/11, Chris M wrote:
I recall seeing the mac video being designated a composite signal. Composite
or NTSC is what's fed into a video monitor (not TV, unless it accepts
composite input). Composite imposed on a carrier signal is what's displayed on
channel 3 or 4. Composite just
At 11:54 -0700 7/9/11, Chris M wrote:
--- On Sat, 7/9/11, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote:
I recall seeing the mac video being designated a
composite signal.
Not even the Mac Plus is composite
video. I've seen the connection to the
analog board and there was, IIRC, video and both
At 18:55 -0700 7/7/11, Elliott Price wrote:
This guy did something *sortof* similar to what you're describing. If you can
find the pinouts for the LCD you're using, and the pinouts for the Mac Plus
display connector, it might be possible. However, it might be more difficult
since the CRT I
At 09:01 -0700 7/7/11, Jeff Walther wrote:
On Jul 6, 3:01 pm, Nico Vanden Eynde nico...@i4all.eu wrote:
Hi,
I'm afraid both of them are not suitable to replace the original 3.9uf BP HF
capacitor.
You really need both Bi-polar and Highfrequency since the capacitor is in
the video circuitry to
At 14:16 -0400 6/27/11, Britt Dodd wrote:
I seem to have a problem identifying different types of capacitors. The ones
I'm currently trying to find replacements for are surface mount caps that look
like tiny metal cans sitting on a black insulator with pads on the sides. I
guess those are
At 14:15 -0400 6/26/11, Wesley Furr wrote:
How do you manage to replace those puny little surface-mount jobbies though?
Through-the-board electrolytics aren't a problem, I've done a number of them
over the years...
Think about replacing the beasts with tantalum equivalents.
Essentially all
At 12:01 -0400 5/23/11, Todd Brayer top posted:
Patterns... on the screen?
Burning can mean anything. Though if the fan/cooling fails and the
processor overheats you get a popcorn sort of smell before it shuts
itself off before melting.
Todd Brayer
toddbra...@gmail.com
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at
At 20:39 +0200 4/10/11, Tjabring van Egten wrote:
I would like to connect my Linux box to a LocalTalk network. I've been
reading
about it and I know it is possible with a LocalTalk PC Card. In the 80 and
90
made by Farallon, Dayna, Tangent and Novell. They are supported by the Linux
kernel.
Is
At 10:04 -0500 3/28/11, Derek Morton wrote:
An additional thought... Perhaps the router now only supports 100BaseTX
communications (orange light be damned) and the card does not run in
100BaseTX when you are booted in 8.1 (due to some obscure driver anomaly -
works 10/100 in 9.1, Works 10
At 18:50 + 3/1/11, Matthew Hicks wrote:
Thanks for quick reply, that is unbelievable!
I don't understand how the floppies would run if I'm stuck on the opening
screen.
Are there no boot-up commands?
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 6:44 PM,
mailto:raue...@pride.hofstra.eduraue...@pride.hofstra.edu
At 12:55 -0500 2/10/11, sudogeek wrote:
I have several - Apple extended as well as Power Computing ones. Location FL
I have some too, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:01 AM, christophausfeld
mailto:ch_ausf...@bluewin.chch_ausf...@bluewin.ch wrote:
Support for older Macs:
Others have answered well.
Be aware that OS 7.5, running TCP/IP, cannot share files with Mac OS X versions
above 10.3.9 which is pretty old as OSX goes. Apple turned that off with Tiger.
You will be able to use ftp though. Stairways' WebPresenze and Anarchie -
Interarchy can still be found
At 10:21 -0800 12/19/10, ttoo...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a Beige G3 running 9.2.2 networked to a Classic running 6.0.7
with PhoneNet type connectors with resistors. I was able to connect to
the G3 from the Classic but now in Chooser when I try to connect I get
a zero divide error but I can
At 08:24 -0300 12/11/10, Matias Lopez Varela wrote:
Hi!
I´m trying to make an Appletalk network between my Macintosh Plus (2 MB;
system 6.0.3; HD) and my Power Mac 7300 (Mac OS 9.2).
I used to connect both computers two Farallon´s PhoneNet.
In the PowerM I turn on Appletalk and Appleshare where
At 10:55 -0800 12/11/10, Elliott Price wrote:
Actually, AppleTalk was removed in Leopard. Tiger still has the AppleTalk tab
in the Network pref pane.
I am forced to use 10.3.9 on my G4 because I refuse to give up my SE/30 file
server.
I believe AppleTalk on Tiger works only with printers and
At 10:33 +0200 10/16/10, Nico Vanden Eynde wrote:
I did use the right tool to adjust the L2 pot. The plastic tube was already
cracked when I received the Mac and the core is stuck.
It is either glued in the tube or otherwise because the tube was cracked,
the core couldn't be moved anymore.
It's
At 22:17 +0200 10/15/10, Nico Vanden Eynde wrote:
I'm looking for the L2 pot ( horizontal width screen ) of a Mac Plus analog
board.
I doubt there's a replacement part on the market ( Digikey ? ) for the L2
pot so if someone could help me out here you would do me a huge favor !
I have a whole
At 16:12 -0600 10/15/10, Doug McNutt wrote:
At 22:17 +0200 10/15/10, Nico Vanden Eynde wrote:
I'm looking for the L2 pot ( horizontal width screen ) of a Mac Plus analog
board.
I doubt there's a replacement part on the market ( Digikey ? ) for the L2
pot so if someone could help me out here you
At 09:59 -0700 8/12/10, Jeff Walther wrote:
On Aug 11, 11:05 am, Jeff Walther t...@io.com wrote:
On Aug 10, 11:40 pm, Matt Rhinesmith platni...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey all, I have a Macintosh IIcx with no power supply. Does anybody here
have a
pinout of the connector or a guide to converting
NuBus video on hand and I have no use for them: All have 15 socket D connectors
with Apple pinouts.
Micron Technology Inc. XCEED NB10-78
SuperMac 1003067-001E assy 006945 REVJ
RasterOps no number on board, AMI special chips 9341AAI and 9228BHE
four empty slots for memory SIMMS
Two .050
At 16:11 -0700 7/23/10, Iamanamma wrote:
Thanks for the post, but I think you misunderstood me. The IIsi does
have a floppy drive (albeit gunked up and non-functioning), and SCSI
is the only interface in a IIsi.
I have taken apart - for parts - several IIsi's and my stack of old floppy
drives
At 13:40 -0700 7/22/10, Clark Martin wrote:
Check (on the G3) to see if the drive in question shows a proper System
Folder. It's possible it isn't blessed.
It could be a SCSI problem on the motherboard. Is the terminator set right and
is the 5 volt power correct. Is there anything else on the
At 15:44 -0700 7/11/10, John Carmonne wrote:
On Jul 11, 2010, at 3:35 PM, Chris M wrote:
an original Mac can't do much. And this surprises you?
Actually the original Mac did a whole heck of a lot in the day, I started
making a living programing CNC machinery with an Apple IIe when the Mac came
At 17:20 -0700 7/2/10, Clark Martin wrote:
On 7/2/10 3:23 PM, D. Finnigan wrote:
When was the last time that this Macintosh was used? If it was
several years ago, then the electronics may need some time to
warm-up. I have had to do this with an LC III and LC II motherboard.
Leave the machine
At 12:57 -0700 7/1/10, bwick wrote:
Is it possible to boot a Quadra 605 from a SCSI CD-ROM drive (AppleCD
300). I have tried everything I know how to do and still just get the
Disk Icon. Any Tips?
It's possible that you have a SCSI problem. One bad SCSI device, perhaps with a
bad SCSI ID
I have a couple of the AA15830 power supplies that have been sitting around for
a couple of years.
I don't know their status and am leaving town - Colorado Springs - for a couple
of weeks in Ohio and Virginia. I should be reading my email but likely not the
lists. Where are you?
And. . . They
It's a bit old and manufacturers have changed battery designs but. . .
http://macnauchtan.com/pub/MacBattery/MacBattery.html
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At 08:14 -0700 5/8/10, Sterling wrote:
It sits pretty tight in it's socket, what's the trick to getting these
things out of the socket??
There is a tool made for the job. It has two shaped steel pieces that go down
into two diagonally opposed corners and hook - like a crochet hook - under the
At 18:14 -0700 5/7/10, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
Easiest way to get flash on a vintage Mac?
Set a strobe light on top! ;)
Or find an HTML5 browser for it.
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Dishwasher cleaning is common during the production process. Older through
-hole boards, Mac Plus, are soldered with lead-based solder which is pretty
much an acid-free process. Newer surface-mount boards, Classic II, use
lead-free solders that use acid flux. Water washing is required for
At 06:56 -0700 5/1/10, Manuel Marques wrote:
If you were based in Portugal, asking 100 euros for a reasonably
configured Performa would not be considered a crime - they are so
rare, and I've found sellers asking 250 euros for a SE FDHD!! I've
paid 60 euros for my Performa 5200, but it came with
I have had a lot of problems with old floppies. And it's more than loss of
information stored on them. Many just will not allow themselves to be
reformatted. And it's not just a difference with magnetic material on high
density two holers vs low density one holers.
I amuse myself thinking
I have a bunch of old electronic hardware here. That includes old Macs back to
the 128 and much older things like Hewlett-Packard radio frequency generators
that run on vacuum tubes.
The biggest single problem I have is aluminum electrolytic capacitors and it
reflects on attitudes of modern
At 08:28 -0800 3/9/10, Elliott Price wrote:
Depends on what you mean by correct... :)
I just use a standard bit (from a security set) in an extender . . . . . . .
And, if you're going to use the computer yourself, don't put the screws back
into the deep sockets. Just leave them in a plastic
At 12:04 -0500 3/9/10, John Musbach wrote:
You know, there's these nifty new solid sate capacitors that don't
have these issues... :) One time replacement of electrolytic with
solid state capacitors should be sufficient to rid one of these
worries.
The tantalum capacitors made with powdered
At 23:28 -0800 3/5/10, Patrick Miller wrote:
Well it's not that the screen is off all the way it's kind of
flickering when I whack it, it comes on...
That's a classic symptom of a bad solder joint. They usually appear on the
bigger joints on the analog board around the flyback transformer and
At 02:05 -0600 2/2/10, Caleb Cupples wrote:
I'm leaning more and more toward thinking it's a hardware problem, not
software.. I think my NeXTStep (the pun was waiting) is to pull the
logic board and look over it very closely, since I just glanced over
it when I pulled the PRAM battery. Any
At 11:23 -0500 2/1/10, John Musbach wrote:
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Caleb Cupples
calebcupplessocial...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Listers,
I have an SE/30 that I've recently upgraded the hard drive in, and
installed 7.5.5 on, but I keep getting a bus error at boot, whenever
I don't boot
At 21:15 -0600 1/29/10, Abel Ortiz Monasterio wrote:
Looks like you are missing the OS, not sure of how to get it on a 800K disk to
install it on your hard drive.Your HD is probably bad otherwise it would boot
from it, you can get a hard drive with system 6 on e-bay (I've seen them go for
At 19:56 -0800 1/26/10, Nicolas Bradley wrote:
Just a quick question on topic - is it possible to jump-start the PSU
by feeding 5 volts down pin 15 into the unit itself? I just want to
rule out power unit failure so I'm not wasting my time buying new
batteries.
I have been using - for years - a
At 14:20 -0500 1/27/10, Jim Mooney wrote:
I want to network an SE just to be able to transfer files off of it.
I want to bridge it to my network using a Beige G3 that I have. The way I
understand it is that I connect the SE to the G3 via the printer ports. I
connect the G3 to the network
At 17:19 +0100 1/26/10, t...@nehaia.dk wrote:
I'm assuming
it's an issue with flat PRAM batteries, as I've read that the IIfx
can't power on without batteries, and the machine hasn't been started
properly since the end of the last millennium, but I'm just wondering
if there are any other
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