I have a Mac Plus that I bought new that I am trying to get
operational again. When it finally became unusable, the screen would
go to a thin vertical line and sometimes it would work again if I
tapped the case. This issue would happen right away upon turning the
Plus on. I resoldered some of
The flaky joints you particularly need to check are the ones associated with
the 4-pin connector that goes between the analog board and the yoke around
the crt's neck.
I think I finally found the culprit to the flaky video. I checked the
joints on J4 and two appeared to be suspect, so I
On Thursday, December 29, 2005, at 03:27 PM, Thomas wrote:
This is absolutely correct. The spare board I got came configured for
more than 1MB of RAM, but I been using 256KB SIMMs. After putting in
4MB, the board operates normally, though I noticed the time for the
floppy icon to appear
the floppy disk icon means you need to find or make a boot disk
On 12/28/05, Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a Mac Plus that I bought new that I am trying to get
operational again. When it finally became unusable, the screen would
go to a thin vertical line and sometimes it would work
the floppy disk icon means you need to find or make a boot disk
Booting up a system disk is not the issue...I've owned and used this
machine for many years. I'm talking about physical problems with the
machine's hardware.
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At 16:32 -0800 12/28/05, Thomas wrote:
I have a Mac Plus that I bought new that I am trying to get
operational again. When it finally became unusable, the screen would
go to a thin vertical line and sometimes it would work again if I
tapped the case.
The analog board - vertical one - has
