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beachycove replied to the thread Best Quicksilver Graphics Card?.That ADC ps failure tip is very useful to hear about. -
beachycove replied to the thread Buying advice.I’d recommend a Quadra 650. It’s a boring 68040 office machine but is about as capable as any Mac that was made at the time, with solid...
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beachycove replied to the thread PowerBook G3 Wallstreet Battery.Long ago, the charge cards in Wallstreets often needed recapped. One symptom was the failure to recharge a battery. Might be that.
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beachycove replied to the thread iMac G4: No screen activity.Unfortunately, plenty of imac g4s have fried graphics chips, owing to poor cooling/ heavy use. I have one of earlier USB1 models that...
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beachycove replied to the thread Quicksilver Restoration.What was used to sand out/ buff up the scratched areas?
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beachycove replied to the thread G4 Cube Power Supply Repair.As that was ten years ago, I can’t remember the details, but I think I would have used a “how to” from this, that or the other Cube...
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beachycove replied to the thread Rebuilding a Pismo battery.7600mah is superb. I'd love to be able to do this myself. What kind of spot welder is right/ best for this sort of battery rebuilding work?
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beachycove replied to the thread G3 AIO Molar Macs wont start.Leaking capacitor goo would certainly be very common. Ten years ago, machines from the late 1980s mostly needed recapped. Those that...
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beachycove replied to the thread G3 AIO Molar Macs wont start.If you get a startup sound, the machine has already run a series of low level hardware tests in its POST sequence. I'd eat my hat if...
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beachycove replied to the thread G3 AIO Molar Macs wont start.You could swap the logic boards between the machines to test the screen on the other one.
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beachycove replied to the thread Looking for GBMac version 1.3.1 - offering a 500$ reward (via paypal) to anyone who can archive/upload it.One or two of our members live in Japan, do they not? There might be a lead there.
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beachycove replied to the thread So what's new with your Newton?.FilePad 1.5/6 is on unna.org. Nice little database manager for NewtOS.
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beachycove replied to the thread G3 AIO Molar Macs wont start.If the original IDE hard drives are still installed, in my experience such drives more or less always need to be tossed. I have seen so...
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beachycove replied to the thread Mac IIfx logic board with dead nubus slots.Are these the Nubus interface chips? https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/texas-instruments/SN74ALS240ADWR/556025
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beachycove replied to the thread MacMemory MaxSave.RAM disk technology seems to have been improved dramatically with the introduction of the 68020/30, not only because of the larger RAM...