Recent content by philallin

Hey Tom you are a genius! I started off using Isopropyl Alcohol on cotton wool but found that an awful lot of pressure was required and the coating was lifting off painfully slowly. I tried warm soapy water but this did not touch it at all. I then remembered that some time ago my wife bought...

Freecycle has provided me with a new piece of kit, namely a 17" CRT Studio Display. It's powered through the ADC port and looks very neat and tidy sat on my desk connected to my Quicksilver however it has 1 fault that I would like to put right. The glass screen has got dozens and dozens of...

Well yesterday I finally drove down to collect the lot listed above.. All items listed are present and correct, I was also given 2 external SCSI enclosures each with a CDRW drive installed, a large cardboard box with approx 150 Mac cover CDs from the 90's. Another huge cardboard box full to the...

I've tried every combination possible from the 4 sticks of VRAM in 2 different LC475s. Both machines work perfectly with the smaller 256kb sticks installed. One of the machines does have a dead PRAM battery and I have to 'jump start' it each time I power it up, however the second machine has a...

820-0605-A same as the sticks that I have, but I have been researching and found something I didn't previously know. The chips mounted onto each stick has a long number stamped across its centre, the end of the number is always in the format of -xx or -x where x or xx are digits. These digits...

Cheers Unknown K, any and all info on this would be much appreciated.

I've been looking for a couple of 512kb VRAM memory sticks for ages to upgrade the video output of my LC475. I came across these 2 months ago and got them shipped from the USA over to me in the UK. 512kb VRAM , 68pin, 80ns, Apple part no. 630-0045 These looked perfect for the job but when I...

It looks like I have new stuff to play with this weekend :-) The princely sum of £20 secured this little lot......I just need to tell my wife now that I'm bringing home ANOTHER dozen Macs, she may just kill me! PowerMac G3 400 chimes Powermac 8500 G3 (Formac card) chimes Powermac 8500 150...

Surely that should be 'Good rule of finger'!! ;D

"I linked directly to his store above." OMG! I am just so dumb sometimes!!! Thanks Bunson, I've checked out your link and see the 650 accelerate card and the 'I'm not shipping internationally anymore' note. Interesting info to know that this guy exists, and if he ever has an item that i need...

Hey Noob, nice pic......I'll have the lid back on mine one day.....currently running it open as there is still work to do, however I seem to have been a little distracted over this past few days. I bagged a copy of a game called Escape Velocity....i think it's great and cant stop playing it. It...

Thanks for all the detailed info from all you guys. I've looked on Ebay for Quadra Overdrive but come up with nothing! What is the Ebay shop name that I need.......I could probably do business with this guy if only I could find him!

Hi Mike, I've read about the 128Mb RAM upgrade but it seems that the 'right' type of RAM is required...ie it has to be single sided RAM (or something like that). If you have 128Mb RAM that will work with my LC475 I'd be really interested in obtaining some from you. Cheers Phil

Hello 68k'ers I have a new (old) plaything in the form of a LC475. I have decided to upgrade this venerable old lady as far as she will go......problem is I don't actually know how far that is!!!! As of today I have got this far with the upgrade: Remove LC040 CPU and fit full 040 with FPU...