Recent content by sambapati87

I am also thinking that the jumper wire method for fixing data bit traces may not really work as it changes the electrical properties of the connection, quite possibly enough to cause it not to work as the CPU expects, which I imagine could also cause the chimes. I may need to just repair those...

An update with progress! TL;DR, I now boot to immediate chimes of death (still no video display). I take this to mean a RAM issue and have begun checking traces to the built in DRAM, as I have no SIMMs installed. I've never been this happy to hear those chimes! Ironically a lot has to go right...

This is exactly the kind of info I needed, thank you both. I had a hunch that the analog board was doing its job (so far, at least—who knows what video will look like), so logic it is I will definitely be practicing first! I was planning to use paste for those, but I'll try several methods on...

Just want to say that's great! I've always known it to be "impossible" to write 800k floppies for Mac from anything but another Mac drive.

I'm looking for some advice on a Color Classic I acquired over the summer. This is a long post, but I wanted to provide enough detail to answer some of the first questions that seem to be asked about these problems, and hopefully to serve as a reference/resource for others by consolidating some...

Add me to the list of people willing to pay for one of those castings!

This is incredible. Idea: it's probably easier for a lot of people to stand up a small HTTP proxy on their local network that communicates with Spotify over HTTPS, rather than requiring that dedicated WiFI hardware. I think that would allow this to work regardless of how you're getting your...

That's a beautiful thing

Some photos of the floppy ports/cable, for reference, though it seems Mikeat may have already answered the physical compatibility question: Floppy port on the PowerBook Mac end of cable Drive end of cable Drive port

What I meant is basically what you said—there are more card brands than chipsets. I'm just not clear on which chipsets I should be looking for. Googling for info on the 2400c seems to turn up little these days. I'll post a close-up of the floppy connector(s) and cables today. Thanks Mikeat for...

The sound issue resolved itself with a clean install of 8.6, so mark that one off!

I just received a really nice 2400c from an eBay purchase. It's 180mhz, running 9.1 on 80mb of RAM (I plan to put it on 8.6). It's in practically mint condition—I'm really amazed. First question: sound. The startup chime works (though sort of sounds like it fades out a little at the end?)—but...

I am posting this because I wish it had shown up in Google when I was googling about my issue. Using a Duo 2300c with 7.6.1: I recently acquired an ethernet microdock and experienced freezes whenever I attempted sustained file transfers (downloads in iCab, over FTP, or using AppleShare) though...

I didn't realize this was possible, because I didn't know that the MiniDock had extra VRAM inside. Here is my Duo 2300c, with 48MB of RAM, a 1GB CompactFlash card, MiniDock, 8.6 (soon to be 8.1 or 7.6 for speed), running through a VGA adapter into a modern LCD at 800x600. You can see in the...

8-) Thanks for the info! That's kinda what I figured but your explanation behind it closes the case.