Recent content by sircabulon

I will have to try the benchmark. I got 7.1 installed and loaded up TattleTech and saw that it was running at 8Mhz still. I will also inspect the board to see if there are any broken joints or leaky caps or something. I wish I could find some more documentation on it to know what exactly I am...

I got the computer and it actually booted but had lines on the screen. After disassembly, I found the battery had burst and there is some corrosion, but it looks repairable. After it dries we will see what cleaning yields.

thanks, i am going to take the $150 gamble and aee where we get. i have always wanted to do a frankenmac!

I have a dead IIcx and a working IIci. I found a Centris 650 online, but the case is destroyed. The pictures show the power light on - is that enough to determine if it has been battery bombed or not?

https://www.bigmessowires.com/2015/04/13/changing-the-macintosh-start-up-sound/

I am also interested in this. Have you reached out to BMOW?

My father passed away in May of 2020. My mother has finally started to clean out some of his old things including the PowerMac G4 he used for his business. I now work a career in IT, but this computer was the first one I was ever paid to repair, and being my fathers, it also held an incredible...

That link to the macintoshgarden is useful. It had a detail that the other places I have read did not about updating the firmware and not needing anything in the system folder. I tried to load up TattleTech, but it won't run on anything below system 6. I will take another look at this...

So I was able to get the memory replaced and got to the ? disk. The hard drive on this computer is kaput, so I have my zuluscsi in it now. The Brainstorm ROM appears to load and v1.2 displays, but the old hard drive had the accelerator on it. I was able to rip an image from my Mac Classic to...

I was looking for a replacement Mobius Speedster that was in my Dad's old IICX and found that MicroMac's website is still up. Does anyone know if they are still around or will my order form just go into a black hole of identity theft?

I am definitely interested!

Yes, there is a PDS card that has a motorola 68k chip on it, but I also noticed the crystal oscillator is close to 16Mhz and there is a brainstorm chip in a brown socket as well. I am not sure how reversible it is.

A friend of mine gifted his late father's Macintosh SE FD/HD. I tried power it on and got error codes of 0000000E and 000002FF and was able to determine two issues. One was a bad RAM stick, and the other was a missing jumper on the motherboard. I have now gotten the friendly beep and...

do you have the latest powerlogix software? Mine lets me go higher than that chip is rated for, so I don't see why it wouldn't do that with a 900 too.

I find that whenever trying to force a component into a computer it is better to use a rubber mallot instead of a hammer. These are less likely to break the parts 8D