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So my TinkerBOY ADB-to-USB adapter just arrived. I prefer it to the Drakware which I also recently purchased for two reasons. First, the Drakware needs an extra microUSB-to-USB cable and second, it's a little bulkier. Both work well though, if you're yearning to use a decent quality Apple...

Here's some from the atxg4 site: http://atxg4.com/mdd.html If I ever do this, I'll jig it up and heat shrink for tidiness (and because I'm OCD, likely wire in a voltage up converter to get a proper 28V feed).

Seems like only recently I acquired a G5 dual 2.3Ghz. As fun as that has been to get running with an SSD and upgrade to 16GB RAM and an x1900GT, I really wanted a machine capable of booting OS9 natively. So was lucky enough to pick up a G4 MDD (1Ghz single core) with 2GB of RAM, a 120GB...

Update: the x1900 arrived and successfully flashed - although I had to dig out an old Win XP era machine running BIOS rather than UEFI to get the atiflash program to work. Runs great, but the fans spin full speed all the time, so I'll probably wire in a controller at some stage. Fiddled with a...

Bit late to the party - but yes, someone is! https://www.ebay.com/itm/143542889309?hash=item216bd2ab5d:g:GQIAAOSwXMZejMBU

Ordered 16GB (8x2GB sticks) of DDR2-533 RAM from ebay, which arrived promptly. Put it in, and unfortunately it looks as though a pair of the RAM slots is bad, as 'only' 12GB registers. I've had my suspicions of this as the existing sticks of RAM I had (4 X 1GB) also didn't all show up when in...

Picked up a G5 Dual Core 2.3Ghz Powermac at auction for $30 NZD (that's around $20 of your American dollars): https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/specs/powermac_g5_dual_2.3.html I wasn't expecting to win it, but felt bad that the starting bid was only $20 with a few minutes to run on...

Loooong time no post, but just to add my thanks for the instructions on this thread and JDW's youtube video. Had my brother come and stay and so the ol' Mac SE/30 got fired up for some retro games .... she mostly worked, but often nothing at all would happen when the power switch was flicked...

One of my work colleagues is retiring soon and very kindly gave me his old work/lab Macs as we had got to talking and he wanted them to come to a good new home :) All of the pieces are in great working condition, and have been in use for much of the time since they were new, as far as I can...

 Unfortunately, because I swapped out the whole assembly, I don't know this. It may have been the button (although mechanically it seems hard for it to fail) or the cable, as there was a small damaged looking section of it, although it was on a differerent trace from the button mechanism.

Actually, that's probably correct, as I had previously swapped the active TFT screen from a 1400c onto the 1400cs "body", which means that it was the 1400c body (the donor of the top case in this recent transplant operation) which indeed has two PRAM batteries. I wonder why the change from one...

OK - both problems are solved. I soldered up a replacement PRAM battery from two new VL2330's and that is working nicely. And using the donor machine's top half i.e. trackpad & button, I now have a fully working 1400c again. Well, except for the dead main battery pack of course - that's...

Couple of quick questions / errors on my SE/30 running Sytem 6.0.8. 1) Is there anyway to get Macintalk working on this machine? I really want to play Capn' Magneto and Strategic Conquest, both of which need Macintalk to sound their best. I understand the SE/30 used a different sound hardware...

As per the topic title, I fired up my Powerbook 1400c for the first time in a few months and discovered that the mouse button now longer wanted to work. Trackpad works fine though. As per the Apple service manual for the 1400, I tried resetting the PMU/PRAM, to no effect. So I've stripped it...

You've never run Sheepshaver or Basilisk on a modern PC/laptop ? :)