Recent content by zerobotman

when did they switch to the white logo?

looks like a knockoff manufactured to look like an apple product and likely sold as a "macbook upgrade tool." I doubt it has any actual link to apple but it's something useful so it's no big deal.

I'm going to draw a chick on it when I figure how to get the ovals positioned correctly.

I've recently been looking into cheep displays for various projects including retro computing and i came across the TVout library for the arduino. it looks pretty promising so far. I am finding that these car TVs are getting dirt cheep now (probably because they are getting replaced with phones...

Just think. Wherever you got them from, they were side by side almost 30 years ago in the factory.

Recapping is a pretty straight forward task unless there is severe trace damage. if you want to practice then pick up a bunch of 90s boomboxes, alarm clocks and the like that you know work and practice swapping out the components and seeing if it still works as well as troubleshooting if it...

Its more for making better use of your hardware because you often need to have "in between" computers or crossover cables (to modern internet enabled pcs) which also kind of defeats the feel of going solo on floppies. That being said $79 + shipping at the sale price is still a pretty steep...

I can attest to the SE superdrive being a good choice. even if the HD is dead it still has the ability to boot from a 1.44 or 800 floppy, it's a very versatile machine!

I was looking at the link below and and thinking it might be hackable for classic macs. my only concern would be the possible need for the driver cd. also the fact that it's for PC instead of mac but I wouldn't doubt there could be some pin mods for that...

Oh he's talking about the clear plastic film that the keys make contact with. Ya that's a tough fix. This may also be a long shot but if you find out which company manufactured it, if it was contracted out, then you may be able to find more available keyboards that use the same membrane. other...

I ocasionally repair broken traces on boards. usually my method is to connect the things disconnected by broken traces with hookup wire such as if a pin from an ic has a broken trace between it and something I'll just run a wire to that other thing. this usually works but can get messy...

You could install KDE and make it look very mac like. Depending on how gnome has depreciated their ppc support, they too could be used to make it "mac like"

cool. i'm probably going to pick one up regardless. $20 isnt' so bad and who can resist the "SCREECH SCRATCH" sound of an old printer.

Thanks for all the replies. I just installed pc exchange meaning I now have the ability to read disks formatted for the PC! good things will follow...

Sounds good! on another note I just updated the system to system 7.1 and installed pcexchange. it now reads all pc floppies making the exchange of info possible!