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    Interesting Mac Classic Upgrade to 4 MB without using RAM expansion card

    Yesterday on Adrian’s Digital Basement YouTube channel, he demonstrated how to upgrade the memory on a Mac Classic without using the RAM expansion board and memory modules. Adrian said this upgrade has never been done before, and involved removing two chips from the logic board, installing some...
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    CD disc switcher for ZuluSCSI?

    About two weeks ago, BlueSCSI released their CD Switcher program which is described by “This utility allows you eject and insert another CD. Place up to 100 images in a folder called CD3 (where 3 is the SCSI ID you wish to use) on the root of your SD card. When clicking “Switch” it will eject...
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    Overclocking Centris 610

    On Adrian’s Digital Basement YouTube channel, he recapped a Centris 610 about a week ago and today he posted a video on how he overclocked a Centris 610 just using parts he salvaged from other boards Very interesting. He also added a crystal to the Ethernet circuit, so it worked after...
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    System 7 Force Quit?

    How do you Force Quit in System 7.6.1? My Apple keyboard has no Escape key, just a big power key at the top of the keyboard.
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    Revive SCSI drive?

    I have two Quantum LPS SCSI drives from about 1994 that spin, but don’t seek. One was fully working last week. Any suggestions on how to fix?
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    Battery recell service

    I would like to get my blue iBook G3 battery recelled - it’s completely dead. Google turned up no results. I’m in the US
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    iBook G4 repair

    My recently acquired iBook G4 12 inch 1.33 GHz usually boots OK, but sometimes fails. Apple Hardware Test reports built-in memory test failed - both the quick test and extended test. There are 8 memory chips on this board - 4 on the top and 4 on the bottom. The memory chips are in stock at...
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    iBook G4 downgrade from 10.5.8 to 10.4.11

    I just received a 2005 12 inch iBook G4 1.33 GHz thru eBay. The machine is in very good condition, but has 10.5.8 installed along with a admin account and unknown password. 10.5.8 seems to boot more slowly on this machine than my iBook G3 700 MHz machine. Can I just boot off the universal 10.4...
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    TwinTurbo 128-3D won't switch resolutions

    I'm using my SuperMac600 with G3/220 upgrade, iXMicro TwinTurbo 128-3D and a Voodoo 2 1000 card. I ran Quake 1 in 3Dfx mode today at 800 x 600 - ran fine. I quit the game and the screen went blank. I had to power off. I've since tried rebooting a few times and confirmed the only resolutions that...
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    Recap Giga Designs G4 Uprade

    Has anyone had success recapping a Giga Designs G4 upgrade? My 1.4 GHz G4 upgade had leaking capacitors after about 7 years, so I pulled it and put it on the shelf.
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    Can a SuperMac C600 read/write 800K disks?

    I have an old install set for System 6.0.5 on (4) 800K disks. I'm trying to verify if the disks are still readable. My SuperMac C600 (upgraded with a G3) is running OS8.6 and it gives an error message reading or formatting 800K disks. I don't remember if this computer could ever read 800K disks...
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    Centris 660AV doesn't boot from HD

    I decided to startup my 660AV that been sitting unused for about 9 years. No video. I checked the PRAM battery and found it was reading 1.4V, so I installed a new 3.6V 1/2 AA Lithium and the computer booted up and ran for about 2 hours off the original 230MB drive. For some reason, the 730MB...
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    Wireless USB Adapter works with G3 iBook

    Just thought I'd let everyone know that I had success using a Trendnet TEW-424UB 802.11b/g wireless adapter with my 700 MHz G3 iBook running OSX 10.4.11. I had to find a substitute for the original 802.11b Airport card, since the Airport card doesn't work with WPA2 encryption. OSX drivers are...
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    G4 DA repair

    I got 3 kernel panics in the past two days on my upgraded 533 MHz G4 DA Mac- not a good sign. The computer turned 10 years old last month. I backed-up the important files and opened up the computer today. After removing the dust, I found 1 exploded cap on the GigaDesigns 1.33 GHz G4 upgrade...
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    Just installed new games on my 520C

    I booted-up the old PB 520c last night - still working fine (except for the 5 minute battery life). I cracked open a copy of Mac Attack, which I bought at a clearance sale for $2.99 from Electronics Boutique sometime around 1997 and had a blast. Also installed Star Trek 25th Anniversary edition...
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    Capacitor replacement on iMac G5

    My wife's iMac G5 started running warmer than normal (75C to 80C) and the fan started getting noisy. So I opened it up for the 3rd cleaning and noticed all the bulging capacitors! I knew about the Apple recall, but when I checked the caps 18 months ago they still were normal looking. The machine...
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    Modified Apple Airport Express

    Click on the link below to see what happens when an Atari 1030 (300 baud) modem is combined with an Apple Airport Express with a bad power supply. The end result is a strange looking wireless router/streaming client/print server [:)] ]'> http://homepage.mac.com/nblood/PhotoAlbum16.html...
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    MP3 Playback is poor on a 520C

    I spent some time yesterday setting up streaming MP3 playback (M3U) on my PowerBook 520C - 25 MHz 68LC040 with 20 MB RAM and System 7.6 and http://www.jwgdesign.com/mpegdec/ It DID work, though the sound quality was poor trying to playback 192k MP3 files and MpegDec 3.1.1 probably used up about...
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