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  1. Elfen

    Biggest Laptop PATA/IDE Drive?

    Not wanting to switch to a SATA with a PATA Converter due to space limitations on my PowerBook G4, what is the biggest PATA Drive I can get for it? My Old PowerBook G4's 60GB Hd has been maxed out and I'm looking for something that is over 120GB.
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    USB on PB1400 or Others? USB Through PCMCIA...

    Has anyone tried getting USB on a PB 1400, 3400, G3-Wallstreet, et al using a USB-PCMCIA card and either OS 8 or 9? Didn't the Original B/W G3s with USB ran some later version of OS8 (8.6)? Thus, if it is possible to get USB on an older PowerBook like a 1400, can it access thumb drives? I know...
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    Elfen's Rescued Macs

    A couple of years ago it was a Classic II I found in the trash, and after a recap, it works except for low audio. Today, I found a HP Pavillion DV6 (an i7 core!) Laptop and a Mac G4 Mini. Both were apart and hard drives taken. I think I got all the screws and bits and pieces for them. The HP...
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    Symptom: Runaway LC Fan, Bong, Nothing Else

    This one is interesting as I just ran into a few minutes ago as of this post. Turn on LC III, it "Bongs!", and nothing else. No Video, no nothing. Strangely, though I did not notice it at first, the fan is howling at a high speed. This was an LC III I recapped last year with Tantalum Caps that...
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    Multiple FPUs in LC's?

    I have a LC III and an LC II, and as you know, they have an empty FPU socket on them. It would be nice to put in an FPU in them, right? You know it. But I also have a couple of LC Ethernet Cards with an empty FPU Socket on them as well. Actually, of the 3 cards I got, 2 have a FPU in them...
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    LC Squealing Continues After Recap and Several Washes

    I would never call another member's work as shoddy or terrible. In fact this LC board's recap was done better than what I could have in comparing it to those I did. And I praised him for it, he does great work. Sorry Uniserver, it's not you. I'm talking about CompuNerd. But this LC board still...
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    How many VRAM SIMMs does the LC 475 need?

    Simple question. The LC 475 has 2 VRAM SIMM Sockets, so does it need both to be filled for its video to work or can it work with just one? All the other LCs only need one as they have one SIMM but the LC 475 has two.
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    CF As A HD

    This comment in the Q630 PATA thread and past threads on the forum made me think... Floofies, on 15 Jan 2016 - 2:34 PM, said: Thus I am creating this this. Many of us here have used Compact Flash (aka CF) and other forms of Solid State Drives (aka SSD) as storage media for our hard drive...
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    Need Software for a 3MB Apple II+

    Looking for my Apple II Tech Manuals, I found an old box from Apple labeled "Apple IIgs Memory Expansion Card." It gives the IIgs 1MB of RAM. Nice right? But that was not in the box. Instead, besides bits and pieces, there were 3 complete Apple II/II+/IIe RAM Expansion cards. Two are RAMFACTOR...
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    Hack Apple + Raspberry Pi = Apple II Pi?

    Anyone seen this and/or tried it out? It's a board that goes into the Apple II Slot to add a Raspberry Pi to it, done around 2013.... What is Apple II Pi? http://schmenk.is-a-geek.com/wordpress/?p=167 Apple II Pi Board: http://schmenk.is-a-geek.com/wordpress/?p=151 Apple II Pi System...
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    Which Was The Best Compact Mac Made?

    By posting this inflammatory thread I know the flames will rage high! So let it burn! Ha! Lets throw hats and chew the fat, discuss about experiences and techno-babble, and explain why it is to you. I surmise that the SE\30 will rank high, though it is not without its problems: Recapping and...
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    R-Pi Emulation of 68K Macs

    With the advent of the Quad Core R-Pi 2 and the $5 R-Pi:0, emulating a 68K Mac should be improved on this hardware. So, in asking, what do you prefer: Sheepshaver, Balisk, something else? Compile your own or prepackaged like on RetroPie or Chameleon Pi? Which Model: A, A+, B, B+, Pi 2, Pi 0...
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    PowerBook G4 12in boots to Blue Screen and then nothing.

    This one is stumping me. A friend's PowerBook would not boot, kept crashing on spinning "sundail" so my friend told me to format it and install a new system on it. I did. Nothing. It goes to boot as if it were trying to boot but then dies at a blue screen at the end of the boot process before...
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    Another Squealing LC?

    This is an LC I bought as part of a deal because one of the ROMs was dead and would not boot. I recently got a new set of ROMs, put it in, and "BONG!" It's alive again! But it is squealing from the speaker, which is a sign of it needing a recapping job. But this LC was recapped, but I am using...
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    Splinder Plastic in Q950? In Need Of Cosmetic Surgery.

    Along with my PM6500, I pulled out my Q950 out of storage. I lucked out, the battery did not explode. But first thing I noticed was that the logic board was not in place properly. In looking about, there were more broken plastic pieces in the case. Removing the board, and cleaning it up of the...
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    Hard Drive Problem in PM6500/250 - "Internal error has occurred"

    Today I pulled out my 6500/250 along with my Q950 from storage, I thought it was a 9600. Shame on me. The logic board is covered in dust do I'll vacuum it later today. But it boots. PRAM Battery is dead so I need to find one of those pig-tailed square ones that is velcro'd to the logic board...
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    Cables and Software Cloning a Hard Drive...

    Though I recently did this on a MacBook Pro with FireWire, this can be (and has been) done on a G3 and G4 iBooks & PowerBooks. It also works on Desktop Macs with FireWire. Situation: A friend and Mac Repair client, a lady in her 90s, is going blind (Macular degeneration), so I set up a...
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    How to clean up and safely remove corrosion from a circuit board

    Thanks to a generous heart here at the forum, I'm getting a IIsi board to replace the one with the death chimes. If he wants to let himself know, that's up to him but I greatly appreciate it a lot. But back to this board, before the recap it was dead, does not turn on, nothing. It's "twin" I...
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    Mac IIsi recap 1/2 Successful

    Just finished a recap on the other Mac IIsi I have. Almost there but not quite. Power supply turned on and clicked for a while. Eventually the PSU got it little's head straight and finally gave me a "Bong!" Followed by the chimes of death. I'm going to recheck the recapping job and see if...
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    Mac IIsi Recap Success

    It's Alive! Well, not exactly, but it was successful. Washed the board, dried it with my heated air pencil, and did each capacitor one at a time. GOD WHAT A HEADACHE!  Took 2 hours! But in checking and rechecking, I found no rotted traces. NONE! What Luck! I did find that several caps were...
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