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  1. ObeyDaleks

    Cache Slot G3 Upgrade - weird reboot?

    Hey all. I recently acquired an Interware Booster "6454" (G3 400Mhz/1MB) for my new PM5500. It works great and provides about 4 times the performance over the original 250Mhz 603e. The weird thing is, when you first boot the machine, it gets to the part when it starts loading extensions, but...
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    PM 5500 External SCSI Woes

    Hi all, I'm experiencing a weird issue. When I plug in a my BlueSCSI DB25 drive to the external SCSI connector, the machine hangs on boot. Happy chime, but no icon, just a mouse pointer. I have 2 logic boards actually, one from the PM5500, which is completely recapped and one from a 6500...
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    PM 8500 + G3 = video artifacts

    Hey folks, I recently grabbed a MAXPower G3 500Mhz card for my MP 8500 to replace my 400Mhz Sonnet (cuz why not? :)). The issue I'm facing is that when I drag windows around etc, they leave little outlines and dots around. The menu bars also have some color distortion that gets worse any time...
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    Same board - different coating?

    Does anybody know why Apple used different solder mask coating variations for the same boards? I've seen that on multiple boards. For example, I have 2 identical LC II boards, one is glossy "bright green", the other is matte "muted yellowish green". I saw the same with other boards such as PM...
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    Mac SE - Accelerating an accelerator

    Hi. I've been experimenting with my Mac SE accelerators, and apparently you can upgrade at least some of them. I haven't tried any others, but I was able to bump the speed on my Novy ImagePro by replacing the processor, FPU, and the crystal oscillator (from 25Mhz to 33Mhz). This was...
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    Emac - switching power supply?

    Hey folks. Trying to buy an Emac on Facebook but the seller says imported and runs on 230v. Apparently it says 230v on the bottom. I would think it has a switching power supply so the writing doesn’t matter and it should work in the USA??
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    Thunder IV GX - What am I missing?

    Hey y’all. I am having problems getting QuickDraw acceleration to work on a Radius Thunder GX IV. The card works fine, but it appears that the QuickDraw acceleration is always off. I got the QuickColor 3.3 control panel which appears to have an option to enable/disable the acceleration, but...
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    MicroMac MultiSpeed speed upgrade?

    Hi. Does anybody know if the 16Mhz MicroMac MultiSpeed accelerator can be upgraded to a faster version? Looks like they came in 16, 25, and 32Mhz versions. Does anybody know if it would be just a straight crystal/CPU swap? Or is there more to it than that? I assume the 25Mhz version...
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    Mac II + Turbo 040 help

    Hi. Today I tried to get my Turbo 040 working in my OG Mac II. I get a happy chime, then nothing. No video, no drives searching, nothing. Not sure where to go from here. I tried reseating the adapter, and swapping ram. I assume happy chime means the processor checks out? Any advice on...
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    Macintosh II RAM confusion

    Hello, I recently acquired a pristine condition Macintosh II with a Rev A board. Upon inspection, it has both the SuperDrive upgrade (ROMs and SWIM) as well as the PMMU upgrade. It also already has a SuperDrive installed. The machine currently only has 5mb RAM installed, so I’d like to bump...
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