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  1. 360alaska

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

    I saw that, here are the instructions also: How to modify the Mac Classic for 4mb onboard as seen on Adrian's Digital Basement ** Remove two chips: Remove UL1 CAS PAL (no longer needed!) Remove UH6 74LS174 (no longer needed!) ** Modify system to think it has 4MB on the motherboard: Pin 13...
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    25,000mAh PowerBook 1xx battery

    This is the design I sell: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/lithium-polymer-battery-for-pb100-and-maybe-portable.3584/page-3
  3. 360alaska

    Designing a Mac-to-VGA monitor sync-splitter adapter

    Maybe you can make it hdmi and also some breakout pins to connect it to compact mac composite video?
  4. 360alaska

    So, I bought a portable…

    It will start, even with the original power supply, the problem is the power manager can get confused, resetting it helps. It's also easy to install a battery, boot and remove it, you can shut it down and as long as it doesn't loose power it will still boot so maybe a small cap across the...
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    So, I bought a portable…

    I did some experimenting, and here's what I noticed: When I used with a battery installed, it kicked off at 2A, but that dropped down to 1.5A pretty fast. Without the battery? It started at 0.5A and quickly went down to 0.35A. I've got a SCSI2SD inside. If you throw in a regular hard drive...
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    So, I bought a portable…

    In theory it should be less, most of the power draw was to charge a discharged battery.
  7. 360alaska

    So, I bought a portable…

    Recently, I hooked one of my portables to a lab supply capable of giving 10 amps, it only pulled 1.6 amps. With that being said, it did have a battery in it, but the battery was somewhat depleted. Maybe I should try without and see what the current draw is.
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    Mac-to-VGA monitor adapter struggles

    From what I remember, you must set it to: MultiSync 14" 13"-16" 3,4,6,8 On for Macintosh LC
  9. 360alaska

    SE/30 and Macintosh Portable Schematics

    If you look here: https://web.archive.org/web/20130820134155/http://www.bomarc.org/catalogsmenu.php I don't have: APPLE M5409/M5416 POWERBOOK 170/140 I also don't have a bomarc se/30 and it would be nice to have the power supply stuff...
  10. 360alaska

    SE/30 and Macintosh Portable Schematics

    Do you have the ones I'm missing?
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    SE/30 and Macintosh Portable Schematics

    Here is my collection: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_Xp3uN-BcxsQjFLRUZqeEw2VFE?resourcekey=0-1ojJug-esVphyu8ycY8BPA&usp=sharing
  12. 360alaska

    LC 630 DOS + OS 8.1 = PC SETUP will not load

    Same for me, could only get it to work with 7.6, maybe the mac os 8 iso has info in the readme?
  13. 360alaska

    Powerbook 100 Schematic or Test Point Chart? tldr ;-)

    Honestly, if you wash it and recap 9/10 times it will work again.
  14. 360alaska

    Interchangable flybacks? Mac Plus and Mac Classic

    Pretty sure they are the same if you have a REV 1 classic analog Board, rev 2 analog board have a square looking unit.
  15. 360alaska

    Calling anyone with a working Color Classic and a Multimeter

    Both of my Color Classics have 575 Boards, but I offer you a community sourced schematic: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gB029UsD3JoRYssmSmX2rUhhPEoVPhed/view?usp=sharing
  16. 360alaska

    Integrated Tashtari Machine: Floppy Drive Emulator

    Not bad, especially for Mac II or SE with a spare internal floppy port.
  17. 360alaska

    Portable Hybrid: Looking for 3 US testers

    If you have one more I got a portable that might need it, it was turning on after a recap and now is not for whatever reason.
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