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    Help with a Performa 630

    Hi danny Sorry for the late response. That’s good that the issue is not the pram. I guess we will have to keep on thinking. Thanks
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    Help with a Performa 630

    Hi Danny, Sadly not much progress. I have heard that it might not output video with a dead PRAM. Is this true? My PRAM is dead so that might be the issue. Good to see that you are better now and hopefully we can fix my performa now. Thanks
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    Recapped Analog Board Macintosh Plus Stuck at the First Screen

    Hi there, Did you get any video before the recap?
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    Help with a Performa 630

    Hi Danny. Hope you feel better. Thanks for that I wonder if that might have a play in the issue of it. Did your performa turn back on? If not then let’s try to fix that. Thanks.
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    Help With Java/Python/Jython Not Having Sufficient Permissions

    Hi there, Hopefully this new approach will work out better. What you can probably do is define the different files at the start and then use a random number generator to pick the file and then repeat that in the file to randomly pick the quote. As I am assuming you are able to access the...
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    Help With Java/Python/Jython Not Having Sufficient Permissions

    Hi there, Can I just verify that you can access all of the files that are in the texts folder? You were saying that it could be to do with length so if you make a new file in the directory can you access it?
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    Help With Java/Python/Jython Not Having Sufficient Permissions

    Hi there, Are you able to access the other things in the folder?
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    Help with a Performa 630

    Hi Danny, Did you get the readings. Sorry if I come off as impatient. Thanks
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    Help With Java/Python/Jython Not Having Sufficient Permissions

    You could do that. Is the quotes txt in the same folder as the py file.
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    Help With Java/Python/Jython Not Having Sufficient Permissions

    Hello, What I was trying to do was see if jython could run on Mac OS X because you were having an issue with running jython in the latest version of Mac OS. But as you are running a custom version of jython then running on anything other than the custom version then It won’t work at all so that...
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    Help With Java/Python/Jython Not Having Sufficient Permissions

    Hi there, As I have already mentioned I am not to aware of jython but like you said the issue is probably the old version of python/jython. Could you use qemu to emulate Mac OS 10.3 or something that will support these old versions of python I can test this if you wish to help save the time. I...
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    Help with a Performa 630

    Hi Danny Thanks for all this. Always happy to wait. Thanks
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    Help With Java/Python/Jython Not Having Sufficient Permissions

    Hi there, I don’t have tons of experience in jython but I might be able to give you a bit of help with getting your app to launch. Something I would test If it is not to much hassle for you is try to run it under Mac OS X you can launch a virtual machine with Mac OS X and try to run it. If you...
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    G4 Cube with no picture

    Hi there, Just wondering if you fixed this? Thanks.
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    Help with a Performa 630

    Hi Danny? (I think that is your name from your account) I measured the voltage on the hard drive and it is fine. It seems that the computer is booting up and is in the operating system. Could you do some checks on your db 15 connector for me because I am thinking that there is something wrong...
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    Help with a Performa 630

    Hi there, I will try this tomorrow morning and measure the voltage. If it dead then I will see if I can find this kit and recap the board. It’s unrelated but as for the iMac g3 the reason that you won’t have seem the connector is that the slot loading iMac g3 has a completely different logic...
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    Help with a Performa 630

    Hi there, Thanks for the quick response. I do get a boot chime and I can hear the hard drive spinning and being read. After a while I have found that the sound buttons work so I think that it has booted up into macOS. Also the fan does spin when I connect it to an external power source. With...
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    Help with a Performa 630

    Hi there, I am trying to fix a performa 630 that has no video. It turns on and it sounds like it is booting up but there is nothing on the screen. I am using an adapter to convert it to vga but I have tried it with a known working tray loading iMac g3 crt. I disassembled the computer and I...
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