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Quick question for anyone that has upgraded their 2400c internal hard drive to a Compact Flash adapter. Did you have to do anything to help secure it to the logic board, or just letting the IDE connection carry all the weight? The 2400c board only has the screw holes at the far end, none towards...

Torn on which OS to put onto a 5300ce. While 8.6 can run on it, are any features over 8.1 worth the performance trade off?  It’s too slow for Classilla to be significantly usable. Current specs are near stock, including 1.2 (?) GB hard drive and 800*600 LCD. However, it does have the RAM at...

Hi all, I bought a 15” Apple Studio Display, model M7613. It’s one of the early flat panel displays that matches the early PowerMac G4 plastics (think 350mhz G4, AGP graphics model, and maybe the digital audio model?), with a DVI and USB connector, and 1024*768 resolution. At any rate, the LCD...

A different type of conquest today. I managed to successfully pack and ship a Macintosh TV from Arizona to New York and it arrived safe and sound, in one piece. With everyone’s experiences shipping LC 5xx based systems, I was extremely hesitant. In the end, I went with the following: Heavy...

Lucked out and picked up a PowerBook 5300ce from my local Craigslist earlier today.  The price was nice, at a fair $50.  The RAM is maxed at 64mb, and the original 1.1 gb hard drive seems to work okay.  The battery tries to charge but just gets incredibly toasty.  No corrosion whatsoever, so...

Is it possible to use a 32GB microsd card in a 5.0b SCSI2SD and have it appear as one ~32GB drive under Mac OS 8.1 PPC? i have a spare SD card left over from an rPi upgrade. Normally I just use 8gb sd cards and partition them into 2gb sections. But it would be nice to have one big disk if possible.

I have a Color Classic CRT that suffered some magnetic damage in shipping.  Does anyone have any tips for degaussing the CRT after heavy magnetic damage?  I have tried using the transformer from a NES console plugged into an extension cord.  While I am doing the swirls in front of the screen the...

Does anyone know the name of the software that added the pair of eyes that follow the mouse to the menubar?  Was popular around System 6/7 era.

After years of waiting I finally got around to getting a 32-bit clean ROM SIMM for my SE/30 (I believe it is from a IIsi). The real conquest is that I now have Mac OS 8.1 running smoothly on my SE/30 8-)

I have an SE/30 with a Daystar Powercache installed (the 40mhz 030 board that replaces the stock socketed CPU). Wheb I run the Apple Personal Diagnostics Logic Board Test, it tells me the Video RAM test failed. However, the image looks fine on the computer screen. The only video issues I’ve...

I’m restoring a Macintosh Plus to 1mb of RAM. The resistor at R8 is completely gone and I need to replace it. Does anyone know what the correct value for that resistor is? Or can I just use a piece of wire?

Want to watch movies in 720p on your higher end G4 without maxing the CPU? Good, there is a way! All of this is referenced on a 20” iMac G4 1.25ghz w/ 2GB RAM running OS X 10.5.8. CPU usage for the playback runs right around 50% utilization. Based on that, playback is using up ~625mhz of the...

Hi, A while back I acquired a Power Macintosh 61xx series machine.  Along with it came the MkLinux book by Rich Morin.  In this book, two CDs: MkLinux DR 2.1 and MkLinux DR 3. Has anyone here tried using MkLinux on their system?  Any point to doing so, or best to just stick with Mac OS 8.1...

Hi Everyone, Attempting my first recap job. After cleaning and recapping, I start up the computer (with the back access door removed).  Loud chimes, happy mac, 7.5.5 begins to boot :) HOWEVER around 30 seconds later one of the capacitors begins smoking and is glowing bright orange.  I...

I picked up a Macintosh TV locally. Turns on but it definitely needs a bit of work. I reached out to Trag to see if he carries caps for the logic board and tuner card. I washed the board, but already some corrosion on a few of the chips near some caps. Seems to run okay, and sound is...

Trying to bring an old Lisa back to life. Widget hard drive shows advanced signs of corrosion. Everything else looks okay over all, especially the motherboard, cpu, IO, and two RAM cards. I opened up the power supply, vacuumed it clean. Looks okay, no excessive cap bulging. I don't have a...

Entire system worked fine last weekend. Went to upgrade the main Macintosh RAM Simms from 8mb modules to 32mb modules (to bring total to 72). Upon restart, PC Card would no longer start up. Just a black screen. I tried reseating it's RAM Simm (16mb), and when I restarted I still had the same...

Battery in subject line is soldered to logic board of my SE. Still at 2.99 volts out of advertised 3 volts on label. Cut it off or leave it attached? I'm leaving towards cut it off since it is so old.

Picked up a G3 minitower server today. Have a couple questions. First, it came with two hard drives installed, one ide and one ultrawide scsi. The 4gb ultrawide scsi drive appears dead. Worth replacing with another SCSI drive, or better to replace that accompanying SCSI PCI card to an ATA/133...

Hi, To adjust the screen width of a compact Mac, you need a plastic hex tool (as the adjustment at L2 is a ferrite core, etc etc). I want to order the tool, however I can't find what size the tool is.  Hex tools are usually measured in mm or fractions of an inch. Does anyone know the correct...