Super pleased. I think all of my Macs are booting and working now. Need to solder in a new resistor on the analogue board of the Mac SE but for the most part, everything is working!
So, my childhood Mac LC had 2MB SIMMs and I finally upgraded it to the max memory config from 6MB to 10MB. (Upgraded the VRAM while I was at it) - just great.
But given the rarity of 2MB SIMMs (for example instead of the popular 1 or 4MB sizes), should I trade to someone who might actually care...
Word of warning mind you regarding that TDK power supply - please verify pinouts and power requirements of any application or possible replacement before taking advice off of a casual commenter on the Internet!
Huh, it seems that there's a ready-made replacement G4 power supply that people can just buy without fiddling with making their own cables:
TDK DTM165PW280C. (28v, 165w with right connector) Seems to have the right connector, appropriate voltage and power pinout, and is in stock in various...
Hi there -
Maybe you're seeing this because you got a Powerbook or Clamshell iBook without power supply.
After verifying that it's possible to DIY build a power supply with a 3.5mm plug and a 330k resistor, I decided to seek out a moderately priced solution that wouldn't power down if I...
So taking a look at the notes of previous experimenters, I went ahead and bought a Mean Well LRS-350-24 voltage-adjustable power supply and butchered one of my LaCie power supply bricks that had the right power connector. Carefully testing and retesting the pinouts for the G4, of the donor...
I'm finding some exciting interest in this device and the price seems reasonable on eBay. Was anyone successful in getting a modern firmware, and does it work across a variety of Macintosh video-out formats?
Thinking in terms of the built-in video of the Quadra 700, PowerMac 8500/8600...
The drive heads could be stuck and that's generally a pretty easy fix. I had a similar Conner hard drive - if you're careful and take the torx screwdriver to open up the top in a relatively dust-free environment, then plug it in and power it up, you may see that the head is stuck. You can see...
Definitely worth giving the logic board a bath. Some people get testy about boards going in the dishwasher, but I've been very pleased with dishwasher results (please no soap or other dishes) . Scrape that orange barcode sticker (if you feel the need to keep it) in the board corner off if you do...
Searched all over the forums and can't seem to find where the actual speaker diameter for the Mac SE case is. I don't have any calipers or my Mac SE on me, so, I'm having to ask the community (and hopefully help whoever might ask the same question in the future).
Is it 60mm? 55mm? I have no...
Gang,
Everyone likes to talk about how the SE/30 can go to 128MB of RAM and is a wonderful flexible machine with the Mac ROMinator II, etc.
But has anyone tried putting those 16MB SIMMs into the two-slot Classic II logic board? Pushing it to 34MB of RAM would be cool.
If it's a ROM...
If they're willing to let you open up the case (long Torx screwdriver, four screws, pretty easy to open up) and inspect the logic boards, then you can determine whether they're worth it or not.
If the battery exploded and leaked all over the board corroding the circuit traces, it's game over...
I know it's late, but SE/30 (and other Macs using 30 pin memory!) does not care about parity or non-parity memory and often parity memory can be had reasonably cheaply.
I bought this and was very pleased at the quality, warranty, and price...
Whoa, well done! Was thinking "hey! My work is done!" but I think you were going the other way around and also using the smaller form factor PLCC pinout rather than the SE/30 44-pin PLCC to the SE 28 pinster.
Thanks for confirming my theory of swap-eration!
See that adapter? Think about it as a little bit of inspiration.
So, the SWIM chip as we all know is an upgrade to earlier Macintosh SE machines that were equipped with 800k drives and was once an upgrade option for users who want to read and write 1.44MB floppy drives.
I'm now an owner of a...