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Does anyone know how to disassemble Apple 678-0136 (Panasonic CR-585-B) ATAPI CD-ROM drive? Its controller board probably needs recapping. But I'd also like to take a closer look at the ICs and eventually dump the firmware. I suspect that the PCB is held by the tray motor - see those fat...

Hi crews, does anyone have high-resolution pictures (3000 px and higher) of the Power Macintosh 7200 motherboard ready to share? I'm thinking about providing annotated photos for various Power Macintosh logic boards. Annotations should help to identify various (AS)ICs as well as the existing...

TL;DR Did someone who owns a Beige G3 managed to connect a DDC capable monitor to the built-in video card? Long story: I'm currently writing an emulator for the onboard video (ATI Rage Pro) meant to be integrated in the new PowerPC Macintosh emulator called DingusPPC. While analyzing the way...

Hello everyone, I'm currently working on a Power Macintosh emulation project called DingusPPC. Our current goal is to create a virtual software model of the Gossamer HW, that is, an emulator of the Power Macintosh G3. I need high-resolution pictures of the Beige G3 logic board (Desktop or...

Hello crews, I hope to find someone here who has a working PowerBook/iBook G3/G4 running Mac OS 9.x and who could help me with the hibernation feature in pre-OS X Mac OS. Mac OS 9 does support system hibernation like OS X does ("Safe Sleep"). It seems to work on laptops only - I wasn't able to...

Hello crews, yesterday I turned on my Power Mac 6100 and noticed that the floppy drive has suddenly stopped working. Last month, it was fully functional - I could read, write and format floppies just fine. I've disassembled the computer, reseat the cables and checked for the presence of all...

Hello crews, yesterday I turned on my Power Mac 6100 and noticed that the floppy drive has suddenly stopped working. Last month, it was fully functional - I could read, write and format floppies just fine. I've disassembled the computer, reseat the cables and checked for the presence of all...