Recent content by beachycove

I can’t speak to complex component failure, which looks likely given talk of ticking. However, here’s hoping for something much simpler! 1. How long has it been left plugged in? The CC was known even 15 years ago to have a frequent oddity which entailed that it sometimes needs to be left...

AFAIK, the SW2200 is a serial printer, not a LocalTalk printer. There was a Farallon iPrint for serial printers and one for LocalTalk printers. The manual linked in the previous post suggests that the Apple-branded version was for LocalTalk (LT to EtherTalk bridging), so maybe this is the trouble?

Copland, completed.

I have to say that because machines are so often scrapped (bad plastics, hinges, old, slow, whatever), using a parts machine for parts seems to me to be a perfectly sane strategy at this stage; for the collector, it is simply giving the old machine a use. Don’t want to use your second 170? Buy a...

On.

Sounds like a bad battery, though having said that, I do vaguely recall needing to plug/ unplug/ quickly plug in again to get the replacement battery to charge properly, after which it has worked flawlessly. That must be 5-6 years back, but it’s still going strong. I’ve always assumed the...

Well, you need to install some networking software. Or check to see if the relevant bits have been deactivated in your systems.

Obvious question: You have set networking to the right ports?

Phht, adespoton…. Sure I used to try to pedal my bike to turn a dynamo to run my Classic to keep up with my pals, who had fast Macs AND actual mains electricity. Occasionally, lightning would strike and I could even see what was going on on the Classic! Otherwise, I’d never have known that I had...

Sounds like a HD issue to me. Are Master/Slave settings still okay? Maybe your original drive was Master and got removed?

There are two versions of ASD for the G5s. Do you have the right one?

And thus inspired, I dug the machine out and discovered a loose video cable during disassembly, which I did to replace the charge board and backup battery. These were parts put together (made a backup battery and replaced caps on the board) before a cross-country move four years ago that I had...

266MHz G3 PowerBook with that look is the Wallstreetiest Wallstreet that ever walked on Wall Street.

I think the Wallstreet had the best of all the PB keyboards, including the Pismo, which people normally rave about. I used my machine for years and years, but it developed some problems with the screen, it got put away, and haven’t yet fixed the old gal. I ought to get it working again.