Recent content by billymade

Well, based upon my current experience; of going through (2) floppy drives and successfully getting them to work again.... I would say give it a shot! What do you have to lose? If you do not clean and lubricate the drive; you will never know, if it will work.  

The floppy drives; DO need lubrication. I just cleaned mine with the electrical contact cleaner, assuming that would be good enough and it still had the problems! It wasn't until AFTER I lubricated both of them and worked in the grease, installing/uninstalling a floppy disc many, many, times...

I found this problem; on many of my macs, that were in storage. When I tried to use recently; I got all kinds of similar errors to what you experienced. These were of different generations of floppy drives; Quadra 700, Power Macintosh G3/300 tower, etc. I found; when I cleaned, lubricated the...

You might start; by looking up the specs, on lowendmac.com and everymac.com. At the time; they were using 603e PowerPC processors, so they were similar to the Apple Performa line of computers. If you end up needing major parts; like motherboards or daughter cards, they might be hard to find, as...

Why not; have the mobo repaired/rebuilt? The member; techknight seems to have a high success rate and you might ask if he is willing to tackle the job!  :beige:  There is nothing more annoying; than having one of the baddest Macs ever made; sit in the corner, broken!  [ :( !] If you are going...

Old Macworld magazine; article about 'mezz cards, that came out:  http://www.macworld.com/article/1014902/imacboards.html Micro Conversions is gone but Formac; still has a website?  http://www.zdnet.com/article/micro-conversions-shuts-shop/ http://www.formac.com/en/index.html

I just used these two products this week with great success; I am hoping the synthetic grease will not get hardened up over time and work in a superior way (not deteriorate like lithium grease). The CRC electronic cleaner; doesn't hurt plastics and it is great to clean switches and sticky...

Maybe everyone; should figure out, what type of adapters they would want and contact these guys. See, the feasibility of the project and how much, they would charge?  http://www.cablestogo.com/custom-cables

Wow, with that spec, restoration quality and upgrades; you could sell these restored macs online! :)