Recent content by jdmoser

Ahh yes, I forgot to mention! My model is the 14" ... really sharp looking display! Good to know about the hard drive. I suspected that would be an easy swap.

I just acquired a 14" PowerBook G3 233 MHz (Wallstreet) as an alternative to my Beige G3 tower for making floppies for my older Macs. It's a beauty for sure ( picture! http://i.imgur.com/ArTwpmQ.jpg) ... it's in excellent shape. Just thought I would share it, but if there's any advice on how to...

That seems to have done it, thank you :) Yeah, I wasn't getting anywhere with the normal Command+Option+P+R method.

Yesterday I replaced the PRAM battery in my Power Macintosh G3, which I thought would be a quick procedure, but it's turned into a whole new issue. The machine chimes and I can hear the hard drive churning as it loads OS 9. After the hard drive stops, I can press the power button, at which point...

Some unfortunate news on the floppy drive... in the process of determining what was wrong with it, I figured the eject motor was stuck. The gears on it weren't moving at all. Anyway, after some fiddling around with that I tried testing the drive again and something on it burnt out. Not a lot of...

Nope, it doesn't do anything nor does it make any sound like it's trying to do something. The read/write head moves up, which I assume is part of the unmounting process, but that's it. You wouldn't even know it was trying to eject, haha. Also, I checked out the PSU. It's definitely Astec but I...

That's good to know, thanks! I know very little about the LCs, I've only just become interested in the model. I guess while I'm here talking about it I may as well add... the floppy drive works great, the auto inject works, but it doesn't like to software eject. I don't think it's a mechanism...

Well, I kind of "solved" the problem... I have two HP 2011x monitors hooked up to my main computer here, and I tried one of them with the LC III and it works just fine. No pink. The reason I didn't try this earlier, even though I should have, is that I assumed if my older LCD didn't work...

I've just played around with the connection as best I can, wiggled everything, still no luck. There's no leakage of capacitors or the PRAM battery, the board looks excellent.

I recently acquired an LC III that's in very good condition. Unfortunately, I don't own a vintage Apple CRT so I don't know if I'm experiencing a problem or if I just have a slightly incompatible monitor. As you can see here the video display is pinkish: http://i.imgur.com/QrO8YuD.jpg I'm using...

Hmm, I'm surprised I didn't think of this but I do remember reading about lubricating 400k floppy drives: http://www.vintagemacworld.com/400kflop.html I don't have lubricant at the moment, but I suspect this might solve my problem. Feel free to either ignore, or confirm this for me if you've...

I have an external Apple floppy drive, model M0130. It doesn't take any disks I try to feed into it. Any given disk will only go so far. Here's a picture of its internals: http://i.imgur.com/3lKgwaD.jpg As you can see from the top middle part of the photo, the disk goes in as far as it can. No...

And that's definitely what I appreciate the older Macs for. The first time I ever used OS X was on a B&W back in 2006. Got a new MacBook in 2007, and this year I grabbed a Mac Mini. So I never particularly feel the need to experiment with OS X on older machines. For all its differences and...

Mmhmm! That's what I've also been finding it very useful for. I've got a few compact Macs, so it's nice to be able to download software and be able to throw it on a floppy all on the same machine for use on those computers. I've been making do with a USB floppy drive until now, which worked...

I picked up this beauty for only $20 back on Sunday: http://i.imgur.com/BdubkMc.jpg I got it from the original owner, even got the original receipt. It was purchased in 1998 for nearly $4000 (the tower, including monitor and other accessories). With it I also got the original software packages...