Recent content by neonachronism

Thank you stepleton! "NON PHYSICAL FILE NAMES" was where I first learned about this, and misinterpreted it the first time. When I re-read it, it seems obvious that the display vs underlying file naming facility is not an OS/filesystem ability.

Hi all, I recently read in [0] that Lisa allows multiple files to have identical paths, with there being an underlying unique identifier for each file. I've been wondering how this works from a syscall perspective. Granted, the vast majority of software would be written against Toolbox, which...

I recapped the power supply, and with a bit of adjustment, got 5.01v and 11.93v.  9/10 startups, I get nothing, but once after ~10 seconds, I get a raster for a second or two (with a mouse cursor!), followed by the zigzag pattern. No bong regardless.  I guess the option of replacing the power...

Good find, thanks! I'll recap it, and if that doesn't do it, replace it. At this point I've looked at bits and pieces of this guy's videos, but it seems like I really need to watch them through.

I've been checking at the external floppy port, and I usually get a very steady readings close to 5v (just now, it was 4.98v). Once or twice, the fan wouldn't spin, and I got reading closer to ~2.25v. When that happened, I usually pulled one of CR2/CR3/Q2/R22/R19 to test them, and when I put...

I tried resoldering P1 again; it didn't seem to help.  Here are some pictures of the yoke - anything look out of place? I only cleaned the yoke with air, out of fear of damaging any coating that might be on the windings, but I do also have contact cleaner - might that help? If the yoke...

Thanks for the info! I was always planning to recap both boards, but I was going to wait to do the logic board until I had video. I guess I'll move it up the priority list (although still I have to do some more practicing first). Hmm, and I guess I should do the power supply too. I finished the...

That makes a lot of sense - I was a little confused why there was what looked like a ceramic capacitor mixed in. Thank you very much!  Oh, and thanks for the pointer to the spare boards - I'll probably pick one up just for spares.

Hmm, I think that's on purpose: cap kit I got specified  Could this be a problem? I can try it the other way (it didn't indicate how it should be installed). Edit: No change with it flipped - click, spinning fan, no display.

Hi, I recently got an SE/30 from and have been attempting to restore it. When I first powered it on, it seemed to be working fine. Then, after maybe ~20 minutes, it crashed. After that, it would crash within a minute of starting up, and the display had all kinds of strange issues (mainly...