Recent content by reodraca

Keyboard ended up being bad. Liquid damage, corroded traces and rusted switches. Mouse switch is physically busted internally, which is why it wasn't working. Replacements work great, so thankfully not the logic board. Thanks for the suggestions.

I just acquired a Mac 128k today, complete with original keyboard and mouse. The Mac works great, but the keyboard has an issue where single types don't generate characters, pressing and holding works half the time but generates too many characters, and capital letters barely work. The mouse...

As I understand it, OT requires a 68030. It seems a shame that a fully loaded Mac II with a 68851 and 20 MB of RAM would fall short of the requirements. I've always found MacTCP to be a hassle to set up, and I enjoy the automatic DHCP OT provides. Anyone here ever get OT to work on a 68020?

The RAM in my Mac II is the RAM it came with, save for the 4 MB in bank A. Originally, it was sold to me as a 2 MB machine. Reason being bank A had 1 MB of RAM installed. I swapped that bank with the 4 MB from my Mac SE and the computer suddenly recognized 8 MB of RAM. After installing a 68851...

I installed the 68851 and put MODE32 on the system for the hell of it, even though the system had what I assumed was 8 MB. Turns out it has 20. It seems stable.

I'm installing the 68851, so I'm wondering if that's enough for more than 8 MB. Does it also require the FDHD kit?

Thanks, I'll definitely look into that in the future. In the meantime, I found a mirror of the old download.info.apple.com on Apple Fritter, so I found the images there.

I downloaded Mac OS 7.5.3 from Macintosh Garden, and it's in a zip file. I tried unpacking it with StuffIt 5.5, ZipIt, and MacZip. With each method, I was unable to mount the images in Disk Copy 6.1.3. I couldn't drag the images onto the Disk Copy window, and when I tried to use the Image menu...

It worked for me. I assume it worked because it's the the same as connecting an external SCSI device with a terminator, which also solved my problem. Good to know that the 6th jumper position would also fix the issue as well, though.

I wish what you said were true, but I have the same problem with this particular drive, and it has Apple firmware.

I ran into the same problem with my identical IBM drive and my LC III. If you still haven't gotten your issue sorted, I'm about to try doing so. I'm going to be using a 25-to-50 pin external SCSI adapter in the back of my Mac, along with a 50 pin terminator like you'd find on the back of an...

After watching videos, I had assumed using flux was a given. When I buy an iron and solder, I'd also be buying flux. Thanks for the reminder, though.

Thank you. I really hope there's continuity, because as someone who's just about to learn soldering, I am definitely not prepared to run wires on the back of the board to replace the trace.

Yeah, about to buy that multimeter.

Would you say these traces under the batteries are shot?