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I've been working on this on and off for the past few days. I thought the ribbon motor might be stuck, so I removed it and it appears to be in good condition and the shaft spins freely on it. It does not move when the printer is in operation, which is clearly why the color is not working as...

Thank you for this! With your tip I was able to do some more troubleshooting. The button was a little mushy, so I replaced it with an on/off switch I can trip manually. Unfortunately, what I found out was that the mechanism that raises and lowers the cartridge doesn't appear to be working...

I've got an ImageWriter II that I just got a fresh MacEffects color cartridge for. The printer has printed with no issues on black cartridges for as long as I've had it. I've never had a color cartridge before, and I believe it to be installed correctly. The problem is the self-test, and in...

This is really cool. Looking forward to seeing it progress!

I was actually thinking of something like a custom telnet/BBS interface that uses the IP.Board API on the backend.

I may be stirring the pot here a bit, but do any of you access this forum from your classic Macs?  With all of the recent discussion about more modern web browsing, I was curious if anyone's ever considered building something like a telnet interface to this site.

Thanks everyone! I opened it up last night and put 4 of the original 1MB SIMMs in Bank B and it started up immediately. My hope was to only use the new SIMMs since they are 60ns vs the 80ns originals, but I can always max it out at 128 later if I want.

Just bought 4x16MB SIMMs from OWC, whose SIMMs I understand to be compatible with the SE/30.  Filled bank A -- no RAM in bank B.  Powered on and got chimes of death and vertical bars on the screen.  I had the board cleaned and recapped several months ago and all of the slots look pristine. The...

Thanks -- I've cast enough doubt on the s-video switch to not try it.  Wound up at a LEM page about the Dr. Bott MoniSwitch device: http://lowendmac.com/1998/moniswitch-adb-a-kvm-for-adb-macs/ Dr. Bott looks like it is still in business but they only reseller they list doesn't appear to ship...

I'm looking for a way to switch a single ADB keyboard/mouse between a couple of Macs and a IIGS.  Is this a thing? I was looking on eBay and found this s-video switch.  Any reason something like this wouldn't work (accepting of course to NOT switch the devices while anything is on)...

That's the Apple Joystick II, isn't it?  IIRC this is a DB9 connector normally.  I think you're right, this isn't compatible with the Mac.

I got my logic board back from Uniserver and I no longer get those bus error bombs I was getting before!  Does anyone have any recommendations for an SE/30 web browser?  MacWeb seems to never finish loading a page and iCab just hangs after it starts rendering.  I'm inclined to think it's not a...

Thanks for the info! I guess these are probably rare, then?

Is the IIe card something you could plug the floppy emulator up to? http://www.bigmessowires.com/floppy-emu/