Recent content by volvo242gt

If it turns out that the board is bad, try to get a Penryn board to install in place of the Santa Rosa board. The processors run MUCH cooler, as mentioned about 12 years ago, when I upgraded a Dell D830 from the old T7500 processor to a T9500 processor. I know Cory didn't believe it, but the...

Is the cable connected properly? I'd double check the cable where it attaches to the board. Might not be all the way inserted. Will it boot off a drive in a USB case?

It actually would, since the LED would be shining through the floppy opening. Since the OP is planning to get rid of the broken hard drive, I suspect they will use one of the 3D printed brackets that go in place of the expansion slot cover, which nullifies the need for the hard drive bracket...

Since your hard drive has been damaged, I'd be tempted to get the parts to add a second floppy, then mount an LED to the second drive, so it'll light up the slot when the SE is accessing the BlueSCSI. That way, you'll have two floppy drives and an SSD.

For the most part, yes. Newest intel-based MacBook is the Air from 2020. So, six years old.

Install a large enough drive, and you can tripleboot... Am doing that with the A1286. 10.9.5 on one partition, 10.13.6 on another, and 10.15.8 on the third. 10.9 is used for Photoshop and most of my stuff. 10.13 for phone syncing, and 10.15 for when/if I need something somewhat modern.

Plug 'n Pray...

They're all considered white or black unibody MacBooks, at least, according to everymac.com. So, A1181 or A1342 works. The MacBook in-name-only 12" machines don't count.

If it's DOS 3.3 based, you may be better off picking up an ImageWriter II and a SuperSerial card to print the data off, then scan it into a more modern system. If the disk is ProDOS formatted, you can use Copy II Plus and copy it to an 800K floppy, which then can be inserted into any originally...

Mine originally was a 4,1 but the processor tray in it came from an actual 5,1 machine, so I wound up replacing the logic board with a 5,1 board. No longer runs the fans in MDD G4 mode. @treellama locate the Firefox Dynasty 145.0 dmg and use that with your 6,1 for when you need to get online...

Have my mid-2012 A1286 set up to triple boot Catalina, High Sierra, and Mavericks. I probably would update the Mavericks install to 10.10, 10.11, or 10.12, but I don't want to potentially break my working copy of Photoshop CS4 that I originally installed on the mid-2010 A1286 I got from mcdermd...

My A1289 is my daily driver... With the Dynasty build of Firefox, it works with 99% of websites currently online, even though I'm still using 10.9.5 as the main OS.

Or, the gif image showing the kid who needs to pee badly with "Loading..." underneath.

There are some still out there... Might need to check Farcebook Marketplace and CL, though. @Phipli I bet you could adapt the guts of a 7600 to a beige G3 desktop case... Might have a hole where the personality card was located, but the ports should line up and the PS should drop in place.

I would also look at the logic board on both machines, if other cards are not showing up either. The 74ALS240 that's next to C16 controls the Nubus slots. If that capacitor has leaked, it will corrode the pins on the chip, turning the computer into essentially a LC III that can run System 6...