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Amen on the 2 chip chips in an SE/30. I’ve seen instability problems as a result.

A Quadra 650 should be 33mhz. The Centris ran at 25.

I think what you are talking about here can partly be done by running a machine with Apple Internet Router + Apple IP Gateway. These networking products from the late 68k era worked together very nicely. Other options from years back were the proper, full version of ShareWay IP, or to some...

How do you manage to do that, software-wise?

It used to be conventional advice that a CC sometimes needs to be plugged in (with a logic board installed) for a few hours in order to boot up. That advice was given 10-15 years back, at any rate; what time and tide has since further degraded may make it redundant, but if I were you, I’d begin...

Stupid question, but needed at this point: You do have the ROM installed in its slot, do you? Lots of old machines have been cannibalized for parts.

That would depend on how much storage I needed, but if the goal were just to NetBoot some Apple II machines, and maybe some light duty as a source for basic installers and such, I’d go for something low powered that could run everything from a RAM disk, and otherwise spin down the hard drive to...

Just to add to an excellent suggestion: the “Erase all data” in the previous post means to reset to how the machine came from the factory, rather than to blank everything out. NewtonWorks et al will still be on there. Also, don’t interrupt the device if and when the erase starts!

On the CD bezel question, I recall having trouble with mine also. It was maybe four years ago, but as I recall, the bezel from an 8500 would not fit the Q800, and I went back to using the original blank (I have some external scsi drives, so that was no special bother). The machine was...

I have had several passive-matrix 100 series PowerBooks pass through my hands over the past few years. All have needed the screen recapped, i.e., all showed the symptoms described, and all came back to life after the screen was recapped. I did the recaps myself. I am no expert with a soldering...

Why the best Mac ever?

I would try to be quite sure that there isn’t a small scrap of paper, like a corner of a page, stuck somewhere in the mechanism. What you describe is how the LaserWriters of my acquaintance, like the 4/600, are apt to behave when a little piece of torn paper gets left behind after a paper jam...

You could also try “Rubber Renue” or an automotive rubber reconditioner on the rollers. This has worked for me on old laser printers with paper feed trouble.

Yes, of course. The one you have has its advantages — above all the ability to use the 601 card as well. On the cache question, you will know more than me, given your background. My understanding is that the cache holds data and instructions just outside the CPU so that it does not need to be...

Interesting stuff. Some time back I searched in vain for what must have been years for an 040 PDS cache card. In the end I came up with a Daystar Quad 040 PDS card (40mhz and I think 128k on said card), where there have been no stability implications at all running in a Q650, or before that, in...

Would X.3 Server work, does anyone know?

The Micromac product included an adapter board (soldered onto the new logic board), which converted the edge connector. So what you are talking about is not a simple DIY solution. I happen to have the Micromac upgrade pictured. It is destined for eBay, as my LC575 fell to pieces, I was moving...