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Awesome - thanks Superjer. Much appreciated.    All the CR20 equivalents seem to have two leads coming out of the bottom, but the one on the motherboard looks like it only has one — am I looking at the wrong parts? Sorry for the questions. Very new to electronics. 

Oh, and I've discovered I don't have a good platinum Mac Plus keyboard. So, two questions: 1. Does anyone have a link to fixing space bars on these things?  2. Would anyone (probably in Australia) be interested in swapping a platinum for a beige Plus keyboard or 128/512 keyboard?

I've managed to get mine to talk to a G4 server but never to the internet, so I don't have any particular insights for you. Possibly some useful information at MacGUI.

Thought I'd use my week off to sort out a few of my compacts. There are a few: SE FDHD SE SE with RasterOps 020 and video card SE/30x3 2x beige Plus (both filled with mud) 2x platinum Plus (one filled with mud) 2 x 512 1 x 512ed 1 x "512" with a Mac Plus motherboard shoved in (Mutant)...

No dice, unfortunately. The cable has continuity on every wire. 

Thanks Superjer — I’ll give the cable a go. Might be lucky. 

Hi all I have a week's leave, so I'm going through my collection of compacts working out what works and what doesn't. I have a nice 512 (M0001ED) which, when switched on, makes what I think is the noise Larry Pina describes as "flup flup flup". No sign I can spot of leaky capacitors. For what...

Some random guy on Gumtree (local classifieds). Just struck it super lucky, really. 

I got the original Dark Castle working on my PB170 under system 6. I think it's multifinder that gets it more than anything, so the Quadra won't be any good. Once I get my Iici back up and running I'll try it out.  That said, it didn't fill the screen on the 170 - just a window. The labyrinth...

Mwahahaha! Three heads are better than one. Also let’s me drag SimCity 2000 onto a black and white screen, which...does not work well.

No, one’s off the internal and one’s off a nubus video card. I’m going to install a second nubus card and run a three-headed monster, I think. Showed my 2.5yo daughter Prince of Persia in greyscale and she loved it. Then I showed her in colour and stepped into one of the choppers. Oops. 

Finally got around to the double-portrait Quadra last night to finish my job application. Pretty sweet, but the Quadra 700 internal video won’t run it happily in other than 256 colours/greys. If B/W the pixels flicker like it’s got an animated CLUT table. 

That was nice while it lasted. Went out to the garage to finish writing my job application (on a 30-year-old computer without a backup...) and was greeted with this: Now I assume this is a problem with the ribbon cable that links the display to the interconnect board, and while I have some...

Ah. It’s a wonderful feeling, the first time you hear the right noises from a new conquest. Congratulations, and welcome back (from another on again, off again contributor.)

Does it give you a code on the screen (assuming there's anything legible on the screen)?

Worth the price of admission

Right. Well, it’s been a while, but today I learned that you can put System 6 on a PowerBook 170. So I did, immediately. It flies! It’s like having a portable IIci.    More tomorrow. 

I think it's the gunked-up roller that's the issue rather than the separation belt itself, which looks to be intact. Stripping the whole thing down, cleaning it thoroughly, and treating or replacing the rubber rollers everywhere is in order. Hopefully the problem with Appletalk is the cable...

Further on the LaserWriter — might be some liquification of rollers: Service manual tells me this is called the “Transfer Guide Assy”, but I’m pretty sure I’m going to need to take the whole thing apart and clean everything. 

Well, it does not work with the ThunderScan power from the floppy drive widget. "Yeah it works" eBay question answer my arse. Ah well. Back to the hunt.  Installation program is interesting: Also a 16GB SD card in a SCSI2SD, apparently.