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A few years ago I recapped a AV14 monitor and it was working flawlessly. I put it on a shelf for a while. I decided to break it out again today and use it and it no longer seems to work. When I first turned it on I got a loud, normal degauss. When the Mac booted I heard high voltage start...

I have 2 Apple CD300 drives that refuse to read discs. For diagnostic purposes I can swap in a known-good recapped controller board and the drive will take the disc, seem to spin up, then eject it. Since I can rule out the controller as the culprit, what else might be bad on these drives...

Has anyone found a replacement flyback transformer for these Macs?

I think it's an LC PDS to IIci cache/accelerator adapter, based on casual searching. Can anyone confirm that? Any details?

Were the PowerMac 5260s known for flyback transformer failures? I've seen comments about that but it looks like many of the discussions of the topic are lost to time. I'd appreciate any information you may have. (The 5260s are the Macs with the slightly smaller CRTs and distinct from the rest...

Hi all. I recently recapped a Mac SE's analog board and am having some trouble with it. When I turn the Mac there is no bong and the CRT lights up with a garbled display. After a few seconds the CRT will begin to dim. I tried adjusting the brightness knob at this time to see what would...

Does anyone happen to know if the entire range of G3 CPUs are pin-compatible with one another? In other words, can a 750FX (Sahara G3) be soldered onto a CPU card in place of an original G3 (Arthur)?  I know that the G4s are surprisingly interchangeable and I am hoping that the G3s are as well.

It looks like paint.  I hope that there is some way I can remove it without ruining the case plastic.

In "Classic Mac Repair Notes" it suggests replacing C1 with a special arrangement: Does anyone have a picture of what this looks like?  It's hard for me to visualize.  

Hi folks. As you all know many of the existing color IW II ribbons are unusable because the foam rollers have deteriorated.  I find it a bit sad that the IW II can't be used for color printing anymore.   I was looking around and I found an interesting Chinese site...

I am researching old (pre-OS X) Mac viruses, the older the better.  I've found references to quite a few historic documents that speak about their methods of infection (INIT hooks and such) and their triggers but I would like to be able to find actual copies of some of them for analysis.  Does...

When I was in school I was in a group of "advanced" kids who were allowed to do extra stuff on the computers in the computer lab.  This also meant that we could meet in the computer lab and work on stuff instead of sit through certain classes on days when there was only busy work.  I know what...

Hi all, What is the max drive/volume size for A/UX? I expect that there will be limitations on the Mac partition and boot partition but can there be larger "storage" volumes? Any special considerations? Thanks

In the late 90s there were many fruit iMac-inspired color products and accessories. Some came in a couple colors from the factory (like the Handspring Visors) and some had swappable covers (like the Epson 740i). I am looking around for some "matching" items for fruit colored iMacs but most of...

A few years ago I was lucky enough to buy a NIB 850AV monitor from a parts dealer on eBay. The video and sound from this monitor are both truly spectacular with one little issue: there is a dark/discolored spot at the bottom-right of the screen. Degaussing using the built-in setting doesn't...

I need some advice from the A/UX masters. I've found an awesome use for my WGS95 and A/UX ... as a fileserver and bridge machine for my the classic Mac network I am finally building out. I do have a few questions though. The old Macs will be on a LocalTalk network (ranging from PhoneNet to...

What software (other than Retrospect and some A/UX stuff) can take advantage of tape drives on an old Mac? (This includes the Apple Tape Backup 40SC and the tape drives built into the WGS systems.)

Sorry if this has already been covered, but ... Which is faster? The High Performance Video PDS card or a NuBus video card? If NuBus is faster, what level of QuickDraw acceleration will overtake the HPV card? I realize that the HPV card is just a super-fast frame-buffer with dedicated VRAM...

Hi all, I am helping a friend with his iMac G4 and have run into some trouble. It had the stock hard disk which was failing, so I removed it and replaced it with a 250 GB drive. Now that the machine is all re-assembled I can't get it to attempt to boot. I press the power button and get a...

Does anyone have experience with/recommendations for barcode scanners that work with Mac OS?