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Doesn't really remind me of tunnel vision.  It seems very "digital" whereas tunnel vision is more "analog".  This is just a perfectly clean-edged square of blankness.  Plus it's a passive matrix, I didn't think those were susceptible to that.  I don't know much about these kinds of displays, but...

Update: Finally found a disk to put in the enclosure that it agrees to boot from, so I can at least get Mac OS installed.  Other issues still stand... noticed that if the screen is in the yellow state pictured above, it'll persist after the machine is shut off, then fade away.  I don't like the...

Alright... finally got an AC adapter.  Looks like this adventure isn't over yet, though-- yet more problems await. Firstly, I guess the screen got damaged in transit or something.  The top right corner of the screen has a rectangular spot that's totally blank.  I thought it might be loose or...

Right.  Was just saying that if those values differ it could hop over 19.  Either way, now it's just (another) waiting game until the adapter arrives...

Looks like I might as well.  I just found one of them (APS-17adp) for under ten bucks so I ordered it.  We'll see if I get sent the right thing or if the listing was a lie (feeling a bit pessimistic today).

Apple's site seems to say otherwise, that any adapter >19W will fry the system: https://support.apple.com/kb/TA32393?locale=en_US So I've been doing the math and trying to find something that isn't too high.  Also I thought more amps is bad for electronics, but voltage is okay because of the...

So I grabbed a Powerbook 150, which I've been interested in due to it still being a very late BW/Trackball Powerbook with an IDE drive.  I knew going in it had hinge problems, so I thought since it was going to get tossed anyway, I might as well see if I could take drastic measures to fix it. ...

You can use HFV Explorer to write to Mac formatted disks in Windows.  Clunky old app but it's always worked okay for me.

Macintosh Garden is basically the only place to go these days... so it sounds like a USB floppy drive is in order.  Or even better, if you can get one, a LocalTalk to Ethernet bridge.  Then you can use the serial ports on your old machines with AppleShare to transfer files >1.44MB.  (Slowly.)

I'd say practice soldering / recapping using random wires, dead motherboards and the like, that's how I started not too long ago.  A year down the road, though, I don't think I'm ready for doing my own recapping on machines I care about.  My biggest project yet was modding an early Amiga 500 to...

Add the Quadra 650 to that too. When I was testing my board, hooked to a VGA monitor via adapter, I was getting the green tint but it fixed itself while booting from a 7.6 disc.

Also a possibility I suppose. Caps look fine at first glance but of course that means nothing. Replacing is outside of my skill at the moment and sending it off for a recap would be outside my budget for now, so I guess this project will just have to be shelved for the time being. Damn, I've...

I'm not running with any SIMMs installed, just the 8MB onboard. But I'm going to see if I can get TechTool running to test it. Hope it's not the onboard memory or I could be in trouble! EDIT: I couldn't find a download of TechTool that was either bootable or would let me make a boot disk, but...

I just got a Quadra 650 board in, which is currently fitted with a 68LC040, and I've got it up and running. I'm trying to install Mac OS on the original drive, a 160MB IBM drive. Unfortunately, every time I run a program that accesses the disk outside of the file system, like Disk Setup, Apple...

Ah, no 8-bit operation would make sense. Shame too, cause that drive is actually extremely quiet for a 10K/3.5" drive. I've been reading up on these eServer drives I picked up, and they're apparently renamed Ultrastar 146Z10 drives. Can't find anywhere that specifically states 8-bit...

I'm aware. I figured at $5 it was worth a try since the 2.5" variant seems to work. I'm afraid not, because I suck at precision work and it's expensive to ship out. Not that I have noticed any other problems in the 5 years I have had this machine, so if the caps are on the way out, they are...

Well, received the terminator today. Unfortunately, it makes no difference. Also, a few days ago, there was a guy on my local Craigslist selling 4 IBM eServer 3.5" U320 SCA drives for $5, so I picked them up figuring that since they were close to the 2.5" ones that uniserver endorses, they...

Alright, I'll start with the terminator and see what happens and if it doesn't work out I'll move on to trying to land one of those drives, but if neither works out that'll have to be it. My budget is going to run out if I make any more mistakes. At least as a backup I could probably set up a...

So it seems it's likely this drive just isn't backwards compatible. Okay. I'll get a U160 drive and... figure out something to do with this one. At least it was only 10 bucks. :p Is this one likely to work? Ultra160, IBM eServer. Isn't 2.5" or U320 like uniserver endorses, but I don't...

I guess I assumed that leaving the hard drive or CD drive in would terminate it, especially since the CD drive (AppleCD 300 Plus) appears to have a jumper in the "Term Power" spot. However that may mean something totally different as the similarly labelled "TPR" jumper on the adapter doesn't...