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  1. Nixontheknight

    Color Classic logic board C8 capacitor question

    if the color classic works without it, it's probably just a capacitor between one of the voltage rails and ground to make sure it isn't below a certain nominal voltage
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    ASTEC power supply.

    have they been recapped?
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    128K Screen saver ?

    yeah you'd have to upgrade it to at least 512k to use AfterDark/DarkSide
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    Fixing broken OpenTransport on 8.1?

    any time
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    PowerBook battery capacity wrong

    if the capacity is reported wrong, then the battery's cooked. Solution is to either replace the cells of the battery, which are just 18650s, or buy a new battery if soldering batteries scares you
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    Fixing broken OpenTransport on 8.1?

    just delete the offending extensions, and use the "custom install" mode on the Mac OS 8.1 installer. I had to do something like this on my LC III
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    Plus keyboard doesn't work?

    make sure the cable isn't a regular phone cable, otherwise you have an expensive keyboard shaped paperweight
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    Daniël's PowerPC BGA chip swaps

    best guess, it's probably a spacer for the chip
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    Will a modern Mac (Studio running MacOS 14.5) read a Mac 1.44 floppy?

    it should be able to if it's formatted in HFS, if it's formatted in MFS, it will not read it
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    Daniël's PowerPC BGA chip swaps

    They're probably FPGAs or CPLDs, so I imagine some LSI voodoo to make the 64-bit bus of the CPU work with the 32-bit bus of the motherboard
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    TOPS Emulation?

    Do you mean the PenLite?
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    A thread for RackMacs

    ah that makes sense, sorry about that
  13. Nixontheknight

    Apple LaserWriter 16/600 hard drive upgrade

    a hard drive and RAM in a printer? That's interesting
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    A thread for RackMacs

    *12V, it's a PicoATX connected to a mAcTX LC, the PicoATX derives all its voltages off of 12V DC
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    A thread for RackMacs

    That'd be appreciated
  16. Nixontheknight

    A thread for RackMacs

    Absolutely amazing work on this! I wish this was a commercial product as a replacement case for LCs!
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    Macintosh Classic II no boot

    yes, recapping it would be strongly recommended
  18. Nixontheknight

    Looking for beta testers

    I don't have the first things, but would an Arduino Uno work as a good AVR programer?
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    Startup key combinations

    command-option-shift-delete + number of SCSI device you want to boot. EDIT: hold that as you turn it on
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    Pulling files off of an SE to reuse

    this may be survivorship bias, but barely any zip drives failed after the "Click Of Death" scare
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