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    Troubleshooting a IIsi

    Alright, here's what we got: A IIsi that won't show video. Have a real mac monitor, so we can take away all the hubub about getting a vga monitor to work. Only shows a black screen. I know there's a system on it because I put the drive in my quadra. Everything with the hard disk is fine. I...
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    Mac Monitor for $5!

    Liberated an Apple Multiple Scan 15av display today. Got it from the thrift store downtown, and it works perfectly. There was a tag on the end of the cable labeled 'tower.' Asked if they had the tower that goes with the monitor. No dice. Manufactured Sept. 96, so odds are very good that I...
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    CD Burner for my quadra?

    Well, that's good to hear. Also found a copy of Toast 4.2. Awesome.
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    CD Burner for my quadra?

    I'm just wondering if they exist. It sure would speed up my protools sessions. I'm running 7.6.1, Quadra 700, 68Megs ram. Did one exist? Is the burner software even usable?
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    Mac Plus Speaker Cabinet

    What size speaker did you use for that? 6"? There's no way an 8" would fit... Now I need to do this.
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    Now this is interesting... PCI to NuBus.

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290249907010 I did not know this was possible, and is relevant to my interests.
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    More pallets tomorrow

    Holy Crap! If you're getting rid of a 14" CRT, pm me...
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    Houdini card troubles - installing DOS?

    I'm answering my own question here, but it appears I need DOS drivers for the houdini card. From some website: So I guess I'm off to the apple archives to search for that.
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    Houdini card troubles - installing DOS?

    Well, I picked up a second monitor at a yardsale yesterday, and I figured, "I should break out the PC card to use with this!" I got it working, thank god, all the fade screens and stuff, but I can't install DOS or Win95. All I get when I put a disk in is the 'Non-System use disk' or something...
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    Q700 with a black screen on startup.

    well, i didn't want to do it, but I did. and now it works. joy. The brute-force method of figuring out DIP switches. I tried them all. I would have done all 1024 different combinations, but it worked at 0001100011. so does anybody want to figure out how many cominations I tried? I think it was...
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    Q700 with a black screen on startup.

    Well, I played with the DIP switches today. And it's what's going on with the monitor that's weird. Now the monitor is fine, it works with my macbook, but the quadra... Normally, when the monitor doesn't recieve a signal over VGA, it switches over to the DVI input of macbook. But it doesn't...
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    Q700 with a black screen on startup.

    No, no old apple display. Just an old Dell LCD :'( I got on ebay and for about $3, I got a Mac -> VGA adapter withouth the DIP switches. So we'll see how it works then.
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    Q700 with a black screen on startup.

    Exactly what the title says. The machine boots into the OS, and I know because I can eject a floppy with openapple-E. So everything is fine with the SOFTWARE.... Here's what I've done... Zapped the pram made sure the battery has 3.5 volts checked the video cable reseated the ram and vram...
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