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I'm hitting my head against the wall on this one. The system boots (firm bong), but the screen only displays a half horizontal line (photo below). I have replaced all the usual suspects on the AB (brown caps) and voltages are OK (5 and 12V right on the money). I checked the H and V sweep...

Awesome, thanks marcelv. I didn't not expect to make such rapid progress in so little time. I updated the photo accordingly. If you could double check the names, that would be great. I will reach out to some of these people, if I can contact them, to try and fill in the blanks. Thanks again !

As I was pulling another Mac Classic from my collection to repair, I noticed a faint writing on it. Upon further inspection, here is what I found (photo attached). I usually start my repairs with a thorough clean of the case, but I think I'll leave this charming graffiti. I might even retr0brite...

I was recently in contact with one of the early engineers on the Mac team and we discussed the Easter Egg on the Mac SE (set of 4 images that flash on the screen after typing "G 41D89A" in debugger mode). I asked him if he could identify some of the people on them, and he knew two of them. In...

Thanks chu-oh. I'll give it a try too.

Just bought a G4 iBook from Craigslist for $25, running 10.4.11, Will pick it up tomorrow. So I should be all set. Thanks all. 

Thanks. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that High Sierra still had full HFS legacy R/W support, but I also read otherwise, including in this forum. It clearly still offers read access tough. And yes, I'm talking about HFS, not HFS+ Has anyone have any luck with FuseHFS ?

In my eternal quest to find the easiest way to transfer files between the cloud and my vintage macs, I recently purchased two Zip100 Iomega drives. One has the SCSI interface and connects to the Classics, and one that has a USB interface that I connect to my Macbook. So I can copy files from the...

I noticed that on my 2/10, it takes about a second for the processor to register that I clicked on something before I can drag it. Interesting that the screen icon that I click registers (changes contrast) immediately, but I still have to wait a second before I can drag.

This was long in the making ! Almost 5 years ago, I purchased a Lisa 2/10, well technically a Mac XL, from someone on Craigslist. The story was actually very cool. The seller said that he was working as a cameraman for NBC News, and he was the one filming the 1984 Mac launch at the Flint Center...

Yeah, there is definitely some voyeurism going when I first revive an old HDD. My most interesting documents was a series of letters written by a man (he happened to be a minister) to his wife, trying to save his marriage. Then, letters to a counselor showed up, followed by letters to a divorce...

Wow. thanks ArmorAlley. A lot of these are beyond my skill set, but that will give me something to learn. Much appreciated !

Hi: I'm looking at the best way to download legacy Mac software from the Internet to use on my Compact Mac (eg SE/30, CC etc..). In the past, I used my old WinXP computer and it was tedious, but it worked. Now that I have Win10, it does not work any longer.  So, what is best way to do this ...

I'm a French expat, born and raised in Paris, but now living in the SF Bay Area. Great place for a vintage Mac fan !

Yeah, those Sonys are finicky. I spent almost the whole week-end going through my collection of old 3.5" SCSI HDD's. I have 19 of them, and 6 external ones. Interestingly, none of my two Sony's full height 40MB spun on power on, but both did after I gently tapped their side. Looks like they both...

I finally found a solution to my problem. I used a combination of Lido and Macinstor software (I have an old external 600MD HDD from them, with the software in it). I found that most of the bad blocks were clustered in a small range, in the middle of the drive. What I did then was to note the...

Thanks ILikeTech for the advice. Downloading Silverlining Pro now, and will try this week-end when I finally got time to tinker. And yes Techknight, I spend 27 years in R&D at Seagate, IBM, and HGST, working on HDD reliability, so I can tell you everything you want to know (or don't) about...

No, I don't think I get new ones. Just the ones that had grown during the 25 years in storage. The HDD was dead, but Lido's Format revived it. However, a 7.0.1 OS install failed. I tried to split the 80M drive into two partitions, and I could install the OS into one of them. However, I found...

I have revived yet another SE30. The HDD, however (Quantum Prodrive 80S) is throwing errors. I thought that a Lido format would find and reallocate bad blocks, but it does not seem to be doing that. So I tried the "Overnight Test" in the Lido software, hoping to do just that. However, it seems...

gsteemso: thanks. Can you say a bit more about how to fix those electric traces ? Would you use one of these conductive glue pens ? Would they be making lines that would be thin enough for this screen ?