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... Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! :lol: iCab is about as stable as the political climate of the Soviet Union in 1990, dude :p Honestly, I don't think I've been able to use it once without it crashing. But you're right, it's definitely fast. So fast, in fact, that from a cold start...

Theoretically I'm pretty sure that would be able to work. However, you've got to bear in mind that the iPad simply may not be able to supply enough current to reliably operate such an old keyboard as well as the iMate adapter. I'd be inclined, myself, to use one of those microcontroller-based...

Hey Trash! I've got some bad news for you. I was reading about interference generated at 14.318MHz - and noticed that it's very common around NTSC equipment. Why, you ask, is this important? 14318180Hz is exactly four times 3579545Hz - the NTSC Chrominance encoding reference. (two signals that...

CR1 is a Voltage Reference. It's basically an IC that provides a fixed reference point for the voltages sent along the signal path, as far as I can make out. FWIW Crystals tend to be marked X or XTAL, Oscillator cans (four-pins) and Resonators (those weird things that look like three-pin...

This is a simple answer, thankfully. 60/40 Sn/Pb. Don't use rosin cored stuff. Use flux on the holes before you start soldering; make sure that when you've completed the job you rinse the board thoroughly to get rid of the flux - it's acidic and may damage a board over time. Don't use the...

Hrm, not to thread-hijack, but olePigeon I might be able to help you on that 128MB AGP video card, I think I have an FX5200 with 128MB RAM that I flashed to Mac firmware. It'll be somewhere around here.

Yeah, brilliant news, if not for that I now feel like a complete idiot, haha My OMP is now firing up fine, although I believe I accidentally pretty much did a cold boot in the midst of battery handling and whatsit, not realising what I was doing - whoops, bye-bye data! Sound seems a little...

Well guys, I feel like a complete and utter moron now. It just occurred to me to take a voltmeter reading across the battery cage. It read +0.78V ... not really enough to boot a Newton, hrm? Investigating further, I checked the voltage across two of the NiMH cells. Those same cells I was...

I did follow those procedures. Unfortunately 'twas all to no avail. It is indeed the OMP you sent me, macgreg :( I'm hoping to revive it at any rate because while I have some eMates to test things with too now, I did have data on there, and I was actually using it as a PDA until it ran out of...

I've attempted both a Soft Reset and a Power Reset as per http://support.apple.com/kb/TA33869?viewlocale=en_US - to no avail. Nothing showed up on the screen at all, and no sound was made. :(

Hey guys! My OMP/H1000 is dead in the water - it /was/ working for quite a while until its batteries died (I used high-performance alkalines) and I simply left them in there for a week or two until I got replacements (I ended up purchasing Varta NiMHs because I can recharge them and they're...

I see it was a good week for eMates. I have a significant number of them I picked up that week :D

Well enough that I have a working regulator board, schematics, and the math to support it. I'll be publishing them soon, I'm still working on the optimal layout of the printed circuit board.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no. DRAM is mostly made up of capacitive cells. Furthermore, the extra power draw would be in the order of a few mA ... let's say that each DRAM IC takes up 0.2mA (i'm basing this off the mitsubishi m5m44400-60), then you have 16 ICs to a card, so 3.2mA - the DRAM runs at...

OR... You could instead also note that the symbol above the SCSI DB-25 port (looks a bit like a sideways joystick) is present on ALL SCSI-compliant devices, so plugging in anything that doesn't have that little symbol on it somewhere is kinda dumb, and plugging in anything that DOES have that...

I'm all in favour of a Sydney contingent of those with flatbeds or utes driving up and picking up things, hell I'd pay someone petrol munniez to bring me back a 9600 :p (Out of interest, how much is a share of petrol munniez to Wagga Wagga? Last time I went up there by car petrol was...

Meh, X11 is just a massive pile of broken in general. :)

Aye, truer words ne'er were spoken. Which is why I whacked a 24AC in the IIci. 1280×1024 at Millions of Colours, here I come! :D

WTF Beachycove, the LC doesn't have a 68030, it has a 68020... Also the II and IIx don't possess onboard colour video, or onboard video at all, IIRC. Also I wanted the IIci because it's pretty much the fastest reasonably available Mac II (Mac IIfx is too weird in terms of acquisition, parts...

Ooooooh! Don't suppose I could have permission to dump this in the Mac Encyclopedia Type Thing I'm presently working on? (Basically, giant pdf with basic specs for all the beige macs and all the repair techniques we know of, while I'd probably charge for printed copies I'll be making pdfs...