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@Big Ben - would you be willing to document via shaky-cam mobile phone and upload to YouTube or Internet Archive and show the bootup/build process??? Thanks!!!

So, with all of the wackiness of porting things like Windows NT to PPC Macs, are we going to get modded ROMs for PowerMac 8500/8600/9500/9600 systems that can now run that funky AIX??! Would be fun to play with!

Ack, the androda link is already there! I made a mistake in replying. :-)

FYI - years later, I can't update the original post, but the Bixpower website for the adapter is now https://www.bixpower.com/CNT-C11-p/cnt-c11.htm?srsltid=AfmBOopYi8ZGqHVfOSBG1v5x9tX5z2uO6a0AT_SIyMzpGvt__wrF7_sE Good luck everyone, solution still works like a champ!

Ah, good notes, much appreciated to both of you who replied. I will try and seek out a replacement set of transistors when I get a moment. There is hope for that thing. :-)

This may be an easy one for you. I got a barn find battery bombed Mac IIci (Thank you @AppaloosaMac for the Mac Barn Adventure!) and I am pretty certain that it was stored for years vertically on its side, enabling the battery acid to pool on the side of the case and eat into the power supply...

Any chance you're tempted to port this to a BlueSCSIv2 variant? I wonder about the interchangeability of these SCSI emulators.

Thinking about selling some Macs (all working!): SE/30, SE, Color Classic, LC, LC2, Q605, IIsi, PB540c, PM8500.

Super pleased. I think all of my Macs are booting and working now. Need to solder in a new resistor on the analogue board of the Mac SE but for the most part, everything is working!

So, my childhood Mac LC had 2MB SIMMs and I finally upgraded it to the max memory config from 6MB to 10MB. (Upgraded the VRAM while I was at it) - just great. But given the rarity of 2MB SIMMs (for example instead of the popular 1 or 4MB sizes), should I trade to someone who might actually care...

Word of warning mind you regarding that TDK power supply - please verify pinouts and power requirements of any application or possible replacement before taking advice off of a casual commenter on the Internet!

Huh, it seems that there's a ready-made replacement G4 power supply that people can just buy without fiddling with making their own cables: TDK DTM165PW280C. (28v, 165w with right connector) Seems to have the right connector, appropriate voltage and power pinout, and is in stock in various...

Hi there - Maybe you're seeing this because you got a Powerbook or Clamshell iBook without power supply. After verifying that it's possible to DIY build a power supply with a 3.5mm plug and a 330k resistor, I decided to seek out a moderately priced solution that wouldn't power down if I...

So taking a look at the notes of previous experimenters, I went ahead and bought a Mean Well LRS-350-24 voltage-adjustable power supply and butchered one of my LaCie power supply bricks that had the right power connector. Carefully testing and retesting the pinouts for the G4, of the donor...

I'm finding some exciting interest in this device and the price seems reasonable on eBay.  Was anyone successful in getting a modern firmware, and does it work across a variety of Macintosh video-out formats? Thinking in terms of the built-in video of the Quadra 700, PowerMac 8500/8600...

I am interested in 4 full sets. Thank you for doing this!

The drive heads could be stuck and that's generally a pretty easy fix.  I had a similar Conner hard drive - if you're careful and take the torx screwdriver to open up the top in a relatively dust-free environment, then plug it in and power it up, you may see that the head is stuck.   You can see...

Definitely worth giving the logic board a bath. Some people get testy about boards going in the dishwasher, but I've been very pleased with dishwasher results (please no soap or other dishes) . Scrape that orange barcode sticker (if you feel the need to keep it) in the board corner off if you do...

Searched all over the forums and can't seem to find where the actual speaker diameter for the Mac SE case is.  I don't have any calipers or my Mac SE on me, so, I'm having to ask the community (and hopefully help whoever might ask the same question in the future). Is it 60mm? 55mm? I have no...

Gang, Everyone likes to talk about how the SE/30 can go to 128MB of RAM and is a wonderful flexible machine with the Mac ROMinator II, etc. But has anyone tried putting those 16MB SIMMs into the two-slot Classic II logic board? Pushing it to 34MB of RAM would be cool. If it's a ROM...