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I have used a couple Crucial SSD drives that are $35 shipped (240GB.) Cheap and seem to be good quality. I ordered another one for this MacBook, I'm sure it will help quite a bit.  My stash of SATA hard drives is really growing... I hope I'll be able to use them someday. Kind of a shame to have...

I found this thread last weekend when I was attempting to fix an 80MB ProDrive ELS that would spin up, click and spin down.  I threw away a pile of these years ago but am slowly running out of good 50 pin drives so I figured... why not try to fix it.  The issue on mine was not the rubber...

I now also have a mid 2012 13" MacBook Pro.  I haven't "daily driven" a Mac since OS9 was new software so this is more or less new territory for me.  My main laptop for quite a while has been a Dell Latitude E6420... love the thing, it's just about as old as the MacBook and they have about the...

Unfortunately I have made zero progress with it.  I poked around and checked continuity and voltage at several points on the motherboard, and haven't found anything obviously broken but that's about as far as I've come.  I think I am at the point where I need someone who really knows what...

Just for fun I ordered a 128MB SIMM.  We'll see if that works, 148MB memory would be dope. I will have to try the 64MB stick on the DOS card.  I'd be shocked if it works.  I was surprised that it worked on the Mac side. I also tried two Kingston 64MB SIMMs in my 6200/5260/120 machine and only...

I got two of these 64MB 72 pin SIMMs quite a while back and finally got around to using them.  One went into my LC475 where it worked great, and not unexpectedly.  The other was destined for my LC630 DOS Compatible machine which allegedly has a ceiling of 52MB - 32 in one slot, 16 in the other...

Oh yeah, I forgot, I also found 2x 64MB 72 pin SIMMs a while back.  I finally got around to installing one of them in my LC475.  So I have a total of 68MB now.  I think that is my record for most memory in a 68k at this point although the SE/30 will have it beat.  I need to see if the other 64MB...

Apple System Profiler under your Apple menu in OS9 should tell you what firmware version you have installed... or you could just try installing one or the other and see if it fails because it's already installed.   These might be useful links: http://lowendmac.com/lab/05/0301.html...

Good score.  I had a Daystar 601 upgrade in my old IIci - they are cool upgrades.  Might think about rigging up a fan to blow over the heatsink, mine ran incredibly hot.

Interesting.  I don't think I've ever installed OS X first on a dual boot machine.  Keep us updated, I'm sure it's something simple.

I think so?  I was looking around in the Netflix settings the other night for that and couldn't find anything that would let me limit content to SD.  I have the HD subscription, seems like there was an option but maybe they removed it. Anyway the Netflix app on Windows 10 does not work well.  I...

I ended up ordering a 10.6 retail DVD from ebay - was $15.  I also installed a 500GB 7200RPM drive in the Mini - that was a nice performance boost.  The old 5400 drives are just so slow. As a side note, Windows 10 runs fairly well on this thing.  Way better than I would have expected.  I...

I believe you must use Extended aka HFS+ on a partition that will also have OS X on it.  OS 9 doesn't really care.   Someone will correct me if I'm leading you astray here, it has been quite a few years since I was reinstalling Tiger on a regular basis.

They can be on the same partition, however, how is the hard drive formatted now?  Mac OS standard or Mac OS extended?  That may be part of the problem.

I'm pretty set on keeping it the way it is...it's part of its history now.  Besides I'm sure an original ][ top would be pretty hard to find these days, and probably expensive... and then I'd have an extra top with no home. Kinda glad I kept all my Apple II software years ago when I sold my old...

I was under the impression that the power LED should come on and stay on when the machine is powered up?  FWIW I tried connecting the power supply from my ][ - which is known good - and got the same result.  I have not tried connecting the //e's PSU to the ][, but it doesn't seem necessary.  I...

Small update: I recapped the motherboard and soldered new pins onto a bunch of chips.  I checked out the PSU - looks fine, no damage internally, just some corrosion on the case.  Fired it up and got very few signs of life - a brief flicker on the monitor when I flip the switch and a glowing...

Just happened to be searching eBay for parts for my MousePee//e machine and ran across this - it appears to be my ]['s older brother. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-ii-monitor-iii-lots-of-software-disk-drive-a-few-manuals-maybe-clone/223329552882?hash=item33ff7a89f2:g:K4EAAOSw-ghcGMaN In other...

Picked up a handful of capacitors today.  The motherboard cleaned up fairly well after its bath although I had to scrub around the back ports with a wire brush to remove the rust accumulation.  It appears that the CPU, one of the ROM chips, 3x RAM chips, and a couple other misc ICs have pins...

The board looks fairly good washed up. A bunch of the removable chips are missing legs. Not ideal but not the end of the world. Anyone have donor rev B //e board to donate to science?  :rambo: