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Solvents applied to plastics will loosen the molecular bonds so that ingredients of the plastics compound may mix by diffusion. Usually, the discoloration is only to the surface of the plastics. By mixing with less altered portions of the plastics compound beneath the surface, the mixture at the...

Beautiful. I would love to contribute content. However, as I have very little experience in modern content management, I would need some advice to properly access the system.

There is software available to recover stuff from previeously formatted drives. Think of something like the "Disk Drill.app" for more recent Macs. If a reformatted drive that came originally from a P550 has not seen much write load after reformatting, could't there be enought leftover from the...

I found the same to be true for my PB 1400. Additionally, without a HDD present, one enjoys the benefit of a completely noiseless operation, except occasional sound from the CD or Floppy module, when used. To have a slimline backup option, consider to use one internal SD card in place of the...

Will such a setup provide a noticable speed benefit over an adapted CF or SD flash memory card? I found a few GB of storage space more than sufficient for a PowerBook 1400. Everyone who plans to use the PowerBook 1400 in »Target Disk Mode« (connected as an external SCSI drive to another...

Earlier in the day, some results have been collected in the now defunct wiki. Parts of the wiki are still available at the internet archive, like: Flash Drive Test Results Consider to check the notes in that article for useful information. It looks tiny, but it contains results of several days...

There is a little collection of software recommendations regarding modems in this ancient thread: LC 580 on the internet. Possible with this modem? Please note that in the PB1xx series models the internal modem slot shares one port from the external serial port plugs. As soon as you plug in the...

Actually, the LC 475 does provide video output even with the VRAM removed. Without the VRAM the screen resolution is just one pixel. If you make a screenshot in this state you get a file with a single black dot. As long as the video output is not necessary, the machine remains fully usable. That...

I would love to help, but I do not have any breathing 475 or similar Mac at hand, currently.

I think the change should be persistent, as most likely it has to be stored in the PRAM. I made the screenshot recently in SheepShaver with Mac OS 9.1. I have used the same feature on an LC 475, for sure not with 9.1. It might have been 8.1, but I still am a big fan of System 7.1. The latter...

Every now and then I check to see if our little wiki has been revitalised. Not yet, it seems. (I hope the following does not sound rudely demanding. Please understand that I am neither a native English speaker nor a database engineer.) How difficult could it be to extract the contents of the old...

I used to have an LC 475 with 132MB of RAM. This was the solution to get rid of the annoying boot delay. It also works in a beige PowerMac G3 that hits the RAM ceiling.

Just depress option-cmd while opening the control panel »memory«. You will get an additional pair of radio buttons to choose wether to perfom a RAM check upon startup or not (see attached screenshot).

Very good comment. Could someone please explain when it would be preferable to choose the PhoneNet type adaptors over the cheaper CapNet (no transformer required) type adaptors? However, the CapNet link does not work in my location. For everyone who is interested: CapNet is a low cost DIY...

Consider to fetch a copy of SoundEdit Pro. This beautiful piece of software allows you to open/record/edit sound data and to save it into a sound ressorce file. To get hands on a specific ressorce file you would want to work on, have also a copy of ResEdit available.

Great stuff, keep on going! I appreciate your effort and I am looking forward to make use of this information in my own projects. Thank you very much!

Everytime (back in the day, when I used a 68040 Mac as my daily work machine) I researched for 68040 cache upgrades I found information hinting towards stability issues of several kinds, no matter if even a PPC upgrade was involved. Thus I never invested into any of those cards, because I valued...

I would love to help, but the partial amnesia of this forum combined with my own fragmented memory does not permit to quickly reference you to a complete and proven description of what would work and what not. Anyway, please dive deeper into the documentation. I assume you have already found...

Yes, the operability of a setup might depend on the software used to format the drive. The results vary for each combination of actual storage media hardware, adapter, host computer and drive setup software. A while ago, in the Wiki we assembled a table of tested flash memory with configuration...

I am pretty sure I set up my PowerBook 180 that way, because I was lucky to install a then huge 500 MB harddisk instead of the stock 80 MB harddisk and wanted to experiment with different System installations. As of now, I have no physical evidence at hand, as my beloved 68k machines are in...