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"New Factory Sealed 15-pin Super VGA 9" Monochrome VM-9AF Monitor" Long eBay link. Not my auction, etc... I put this in H&D instead of Trading Post because these little monitors are really only interesting if you're hacking a (already really dead) compact Mac to: be an external monitor...

I have three sets of three cards that used to control Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometer machinery.  Turns out, I don't have an LC/MS to attach them to, nor the software for one, so is there anything I can do with these monsters (besides put them on eBay at a ridiculous price and hope...

On eBay right now there are many RAM cards for Duos.  Most of them are in the <$20 range for 8M cards.  The 40M cards are in the $150 range and the one 48M card available is listed at $300.  (This is in no way a criticism of the prices; if they can get that for their RAM, then God bless em.)...

Anybody have PowerLogix's Switch_Demo.sit software?  The only links I can find to it all lead to the same dead end on PowerLogix's mostly dead web site. I have a Z-Force upgrade with switches to adjust the multipliers for clocking the chip, and no idea what the individual switches do.  I need a...

"...you want 'em?"  My dad works where they used to use Macs to run analysis hardware, and asked me if I wanted the old Macs they were going to pitch.  Sure! So, Monday he shows up at my house with two PM 9500s.  Sweet!  One has a Sonnet upgrade that I haven't investigated yet. Tuesday he...

Don't wanna jinx it, but I found a Mac Portable on Craigslist in my metro area for $40. Going to pick it up tonight. The seller says it doesn't work, but it is complete with the Apple carry bag and everything, so I expect/hope a trip to see uniserver and a new/hacked battery will net me a...

The Craigslist ad had fuzzy pictures of the "Mac SE" the guy wanted to sell. Turned out to be an SE/30 with an Ethernet card in it! I felt much better about dropping $50 on a networked SE/30 than just another SE! I have my tools at work, so I'll see if there is any battery damage before I...

I'm trying to take the video signal from a 575's wiring loom out to a VGA monitor. The 575 sends out RGB and Composite sync, and the monitor is expecting VGA (RGB + Horizontal and Vertical syncs). My research (you know, 5 minutes of Googling) has led me to this chip which seems to be a sync...

The logic board connector is the same (looking). The ports even line up with the holes in the bucket. Any electronic reason this wouldn't work?

I have a nominally 25MHz 68040 CPU that I yanked from a 9x0. It had a cute little heat sink on it, and when I put it in my 33MHz 475 the socket had the attachment tabs for the heat sink clip, so I clipped it on. Now I'm moving the 68040 to a 575 board. The 575's socket does not have the tabs...

The Color Classic through LC575 all-in-ones all shared an edge connector that would slide into a slot in the case (attached to lots of ribbons to take signals to video, and peripherals). Does anyone have a diagram of the pin-outs of that connector or slot? I can find the one for the SCSI+IDE...

I don't know who Steve Jones is, but I think he kept his Mac Plus's keyboard in the barn for a while.

I know this isn't a revelation to the old timers, but new people get their first compact Mac every day, and they come to this forum for help, so: The screws on the back of your compact Mac need a Torx #15 driver with at least a 6 inch (15cm) long shaft to get to the under-handle screws. Unless...

Decoded the serial # on the back-bucket of one of my SE/30s. It says it is a M5010 (regular SE) that shipped with 2 floppies, but the front fascia and lobo are clearly an SE/30's. So, just a mixed up bucket, right? But the big model identifier sticker on the back is the official SE/30 sticker...

Could some appropriately skilled solder-jockey replace those 8 chips with, say, the 8 chips on this 32MB SIMM sitting in the slot next to them? (Actually now that I look closer, the number of pins on each chip on this SIMM is different than the chips on the LB, so that specific example wouldn't...

Dad's job was cleaning out the last of their Macs. I previously picked up a 950 from them, but this time I got two 8500/120s and two G3/266 beige towers. One of the G3s is supposed to have a G4 of some flavor in it, but I haven't dug that far into them yet. They are disgustingly dusty, so I'll...

Went to my local recycling/resale joint and saw this over in a corner with no price sticker. So I asked the tech guy if it works and how much. "Yeah it works but you have to have the right video card for it. You can have it for $5. I'm tired of looking at it." Heh.

Had the Q605 board up and running in a P460 case, grooving along with 36MB of RAM and 512k VRAM, full 040 with a heat sink. I was getting ready to do the 33MHz hack. Everything was very happy. Left it on over the weekend. When I got back the mouse was frozen, clock was frozen, Mac was frozen...

I recently won (in my pursuit of putting an LC shaped board inside a face-lifted Mac Classic II) both a Performa 460 and a Quadra 605. They both made it to me in working condition, but the 605's bottom case was shattered beyond repair in the shipping. The 605 didn't have video when I first...

Hate to render it useless, but its full 040 is going into the new 605. Can I just swap the LC in and still have a working but slower 950?