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Guess I'll wait to get my Plus out of retirement.

My Mac Plus is stored at my parent's place and I don't have any plan to make a 400-ish miles trip just to get the Mac Plus. I did find the 20MB hard drive with the disk drive cable.  Currently I have a Powerbook Duo 280 and floppy dock which takes a square powerbook style connector, a Wallstreet...

2 16MB are both double sided FPM same brand, 2 8MB are matching double sided I suspect EDO.  2 32MB are both single sided PNY brand EDO. I've tried one at a time and still got max 8MB in any slot.  A single memory stick shouldn't be having problem showing full amount.

I have a bunch of memory sticks and I wanted to kick up my Centris to max 68MB but something isn't working right.  A 16MB SIMM shows up as 8. A 32MB SIMM shows up as 8.  I put in 2x32MB, it shows a grand total of 20MB (4MB onboard plus 2x8MB)  I tried mixing and matching and I tried one at a...

I'd give up my left nut to see eBay flooded with Macs and high priced reseller fuming.

It would help a lot if you can figure out why it blew in the first place.  It seems like something shorted out to cause those parts to burn up and blew up the cap.  I would hunt around the primary side of the power board, a major failure is almost always caused by something on primary side.  In...

that 32-bits VESA was still a pain to work with.  It wasn't very well designed to handle more than 1 card.  I've had display get corrupted and hard drives not work because of capacitance and interference.  It took me quite a while to find a 32-bits video card and 32-bits IO card that worked...

QFT Even LCD TV are picky for some reason.  I had to return LCD TV twice because it didn't work with Nintendo 64.  The first one only displayed red/yellow/green/black via composite but was normal with DVD player and same composite input.   Second one kept spitting no signal, didn't matter which...

When I was dealing with potentially dangerous power, I've always used my right hand only and made sure my left hand and arm didn't touch anything.  While I've never been zapped by the CRT (and I've worked on the huge projection TV that can have over 80,000v) I did get zapped by live 110v a few...

Mac Centris 610 do have sync on green and requires the Basic Color Monitor extension to disable it to use video on non-Mac displays as well as Apple's kooky VGA wanna-be Basic Color Monitor (only does 640x480, nothing else)

If it hasn't been plugged in for many weeks, it's probably fine.  The danger is the spot on the CRT after you remove the thick anode wire. People who forgets to discharge it may get a shock when touching that spot and drop the CRT, destroying it.

Make sure you don't have ticking time bombs in those pile!  Take all the old batteries out first.  And check for leaky caps!

Ok so it's useless to try. Since it'd be talking through a "fake" 040 between 2 PPC CPUs. Like 2 Harvard graduates trying to talk nuclear science while using an 8 year old to run back and forth to relay message to either person. Stuff would get lost in translation and the upgrade card would not...

Thin?  3 pins?  Yeah Appletalk.  If it has 4 pins and looks like S-Video, that's be ADB.  If it has 8 pins, it's probably serial.  Thick cable could be monitor, power, or other uses like special cable used for DOS compatibility card or Apple IIe card for LCs. Always nice to see the cable...

I was looking at some pictures of Apple Display cards and noticed some has 512k soldered onboard + 2 slots for 2x256k upgrade, and some has 1MB onboard and no slot. Can this display card be hacked to have full 1MB onboard and have 2x512k VRAM simms installed for 2MB total?

Wallstreet used 6 batteries total, all 2330 50mA each rechargeable lithium.  They were arraigned: 3 batteries in parallel with red wire to + side. White wire to the - side. Second set of batteries are also in parallel with the + side connected to white wire and - side of first set. The black...

I'm not sure of the details but I don't think you need 30MB of RAM to load a 8k file.  It's how much space is being allocated to one sector.  Since the 8k file is smaller than hard drive's allocation size that one file gets the whole space to itself.  But when it's loaded, only 8k of actual data...

There's an used one  on eBay, 68 pin SCSI to IDE. I was eying it but at about $70, I think I'll get the SD solution so I wouldn't need 50 to 68 adapter, and a cheap older IDE SSD (and one connector vs 3 connectors with IDE adapter = less headache if something doesn't work)

251653134885 on eBay, not mine.  Starting at cheap 99 cents bid so no price bashing please! Seller says it is a Color Classic II but when I took a closer look, the word Color is missing from the front.  Also is that a very yellowed screen filter on front?  Almost made it look like a separate...

I think when the mono-only cable is connected to non-mono VGA, you get icky green shade.  It's been a while but the mono VGA pin shares the same video pin as green on color VGA displays. Or maybe all 3 pins are tied the same and you get white display?