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It used to be quite common to use a special bracket to piggyback the hard drive on top of the second floppy. The bracket moved the hard drive further back inside the computer case than it would sit if it was mounted in place of the top floppy drive. I'm not aware of any problems - it was a...

Do you reset the power manager after plugging the Portable in (press the interrupt and reset buttons together)? After it's had all power removed, my backlit Portable always requires this before it will boot. Do you hear the sound of the hard drive attempting to spin up? If so, does the...

The official answer to the original question is "no, you can't connect two desktop Macs via SCSI". This is because both Macs have their internal hard drives set to SCSI ID 0 and their SCSI controllers set to ID 7, hence there will be ID conflicts. However, it is possible and I used to...

I really enjoyed reading your post about the reasons that you settled on buying a IIci. Back in the day, I felt that the IIci was the pick of the Mac product line. It was way out of my price range (AU$ 12,000), but I used to work on them quite frequently in my line of work. They always felt...

Unless the Asante bridge is one of those "crippled" bridges that only work with printers, I suspect it's just "dumb" bridge and will happily shunt AppleTalk packets back and forth without looking inside them (there's no routing involved). Since NetAtalk supports Classic AppleTalk, there's no...

It'd be handy to know a bit more about your Netatalk setup (maybe post relevant parts of the config files: atalkd.conf and AppleVolumes,default would be good). Did you re-compile the kernel with the AppleTalk protocol installed ("options NETATALK")? Any weird and wonderful errors being logged...

I have a wooden crate with a large Apple logo and the words "Expedition Equipment" stencilled on top of it. It was part of an Apple sales promotion from the mid 1990s.

It'll be the upper fan that's not running. It's almost always the upper fan. As H3nry said, lubricating the fan bearing will usually restore it to working order - for a while. There used to be a third party kit to replace the fan with a traditional axial flow unit - much more reliable...

I'll probably think of more "unusual" things, but... - a bunch of Apple sales brochures from the early 90s. - an Apple Peripheral Interface Guide (describes all the cables/ports etc - quite handy) - a few unopened internal modems for PowerMac 5200/6200 machines (Aus spec) - an original Apple...

Ok, I'm not familiar with the EtherWave product, but you described it as a "bridge". I have never seen a LocalTalk to Ethernet bridge that is capable of MacIP, but I guess it's possible that one exists. Usually, the MacIP feature is in routers, since bridges tend to be "dumb" devices. With...

The problem is that LocalTalk can't "do" tcp/ip (the "internet" protocol) - it can only handle AppleTalk and that's it. MacTCP allows you to work around this limitation by wrapping ("encapsulating") tcp/ip inside LocalTalk packets. This is called "MacIP" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacIP)...

If its the insulation around the high voltage components breaking down, the problem will be related to humidity rather than temperature.

If you turn the computer on with the back removed in a darkened room, can you see a blue electrical discharge ("corona discharge") around the top of the EHT transformer? If so, the transformer really should be replaced, but you can get special high voltage silicone sealant and fix the...

The LaserWriter IIg I/O board is notorious for getting bad capacitors, so you are not alone. The IIg did not exist in 1989 - I think it came out in 1993 or 1994. As such, your printer is most likely a IInt or similar vintage that has been upgraded to a IIg (it's just a straight I/O board...

I should have explained myself better... this was back in 1997, NetBSD for a 68k Mac didn't have the same "bells and whistles" as its x86 counterpart. It was pretty much a bare bones *nix OS. Seemed really weird seeing white text on a black background on a Mac.

I think I once ran NetBSD on an old Classic II (I think it needs a 68030). NetBSD gave the machine full pre-emptive multitasking. Shame it did away with the GUI and couldn't run any Mac software though.

No, a Mac running the LocalTalk bridge software is "dumb" - it just shuffles packets back and forth without modifying them: it doesn't know how to encapsulate IP in them, hence the name "bridge". As Gil mentioned, there are other software products that can do this. The old "Apple Internet...

The ones distributed to Australian service centres were PAL.

Windows 2000 Server is convenient and easy to get going if you have a Windows network and just want to share the odd file here and there with one or two Macs. Unfortunately, it makes a nasty replacement for a proper AppleShare server in a predominately Mac environment. Microsoft intended...

I have to agree. The PowerBook 140/160/170/180 was a nice piece of industrial design. The way that the battery door acts to lock the case halves together makes it impossible to disassemble the machine with the battery in place - someone thought about that bit and got it right. The PowerBook...