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Thanks for the advice. What's the best way to get the analog board out without killing myself?

Oh noes!

Okay, I've read the famous PDF about classic mac procedures, and I'm pretty sure I need to fix the solder connections on the J1 connector. I'm a little unclear on exactly what to do, however. I've circled what I believe to be the 4 solder "points" (not sure on the correct terminology here)...

I've found its way easier to give old macs away on Freecycle than to find them! I've dispatched 3 mostly broken G3 iMacs and a G3 Minitower to happy collectors/tinkerers in the last 2 hours. I kept my best G3 for an OS 9 gaming machine when I can scrounge up a monitor, but the iMacs were taking...

Paid $25 for a Mac plus today complete with external hard drive, mouse, and original manual (with filled out but never sent in Apple registration card!). Slightly yellowed and kind of dirty, but I can clean that up. It looks like the analog board needs some work, I've read most of the famous...

From everything I've read/found about the problem, including email Sonnet, the consensus seems to be a bad L2 cache chip, or at least an easily annoyed one. I've tried 7.6.1, 8.5, 8.6, 9.0.4, and 9.1 with the newest version of the extension, loading first or last, and nothing works. I've even...

I'm finding that out. Why do my downloads start at 50-70k/s but steadily dwindle down to 2k/s after a few minutes?

I came late to this thread and didn't have time to read it all, but the preterhuman.net hotline server is a goldmine.

I emailed them with a list of stuff I'm interested in and they said they would keep me in mind. Nice, thanks for the tip.

I like the 280c -- I remember for the longest time my dad used it working at Apple as his main computer.

Posting from it! Found the ethernet driver (ended up being a Farallon card). iCab 3 -- lets just say its not a screamer on here. I might try disabling virtual memory (and/or getting that damn L2 cache to activate on the Crescendo upgrade). Still cool to see it online.

It's working well so far. I got about 2 hours out of the battery in battery amnesia (from an 86% charge!). I can't seem to get the Sonnet Crescendo extension to play nice though-- crashes at boot.

I finally had time to assemble my latest pet project (after my Duo 2300c): 1400c/133 with: 400mhz Sonnet Crescendo G3/1MB L2 Cache, which seems to be running stable. I had problems with this module in my other 1400. 48MB RAM 2GB HD Ethernet Card Working batteries. One of these got over 3...

Yea, I'm finding that out. I see offers on freecycle every now and then and when I *think* I'm jumping on them fast they are always taken :(

"It's all already claimed w/waiting list, but I'll keep your email in case of no shows." Crap.

Freecycle FTW... hopefully no-one nabs before me! "I have a Mac 512K (circa 1984) and Mac SE30 (circa 1987?), including operating system disks. Also an Apple Color StyleWriter II printer, LaserWriter, and Epson color inkjet printer. Have extra cartridges for the inkjets, floppies (4.5") for the...

...that are also cheap TN LCD technology. The Apple panels are S-IPS. The "slower" (from what I understand it's measured differently) response times and "narrower" contrast ratios (also often measured sleazily and reported dishonestly) are made up for in color accuracy, brightness, etc.

(on topic) point taken, equill -- but the Sonnett site said the installer I downloaded would detect and install the appropriate extension for my machine/upgrade. Either way -- I have a 133mhz 1400c coming in the mail tomorrow with more ram and a good PRAM battery that might just handle the...

Sonnett's own app "Metronome" shows when the Cache is enabled/disabled. It's enabled and presumably OK when Sonnett's extension is running, but I can only get all the way through the boot process about 10% of the time when that damn extension is enabled (I'm running 7.6.1). I'll try CPU...

The CPU itself works, but the Sonnett Extension required to enable the L2 cache is freakishly unstable (and I do have the latest from Sonnett's site). When I get more RAM I'll do a clean install of 8.6 and go from there.