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There's a read for MacIP Pi somewhere on here but I'm too lazy to find it so here's the site, http://www.macip.net/ . It has a proxy to render web pages as gif to make them viewable. Plain HTML without anything fancy doesn't take a lot of resources too render, it's basically glorified coloured...

Back in the 80s and 90s almost nothing would've actually made use of it. Mainly stuff like spreadsheets or CAD. Your day to day word and kidpix didn't touch it.

My experience in a nutshell. I've got a high spec'd 8550DP here (1 gig ram, all the software features) only I print colour so rarely I was wasting more ink on the startup than I actually used printing. Plus the thing had a tendency to dry out the ink after 5-6 startups\shutdowns. Really great...

Recap the power supply. It behaves like my IIcx did when its PSU caps went out.

Mac Plus is a straight through cable and a telephone has crossed wires. With a 4P4C connector and crimp it's easy to make a new cable.

One of the cooler things I own here is a Radius FPD setup for a Mac SE. While it does work, I can't use any of the more advanced features the software contains due to my old ROMs, v2.91. The only version on the internet requires v4.4. Would anyone happen to have either images of the v4.4 ROM or...

Never had issues with RTL8139s myself, there's one in my S900, 9600 and random PowerComputing. The card I never could get working was a Netgear card based on an 8169 but with a sample size of one I can't go claiming 8169s are rubbish.

I also picked up one of these a couple days ago dirt cheap. I guess they're finally losing all their value. Unlike Jon183's, mine came with 8 gigs ram and a 750 gig hard drive. No battery or charger with it but for $20 I'm not complaining. Interestingly enough, these are even supported natively...

The marble texture tends to be a result of uneven application or mixing of the retrobrite mixture. Sometimes a retreatement might fix it or you can consider it a feature and call it unique. Nice choice in amp by the way. One note about the amp, watch out for bad capacitors as mine did need a...

It's the caps almost certainly. They tend to fall short circuit on the 5V rail and sometimes even leak. My IIcx Astec had leaky and dead shorted caps.

It's going to sound odd, but, try a wash in the sink with dish soap then rinse with distilled water after a slight scrub. Cap goo gets everywhere and you'd need a lot of alcohol to clean 100% properly, without desoldering every component. Let sit for a day or two in the warmest, driest...

Caps.

8100's closest to an 840, relative to the 68k era macs. Connectors along the top of the board and a PSU that plugs in rather than slots in. Here's a pair of boards, one 110 Prototype and an 80 MHz oddball someone threw a crystal socket on.

Yes, it usually does work with 68 pin drives (although 80 are a crap shoot). I do have a few IBM 4.5 gig 68 pin drives that will not work but those drives won't work in most systems. I also use a terminated cable when throwing a 68 in an old Mac. Here're some pics of that in an...

You can remove both PRAM and main battery no problem. Mine has neither installed and works fine. Just note it won't keep startup disk (if multiple partitions), time, date, sound volume, etc without either battery installed. When you first get it though, open it up and remove the PRAM battery...

I actually ended up swapping the card out, the pink fringe was related to monitors not supporting 1152x882. The adapter I have is an old Viewsonic one that's just labeled 640x480-1280x1024 or something like that. No switches or anything. A Supermac Spectrum/8 SIII was dirt cheap and easier than...

My IIcx also suffers this issue and I traced it down to being a problem with the 74 series chips under the floppy drive. I ended up giving up, not wanting to deal with SMT IC replacement.  Another thing worth checking is whether your PSU has 5VSB or not. Without 5VSB, /pfw will never go high...

Congrats on Kidpix! That's like half the reason I have some old Macs. Just a heads up though, you're going to want to recap the motherboard and power supply on this. Power supply usually goes first due to caps but the motherboard isn't safe either.

If it's a capacitor, replace it.