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He did say his studio software runs under OS9. G5s don't run OS9, nor do Intel Macs. I use OS9 for most music making on a G4, too. Classic doesn't cut it for a lot of software. Unless you build your music from loop libraries and samples, current generation software doesn't have anything over...

Tried a couple of things tonight. Apple Blue & White Studio LCD: Will display Apple //e color graphics as composite video. Will not display text, but then Apple says it won't display monochrome video, so no surprise. Will not display either text or graphics as RGB at 15.75KHz. Magnavox...

Did you say it only happens in Camino? If so, trash and reinstall Camino. There is a chance the system has been corrupted, too. Repair permissions, scan the disk for errors and the usual. Odd behavior and appearance of windows as opposed to the whole screen is usually software. If the monitor is...

Guess I ought to hang a scope on one of my Apples to see how it compares to your IIc. Filtering out color burst isn't going to do anything to boost the bandwidth of your TV set. A color TV displaying a B&W signal has no better response than it does in color, except that the text isn't tinted...

If the power supply is not putting out the correct voltages, disk drives won't work, and the motherboard will be unreliable. Check the 12V and 5V supplies with a voltmeter. There is an adjustment on the analog board for output voltage which sets the 12V output. If the Mac is upgraded or has...

If all you're looking at is text, hook up a serial line, run a terminal program on your other system, type PR#[serial card slot], and voila! Graphics, no way. There were various 3rd party video cards and Apple's genlock cards which put out honest-to-gosh NTSC properly timed broadcast-able...

There are a couple of things that can make a TV mess up on an Apple II or II Plus. First, composite NTSC video is 525i, 30 frames of 525 lines each second interlaced in 2 fields of 262.5 lines. An Apple II generates 262p at 60 frames per second, which is pretty close to NTSC, but each half-frame...

I thought I'd offer parts here, if anyone wants them after I find out what's working and what's not. It doesn't look bad except on the outside. I doubt anyone would pay shipping on the whole thing, since it's kind of heavy. Otherwise it gets recycled.

I dug my '86 vintage Hackintosh (Yes, that's what we called 'em back then) out of the barn and took some pictures. Unfortunately, it's the worse for its years in a cardboard box which also apparently was a home to various rodents who peed etc. on everything. Yet TBD how much of the system is...

Sometimes they do get sticky and require lube, but usually after sitting unused for years. The symptom is that they won't eject a disk. That doesn't sound like your problem. Sounds like your drive is having trouble reading a disk. You were trying to read a *CD-ROM*, right? Not a system installer...

In the Airport control panel there's a check box for "Allow selection of closed networks", which when checked will allow selecting "Other" under network, which in turn will allow entering your SSID and password (probably will have to be in hex notation.) It worked for me in 9.2.2. In earlier...

According to this, system 6.0.8 can be slimmed down under 400K and will run on a 512K. http://www.mac512.com/macwebpages/qamac128.htm I remember there were special super-small versions of various System files floating around for the early 400K floppies. This is assuming anyone is still...

You have a memory error, specifically the RAM failed the Mod 3 test. See here: http://www.mac512.com/macwebpages/sadmac.htm RAM failure is not common in a stock 128K, but it is very common in an upgraded one due to loose or oxidized connections. When you take the back off, you may find someone...

Glad you did. Some of us noobs haven't seen these. :)

Supposedly that's the industry's first active matrix LCD. It certainly beats the B&W LCDs Apple shipped in the early PowerBooks. It also represented half the cost of the machine. I would be interested how it compares with Apple's first LCD, the one which they sold for the Apple IIc. I've...

2A is what Apple lists as the power draw for the 5120. If it boots, it's sufficient. If not, I guess you need 3A. 2A is borderline for booting these old girls with old lubricant in the disk drives. Remember these AC adapters are no spring chickens either. They are 20 years old, and I had one go...

Now there you have a point. There was a lot of copy protection on the early Mac, and some of those fiddled around with the disk speed, which you could do on a 400K drive, but NOT on an 800K. It wasn't the ROMs that were incompatible, it was other hardware. Some devices depended on power from the...

Yeah, OSC was hip. I have Deck II and Metro 5 on the shelf above my desk. But I used then and still use Vision, which is a similar tale of a talented, high flying musical software company which sold to the big corp (Gibson Guitars, in this case) and was killed by the suits. :'( From time to...

Don't know. I started tracing out the power supply of the beast, but haven't got it figured out yet. It's pretty complex with stuff feeding back on itself. If anyone knows of a schematic it would save weeks of reverse engineering. This is an early design before switching boost-buck regulators...

Other than drivers for early hard disks like the HyperDrive or Corvus which used their own schemes for partitioning, like "drawers", there wasn't much that didn't work. I can't remember anything else that broke. I retired my 1-year old $2000 10MB Corvus in favor of a SCSI MICAHDrive which was 20...