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VCF East 2024 is listed as April 5-7 next year, mark your calendar.

I was just at a model car show recently, looking for the one DeLorean Time Machine model kit I’m missing from the set of 4. Thankfully, I bought the 3 I could find at the last in person show in 2019, before all the Covid stuff happened. Show finally returned this year, but nobody had any of...

EveryMac.com lists 10.4.11 as the max OS for the Clamshell SE with FW, but only 10.3.9 for the earlier non-FireWire models. I had 10.4 installed on my 466MHz Clamshell SE (with FireWire), but it’s been a while since I’ve actually used it. As far as I remember, my burnt copy of the 4-CD Tiger...

Not sure if ink is still available for it, but I certainly remember the Epson Stylus Color 740i printer from back in the day. We had the non-i version (standard 740 in beige/grey). It was a fairly good printer, but eventually got replaced by a more modern 3-in-1 printer/scanner/copier unit...

Did see those guys and all the tools they had brought with them. Never had them work on anything of mine, but their name does come up often as a great group to use when people need board work done.

Had a great time at VCF East and picked up a few smaller things at Consignment. Got a boxed AirPort Extreme Base station, a PCI FW card, and a couple stray cables I needed. They had at least a dozen early Mac Pros for sale, of varying quality and specs, took a lot of restraint to not buy one...

I have to assume you meant Dual 2.7. A dual 2.7 is liquid cooled, right? If the coolant has leaked at all, it can damage the processor and/or dump liquid into the power supply located in the bottom of the tower. I’d visually verify there are no leaks before troubleshooting any further with...

It should work fine with just an IDE HDD on the one connector, and just an IDE CD-ROM on the other one. Both would have to be set to master of its own bus, but it should work regardless of ROM version. Is the IDE HDD confirmed to be working in another machine? SCSI is always more complicated...

A restraining bolt? That machine would need to have become quite eccentric to want to run away from its owner, certainly given its lack of any method of self-movement. That ‘wart’ reminds me of one of those anti-theft devices that would attach to expensive items in retail stores. However, it...

I have a liquid-cooled Dual 2.5 model that I bought a couple years ago, at a nearby yard sale of all places. I’ve read through various guides I could find, both here and on the internet, and servicing the cooling system looks like quite a long and complex undertaking. I have zero liquid...

Can’t hurt to check them all to make sure they aren’t already going bad. I don’t think anyone wants to replace all the caps in all their machines all at once. The goal long term would be to have everything recapped and working properly.

In general, you typically need a special crossover Ethernet cable to directly connect two machines together. It is usually easier to just connect both machines with standard (straight through) Ethernet cables to an Ethernet switch.

Been too long since I had that fully set up, but figured I would offer whatever info I could. At the least, my info would tell you that it worked for someone else under an earlier OS. I remember reading how it was picky about which laptop cards would work, but I lucked out and happened to...

I grabbed these two scrap logic boards (labeled Apple Computer Inc.) out of the trash a couple years ago and then completely forgot I had them, until I recently rediscovered them again. Turns out it’s a pair of eMac logic boards, one still had the heat sink and RAM still installed! Near as I...

I did this many years ago with my PB1400cs under 7.6. I haven’t taken it online in many years, but the machine still has the WaveLAN control panel (version 6.00.4) and extensions installed on it. Extensions Manager says the package is “WaveLAN Wireless Network Card” if that helps. As I...

Was not aware those little cube batteries were also prone to leak. Better open up my 6200 when I get a chance and verify it’s still okay.

Assuming the monitor and cables are known good, I would suspect one of two things. First, I would try some contact cleaner in the VGA port, in case there’s dirt/gunk/etc in there preventing good contact. It’s simple enough, and no disassembly required. After that, I would suspect maybe some...

How about through headphones or a set of speakers through the headphone jack, are they way too loud as well? Might help to determine if it’s just the internal speakers being too loud or the whole audio subsystem being too loud. Our iMac DV was often used with headphones, and I never remember...

In general, PC133 RAM is supposed to be backwards compatible with PC100 and PC66 as well. Our old iMac DV worked fine with two 512MB sticks of PC133 RAM, but my Blue&White G3 never properly recognized those same sticks at their full capacity. I believe certain older memory controllers don’t...

Never had any of those sorts of problems with any of mine (knock on wood), so I never had a reason to open one, let alone search for a guide on how to do so. I fear that opening the actual yo-yo part would probably be rather destructive, since I don’t see any screws (which means it’s probably...