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  1. Brett B.

    Modern 30pin SIMM Brands?

    I seem to remember seeing something about that. Going out of business maybe, I don't recall exactly. They had a great inventory!
  2. Brett B.

    Modern 30pin SIMM Brands?

    I'm pretty sure I've bought 30 pin SIMMs from 1-800-4-memory and memorymasters on eBay. Both legit sellers.
  3. Brett B.

    A "touchy" subject

    Touching the glass part even while it's powered on is no big deal. Might get a little static zap if the humidity is low but no worse than petting the cat. Use the same logic as not touching any energized electrical component. Yeah, just saying, it's no worse than breaking a glass or bottler...
  4. Brett B.

    A "touchy" subject

    Interesting that nobody has mentioned discharging the CRT manually... a screwdriver with a piece of wire attached to it that is grounded is pushed under the rubber boot on the tube to touch the anode wire (equipment powered OFF, obviously.) Any charge remaining in the tube is gone at that...
  5. Brett B.

    Local estate find in San Diego

    Everyone needs to take a step back and breathe. I don't know this Tony guy but I have dealt with estates and estate sales enough times to be familiar enough with how they work. I feel terrible for the family who has to deal with that, the house is a disaster and the only way to make this...
  6. Brett B.

    Mac SE: "zoomed" display, dim, high pitch whine

    I like pushing my luck, lol. Yes, I put it on a shelf in my office sometime in '09, '10, or thereabouts and had it running the Clock program off a floppy boot disk. The only time it was powered off was during random power failures, the one time I had to fix the C15 capacitor, bi-annual reboots...
  7. Brett B.

    Mac SE: "zoomed" display, dim, high pitch whine

    I'm not entirely sure it's the flyback either but the whining noise makes me suspect it. The part I replaced previously (I think) was the capacitor at C15. IIRC it had the "bright vertical line" symptom. I did reflow every joint on the analog board and the yoke connector. I added a touch...
  8. Brett B.

    Mac SE: "zoomed" display, dim, high pitch whine

    I have been using this SE as a clock at my office for 10+ years and other than one blown cap on the analog board that I fixed, it's been working great. I came back from an appointment last week and immediately noticed that the screen was very dim and appeared to be way too large. I took it...
  9. Brett B.

    LC575, Apple IIe card and CommSlot ethernet = can coexist?

    I will be curious to see what happens... I have mine in a LC550 with OS 7.5.5 and way more than 8MB RAM and it works fine although as noted I do have to turn 32 bit addressing off when using the card.  It will request that I do so before the software will run IIRC.  That's a totally different...
  10. Brett B.

    Having issue with a Beige G3 desktop...

    So with that Rev. A ROM... how is your IDE set up?  Rev A is limited to one device per channel... I see you mentioned a hard drive, Zip, and CD-ROM... if you haven't already tried this, remove the Zip drive from the equation and have your HD and CD-ROM on separate channels.  I don't remember...
  11. Brett B.

    Having issue with a Beige G3 desktop...

    What happens if you hold the shift key while booting to disable extensions?  Will it complete a boot then? Might also try initializing the drive using Drive Setup and update the drivers on the drive as well.
  12. Brett B.

    Overclocking a Performa 630 DOS Compatible

    I have not been able to get anything larger than 32MB to work at all on my DOS card.  I've experimented pretty thoroughly with that... any module smaller than 32MB works fine, nothing larger works at all or is only recognized as 32MB.  Seems like a pretty hard limit but I don't have any single...
  13. Brett B.

    Overclocking a Performa 630 DOS Compatible

    I did the full '040 and overclock mod on mine and it has been working perfectly for several years now.  I did add a 468 heatsink and fan to the '040 chip - I think that's a must.  Huge improvement, I have no regrets and the DOS card seems to be unaffected. Seems like I also upgraded the 486...
  14. Brett B.

    Don't use 16V SOLID Tantalum on SE/30 Motherboards

    I have also done many boards with 16v caps.  Zero failures that I can attribute to the components themselves - plenty that are directly my fault but that's another topic. I'm curious if there is a true risk in doing this... what is the exact time before failure can occur?  Are we talking...
  15. Brett B.

    What would be a decent price to purchase a Color Classic?

    Just the upgrade to a color screen could make it worthwhile but it depends what you're using it for.  A Color Classic has been near the top of my want list for as long as I've been a Mac user... one just hasn't shown up locally.  Realistically though, for me, my LC550 fills that hole and then...
  16. Brett B.

    G3, Radeon 9200, OS9 screen resolution options

    So I tried DVI... and it defaults to 1920x1200.  Great!  However... it does not work well.  Sometimes I get a distorted, static colored section on the right side and some programs that attempt to switch resolutions or screen colors crash hard and lock up the whole machine.  Some others make the...
  17. Brett B.

    G3, Radeon 9200, OS9 screen resolution options

    I ran across a Soyo 24" LCD monitor a while back and finally got it fixed (bad cap in the power supply) and it would sure be cool to use it with my beige G3.  I got it all hooked up last night and have discovered that I cannot get it to display the native resolution (1920x1200.)  It will display...
  18. Brett B.

    Troubleshooting B&W G3 - No Image

    Have you moved the video card to a different PCI slot? Kinda sounds like a video card failure... do you have another one you could replace it with?  I'm assuming you've tested the monitor with a different computer and it works fine there?  PRAM battery is not required for it to boot.
  19. Brett B.

    Couldn't help myself...

    These are in somewhat rough condition so I figured I'd risk it... They were very dirty and had leaves, dead bugs, etc all over them. I don't think water alone would have cut it. I really rinsed them and blew the excess liquid off with compressed air. In any case, I recapped LC board #2 this...
  20. Brett B.

    Couldn't help myself...

    I washed the other three boards with dish soap and water, rinsed with distilled water and flushed with denatured alcohol last night.  Took them into my lair and recapped one of the LC boards - works great now!  Maybe this weekend I'll have time to recap the other two and wash the first one...
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