Search results

This is just my own experience here but I have had more dead Western Digital drives than any others by FAR.  That's including everything from the smallest IDE drives up to the present.  Lately it seems like their "Blue" line has the most failures.  Lots of dead Toshibas too... I never...

I would really advise against opening up every drive you've got unless it's found to have issues.  You are just inviting dust and other crap in, they are really best left alone.   The vast majority of my old 50 pin drives are still working great.  There were quite a few Quantums that died over...

Hmm, now to find a 64MB single bank SIMM.  I know the 32MB and 64MB ones I have now will not work in the single bank slot.   FWIW this 128MB stick I got was from "memorymasters" on eBay and is FPM, non-parity, 60ns

Well, it appears that it also supports 128MB modules!  Sweet! I also have confirmation that the DOS card definitely does NOT support my 64MB stick.  It showed up as a 16MB module.  32MB works fine.  Kinda weird but whatever.

The rubber bumper in question is attached to the magnet, correct?  I found one there and it's in good shape.  I understand that there's one under the platter too, but the head doesn't appear to get stuck there and it moves freely as long as it can't get stuck on that parking brake deal.  I will...

I have used a couple Crucial SSD drives that are $35 shipped (240GB.) Cheap and seem to be good quality. I ordered another one for this MacBook, I'm sure it will help quite a bit.  My stash of SATA hard drives is really growing... I hope I'll be able to use them someday. Kind of a shame to have...

I found this thread last weekend when I was attempting to fix an 80MB ProDrive ELS that would spin up, click and spin down.  I threw away a pile of these years ago but am slowly running out of good 50 pin drives so I figured... why not try to fix it.  The issue on mine was not the rubber...

I now also have a mid 2012 13" MacBook Pro.  I haven't "daily driven" a Mac since OS9 was new software so this is more or less new territory for me.  My main laptop for quite a while has been a Dell Latitude E6420... love the thing, it's just about as old as the MacBook and they have about the...

Unfortunately I have made zero progress with it.  I poked around and checked continuity and voltage at several points on the motherboard, and haven't found anything obviously broken but that's about as far as I've come.  I think I am at the point where I need someone who really knows what...

Just for fun I ordered a 128MB SIMM.  We'll see if that works, 148MB memory would be dope. I will have to try the 64MB stick on the DOS card.  I'd be shocked if it works.  I was surprised that it worked on the Mac side. I also tried two Kingston 64MB SIMMs in my 6200/5260/120 machine and only...

I got two of these 64MB 72 pin SIMMs quite a while back and finally got around to using them.  One went into my LC475 where it worked great, and not unexpectedly.  The other was destined for my LC630 DOS Compatible machine which allegedly has a ceiling of 52MB - 32 in one slot, 16 in the other...

Oh yeah, I forgot, I also found 2x 64MB 72 pin SIMMs a while back.  I finally got around to installing one of them in my LC475.  So I have a total of 68MB now.  I think that is my record for most memory in a 68k at this point although the SE/30 will have it beat.  I need to see if the other 64MB...

Apple System Profiler under your Apple menu in OS9 should tell you what firmware version you have installed... or you could just try installing one or the other and see if it fails because it's already installed.   These might be useful links: http://lowendmac.com/lab/05/0301.html...

Good score.  I had a Daystar 601 upgrade in my old IIci - they are cool upgrades.  Might think about rigging up a fan to blow over the heatsink, mine ran incredibly hot.

Interesting.  I don't think I've ever installed OS X first on a dual boot machine.  Keep us updated, I'm sure it's something simple.

I think so?  I was looking around in the Netflix settings the other night for that and couldn't find anything that would let me limit content to SD.  I have the HD subscription, seems like there was an option but maybe they removed it. Anyway the Netflix app on Windows 10 does not work well.  I...

I ended up ordering a 10.6 retail DVD from ebay - was $15.  I also installed a 500GB 7200RPM drive in the Mini - that was a nice performance boost.  The old 5400 drives are just so slow. As a side note, Windows 10 runs fairly well on this thing.  Way better than I would have expected.  I...

I believe you must use Extended aka HFS+ on a partition that will also have OS X on it.  OS 9 doesn't really care.   Someone will correct me if I'm leading you astray here, it has been quite a few years since I was reinstalling Tiger on a regular basis.

They can be on the same partition, however, how is the hard drive formatted now?  Mac OS standard or Mac OS extended?  That may be part of the problem.

I'm pretty set on keeping it the way it is...it's part of its history now.  Besides I'm sure an original ][ top would be pretty hard to find these days, and probably expensive... and then I'd have an extra top with no home. Kinda glad I kept all my Apple II software years ago when I sold my old...