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Page 303 of MacWorld Mac SECRETS (6th [unlimited] Edition) 2001 has the (a?) story. The effect is peculiar to System 7.6. It's not known whether the unpredictable occurrence is the result of an incomplete Easter Egg, but the code lies in the DSAT 0 resource (visible using ResEdit). What is of...

Capacitor-failure may produce a variety of defects. You appear to have more than one of them. From your description, the audio output sounds to have been affected. If you found capacitor goo under the PSU, power to the MLB may have been affected. The behaviour of the PSU may indicate either...

In the case of the solitary main cap. in a PSU such as that from an MDD, that is probably less true. If the capacitor's demise in each case also took with it the FETs, that might be a different story in terms of cost. 360W PSUs go variously from USD150 used to USD300 new before postage, from...

And I thought that Silverlining 6.5.8 (with FireWire firmware update) was the latest and last for 9.2.2. However, the news that 6.5.9 gives you is the most chilling that can be received: 'Not ready'. It shows you that the drive's Partition 1 content: Name: Apple Type: Apple_partition_map...

What is attached to the riser? A ROM card is essential, since there is no onboard ROM, and a riser may be expected to do something other than raise the ROM card. An aside—prompted by curiosity—that I have to raise concerns jumpers on the MLB. How do they lie on your MLB? de

Unless the dust in your SE is electrically conductive (unlikely), its principal effects are going to be in inhibiting cooling and in shortcircuiting traces/pins when wetted (which should be seldom). Dust is extremely unlikely to produce SadMac codes relating to software hiatus or to physical...

Whether in target disk mode or housed in an external enclosure, which are both perfectly suitable starting points for mounting the 'Book's HDD on the desktop of the G3, the 'Book's HDD has to declare itself as containing a mountable volume/partition. The HDD's disk driver (which resides in one...

Target Disk mode makes the target (victim?) drive into an insensate appendage of the host computer, just as if it were physically installed as an internal drive of the host. If your 'Book's drive then responds to Apple's disk utilities from the G3, mirabile visu. If not, resist the urge...

The verdigris-like green deposit induced by the (barely) alkaline electrolyte of electrolytic caps does indeed need to be removed so that you can be sure that no traces have been severed during its formation. Had that been so your linguistic response might well have included Quel dommage, or...

Will the 'Book boot from a CD/DVD, or a bootable external drive, or in target disk mode so that you can interrogate it from another Mac? What you describe could be a very proper response from the Mac to a failed HDD, ie 'I can't find a valid startup volume'. It could not quit an inaccessible...

Call me a Jeremiah if you will, but washing off capacitor goo is not a fix, even temporarily. It's a respite, at best. A fix is capacitor replacement. I'd be interested to hear from fellow-enlisted about their experiences with MDD power supplies. I've just replaced the dead PSUs in a 1GHz DP...

Good price on a good acquisition. A missing drive is much more easily overcome than is missing RAM in a IIfx, so take comfort. Even 8 x 1MB is a good start, and if you have more, a better start. There's always booting from an FDD for your preliminary checks. Do you but enjoy! de

The FDD is polled first for a valid System Folder by the system during startup from cold. If the drive's mechanism is working properly, holding down the mousebutton during startup should eject an already-present diskette. If this technique is not successful, and if you cannot use the...

My UR-30 set would still be in use if the plastic 'skin' over the ear-surrounding foam had lived as long as the speakers themselves. A pity, because they are good, even (or especially) when driven by a solid-state amp. that I built in 1978, and which still performs flawlessly. de

I'm not quite sure what impelled your opening question. Certainly EveryMac lists 6.0.7 to 7.5.5 for the Classic. However, an 8-MHz 68000 Mac with 1-4MB of RAM is already breathless under 7.5, and hides under the table if you even think about putting 7.5.5 onto it. I find that a Classic is...

Support for AppleTalk was dropped from OS X v10.4 onwards. However, TCP/IP will suffice to mount drives from Macs running OS 9.1 to 10.4.x on a Tiger machine. You can mount a Tiger Mac's drive's alias on a client if the client runs from OS 7.6.1 to 10.4.x. The referenced thread is one of...

Wouldn't a browser that did not import be somewhat handicapped? de

Understood, and I have complete sympathy with the viewpoint. That said, however, I have to admire the crafting of a catchy double-entendre such as 'SuperDuper!' for an app. My posts were just another of the OT asides that even the nicest threads can generate. No-one despises you for not being...

Not a mere habit, but a convention of the language. A king. The King. A government. The Government. A little cheese. The Little Cheese. English-speakers could as well, and with as little point, criticize Romance languages for not capitalizing proper names when it is proper to do so...

Why not let the imagination loose, but focus on the appropriate gender as tomlee59 has suggested? Water bat Das Käselein? Il formaggino? Da liddle chiz? Caseus parvus? Or mebbe let its dad name it something like Browser6? de