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My first printer was a StyleWriter II. I still vividly remember the sound it made doing the test print (which as I recall they used as the sound effect of a fax machine in Lost In Translation)

Ah but cheap dongles didn’t exist back then, plus not ideal for a computer you’re moving around with you.. the USB port would likely end up getting damaged. Thing is.. back when the airport system first appeared the need for the PC Card slot was already starting to become limited. I had a...

I’d agree about Byrd’s reflow suggestion, but also check the caps used themselves.. I’ve found the CC to be very twitchy with non low ESR caps, so if they’re just run of the mill caps it may cause odd behaviour.

Did it do this before recapping, and what did they recap? Just the motherboard, or the analogue board too?

I finally got a copy of MacFormat issue 1, all for the low low price of £1.43! Been looking for a copy of this for years and it was always a ridiculous price!

Oooh now this is useful info. I currently have 2 faulty LWIIs (both single red light after powering up which I seem to recall is a resistor issue) but I imagine after I get it working I’m going to have other issues like this.

As I recall that was Apple’s official guidance to resolve this issue.

I’m curious as to if there’s a particularly good guide for removing one that anyone can recommend? It’s not something I’ve been terribly good at.. I’ve just tried removing one from a knackered board as a test run and.. I’ve not improved 😅

It was @croissantking , who created a beautiful recapping guide for the QT! I do have one too.. really must recap it soon!

Don't suppose anyone happens to have a driver for this NuBus ethernet card? I've had a search around for anything relating to its markings like SSI Nubus A1 and SSI NB128 but without much luck, and I've tried some other drivers just to see if they happened to work, but to no avail!

Impressive! I have wanted to try making a 13w3 cable.. I have 3 portrait displays but only 2 cables.. it would be cool to make a 3rd cable and have all 3 hooked up to my Mac II.

Back in the day when these were dropping like flies, I swear I could have dismantled and rebuilt one of those iBooks blindfolded. Those army guys doing it with their rifles woulda been nothing compared to how fast I was at it. I’d be willing to give reflowing the chip a go, but...

I have one where just running the hot air station over it got it working again, and it’s still working 2 years later.

Oh and try changing out the ram on the Mac side too first, could easily be it’s dodgy!

Do you get any video? Recapping is a good place to start, the caps on mine were starting to leak when I did it last year. Have you tried to run it without the PC Card in place? As for the board, it only works with certain revisions of the 630 board.. it needs to be the model with two SIMM...

You learn something new every day! I’m convinced I once saw a PowerBook grey ADV Mouse 1 (the square one) but as best I can tell they never actually existed.

@mg.man, what a coincidence…

So last week I won an auction on eBay for 5 big boxes of random cables and such. I didn’t actually mean to win.. I put in a bid of £5.. and it went for £1.86. It wasn’t that far a drive away, so went down there one morning and picked them up in my little Zoe! While I was in Nottingham we went...

I presume you don’t have another floppy drive you can swap it around with? Also is it the correct floppy drive for the IIci? As I recall the later manual inject models didn’t work properly with older Macs

Very nice! I’ve never had a 475 in my collection before, must get one someday!