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My turn at trying to get one of these Laserwriter II printers up and running. I received a relatively good looking Laserwriter IIf earlier this year (@techstep picked it up for me from an e-cycler). I ended up going back to that e-cycler the following week and picking up a banged up Laserwriter...

My Power Macintosh 8500 came with 1GB of memory. Do I really need that much? No. But nonetheless, the massive delay on power up due to the memory check is painful. There are a lot of references to using the hidden option in the Memory control panel to disable this check. I decided to try it and...

I've been playing with a Rocket 25i (in the process of upgrading it to a 33 based on a writeup @Phipli did -- but have not done this upgrade yet) in a IIfx and had some observations, as well as some questions. RocketWare vs RocketShare on a IIfx I had asked a few questions on some threads here...

I've got an SE/30, 8MB of memory, stock ROM with Mode32, running System 7.1.1, and it has a Bolle GrayCake internal grayscale card. If I set the video mode (via the Monitors control panel) to Black and White, the setting sticks across reboots/shutdowns. If I set the video mode to Color/256, the...

Procured another SE/30 and have been testing the logic board with a working recapped analog board/PSU. Gave it a good bath, recapped it, fixed a couple traces to the ASC to resolve sound issues, and got it working, or so I thought. I had been testing it with the logic board out of the chassis...

For those with functioning Laserwriter IIs, have you replaced the ozone filter and if so, with what? The Laserwriter IIf I recently picked up had a completely crumbled ozone filter. There isn't much on the site about it outside of Printerworks which is no longer in business. I know it's not...

Sorry, third thread on this (one for each of the IIfx, IIci, and now SE/30). Again, most people will opt for the Rominator or similar custom ROM. But a few folks were looking for a stock SE/30 ROM but with the memory test disabled (and stock checksum preserved) in order to boot faster and...

Similar to the modifications I recently made on the IIfx ROM, I've done the same on the for the IIci. Again, most people will opt for the Rominator or similar custom ROM. But I kind of wanted the stock IIci ROM but with the memory test disabled in order to boot faster. Again, posting this as a...

Most people will opt for the Rominator or similar custom ROM (derived from the IIsi) which works great on the IIfx. But I kind of wanted the stock IIfx ROM but with the memory test disabled in order to boot faster. So I decided to modify the IIfx ROM as a learning exercise. I'm posting this as a...

Leaving this here for future searchers looking at debugging a 512K with the flup flup flup noise from the analog board. (sorry, no pictures on this post) Corroded 512K Logic Board I received a 512K logic board that was in poor condition. It was evident the Mac it came from had seen moisture...

I've been slowly working on restoring a Power Macintosh 8500/180. It's fully recapped and I just have a ton of broken plastic to deal with. But noticed some strangeness today and was hoping for any insight before digging into it. Note that this machine came with a Newer 500MHz G3 CPU card...

I was looking through the system ROM for a PowerBook Duo 280c as part of looking into a strange icon using my duo dock. I saw what looked to be images in the ROM so I extracted out that data for 13 images and wrote a quick program that would render the images as ASCII. Here's an example of one...

I have a functional Duo Dock (it's the original with optional FPU, and replaced top cover to allow for the newer Duos like my 280c). It has no hard drive inside (no cable is plugged in). I do have a 3com Etherlink III nubus card installed (which works). When I insert my Duo 280c and power up, I...

Picked up a Powerbook Duo 280c the other day.. paid a bit more than I wanted (just slightly) but I had been eyeballing trying out the Duo ecosystem for a while. It came to me working but had a high frequency whine from the screen, the drive was noisy, and I could hear plastic rattling inside...

I'm still working on a Powerbook Duo 280c and it's coming along nicely. But there was this whine coming from the screen when I received it. And unfortunately, I had hopes it would go away once the unit was fully recapped (screen, inverter, logic board) but unfortunately, the whine persists...

I picked up a Duo 280c and it had an apple 8mb memory module installed for a total of 12mb. Seems like finding a 32 memory module is going to be quite difficult, is that right? Is the only process to just keep watching eBay (where the prices seem nuts) or just pick up a dead duo that happens to...

Got bored, so decided to convert one of my internal SCSI Fujitsu magneto optical drives into an external drive. Rather trivial, just needed to figure out the power situation and then convert from an internal 50 pin connector to a DB25. These MO drives only need +5V (the 12V is not connected on...

(searched and I couldn't find anything - maybe my search skills are going bad) I have an ImageWriter II that has the AppleTalk card (and enabled). I am able to hook it up via AppleTalk to one of my computers running System 7.1.1. I go to Chooser and select AppleTalk ImageWriter and then...

Hoping to hear from other members on their techniques to hold a third party ROM in place on an SE/30 (given the thinner PCB). This applies to the Rominator and others, in my case a SMC ROM. I've seen the piece of paper and rubber band techniques. I'm currently using 3D printed clips I found...

The on board internal speaker on my Quadra 800 makes a loud pop when I shut it down, I assume due to the voltage change on power off. Can't be good for the speaker I would think? Some of my other Macs also do this but much quieter than my Quadra 800. Is this normal for these older Macs or is...