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I've tried searching for my topic but, so far, no hits. I have my SE/30 and it's a great computer. The CRT is very sharp but I'm noticing that it's getting harder to see what's on the screen. My eyes are having a problem seeing the small display clearly. I'm not willing to give my SE/30 up...

To All, the title says most of it. I have an HP Color Laserjet Pro, MFP M477fdw that is on my local wired network and prints fine for my modern PCs, a Dell XPS 9710 running win 11, a 2013 MBP (last allowed OS by Apple), an M1 MBP (running Tahoe) and my old HP Pavilion dv7 (this runs win 10, but...

As is well known, a PowerMacintosh 6500 can not be officially upgraded beyond OS 9.1. I am running a CD clean install of OS 9.1 on my IDE SD card but am having issues with Keychain. Basically, if I boot the PM6500 first completely to desktop and then start up my LC475 and SE/30 (both running...

I'll make this short - I have a PM6500 running 9.1, fresh install from CD. I also have an LC475 and SE/30 on the same home network. Originally, had the LC475 and SE/30 on an Appletalk network bridging over to the PM 6500's PCI ethernet card, but the printer and modem ports on the SE/30 are worn...

I have an interesting situation. I blew up my IDE boot drive on my 6500 yesterday. I lost access, to the files and with my limited knowledge, decided to replace the IDE drive with a 'new' one. I found a 300 GB Maxtor IDE drive and used a 6500 recover CD (I recently bought it for just this...

USB Drivers for a PCI Card « on: Yesterday at 10:59:58 PM » Quote Modify Good afternoon all, I hope you can help me. I recently purchased a 6500/300 at VCF Southwest. The Monday after, I got called into HR and was told I'm being laid off. The PowerMac runs very well but is hard to get...

As I mentioned last week, I purchased a PowerMac 6500/300 at VCF and, among other things, am working on getting it on line. I bought a Realtek RTL8139D PCI networking card for $15.00 and it's arrived. It's now installed and I found this on the Macintosh Repository "The Macintosh Repository...

Searching for a compatible networking card for the Power Mac 6500/300 I recently bought at VCF Southwest. Great bridge Mac but no networking. Apple Slot II cards start at $100 and are made with the RTL8139 chip. What I've read online indicates that any PCI networking card made with this chip...

My opinions are mine alone and my interest in sharing this is to generate debate and to spur others to express their opinions. For a long time I avoided the Macintosh because I was pissed at how Apple had terminated the Apple II line after supporting them for so long, giving them the time and...

Good afternoon All, I'm sorry to bother everyone as I'm such a Mac nub but I'm trying to figure out the state of the Mac accelerator world. I have recently gotten back into my retro Macs and bought a pre-2.0 Booster 50-SE30F as it works transparently with my SE/30. I've done some further...

On YouTube, I watched JDW's video on comparing replacement PSUs for the SE and SE/30. He mentions that Apple's main wiring harness wires are 22 AWG instead of 18 AWG. Zigzagjoe had pointed this out and found 18 AWG wires precut to the right length with Molex connectors at Digikey. During this...

I've searched this site for Performa 6218CD Hard Drive replacements but found nothing specific, so I'm posting my question here. If there is a previous post that answers my question, please let me know. Anyway, I bought a used 6218 years ago (with Apple Color Monitor) from eBay but life got in...

Good Afternoon you all, I need some help. I own a SE/30 (which I love!) and an LC 475 (which is a great Mac!). I'm bringing them back up after several years and I originally put SCSI2SD cards to replace their HDs. Now I want to put them online and the easiest way is through WiFi. I have...

Good Morning All, I have completed the upgrades to my SE/30 and I thought I'd share my experience.  I replaced the system HD with a 16 GB SCSI2SD divided into 5 partitions.  The first one I kept down to 2 GBs for compatibility, three more sized at 4 GBs, and the final leftover is 718 MBs.  The...

Hello everyone.  I got my SE/30 up and running yesterday.  I brought it out of storage last week to replace the dirty ROM with a clean one from bigmessowires but the CRT display would blink on and off.  I left it on for a while and it eventually stopped that, but it tried to boot but hung.  Then...

Hi All, as promised I've been working on speeding up my LC475.  I have two motherboards but one case.  I found the documents online for speeding up an LC475 to 33 or even 40 MHz.  So I ordered the switches, wires, resistors, heat shrink, etc., to add the mod.  I had already purchased a couple of...

Okay, I'm officially pissed.  I thought what I had done was fine but now I appear to have screwed myself so I need some help.  Here's what's going on. I replaced the System drive in my LC475 with an SCSI22SD version 5B and a 32GB SD card.  Of course I know I would have to partition the card and...

Good Evening all.  Since I have an SCSI2SD with 32GBs of storage on my LC475 to run OS 7.5.5 (with 136 MBs of RAM), I got rambunctious and decided to install OS 8.1 on a new miniSD card and remove the Apple IIe card and put in a Farallon LC ethernet card.  The installation went perfectly and the...

Good Afternoon everyone.  I have finished upgrading my slot loading iMac G3 DV with a 500 MHz G3, 1 GB of RAM and a 64 GB SD based IDE system drive running 9.2.2.  I have Netscape Communicator 4.77 which chokes on just about any website I go to.  I ran into Classilla 9.3.3 and it works a lot...

This is an informational post for anyone thinking about this.  I bought a used slot loading iMac G3 and added RAM to bring it up to 1 Gigabyte and the OS to 9.2.2.  I purchased an IDE I/F card for using an SD memory card instead of a spinning drive.  The original drive was a Maxtor 30 GB HD that...