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Hi, A little while back I purchased the amazing ESP32 card for the Apple II, and would love to finally get my Apple IIe working well around this. I don't have any working disk drives so previously used a floppy emu on it, however have a BOOTI card in it now. These are the cards that are in...

Hi, I’ve an early Novy 68020 accelerator in a Mac Plus, I’ve had it piggybacked off the Plus motherboard harness +5V and experiencing power issues. The Plus analog board is recapped and with the accelerator running it takes a few power cycles to get it running, voltages are rock solid but I...

Hi, I'm building up my childhood Mac Plus with accelerator and internal SCSI, with packing boxes. This is the box I have - can anyone please clarify was it for the beige or platinum model? Kind of hard to discern (the keyboard keycaps are kind of dark here over the light grey of platinum)...

Hi, I’m souping up an early stock Transwarp GS accelerator to hopeful 12-13Mhz. Part of the process is to upgrade the WD65C816 CPU to a later revision. How do you get it out? I can’t see clips on the top frame, there are two large holes on either corner I thought you maybe insert something to...

Hi, I own and love using 2 x PowerBook 2400c - one a stock 180Mhz model, the other a 240Mhz G3 Newertech unit. Both have worked flawlessly for years, both had good batteries, the G3 unit was the oldest where I replaced several SMT fuses when received. The G3 unit started to show issues a year...

Hi, Years back did anyone try this? Stripping down an Orinoco Silver PCMCIA card to fit into the iMac G3 Airport card sled. https://lowendmac.com/2009/hacking-a-wifi-pc-card-to-work-in-apples-airport-card-slot/ Last time I bought an original 802.11b Airport card it was a few bucks - they're...

Hi all, I'm trying to get a 1st gen iPod 5GB running on my TAM, which has a USB/FW card working (Sonnet Tango). The iPod is running firmware V1.4 and is Windows formatted according to the device info. I bought it some years ago from the US and quite like the music installed but would like to...

Hi all, I'm currently restoring a PowerBook 520c, which has a 320MB 2.5" SCSI HD but presents with a startup password request via Norton Disklock (~ 1994 dated driver). Booting from CD it won't even detect the SCSI drive in Apple System Profiler or HD formatting tool. The computer unusually...

Hi all, I've 2 x original Mac 128K with "bit rot" on the memory of both boards. One board is untouched while the other has a couple of odd RAM chips replaced from past repairs. I'd like to replace all RAM in the Macs, recap analogue board, rebuild keyboard and service all floppy drives. For...

Hi, My first Mac was a Plus, and I've been collecting some parts over the years to restore a Platinum model. These are the parts I have on hand and querying what others would choose, and any snags I might encounter (eg. need to re-solder connectors, put in a CPU socket, clearance of parts). -...

Hi all, I've got this 1997 IBM PCMCIA CD data/audio drive (as used in ThinkPads), it has an integrated sound card, producing a lot of audio noise and unable to read media although it tries. About five SMD caps look as if they are leaking but can't work out the naming, this is what's listed on...

Hi all, I've HFS+ formatted 120GB CF drive, running Mac OS 9.1 that I physically plug into a Mac Pro running Mac OS X Monterey to copy a 60GB MP3 collection over to ("Music" folder from the default location in OS X). An issue I've found is once the drive is plugged back into my Mac (a TAM in...

Hi, I'm getting a pile of games installed on some late PPC Macs (largely running Mac OS 9.1), and finding most of the Sierra adventure titles (eg. Space Quest, Quest for Glory, Indiana Jones Fate of Atlantis) run fine but the music is very patchy, often muddled or with missing instruments. Are...

Hi all, I've a Radius Precision Color 8-24X nubus graphics card with V1.02 ROM, I'm looking for anything V2.0 ROM and above, programmer in hand ... The card came in a Mac IIci, I've a Daystar Turbo 601 that finally found its home in this Mac, which must run Mac OS 7.5.x, but the 8-24X card...

Hi all, I've 2 x 17" PowerBooks, the "final revision" 1.67Ghz, DLSD units with DDR2 RAM. Both came from random sources and both exhibit exactly the same issue - both can charge a battery, but won't power on unless you reset the Power Manager, they turn on with no chime, fans at full speed and...

Hi all, I've an empty Mac SE case and I'd like to try a non-destructive LCD inside with a Raspberry Pi or small PC innards. What piece of crap Aliexpress or eBay HDMI 4:3 LCD would you recommend - and should I go for 8 or 9" size (seems the 9" screen size is right on the edges while the 8" has...

Hi all, I've a largely stock enhanced Apple IIe that I'd like to add a SmartPort SD/CF boot device to, I've the Disk II card, Floppy Emu (but usually use this on my Macs, so probably not the best option). There are a lot of homebrew projects around however I'd be keen for a kit or affordable...

Hi all, I've a Quadra 700 I'm refurbing, it's currently on the bench and I'm putting in some random 256K VRAM modules for upgrades - all 80ns parts. Using a generic DB15 to VGA monitor adapter (no switches) to a generic VGA display, I can select 640 x 480 (60Hz) and 800 x 600 (56Hz) @ millions...

Hi all, I've been testing a 50Mhz Bolle/Daystar PowerCache in my SE/30 (recapped LB, PSU, AB) and appear to have encountered incompatibility using an Apple OEM IIfx ROM alongside - wondered if anyone had similar issues or workarounds. The stock SE/30 ROM is working fine. Under benchmarking...

Hi all, I've a marginal SE/30 I need to stress test for several hours to prove it's reliability - I've been using Norton System Info for this (manually running tests) what would others recommend as a continuous stress test? Thanks JB