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    joevt replied to the thread Beige G3 RAM and PSU questions:.
    Read the feature control bits with this: F3000038 rl@-flip 8 u.r which works without opening the PC floppy device in Open Firmware.
  • J
    joevt replied to the thread Beige G3 RAM and PSU questions:.
    The rev D ROM does have support. Check the Heathrow feature control bits (32-bit register at offset 0x38 of the mac-io device). /**...
  • croissantking
    croissantking replied to the thread Looking for some SE/30 repair direction.
    Looks to me like one of the VRAM chips isn’t being written to correctly and is displaying uninitialized data.
  • croissantking
    croissantking replied to the thread Beige G3 RAM and PSU questions:.
    It might be firmware related. I don’t quite get how a PC floppy drive would have integrated with Mac OS, though. Normally, when you...
  • Phipli
    Phipli commented on Renegade's profile post.
    Don't worry about a microscope or fine soldering tips for that mod. It's all normal scale stuff, not fiddly. I don't have a microscope...
  • Phipli
    Phipli reacted to Renegade's comment on Renegade's profile post with Like Like.
    I bookmarked your article a while ago. But I’ll have to wait until I get a microscope and the appropriate soldering tip. :) The 33MHz...
  • bibilit
    bibilit replied to the thread Weird Mac SE configuration?.
    I have not found any evidence anywhere, but i can think about serial numbers as the following : first generation M5010 were twin 800k...
  • M
    mkuenzel replied to the thread Recapping Service in Germany?.
    There is the forum of the "Verein zum Erhalt klassischer Computer e.V.", https://forum.classic-computing.de/forum/. A user called...
  • demik
    demik replied to the thread SCSI Printers: LaserWriter II SC or Personal LaserWriter SC.
    Just as a note if other people end up there: You cannot select a IIsc or Personal LaserWriter SC in the chooser list (on the right...
  • C
    CC_333 replied to the thread Beige G3 RAM and PSU questions:.
    Indeed! But, @croissantking discovered how to get the beige G3's unimplemented USB circuits working, so this couldn't be that hard...
  • Renegade
    Renegade commented on Renegade's profile post.
    I bookmarked your article a while ago. But I’ll have to wait until I get a microscope and the appropriate soldering tip. :) The 33MHz...
  • Durosity
    Durosity replied to the thread Beige G3 RAM and PSU questions:.
    Well that’s a bummer! And quick work.. I was gonna go try that out tomorrow when I get back from Glasgow, but you beat me to the punch 😅
  • Phipli
    Phipli replied to the thread Beige G3 RAM and PSU questions:.
    They planned to move to PC floppy drives to reduce costs, but ended up not doing it on the G3 (perhaps because it didn't work). In the...
  • Trianon
    Trianon replied to the thread Beige G3 RAM and PSU questions:.
    I'm also working on a beige G3 these days and was wondering about this connector : - there are to bays in the top plastic for an FDD...
  • Scott Baret
    Scott Baret replied to the thread Plus - Partial Power?.
    In this case it may be what wasn't done given that this computer has essentially sat for 35 years. I'm also not sure what kind of...
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