Recent content by François

You can do it yourself: How to rebuild / refurbish an Apple Newton MessagePad 2000 / 2100 battery pack

Better utilize low friction oil, like SuperLube. Or maybe sewing machine oil?

I’m pretty sure the diodes are needed. It’s a factory bodge, it’s manual labor, you don’t do it unless it is absolutely necessary!

The diodes are 1N914B & 1N5231B. The complete reference for the chip is LM2679 S-ADJ. I tried to get a good look at the markings on the diodes by moving them around, and managed to break the solder points! It was then easier to read the markings, but a real pain to solder the diodes...

The belt from my Apple 2c drive is not very round anymore: Where can I find a replacement?

There is a deliciously old school website dedicated to computer appearances in movies: Starring the Computer. They seem to have missed this episode of Black Mirror! I recently rewatched the (very much NSFW) 1992 movie Single White Female and was surprised to see a few Macintoshes (that were...

You will need the CD-ROM Drive SCSI Adapter. The SCSI bus isn’t accessible anywhere else internally. Check out Apple’s Service Source for a complete take apart guide.

I’ve found another iMovie disc in my huge pile, it may well be from the later Cube packet:

French software and documentation for an iMac G3/350:

Here’s an earlier version of the software discs for the G4 Cube: The pack has a different part number: (And yes I have two Cubes, my father and I each bought one when they were new!)

And the documentation:

Speaking of the G4 Cube, here’s what we got in France: It’s an enveloppe containing optical discs:

I’m pretty sure I got this thing with my G4 Cube:

ADC is using DVI signals, and HDMI is compatible with these signals. If you have an ADC to DVI adapter and a DVI to HDMI cable, you can connect a vintage Mac to a modern display. Here is an ADC to DVI adapter: But the interface shown in the first post is for the reverse, to use an Apple ADC...

In this Instructable (step 3), the guy molded a perspex sheet onto the original CRT!