Recent content by François

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!

You can easily remove the SD extender from its shell, and design/print a combined bracket/shell that I think would provide a better and more robust fit.

You need one of these : https://ebay.us/m/mUGERK And set JP1 to Lo

Do you have the USB speakers? Does the Cube chime?

Did you test it outside of its enclosure? The power button is very finicky, and sometimes detects a touch when there is none. When a normally functioning Cube is put to sleep, the power led pulsates slowly, like the slow breath of a person sleeping. The problem might be the power button...

In case you didn’t know about it already, the schematics for the SE/30 logic board have been redrawn using modern software! Get them on github. They may be useful for troubleshooting…

I don’t think it’s really harmful to run it, C5 is part of the audio circuitry, so you just won’t have sound. The problem is not the missing capacitor, but the leaked electrolyte from failing capacitors that is eating, and thus destroying, the circuit board. So better remove the remaining...