Recent content by Nycturne

Oh yeah. My father’s Mac at the time was a 7300. When I moved out I gave him my G4 upgrade from an 8600. He had to remove it when he ran into those weird issues with OrangePC and CPU upgrades.

On some level, I'd love to get my hands on a 660, but I don't think many of them ever got out in the wild. Growing up, my father had grabbed a 5xx series card so that he could do some Windows-only stuff for work without having a separate PC at home. I wound up using it for some Windows 95/98 era...

The timing of this video was spot-on. I had just got a hold of a logic board I wanted to use for this exact project around the time the video came out. Left on a long trip immediately after so I'm getting back into it. When it comes to the case parts though, I'm wondering how folks are setting...

The fish smell is one I still remember from high school. Some capacitor is failing, possibly leaking. Seems like you are on the right track, but still need to track down the failing capacitor. I'd also be checking voltage at different points in the power supply to make sure there isn't a short...

Considering how rare these are starting to get, I hope he says yes. Fingers crossed that the capacitor hasn't eaten too many traces. It looks to be in pretty good shape otherwise. This reminds me I need to make sure I have the right parts on hand to recap my own IIe card here soon.

Got a couple spools in today, and printed out a replacement power button for a 7300. Looking good. Thanks for working to make this available.

I was a bit young when Bill was having his impact at Apple, but Hypercard was still a big thing for young me. It was where I first started trying to build something with a computer rather than just playing with the computer. And much of his work on QuickDraw which I delved into during high...

The goal here is to have a high enough resistance to not conduct, but still not be seen as "open" either. The thing that the AI didn't mention is that the resistance goal is somewhere between 10^5 and 10^12 Ohms, depending on exactly what you are aiming for in terms of dissipation. So >10k and...

I missed out as well, but will be looking to pick up a spool or two once it's back in stock. Meanwhile, it looks like Ars picked up on this too? EDIT: I just rechecked and it still says in stock for me. So I placed an order. Let's see what happens...

I’ve only got a couple spares, so I use the ESD bags I got when buying upgrades off eBay. If I had more, I’d print this out. I stumbled into the thread because it did look like it might be useful a bit later for me. Since I do have a printer though, I can use some PETG-CF I have, or order some...

My one correction here is that ESD bags aren’t RF shielded, at least not intentionally. Circuits generally aren’t vulnerable to RF in the sense of getting damaged, outside of an EMP or similarly strong field. They are vulnerable to an early death if exposed to the couple-thousand volts in a...

I do mention details that are useful specifically for people in your situation. It's why I posted despite failing to post it yesterday when I intended to, and having others post similar information, because there's useful information when you either can't use CF filament, or don't have an...

The ability to dissipate charge without sending it through the electronics. i.e. slightly conductive, but not the point that it could carry any real current. Not sure about the answer to this one, specifically, but one could always print using filament that is slightly conductive. There's...

When the communication is simple serial, the testing costs probably aren't all that high. So long as you decided both platforms would use the same packet format, and the same RS-232 conventions, it wouldn't be hard to test it. And in some ways, testing the Mac implementation against the DOS one...

This makes me wonder if someone has tried to implement mDNS for older systems or not.