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    Atari ST forum permissions?

    Much obliged!
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    Upgrading the 1MB Stacy to 4MB

    This was a huge pain. The 1MB unit doesn't seem to be upgradeable with the Atari 4MB card; perhaps a third party one? I got it in there but I had to cut the metal shield which was its own adventure. https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/01/refurb-weekend-atari-stacy.html
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    Atari ST forum permissions?

    Wanted to talk about my recent Stacy upgrade semi-debacle, but the ST Forum says I don't have sufficient permissions to post there? (The other Atari forums look okay.)
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    Playing with a Recreated TechStep

    My O.G. TechStep will not talk to one of my IIcis. I "read somewhere" that this could be due to a bad resistor pack. It will also not talk to my SE/30. I snooped the serial connection and determined that the computer is not responding to the *V command despite supporting everything else.
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    "Fixed" my Canon Cat floppy drive, but Cat doesn't think it's reading/writing

    I'm wondering if it's misaligned, yeah. It looks like it's seated just fractionally further back than mine is. Unfortunately this would be very hard to figure out since I have no idea exactly what properly aligned means for a Cat drive. This won't help you sell it, but since it's possible to...
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    Mac intake and outtake fans are not working on power Mac G5 quad

    Are any of the check lights on when it runs?
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    "Fixed" my Canon Cat floppy drive, but Cat doesn't think it's reading/writing

    No, they don't need to be prepared in any special way - the Cat will reformat the disk if necessary. It sounds like your drive is indeed busted. :( That said, I'm having difficulty visualizing how the drive head looks. Can you post a picture? When you say it doesn't click in place, what are you...
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    Eric's ANS 700 tinker log

    The Github site says that build is for AIX 4.3, so I'm not surprised it doesn't work. Making an ANS DOOM has been on my to-do list for awhile and maybe I should dust that off (it would also work with my ThinkPad 860 and my "800" if I ever get it booting from SCSI again). I should note that...
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    Eric's ANS 700 tinker log

    The ROM is indeed already mapped. The ANS 500 ROM can be trivially dumped with h# ffc00000 h# 00400000 and then obviously processing the output. I did this at 19200 but I don't see why 57600 wouldn't work. quake.sw.wimp (part of the tar) should not require Ultimedia. However, it probably won't...
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    Eric's ANS 700 tinker log

    The disc should have a ISO 9660 partition, so if you can't see that with it mounted (any system can read that part), then it may be a bad image. You might find the LV expansion process easier with smit. Are you actually running an AIX DOOM build on it? Quake should have a non-Ultimedia build...
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    Apple III garbage on screen at startup

    I'm going to have to dig my A3 out of storage and have a look at it.
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    Fun with TAM's. (upgrading Twentieth anniversary Macs with IDE SSD adapters, Sonnet CPU upgrades, BlueSCSI, and lots of love

    I thought the issue on the subwoofer was more that the contacts to the umbilical cable were sometimes bad. I have a TAM PSU with the buzz that I need to do work on, though I also have one that has very clean sound.
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    Open Box iBook G3 900

    "Lightly used" indeed!
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    Apple III garbage on screen at startup

    The video ROM might help, since you don't have anything recognizeable as characters in those pictures (the A3 should come up in text mode). Mine had properly formed characters; the screen was just garbage.
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    Apple III garbage on screen at startup

    I don't have much insight here for you but my Apple III did something similar and I put it in storage to ponder how to fix it. I don't remember the caps looking as bad as that but I'll check them again next time I'm in that unit.
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    Having issues with Disk Copy 4.2 (running in classic) on mac os x 10.4 tiger

    All iMac G4 systems should be able to boot OS 9, either officially or (for those units that Apple didn't support) using the unofficial booters at https://www.macos9lives.com/downloads .
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    [eMac/1.25] OS 9 no longer boots after installing OS X on separate partition

    What does it say in Open Firmware when you try? You didn't whack the OS 9 drivers in the process, I hope? The Tiger installer may have installed a different driver.
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    Power supply interchangeability between different 68K Macintosh models?

    Great list. Pretty sure the Power Mac 7600 PSU is interchangeable with the 72/73/7500 also, though I'd have to dig mine out of storage to check.
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    Software-only OVERCLOCK for LC475, LC575, Quadra 605

    Well, I'll just say for one: it's not that I'm uninterested, it's that I don't know how my Mystic Colour Classic would react.