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Yay! Thankfully none of my old compact Macs have a screen geometry problem, but if one does, I've learned a lot from this thread!

That’s unfortunate that adjusting the controls themselves didn’t work. Good luck adjusting the yoke, and hopefully that fixes it!

I just realized that I was probably wrong in telling you where your focus, height, and width adjustments were! I was thinking about my Macintosh collection, not including the Classic, which all have those adjustments inside the case. Apparently, there's a service panel that can be removed to...

I'm not really an expert on CRTs, but a quick Google search suggests that adjusting the deflection yoke might fix your problem. Just to be sure however, maybe try adjusting three of the four variable resistors accessible on the side of the analog board facing outwards from the machine first...

Are you testing it without the back case on? I've noticed that when I test my Mac Plus without it's back shell on, the image becomes somewhat distorted, maybe with some ripples. Was it doing this before you recapped it?

Today, I stuck another hard drive in the IIx, along with another high-density floppy drive. The hard drive I put in is an old Rodime 20MB hard drive from my external Rodime drive enclosure that was designed for the Macintosh Plus. One or two of the capacitors in that enclosure had failed, and...

I'm very sorry if my description of the problem wasn't great, but I could tell that the platters were in fact spinning. I could hear a loud, continuous whir, and after a second boot attempt the drive would work. It was only after I opened the drive and clumsily dropped my pick in that the...

I think I was a bit unlucky with my attempt, since I couldn't get the screw under the warranty label out but had already broken the seal.

Do you know the voltages that I should be expecting from the logic board?

I'm pretty new to this sort of emulation, so what exactly does this mean? What can this do differently, as opposed to using a BlueSCSI that is not network enabled? Sorry if this question is pretty stupid...

Unfortunately, as the swap meet is getting closer, it is starting to look like I will not be able to go... It's a decently long drive, and the planning just isn't working out. Wish I could be there!

Hey, I know it's been a while since I've visited this site, but I was wondering: what does using Wi-Fi with a BlueSCSI look like? What does it do? I do plan on buying an unassembled BlueSCSI kit from JCM soon (probably two, since I am aiming on recapping and cleaning up my SE FDHD in the near...

That's pretty interesting! That would explain why the IIx doesn't have a DB-19 port on the back. I just assumed that since emulating a hard drive running MacOS 7.1 on the BMOW Floppy Emulator was possible on my Mac Plus (and maybe my SE FDHD, I can't remember) from the rear DB-19 connector, it...

My LC II makes a startup chime, followed by a loud feedback sound. I noticed that I can adjust the pitch by wiggling a chip that is in the path of some corrosion. Since you cleaned your motherboard (and the LC III is pretty different from the LC II), our problems are probably unrelated, but I...

Quick update, the BMOW Floppy Emulator idea I had didn't work. I feel pretty stupid.

**Note: I yap a lot about uselessly trying to fix a Quantum ProDrive in the following paragraph, so skipping it will likely be in your best interest. This afternoon when I went to turn on my IIx, the hard drive spun up but I got nothing but the floppy icon. This was pretty normal; my IIx has a...

So, tonight ended in tears. My replacement Nichicon capacitors arrived two days early, and I got to recapping the power supply board. It was a long, frustrating process, but eventually I got it done. So, I went to putting the monitor back together, but first I wanted to dump out this black dirt...

Never mind - not long after I made this post, my DVD drive bit the dust and would cause the iMac to freeze every time I plugged it in! I think I will invest in another DVD drive, but first I have some other things I want to try out first, like starting up off an external hard drive.

You're right! I already have a Newer branded SCSI MicroDock for my PowerBook Duo, but it has an HDI-30 port. This lead me to assume that other SCSI docks I would find for the Duo would also be HDI-30, but I guess I was wrong. Thank you very much for telling me this!

I recently decided to try out my iMac G3 again that I got a year ago at the VCF East, since I haven't used it for a while, and it's just been sitting on my bench. I do remember that when I used it a while back, I was able to boot off my external DVD drive to install Mac OS 10.3 from CD. This is...