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    (2) Macintosh SE/30's - Full Restoration

    Thinking about this a little more— given the inevitable electrolyte leaks happen across all of the boards in roughly similar locations, we have good techniques to find the common issues, but now that I am long past the point of frustration or impatience, I find that the variances from case to...
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    (2) Macintosh SE/30's - Full Restoration

    To my point, I think the question is too broad— you would need to ask, what Address lines could be broken between chip X and chip Y, or from the bus to chip X and so on. A broken address line to the sound chip, for example, might be fine until audio kicks in. That was the case while...
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    (2) Macintosh SE/30's - Full Restoration

    SO, I think the generalization gets mistakenly applied because address and data lines are on a “bus” and many components are tapping into that bus in parallel. I am perhaps oversimplifying it, but in my case, D31 may have only been broken between CPU and SCSI (or more likely, it was D31 on SCSI...
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    (2) Macintosh SE/30's - Full Restoration

    My SE/30 had a broken D31 to the CPU—something I did not find until I had problems mounting a SCSI drive. A bodge fixed it after some tedious continuity testing which was a balancing act front-to-back while trying to hold my probe on the right CPU pin. Perseverance pays off and a quick bodge had...
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    (2) Macintosh SE/30's - Full Restoration

    Thanks for sharing your journey! It is inspiring to see another example of someone taking on an SE/30 restoration project. Having been down that road myself, I know how much of an exercise in patience this really is. Mine took me a year, though I was working, and certainly not troubleshooting...
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    Installing Mac OS X Leopard on the Apple TV (1st generation)

    Ok, so the Wayback Machine was having some issues, down etc. but I did eventually a screenshot of the www.awkwardtv.org page with from Jun 7, 2012 showing content related to ATV OSX with 10.4.7. It’s just a screenshot, so no links to this content, but with some digging (and a functioning wayback...
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    Installing Mac OS X Leopard on the Apple TV (1st generation)

    Yeah, Last night I opened the original zip, mounted the .dmg and checked the version details. By the way, there is an easy way to determine the OS version if you know where to look: /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist It was definitely a 10.5.8 or something, NOT a 10.4 tiger...
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    Installing Mac OS X Leopard on the Apple TV (1st generation)

    Interesting. I am pretty sure that #4 on linked page was the image I shared. I later described upgrading my ATV using some iDeneb resources per the old akwardTV forum, but I thought this was a Tiger starting point. I assume from the comments on that page that someone has actually tried #4 and...
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    Installing Mac OS X Leopard on the Apple TV (1st generation)

    It looks like @scj312 grabbed the zip file I made with my old Tiger image (from original ATV Hacking, AkwardTV etc. days) and uploaded to the Garden: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/mac-os-x-apple-tv-1st-generation Which is good, because my old Mega upload is long since scrubbed.
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    3D Printing & MacEffects Appreciation

    Ok, I did a little sleuthing- - - @jmacz stalking on another forum. I am guessing this is another great restoration in a long line them. This is probably a MO drive, am I right?
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    3D Printing & MacEffects Appreciation

    Also, that ”Macintosh SE/30” is unique. . . A stock SE/30 name badge is next to the apple logo, not over on the right like the SE. Still, I love it!
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    3D Printing & MacEffects Appreciation

    @JDW This is your chance to dive into TinkerCAD! Or maybe Onshape? Honestly, I find I can knock together almost anything with TinkerCAD on my iPad fairly quickly. This is one of those little projects that’s really hard for someone else to design without being able to take a bunch of...
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    3D Printing & MacEffects Appreciation

    @wottle I noticed the bevel too. Hmmm. Until @jmacz shares the details we are left to speculate. I also see there is a crt/flat panel bezel adaptor—so pretty sure this is some kind of video display conversion as well, since that HDD icon is definitely dark blue! :unsure:
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    3D Printing & MacEffects Appreciation

    OK, so a matte white case looks pretty sweet, but thanks to your profile link, I am THRILLED to find your model of a PB5300 rear port cover! I used to search for this model once in a while but it has been a few months. Thanks for creating that. I can’t wait to try it!
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    3D Printing & MacEffects Appreciation

    Here’s my updated ADB Mouse with the MacEffects clear shell. This includes a clear homemade ADB cable as discussed previously, and my TPU strain relief fully assembled:
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    3D Printing & MacEffects Appreciation

    I just posted over in the 3D Printing forum my new ADB Mouse Cord Strain relief: https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/apple-adb-mouse-cord-strain-relief.4661/ This thread has been about 3D printing to be sure, so instead of a complete cross-post, you can check out the details at the link above...
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    Apple ADB Mouse Cord Strain Relief

    After recently migrating the innards of my SE/30 into a MacEffects clear shell, I did the same thing with the Apple ADB Mouse. This is the original mouse with the black roller ball inside. The problem was the cord, and more to the point of this post—the strain relief. The easy step with the...
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    eMac swivel Base

    Just assembled another 3D printed eMac swivel base part! In spite of my diminutive 180x180mm print bed (Prusa Mini+) this part again came out perfectly usable: Although I'd love to see what a full part would look like printed in solid resin which would be the ideal replacement, I probably...
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    3D Printing & MacEffects Appreciation

    First boot with the case buttoned up! Wow, she looks so good! Thanks, @wottle for sending the knob. I think it makes a difference. I did not realize it would be so visible! I have a few BlueSCSI devices but this is my first 2.0, so looking forward to WiFi. I still can’t believe we have such...
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    Problem: Installing Fonts On My M4 iPad Pro

    I dunno if it will help or not but I used iFont app to install fonts on my iPad Pro M4. Now, the scale of your situation is way over and above mine since I only ever needed to install two (2) fonts, but iFont did the trick for me and to be honest, I don’t really even remember the details. I DO...