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    Weird.. post deletion?

    Is it possible you've typed some posts and forgot to hit the "Post reply" button? That's one of my favorite tricks. Especially for more involved postings where a lot of my attention might be on reference material.
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    Hardware/software you have that no one talks about.

    Yes, actual Mac SCSI performance was much lower than theoretical, but.... Mac network performance was also much slower than theoretical transfer speeds.
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    Outbound Laptop Capacitor List & Repair Log

    I found the packaging from one I ordered back in 2005. Boy I'm a pack rat. I don't know if this old of a part number will help but it can't hurt. It's Digikey. P/N: A9BAA-1708E-ND Description: Flex Cable -- AFJ17A/AE17/AFH17T
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    Outbound Laptop Capacitor List & Repair Log

    Geeze, it's been a long time. Maybe FFC? I think when I was ordering a replacement they still mailed out a paper catalog, about the size of a phone book, not that anyone knows what that is anymore either. Sigh.
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    Outbound Laptop Capacitor List & Repair Log

    It's been about 30 years since I had eight of these to work on/with, but I think you may need to replace the flat flex cable to the display. I don't know if t hey still do, but Digikey used to sell one with the correct number of conductors, the right pitch and the needed ends.
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    Outbound Laptop Capacitor List & Repair Log

    Thank you. Is there an analogous part on the SE or Plus, or is this an Outbound innovation?
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    Outbound Laptop Capacitor List & Repair Log

    Interesting that there is a 32K X 8 static RAM on board. M5M5256bkp Does the Plus/SE have one of those? I never noticed before. Or is that doing PRAM duty that a custom clock/PRAM chip would do in the Plus/SE?
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    Outbound Laptop Capacitor List & Repair Log

    This looks like the battery. https://www.osibatteries.com/panasonic-pv-bp88-battery-12v-sealed-rechargeable On Amazon, but more expensive and the seller seems ignorant (calls it akaline, instead of LA): https://www.amazon.com/Battery-EPP-100C-Replaces-SUBSTITUTE-PANASONIC/dp/B0002GV5TW
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    Spatulas from Europe

    All plastic and rubber or silicon. I got my set from Amazon, more or less by mistake, but found I really liked them. I ordered a set of spatulas that looked completely different that I'd had in the past, and the ones in the link above are what they sent me. Of course, that Amazon seller...
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    Spatulas from Europe

    Anyone willing to purchase six sets of these and ship them to me in the USA? For some reason this seller will not ship to the USA. https://www.ebay.com/itm/394791001619 I have a set I'm very fond of, but after years of use, their edges are starting to fray a bit.
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    Hardware/software you have that no one talks about.

    That looks very similar to the 6809 development board we used in my Machine Code programming class back around 1982.
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    Bank Distinction on PMX500 and 7200 DIMM?

    I wonder if this is an artifact of using the same ROM on both the PowerSurge and Catalyst machines. PowerSurge doesn't support greater than 64 MB per bank (although the HDN details suggest otherwise) and no noe could build such a DIMM back then, so why bother to write in support for greater...
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    Bank Distinction on PMX500 and 7200 DIMM?

    Looking through the Hammerhead and Platinum documents carefully, they strongly suggest that banks are controlled on a /RAS basis, however, Hammerhead is weird. Each pair of DIMM sockets gets the same two /RAS lines. This makes perfect sense, I think, when the machine is operating in...
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    Bank Distinction on PMX500 and 7200 DIMM?

    Just started reading, but the Platinum ERS document states right up front that it supports up to eight, 128 MB banks of RAM on four DIMMs.
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    Bank Distinction on PMX500 and 7200 DIMM?

    The schematics show the wiring, but not the behavior. I've also crawled through the Hammerhead ERS document and it does not shed light either. I suspect the necessary information might be in the JEDEC standards for the supported DIMMs. Thank you for the suggestions though. Are you able to...
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    Bank Distinction on PMX500 and 7200 DIMM?

    So I understand that 72 pin SIMMs use the /RAS signals to distinguish between and separately activate different banks. How is this done on the 168 pin FPM DIMM? There's a Bank signal, B0 on the DIMM, but the 9500 HDN claims this is tied to A0. The 9500 lists four /RAS lines, suggesting two...
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    Flashing AEC6280 for Mac use

    I checked System Profiler on the machine I have here with a 6280M installed and it also shows Vendor 1911, 9 and Revision 2. So I don't think there's any useful information there.
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    Flashing AEC6280 for Mac use

    Thinking, but nothing comes to mind. Recheck Bbraun's instructions. My very vague memory from 20 years ago says there was more than one resistor pair to move, but that is not a relible memory and I would expect Bbraun to be thorough.
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    Apple Network Server MacOS based ROMs found

    I am informally, in my head, targeting the end of the Summer to have an (externally) programmable ROM module available. This may affect considering a fix in ROM. As a fair disclaimer, I should point out that it took me twelve years to finally finish the PEx ROM project. But I'm not...