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Keep on reading... "Still, the floppy would get stuck/stops half way when ejecting." Yes, I lubricated the drive in first time in July, then again in November because I got the tube with silicon grease, and again just recently. I cleaned the old lubricant off with an alcohol wipe and applied...

Yeah, that's why I swapped the entire gear box assembly to one from another drive - to eliminate a potentially damaged motor or residual gear teeth - and yet still got the same issue. I guess that I should try to move the SE's floppy drive gear box with the new gear to another drive to make sure...

My favorite SE has a floppy drive issue. That little cheese gear in the gear box finally broke. Thankfully I had a couple on order since the same gear broke on my Plus literally a month earlier. I cleaned the gear box on the SE's floppy drive, lubricated it with silicon grease - i've used...

I've replaced the second soldered on battery as well and monitored the battery level over time. 10-Sept-2023 upper --- lower 3,11 V 25-Oct-2023 upper 3,235 V lower 3,096 V 24-Jan-2024 upper 3,242 V lower 3,068 V Since I installed a second CR2032 holder, the battery drainage seems to have...

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I just finished swapping the orginal PSU fan for a Noctua (80mm, 12V DC, ULN) on my original and non-upgraded Macintosh II. When I did a smoke test the computer was dead as a dodo. The batteries read 2.48V (upper) and 0.87V (lower). I bought this computer from a friend and it was recapped last...

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Fascinating problems. I got a SATA card coming soon for my G3, so I'm following this with great interest. Also, I believe that OS X 10.2.8 is the latest version that the Beige G3 will accept without any XPostFacto mods due to Open Firmware limitations. Installing OS X on these machines seems...

I was surprised that I found my old Toshiba T1100 Plus at my parents during Christmas holidays. I thought that it has been lost! I bought this computer maybe 15 years ago from a high school friend. I think I paid something like 500 SEK (~$50) at the time, and I remember that it felt like it was...

Introduction The need to backup your old hard drives shouldn’t be underestimated. Especially on a computer that’s full of old memories. The hard drive on an IBM PS/2 (Model 56SX, in this case) is a bit special compared to other PC compatible computers. First of all, it’s a SCSI hard drive so you...

By chance I've found an IDE to SATA adapter that works with the Power Macintosh G3's slower IDE bus, ie an adapter that supports UDMA mode 0. It's a cheapo adapter from Amazon. Most of the time the information on Amazon about the adaptor boards are subpar at best - and inaccurate at worst. The...

I guess that's a lot more likely than a genuine bug. 😅

Seems like you've found a genuine bug in the compiler

Pascal is amazing! Unfortunately I've only experienced Borland's Turbo Pascal on CP/M and DOS systems. That said... The code looks fine, but I would like to see a semicolon after the WriteLn statement - but I recall that ISO dialects of Pascal is OK to skip it before an End. Are there maybe...

I've completely forgotten about these! I got a regular SATA SSD (connected with adapter) in my iMac G3. But I'm afraid that this beast might be too fast for a PwrMac G3 Desktop as the computer only supports UDMA mode 0. I suspect that these fast devices only go down to 33 or 66 MB/s in...

Thanks! I did spent "some time" turning every stone that I could turn. When you run out of options you have to improvise. Well, I didn't. Just the reboot process was too cumbersome. Even if I would get used to reboot via XPostFacto to get into the other OS, I would probably forget sometime and...

You find the System Enabler in the Systems Folder. An SE/30 doesn't need one since it was already on the market when 7.1 was launched. But you need a Mac machine to poke around... Catch 22. Honestly, I think writing a boot floppy in Windows is your easiest/best way forward. I write floppies...

I’ve finally managed to install Jaguar! But I cheated… I’ve done several experiments with removing combinations of the RAM sticks (2x 64M vs 256M), removing the firewire card and the CF adapter. It didn’t do much difference. I also gained a bit experience with Open Firmware. Instead of...

[Update] I think I've figured this one out. According to the documentation the Star Tech supports "IDE/ATA 33/66/100/133 motherboard", and according to Low End Mac the Beige G3 has a 16.67 MBps IDE bus. Even if the G3 technically supports UDMA, it's still the more uncommon "slow" mode 0...

My SE/30 is stock and has the original ROM. It boots just fine from a hard drive where I got System 7.1 installed. No hickups. Perhaps there's a System Enabler on your System 7.1 disk? System 7.1 could get superspecific with which computers they work with. For instance a boot disk for an LC 475...