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Recently came into a longtime want - a Canon object.station 41, with the keyboard. The SCSI card and drives are in the machine, thought the SCSI cable is missing. On power-up, the caps/num/scroll lights flash briefly, and there is power to the disk drives, but there is no POST, no beeps, no...

I was lucky and found mine 20+ years ago for $5 in a big bin of Mac mice at a used computer store. Lightning can strike, but it's getting harder and harder for these old machines. At that time, Mac serial mice and non-ADB keyboards were basically "junk" along with 128K/512K Macs.

I also failed the "come home with less than you brought" test, but the stuff I brought home is really cool :)

Free Geek Twin Cities recently got a donation of a Franklin Ace 2200, but unfortunately without they keyboard. I thought I would ask here in case anyone might have a spare or know of some other solutions to at least see what the functionality is of this guy. I see some older posts on VCF.org...

Glad I could help!

I know the process is you highlight the app and stationary on the install disk and make a "duplicate" from the menu, and then drag the copies to the hard drive. That's when the master floppy gets serialized to the specific Lisa. If you are just trying to drag the apps straight from the diskette...

Glad it was that "easy"!

@MacEffects sent out a note on the KickStarter list that there are some consistent reports of problems . He has some suggested fixes, or other ways to address with him.

My keyboard has arrived, but installation may wait until after the VCFMW prep is over...

I'll be there. Bringing a bunch of Sun workstations this year (and maybe some SGI), but there will be Apple/Mac stuff as well. My friend and I will be in our customary spot at the end of the hall near the "back door" across from the free table :)

I got my shipping notification as well!

After more research, I was incorrect in my error assessment. The error is more of a generic interrupt error. I haven't copied the full stack trace I get, but if it fails the POST test immediately, it shows as "Interrupt Controller Diagnostic" fail. I'm going to try and confirm if it's a heat...

I agree that SGI machines seem to be much more fiddly in both hardware and software from their contemporary Sun counterparts, but this might be partly due to the fact that I spend a lot of time with Suns back in the day. Even so, in the last month I've brought back to life two Octanes, a R4K...

I'd swap CPU module from the one board to the other at this point... Yes - the lightbar uses incandescent bulbs, and they often are burnt out at this point. There are pointers on-line on how to replace the bulb or "upgrade" to an LED.

Looking forward to seeing it in action!

Do you get any kind of light at the lightbar when you turn it on? Usually starts out white, then turns red until initial diags pass. This assumes the bulbs in your light bar are not burned out, which can be very likely...

The last couple of weeks have been "SGI Recovery" time. I've been working on a Octane, Indigos, and and Indy. My question comes up since all of these have a dark plastic for their cases - blue in the case of the Indigos and green for the Octane. On these dark plastics, scratches and scuffs are...

Wow - you did your Octane way cheaper than me! :) From a quick look, it don't see why that board wouldn't work, unless it needs a different backplane version. Are you able to swap over just the CPU module from the new board to the working board? If you have pics of both boards it might help.

I will place this in the marketplace as well, but I could use a good front door with the old Octane script for my machine. The one I have took a big scratch right across the "Octane" lettering and the silkscreen is gouged. Don't necessarily need the whole front, but would consider it if the...