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Doing thermal measurements on the motherboard will prove much harder because there is no way for me to keep the motherboard outside the chassis while at the same time keep it connected. I can do that with SE & SE/30 motherboards, but not a motherboard in a Color Classic. This video is about...

@YMK Here's part of my video work on this topic, covering my Thermal Camera readings of the machine with the stock analog board components, with only the power switch at back on (the CC is shutdown). I now need to check the heat with the machine booted and running. After that, I can change...

Whatever is the stock G4 Cube IDE configuration of the optical drive is what it is still set as today. I never changed it. In fact, can you even change it? Is it visible somewhere on the drive itself? (My Cubes are at the office and this is a holiday week, so I can't check that until next...

My daughter arrived home from college this week and brought me my 128GB SSD ($12 from NewEgg in the US, but now out of stock). I also purchased the two recommended adapters. The photos below show the 12GB SSD installed into the 2.5" IDE drive adapter, which is much cheaper (thankfully) on...

The current exchange rate is in the favor of those outside Japan, with today's rate being ¥136 to US$1. Furthermore, Japan Post still offers low cost ocean shipping, unlike USPS which killed it off way back in 2007. I purchased a number of heavy vintage items from the US back in those days and...

About one month ago, a kind person based in Europe contacted me to say that the LC520 he ordered from Yahoo Auctions Japan via Buyee arrived in Buyee's hands completely destroyed (case plastics broken apart, despite great handling by Japan's postal system), so he wanted to donate the broken...

While I am on some level curious what the ultimate fix for that stock CC motherboard will be, the opening post also flat out asked: "What would you do?" I personally am curious if the sheer slowness of that stock motherboard makes a time consuming repair worthwhile in the end. Purists...

I assume your FloppyEMU ribbon cable would need to point straight up because the BSv2 would prevent that cable from pointing straight out the back. I cannot say more because I don't yet have one of Kay's replacement adapters for FloppyEMU. I just like how Kay thinks. That's not just because...

@Kay K.M.Mods You are a master problem solver! And just to let everyone know, that PCB on the left is a replacement for the FloppyEMU's adapter PCB. You just plug the ribbon cable of the FloppyEMU into Kay's red PCB replacement.

Kay, I think the only reason this discussion came up is because SCSI Rider 2 blocks the external floppy drive connector on the back of an SE or SE/30. The HitchHiker doesn't block it. So by having something in the form factor of the HitchHiker, you basically have a SCSI Rider 2 that does NOT...

Based on my previous dialog with Zane in this thread, when you have a WarpSE installed, it doesn't matter if your SE motherboard features an older IWM or newer SWIM chip because WarpSE comes with the SWIM flashed. With WarpSE, if you want the IWM (while keeping the WarpSE active), you just flash...

Still using the same old version FileMaker database, hosted on MacUSA (nobody is cheaper than they are for FM database hosting, BTW!).

It's what we call KAIZEN (改善) here in Japan. It's not simply a "business philosophy" either, and it extends to engineering and just about anything else you want to "improve." 頑張ってくださいね、Zane! (y)(y)(y)

I bought this 5W 47Ω resistor as an RL62 replacement... https://www.digikey.jp/en/products/detail/koa-speer-electronics-inc/MOS5C470J/15276085 I also bought a Uni-T brand UTi260B thermal camera from Banggood (I also bought their UTZ002 macro lens for it) and am waiting for it to arrive. That...

We need to consider demand from people outside the US too because, well, I am among those folks. :-) If shipping to destinations outside the US costs as much as the item itself, then you'd probably only get demand within the US, except for a rare sale here and there to folks who don't really...

My SE has a pristine and problem-free "SE Reloaded" motherboard which currently has a Levco SuperMac Speedcard (16MHz 68000) installed in the PDS slot. I also have a stock SE motherboard. 4MB of RAM. I have the OLD ROMs & IWM chip. Don't have the new ROMs, unfortunately.

Absolutely incredible, Zane. SE owners worldwide would be nuts NOT to buy the WarpSE, even if they already have another accelerator, mainly because you have address the distorted sound problem! I'm definitely going to make a video about it once they are released. This is ground-breaking work...

I'm afraid I am of no help here. I'm still not fully straight on the technical aspects of how vintage RAM refresh works. I only know the historical tidbits such as the SE being up to 15% faster than the older Mac Plus because the SE video circuits don't use as much processor time for RAM...

@Zane Kaminski That kind of flashing is perfect! Anyone can easily do it, and as you said, you don't need to break apart the Mac at all. WarpSE is turning out to be one THE monumental upgrade board to have! My goodness, this will be amazing. Zane, you're absolutely brilliant!

@Zane Kaminski With my stock SE, I love the old ROMs because I love running the oldest System Software at times. I would never upgrade the ROMs if it meant I would lose that capability. And although I could swap out the two ROM chips and change the IWM to SWIM (a change of 3 chips is required...