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I bought an Adaptec AUA-4000B 4-Port USB PCI Expansion Card for my G3/266 running OS 9.2.1. Apple System Profiler sees the card but I can't get a hockey puck USB mouse to work nor a USB thumb drive. When I tried to install the driver from the disk it said I already had a driver and it didn't...

I'm trying to open "HD20_512-1GB-MacPlus-6+7.hda" to see what's in it. Is there a way to open it in Basilisk II? I tried renaming the extension to img, disk, but neither work.

I didn't realize it had to be plugged into the board or it ticks! I plugged it in, it seems to work! I just recapped my other LCII PSU, a TDK this time. It was completely dead. Now it ticks in triplets (123-123-123, etc.). It's very faint and sounds as though it may be coming from the...

Does anyone know if there's a part I can get to replace this connector? Mine is so corroded, it's literally falling apart. I found all these little flat corroded pieces of metal in the case not knowing what they were, turns out they're the term connectors inside this plug. I just recapped the...

Hi, I'm recapping my LCII PSU by Astec. I ordered the Astec recap kit from Console5. The big cap on my board is a 180µf 400v nichicon while the one they sent me is a 220µf 400v. I know with voltage I can go higher but what about micro farads? Not sure how to test the old one to see if it even...

It came with my new hot air station. No clue what it is or how to use it.

I have a couple static bags of RAM chips (as I'm sure we all do) that leave me sometimes guessing what they are. They all have some sort of ID on the individual chips but it's usually not very telling. If I see a "1024" I can assume it's a 1MB chip but but speed is still a guessing game. Some of...

I've been trying to resurrect this Mac Plus for weeks now. At first I thought it was the PSU because it was so mucked up. After cleaning it up, reflowing the solder joints and measuring the floppy port volts, it seems OK. Here's the next issue: When I hit the power button I get a beep (all...

I don't know a lot about electrical type stuff but I'd bet there are probably some other options out there for these flybacks on compact Macs with 9" screens. As these Macs get older and older and CRTs and flybacks probably completely out of production by now, it's getting harder to find...

I've been thinking about getting a Mac that would be able to bridge an Ethernet port to a LocalTalk port via Vicomsoft SoftRouter, and then I got to thinking it would be nice to have that same Mac be able to bridge SCSI to USB and maybe even IDE/ATA. So I could use this one Mac as a hub for all...

I have a few compact Macs where the flyback sealer is pretty dry and cracked looking. Is there a sealer or glue I can use to re-seal it? This one on my Mac Plus (my first computer) looks like it's developed little holes and pits. What is this stuff anyway?