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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 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...

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...

Introduction My usual setup: IDE bus 0: the original hard drive (cable select/master) IDE bus 1: the original CD-ROM (master), passive IDE to CF adapter (slave). I’ve got the StarTech IDE2SATA adapter that I just pulled out of my iMac G3 (2nd gen), together with its Sandisk SSD. It works...

Introduction I’ve recently gotten a Power Macintosh G3 Desktop 266 MHz, 384 Mb RAM with a working 4Gb hard drive with a semi-corrupt partition. After some investigations I found out that it had a failed install of Jaguar (10.2.3) on it. But the hard drive also had a working version of OS 9.0...

Introduction So I’ve bought a known defect SE/30. I got it for about €70 with the carrying bag, some documentation and original (and blank) floppies. An over all OK deal. It was known from the listing that the screen was black. When I started the computer for the first time the screen was black...

I've enjoyed my iMac G3 Indigo quite a bit as a jukebox. Fire up iTunes (MP3's) or Vox (FLAC's) in Tiger and play some music in the background while working on something else on my modern computer. It's also my goto machine to play audio CD's. When I got the computer a few months ago, the left...

So I've swapped out the not so happy hard drive for a CF card in my recently acquired iMac G3. In the process I changed system on the G3 from OS X 10.2.8 Jaguar to OS 9.2.2. I noticed that there was a problem when I wanted to connect my USB floppy drive. It had worked just fine under Jaguar...

I've written an introductory guide about how to use emulation and BlueSCSI to getting software to your vintage Mac. It's almost as convenient as drag and drop to a thumb drive. I've written this guide because it took quite a bit of research and asking around to get it all going, and it has...

The inject and eject is sluggish and low power. It just barely moves the disk in and out. I've heard that it's common that a belt age and that prevents normal ejection. Is this belt easy to replace?