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As a side work of my rebuilding of the Macintosh 512K, I ended up recreating the RFI shields for the 512K. Then, I thought I should do it for all early compact Macs, like the 128K, 512K, Plus and SE, SE/30. I have one good condition RFI shied for the Mac Plus - so I started with the recreation...

I purchased for postage an aluminum Cinema Display 23" with the DVI / USB / FW / Power connectors cable a few months ago. It was marked as repaired, but after few minutes of usage it was flickering a little and then went black - power off the LCD. That time I had no time, but I read after and...

I have a wired problem with my new toy, a PowerMac G5 dual 2.0 GHz from December, 2003. The machine arrived in an acceptable condition, sadly during the transport get damaged, the top rear handling have got a punch and released from the top line of the housing. It is "just" optical damage...

I have a Radius Two Page Display - with the very rare ROM version 3.3 Does anybody have to original Radius.sea.hqx and the CL_SEA_PL.sea.hqx for the ROM version 3.3 Here https://vintageapple.org/macdrivers/radiuscards.html is only the content available - but the file's links are pointing to...

I have purchased this Radius TPD few weeks ago and just had a time to check today. I have no Radius TPD monitor, so I just plugged into my Frankenstein SE to see if it "does" something. Hard to say... what was the result... If you see the pictures, the menu bar is double thick and the font size...

I just received my new toy a RADIUS Two Page Display for Macintosh SE. Together with the RADIUS MagicBus PDS board and the main board with the BNC connection pig-tale with the metal frame to fix it into the Macintosh SE. So to say the setup is complete. Only thing is missing the RADUIS Two...

Kai's previous post was giving me the idea to ask you guys if you use vintage peripheries for your daily computer usage. I mean, monitors, keyboards, mouse or vintage storage. Using vintage computers is one thing, we do this because of our hobby but using old I/O devices makes the daily feeling...

I am working on a rescue project of a Mac SE 1/20 (this is the European name of the FDHD). This machine had a hard life - I will write a post about it later (broken CRT neck, broken front bezel, water damage on the metal parts BUT luck: the PRAM battery was popped out early enough to not destroy...

I think I need to do a recapping sessions on my eMacs (recently picked up in Berlin) and probalby ALL of the boys and girls from the G4 era. (approximately 7 computers with their Logic Boards and PSUs... 🤪) But at first, the very beautiful eMac 1.25 with original boxes and packaging... I changed...

Is it possible to mention "any" Administrator in a text of a post? Actualy we can mention only a direct user, not user group... Something like @Administrator and/or in plural: @Administrators. I mean, not to report some conflict or nonconformities, just simply mention any of the Administrator...

I love the compact Macs from the middle 80s, but my other love is the PowerMac Mirrored Drive Doors with Apple Cinema Displays. These displays have ADC connectors used to connect to specific graphic cards with ADC connectors. The Apple (and other) solutions to connect these monitors to DVI...

If you need to check the different voltage levels on your vintage Mac, probably you know the floppy connector has the +5V and the +12V on its pins. To measure voltage safely, I designed a little breakout boards, soldered to a DB19 connector. Now, I can safely measure my voltages. If you...

There are lot of ways nowadays to move files between vintage Macintosh and modern OSes like the actual, unix based macOS 12, Monterey. You can use lot of different solution to use SD cards like harddisks (SD2SCSI, MacSD, blueSCSI, RaSCSI, etc) or use the SD card like a floppy (e.g.: Floppy Emu)...

I finished my SE/30 full recap. Everything works as expected only one thing: I can not change the volume in the Sound control panel. If I set to 0, then the menu bar blinks, but then at 1 and any other till 7 -> is the "same loud". Do you have any idea what could cause this behaviour? Previously...

If you restore an old IBM XT or AT machine, after a time you want to connect to your network. mTCP is working from DOS 2.1 and with an ethernet card with "packet driver". Here is the direct link to the original author's, Michael Brutman's website: http://www.brutman.com/mTCP

Do you remember for this guy? I decided to recreate this Apple Floppy Transit Protector to be more accurate for the restorations works. Do you have some original? I've found only two pictures, based on them I do my design. ((Native Japan speakers, could you please check the text?)) This is one...

I think we should open one "Vintage Spectrum" main category as we have already for Vintage Apple Vintage Commodore Vintage Atari Vintage Acorn Vintage Workstations I would love to discuss those topics here in TinkerDifferent Forum too. Same as well for more "unknown" vintage computers from...

I am proud owner of the Chevelle Malibu Classic, but there was a time when we both with my wife were driving something V8 motorized. An El Camino from '76 (280HP) and the Chevelle from '77 (180HP) Do you drive something vintage? PS: for daily I'm using an electric vehicle, a Hyundai Kona...

Maybe would be better to add a button side by the "Post thread" button to be able to NOT post the text - something like "Drop unposted" - like a cancel button. What do you think?

I like very much the features and the design of the "Dark mode" but my eyes getting extremely tired reading bright text on dark background. Would it be possible to have exactly the same look-and-feel in Light mode than in the Dark mode? I attached two screen-shots to make it easier to compare.