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Hello! I’ve had a BlueSCSI v1 fitted in my SE (on System 6.0.8) for a while now, and it’s been great. The other day, I was messing about with MacFlim to play full-screen video on that old machine. It’s surprisingly good! However, the playback kept pausing to buffer. So I thought I’d delve...

Hah! Indeed :) I’ve not given up hope for the other logic board. I’d love to get it working again, and the chances are better now that I have a known-good machine to compare. I dare say that someone with better skills would have it up and running in no time. But I’m treating this as a...

I ended up getting a second machine from eBay and combining the two to get a functioning machine. Without schematics, I lack the skills to trace the fault on the original logic board. But now that I’ve got a working board, I might be able to compare and contrast to find where the issue is...

Seems like I’ve resolved it! I’d neglected to realise that chosen resolutions are reset for each connected display. so, setting it to a low resolution on the monitor which worked did nothing to set a resolution when connected to my OSSC via a KVM. Having set up a VNC server, I could see that...

Excellent -- thank you very much for your help. I'll get ordering!

Here’s an example! I’m struggling to map those ‘series’ values to anything currently available (I’m looking at uk-rs-online.com). Should I worry too much about that, or just go for replacements which are the correct capacitance/voltage and physical size?

Hi all, I'm building a logic board capacitor list for the Gossamer motherboard (beige G3). Now, I usually work on older machines -- this is the first time I've considered replacing SMT caps from the late 1990s. Don't worry -- I've practiced on a junk board (the control board from my old...

Hi! Like a few others, I wanted to make an old mini into a great OS9 machine. Installation went smoothly, temporarily hooked up to my test VGA monitor. But I wanted the machine to be part of my main retro setup — a bunch of machines outputting via a KVM to my OSSC, which upscales and converts...

Excellent — I shall bear that in mind should this machine ever start up reliably!

Whilst I’m waiting for the VRM board caps, I’ve been having a fiddle. The machine was in a state where it did absolutely nothing when power was applied. I noticed a bit of gunk at the top left of the board, near the PSU Type jumper, so I gave it a spray with some IPA to start cleaning. To my...

Stick 4x 1MB SIMMs in there for maximum RAM. It doesn’t seem to care about DRAM speed or parity, so any will do! It’s very common to find machines that have had the right side of the case mutilated to fit a standard PC floppy drive or a Gotek. If you fancy having an internal Gotek drive, I...

I read the same! Apparently the VRM boards marked ‘Royal’ are the bad ones — which mine isn’t — but it’s still a good first place to look. Thanks for the reminder!

Here’s before and after. Cleaned up really well with white vinegar and a distilled water rinse. I’ll start putting together the cap list — at least the ones I can read! (edit: the underside was pretty much untouched — cleaned up fine with some IPA only. But, I admit I’ve not checked...

Hi! I picked up the filthiest G3 Desktop from eBay. Stripped it down and did a cleanup of the battery corrosion, replacing it with a CR2032 coin cell. With the logic board on the bench, connected to an ATX PSU (with the PSU Type jumper set appropriately) and with the speaker and Whisper PERCH...

Well, I’m halfway through the tear-down, and I’ve hit the ‘oh crap, the plastic CRT frame’s turned into a jigsaw puzzle!’ phase :) I swear this stuff cracks if you look at it wrong. Easily the worst I’ve ever seen! I mean, it doesn’t just snap, it splinters across its surface. Once I’ve...

Ah yes, excellent point — I’d read that the internal plastic frame is incredibly brittle. I’ll start searching for a cap list (and a source for the speakers!) Unfortunately I don’t have an ESR meter, but yeah, given the desire to open it up as few times as possible, I think I’ll just recap it!

Hi all, After my success with the SE, I thought I'd dig my nan's old iMac G3 DV out of the loft and see if I could get it working. From what I remember, it works fine apart from one thing: the bottom third of the screen 'rolls up' under the rest of the display, and occasionally the whole...

One of the things I’ve always appreciated about Apple is the lengths they go to with their internationalisation (at least for the UK — can’t speak for others). Sure, we understand ‘color’ and anything ‘-ization’, but it’s nice to use a system that reads naturally.

Thanks! I managed to pull the British System 6.0.7 out of that image (thanks to hfsutils) on my modern Mac and dd it to a floppy. Now have System Picker set up on my SE to switch between it and 6.0.8 (USA). Gonna add a System 7 folder next! (googling, it seems macOS started localising the...

Hi! Now my Mac SE is up and running nicely with a fresh new install of System 6.0.8, I was wondering what’s needed to set it to British English? I’d like my sensible date ordering and Wastebasket back :) (Also, it occurred to me that current macOS uses “Bin”, which is fine… but Wastebasket’s...