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  1. François

    Vintage Compact Macs in TV & Movies

    There is a deliciously old school website dedicated to computer appearances in movies: Starring the Computer. They seem to have missed this episode of Black Mirror! I recently rewatched the (very much NSFW) 1992 movie Single White Female and was surprised to see a few Macintoshes (that were...
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    LC 630 and BlueSCSI

    You will need the CD-ROM Drive SCSI Adapter. The SCSI bus isn’t accessible anywhere else internally. Check out Apple’s Service Source for a complete take apart guide.
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    CompleteSet - a resource for vintage Mac collectors and enthusiasts

    I’ve found another iMovie disc in my huge pile, it may well be from the later Cube packet:
  4. François

    CompleteSet - a resource for vintage Mac collectors and enthusiasts

    French software and documentation for an iMac G3/350:
  5. François

    CompleteSet - a resource for vintage Mac collectors and enthusiasts

    Here’s an earlier version of the software discs for the G4 Cube: The pack has a different part number: (And yes I have two Cubes, my father and I each bought one when they were new!)
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    CompleteSet - a resource for vintage Mac collectors and enthusiasts

    Speaking of the G4 Cube, here’s what we got in France: It’s an enveloppe containing optical discs:
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    CompleteSet - a resource for vintage Mac collectors and enthusiasts

    I’m pretty sure I got this thing with my G4 Cube:
  8. François

    Connect ADC monitor to HDMI source

    ADC is using DVI signals, and HDMI is compatible with these signals. If you have an ADC to DVI adapter and a DVI to HDMI cable, you can connect a vintage Mac to a modern display. Here is an ADC to DVI adapter: But the interface shown in the first post is for the reverse, to use an Apple ADC...
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    Color CRT that fits in Macintosh SE FDHD?

    In this Instructable (step 3), the guy molded a perspex sheet onto the original CRT!
  10. François

    3D Printing & MacEffects Appreciation

    You can easily remove the SD extender from its shell, and design/print a combined bracket/shell that I think would provide a better and more robust fit.
  11. François

    G4 Cube revival help?

    You need one of these : https://ebay.us/m/mUGERK And set JP1 to Lo
  12. François

    G4 Cube revival help?

    Do you have the USB speakers? Does the Cube chime?
  13. François

    G4 Cube revival help?

    Did you test it outside of its enclosure? The power button is very finicky, and sometimes detects a touch when there is none. When a normally functioning Cube is put to sleep, the power led pulsates slowly, like the slow breath of a person sleeping. The problem might be the power button...
  14. François

    Harmful to run SE/30 temporarily without recapping?

    In case you didn’t know about it already, the schematics for the SE/30 logic board have been redrawn using modern software! Get them on github. They may be useful for troubleshooting…
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    Harmful to run SE/30 temporarily without recapping?

    I don’t think it’s really harmful to run it, C5 is part of the audio circuitry, so you just won’t have sound. The problem is not the missing capacitor, but the leaked electrolyte from failing capacitors that is eating, and thus destroying, the circuit board. So better remove the remaining...
  16. François

    Asanté MacCon CS-10T, Comm Slot 1 Ethernet card!

    It seems that comm slot ethernet cards are getting rarer and rarer, specially comm slot 1 cards! So, I was quite glad to find one, at a relatively reasonable price… Here are a few photos, as this card seems to not be very well documented: Did I buy a dusty, rusty, very yellowed Performa...
  17. François

    Performa/LC 630 Dos Compatible - Dos Card CPU Upgrade

    Thanks for the detailed answer! I took a look on eBay, those are quite expensive upgrades!
  18. François

    Performa/LC 630 Dos Compatible - Dos Card CPU Upgrade

    Is there any CPU upgrade that won’t need an interposer? (I want to keep it simple!)
  19. François

    Sony Trinitron TV !

    Found locally (extreme patience is key!), it’s in very good shape and I only paid 10 euros for it !!! It’s a 21 inches consumer TV (model number is KV-21C5B), with two SCART inputs (we call them Péritel in France) so it accepts RGB signals natively! Not a huge TV but its size (and weight!) is...