I purchased a non-working LC II off of eBay. It’s in pretty good shape other than the fact that it does not power on. Dead as a door nail! Most of the time this is because the Power Supply in the system has failed and at this age it is usually due to failed capacitors. […]
If you have older computers at some point they will start to fail. Could be you lose sound on the system. Video may show up kind of wonky. Smoke, sparks and fishy smells coming from the computer. While these machines will last a long time, they will eventually succumb to issues. If the hard drive […]
Introduction I have modern (OS X) and classic macintosh computers I work with. Boot strapping an older machine can be difficult and I want a cheap/effective solution to make this work. I found a page from Michael Arnold that talked about setting up a Raspberry Pi as AFP Server for older machines. Meaning I could: […]
I know. OS X 7 (Lion) is old and making a DVD disc seems just as old. So why am I doing this? I have an Xserve (A1196) Intel Quad Core server that I’m toying around with and need to do a fresh install. The latest OS you can put on it is 10.7.5. So […]