I am not sure where to post this, so why not here? Something that I had not realized until this week is that the LC5xx series' styling is strikingly similar to …
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Just as a heads up, on Jan 5th 1999 was the day the PowerMac G3 blue/white systems were announced. This pertains to the 300, 350 and 400MHz models, although the…
A Packard Bell Multimedia m415. Quite the unusual machine using an unusual lobo. It also supports both FPM and EDO. I put 64mb EDO in it. It has 166mhz PI which…
Internal ATA 0: CD-ROM + CD-RW problem is that both CD Drives do not work together. If CD-RW is set to MASTER, CD-ROM is SLAVE, only CD-RW is working. If both a…
Well, I was looking through the cabinets at Computer Hardware Club at my school, desperately looking for a new project since my last one, a Ubuntu file/web serv…
http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-Mac-Performa-6500-225-Motherboard-820-0816-C_W0QQitemZ130285686664 Obviously it's some sort of TV card, but what exactly is it? I've n…
I have a 1024x768 LCD screen which I have connected to a KVM and then to a mac via a 10 switch vga-dongly-adapter.. Out of curiosity I tried using 512x384 mode …
...namely, Malone's Infinite Loop (reputedly not the best of books on Apple, I know, but for $1.79 at the GoodWill, a hard bargain to pass up); and a PowerBook …
Oh yes. Reservoir tip shop strike again. Amstrad NC100 NotePad, untested, no PS, $2. I have been looking for one for about ten years.
Today I checked the mail on the way home from school and happy to see that my battery arrived. Brought it home and opened it up. It is a 7800 mAh battery, a lit…
Well, in my Quadra 800, my rasterops card goes loose in its socket if touched at all by the monitor wire. Thus a crash and death chimes on boot. So I have to: O…
Picked up a 16MB RAM card for $35 shipped and (i paid the extra $5 to go from 8 to 16) and an AAUI->RJ-45 Adapter for $10 shipped. I know people may thin…
I have an Apple IIc, and a power supply is on the way. Now all I need is a composite video cable in order to hook it up to my TV. Just wondering...does it have …
Okay, here's the official announcement: we're on for January '09 retrochallenge.net/2009/winter/ Good Luck!
I decided to build a budget performance desktop based on some parts from my brothers old Dell computer(used to be a 2.4ghz celeron). I had a Dell case, 2 disc d…
I recently purchased a Mac Classic II from ebay. At first, the computer did not boot with no startup or death chimes and no video. After washing the logic board…
How do you charge this thing if the main battery is dead? Remove it and plug it into the wall?
I am thinking more and more about the possible solutions for my LC problems. I swapped the power supply yet the video problems that returned last week persist. …
Now that I have my 475 up and running I have a question or two about its RAM use... About this Macintosh states that the system is using 30MB of the 36MB instal…
WHY WHY WHY Well now the Q800 Death chimes. The Mint well kept Q800, is acting stupid. Lobo out of the case- proper bong Lobo in the case- Death chimes grrrr I …
We all know Apple offered official upgrade kits for the original 128K Macintosh to 512K as well as 128K/512K/e to Plus upgrades, which involved swapping logic b…
Is it possible to hook up an IDE drive to an SE/30 via IDE-SCSI adapter card? Could the drive be used as a boot drive for system 7? What about system 6? Thanks …
I've got a dead Duo 270c and I suspect the PRAM battery. An on-line source calls it a 6 volt battery but that seems kinda high. Has anyone bought one, preferabl…
Today I acquired a Commodore Vic-20, 8 game cassettes, Commodore Datasette reader, and a Vic-1111 16K Ram Cartridge. Everything is in good shape, except that it…
Hello everyone This conquest is not mine, but a friend of mine. He picked up a great shape iBook G4 1.2GHz model with 30GB Hard Drive 512 ram and a carrying cas…