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I just picked up this Power R Inc. Macintosh SE video adapter, which I know Bunsen posted about earlier (but I can't seem to find it now): http://cgi.ebay.com/w…
· 39 posts · started 15 Aug 2008 - 17:59 · last 27 Aug 2008 - 23:24
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I have a 1986 SE with a dead internal HD (original 40MB Quantum). My plan is to pull a rarely-used Maxtor 120MB HD which is currently in an external SCSI case u…
· 8 posts · started 21 Aug 2008 - 15:27 · last 27 Aug 2008 - 00:54
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I know, it's not a Mac, but for $10 it's pretty cool. Pentium, 775MB HDD, 16MB RAM, CD ROM, Win95. Complete with original User's Guide, external floppy drive, 1…
· 2 posts · started 26 Aug 2008 - 20:57 · last 26 Aug 2008 - 22:24
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I read that demagnetising a 1440k floppy will essentially make it more compatible with 800k drives. To clear up the persistent confusion and superstition about …
· 14 posts · started 21 Aug 2008 - 07:52 · last 25 Aug 2008 - 22:05
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Got an email about a month ago from some random stranger wanting help with their PB160. Tried helping, sorted out a boot disk etc. but looked like the HD had ju…
· 6 posts · started 19 Aug 2008 - 08:51 · last 24 Aug 2008 - 22:35
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I have a few Macintosh games laying around and got to looking at their system requirements... many have lists of supported systems for colour and black &amp…
· 19 posts · started 18 Aug 2008 - 15:59 · last 24 Aug 2008 - 22:21
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I ve bought a Pismo (500 mhz) on eBay, and it was sold broken. At home I unplugged the pram battery, and then it booted fine. The Pismo is in great condition. B…
· 3 posts · started 20 Aug 2008 - 17:05 · last 22 Aug 2008 - 05:47
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I'm possibly interested in upgrading the CPU in my Sawtooth (500mhz now). I don't want to buy one of the 3rd party upgrade cards -- I'd prefer to buy a stock CP…
· 7 posts · started 19 Aug 2008 - 04:47 · last 22 Aug 2008 - 05:35
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My Sawtooth (500mhz, 1.75gb, 10.5.4) never has free RAM. Let me explain. It is running Leopard, apache, mysql, and TorrentFlux (Python). When I first boot the m…
· 6 posts · started 20 Aug 2008 - 18:02 · last 22 Aug 2008 - 05:25
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My MS720 17" monitor is starting to show intermittent vertical wavy lines. Could this be the power supply failing? My computer is a 7600/120. I have a good powe…
· 3 posts · started 21 Aug 2008 - 20:09 · last 22 Aug 2008 - 01:56
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Anyone experience this? No signs of life whatsoever: No fans spin up, no relay clicking, no noises, no nothing. Nothing obviously blown on the motherboard, no b…
· 13 posts · started 7 May 2008 - 04:16 · last 20 Aug 2008 - 12:19
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I was dropping off some stuff at the local ewaste recycling center and on the loading dock I spotted an old Powerbook 100. I went in the office and asked if I c…
· 2 posts · started 19 Aug 2008 - 21:05 · last 19 Aug 2008 - 22:23
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Ok, i am just scratching my head on this one. I pulled out my PM7500/100 with G3 upgrade and tried to get it working. It chimes and comes up to the grey screen,…
· 15 posts · started 20 Jul 2008 - 03:13 · last 19 Aug 2008 - 09:05
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It all started when I got a call from a customer. "Help me, my computer's dead" Anyway, I went around there, and sure enough, her Celery 2 Ghz is failing the PO…
· 10 posts · started 17 Aug 2008 - 12:17 · last 19 Aug 2008 - 07:09
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OK, so the story was that at school around two months ago, there had been a ton of Macintosh (and PC)-related items that had been taken out of storage and were …
· 3 posts · started 18 Aug 2008 - 18:59 · last 19 Aug 2008 - 01:00
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Hello everyone, I have a Macintosh SE that I was going to put up for sale on craigslist cheap or free since it seems to have an issue. When turned on the hard d…
· 3 posts · started 19 Aug 2008 - 00:13 · last 19 Aug 2008 - 00:56
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As some of you who venture into the depths of IRC may know, I recently installed Gentoo onto my powerbook lombard. Everything has been doing great, but I got ki…
· 16 posts · started 11 May 2007 - 21:23 · last 18 Aug 2008 - 17:39
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I was at a favorite thrift store of mine and I found 2 IIe's with various card in them got both for $25 before taxes, neither of them are working (one just soun…
· 1 posts · started 16 Aug 2008 - 22:17 · last 16 Aug 2008 - 22:17
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I have been reading about how you can use a Quicksilver CPU in a Digital Audio powermac, but it has to have a 12 Volt connection, anyone here know how to do tha…
· 4 posts · started 15 Aug 2008 - 14:48 · last 15 Aug 2008 - 19:47
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Hello all :b&w: I saw a dead PowerBook 2400 floating around a local auction website and starting price is just HK$99. The seller should be an experience…
· 6 posts · started 14 Aug 2008 - 11:51 · last 15 Aug 2008 - 17:58
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This is the second PowerBook 165c I've owned. The first one was given to me many years ago and I used it for a long time until I started getting problems with t…
· 3 posts · started 13 Aug 2008 - 23:26 · last 15 Aug 2008 - 16:29
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I saw on ebay a Powermac G4/733 with a 20 GB hard drive. Model number was for a G4 Sawtooth. Picked it up for 101 bucks with shipping. I am amazed that i got a …
· 3 posts · started 9 Aug 2008 - 03:48 · last 15 Aug 2008 - 16:03
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Now THIS really piqued my interest (found this thanks to Slashdot): http://news.bostonherald.com/business/technology/general/view/2008_08_04_Designers_on_quest_…
· 82 posts · started 5 Aug 2008 - 17:51 · last 13 Aug 2008 - 10:17
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Alright, here's what we got: A IIsi that won't show video. Have a real mac monitor, so we can take away all the hubub about getting a vga monitor to work. Only …
· 8 posts · started 8 Aug 2008 - 23:02 · last 12 Aug 2008 - 21:32
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I was at quite a few garage and rummage sales Friday and Saturday, and picked up a few things. I was looking though one guys tent, and saw an old bright yellow …
· 3 posts · started 10 Aug 2008 - 18:08 · last 12 Aug 2008 - 05:07
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