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…
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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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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_…
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 …
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 …