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Was with a customer today, when he showed me some old stuff the he had, and told me to take whatever I wanted. Saw an Apple OEMed Maxtor 10GB which I grabbed. N…
· 4 posts · started 12 Jul 2008 - 04:52 · last 13 Jul 2008 - 01:12
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400mhz is all I know about it. Should I jump on it?
· 32 posts · started 8 Jul 2008 - 21:30 · last 12 Jul 2008 - 16:43
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Well FedEx smashed up my favorite compact mac in transit to its new owner. So Is it possible to transfer the innards into a CLassic case? I would assume no, but…
· 8 posts · started 7 Jul 2008 - 21:07 · last 12 Jul 2008 - 02:24
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I have G4 AGP (450Mhz) which I have just upgraded with a Sonnet Encore 1.8Ghz processor and I have been running it ok for about a week and a halve with tiger 10…
· 6 posts · started 11 Jul 2008 - 09:26 · last 11 Jul 2008 - 19:20
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I found 3 classic macs on the dock of a Computer place i go to. One is a working Macintosh SE, the other is a nonworking SE FD/HD and the other is a Mac Plus. I…
· 3 posts · started 11 Jul 2008 - 00:39 · last 11 Jul 2008 - 02:50
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I nearly pulled the trigger on Sawtooth last night but thought better of it. It had a Sonnet upgrade in it and the final price was below what I would have put i…
· 10 posts · started 7 Jul 2008 - 12:56 · last 11 Jul 2008 - 01:08
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I am having some trouble installing a system on a CF card installed in a 2300c via an IDE-CF adapter (Chinese & utterly generic). The attempt thus far, …
· 18 posts · started 21 Jun 2008 - 22:07 · last 8 Jul 2008 - 04:59
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So my friend offered me some gear: an 8600 which I stripped. I took the RAM (8x64MB sticks), the VRAM, CPU (Sonnet 400MHz G3 512k Cache), AV Module, PRAM batter…
· 3 posts · started 1 Jul 2008 - 00:26 · last 8 Jul 2008 - 02:00
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Free. Zero. Zip. Nada. I'm not sure of its specs yet except it has a Seagate 40gb hard disk. The reason it went for free is some complete idiot decided to flick…
· 22 posts · started 30 Jun 2008 - 08:00 · last 7 Jul 2008 - 11:56
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Hi, I'm in a good mood; today me and my dad were over at the house we're trying to sell, to clean up the yard and stuff. While there, I picked up our hp Photosm…
· 7 posts · started 2 Jul 2008 - 03:27 · last 6 Jul 2008 - 23:15
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Got this from techfury90 a few days ago, for free, I guess it could be considered an early birthday present. (My birthday is July 18th, btw, so get your package…
· 21 posts · started 2 Jul 2008 - 20:35 · last 6 Jul 2008 - 01:51
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I spotted a "SCSI DVD-RW" external drive on eBay that was selling at a reasonable price. The enclosure was definitely Wide SCSI but the mechanism was ATA/IDE. I…
· 12 posts · started 1 Jul 2008 - 19:34 · last 6 Jul 2008 - 00:37
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I got this one from the flea market. It came with a P3-600 processor, no memory and no hard drive. I've added some memory and it is now running Damn Small Linux…
· 1 posts · started 5 Jul 2008 - 20:06 · last 5 Jul 2008 - 20:06
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I'm wondering, why is it that when I play an MP3 on my Performa 6200CD in iTunes, that it only plays the mp3 and then isn't responsive at all? In some cases if …
· 11 posts · started 2 Jul 2008 - 08:35 · last 5 Jul 2008 - 14:43
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I noticed Arfink and Gobabushka are looking to use a Tandy 102 in the challenge, that is cool. Do either of you have the expansion based that allows the Tandy 1…
· 13 posts · started 30 Jun 2008 - 05:14 · last 5 Jul 2008 - 11:33
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[For those of a non-UK disposition, the title is what's called 'Yorkshire' - an offshoot of English whereby letters and sounds are just randomly ignored] I land…
· 6 posts · started 4 Jul 2008 - 08:50 · last 5 Jul 2008 - 11:25
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Both from Mactalk, yet to receive: - Stripped G4 Quicksilver with "1Ghz" CPU. I'm 99% sure Apple didn't make a single processor G4, so hoping this is a dualie! …
· 5 posts · started 3 Jul 2008 - 06:57 · last 4 Jul 2008 - 11:39
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...or, "Can I start early?" I know I said that I couldn't do an endurance challenge real well, but on the night of 10 June, my Pismo was forcibly removed from m…
· 8 posts · started 16 Jun 2008 - 14:51 · last 4 Jul 2008 - 02:02
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Ok I have asked at the lisa list but I will also ask here (68kmla has always been so helpful) so if you are part of the lisa list I am sorry you have to read th…
· 59 posts · started 2 May 2008 - 13:43 · last 4 Jul 2008 - 01:47
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658 pieces of BU40.... --wait for it--..........7 transistors starting at $.99. I checked the datasheets and the ratings for collector-base and collector-emitte…
· 2 posts · started 3 Jul 2008 - 17:50 · last 3 Jul 2008 - 18:43
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Just picked up a Lombard 333 Powerbook and a Tangerine iBook 300 = $0. The Lombard has 128MB/4G/CD -no DVD decoder- and the iBook 64MB/6G. Both in perfect worki…
· 46 posts · started 10 Oct 2007 - 10:12 · last 3 Jul 2008 - 15:26
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Well I bought a Monitor II, Apple IIe, Disk II, Parallel Pro Card, 80 column card, etc. It was complete in all the boxes, with manuals and disks, and extra part…
· 9 posts · started 1 Jul 2008 - 17:51 · last 2 Jul 2008 - 22:02
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I am wondering. You can put a 6200 motherboard into an LC 580. You can also put a 6360/6400/6500 motherboard into a 6200/6300 IF you also change the power suppl…
· 3 posts · started 30 Jun 2008 - 18:22 · last 1 Jul 2008 - 12:41
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Hi there, Recently got a Classic II, which sat outside for a number of days... I let it dry for some time (about a week or so), before trying something else. Af…
· 4 posts · started 30 Jun 2008 - 23:12 · last 1 Jul 2008 - 04:28
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You know that guy I got the Compaq LTE 5300 a while back? He said he had more stuff for me a few weeks back, and today he delivered. Highlights include: A Belki…
· 3 posts · started 30 Jun 2008 - 04:41 · last 1 Jul 2008 - 03:30
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