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hi everybody, this is my first post, and i am so glad i have found this forum. i think it is a great community. i have loved macs since my early childhood (i ca…
· 73 posts · started 27 Nov 2007 - 13:57 · last 23 Dec 2007 - 20:00
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My Belgian/French 540 is alive! [1] It has 7.5.3 on it, and I can't figure out how to change the bit depth. I want to set it to 1 bit so I can play Dark Castle.…
· 18 posts · started 18 Dec 2007 - 20:32 · last 22 Dec 2007 - 14:46
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I dug my Mom's iMac G3 out of storage (In the basement). Anyways, upon booting up, i encountered the video only using 5" across of the screen than the screen is…
· 6 posts · started 16 Dec 2007 - 04:00 · last 22 Dec 2007 - 12:23
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Right now it has a old 5400 rpm harddrive, what will be faster: new 7200 rpm HD or a SCSI card with scsi HD ? Bert
· 19 posts · started 15 Dec 2007 - 13:22 · last 20 Dec 2007 - 23:56
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Following on from last weekend's Freecycle haul it's been a bumper time for liberations in this corner of Mac-dom. Not only did a 9500 turn up yesterday but a 7…
· 9 posts · started 20 Dec 2007 - 07:34 · last 20 Dec 2007 - 23:41
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Hi, I have been registered on this forum for some time but I havent participated much, until now when I realised how important the 68k Liberation army is. I per…
· 4 posts · started 19 Dec 2007 - 22:57 · last 20 Dec 2007 - 11:54
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I need to know which is lighter on this system: Pentium 233Mhz MMX 128MB PC-66Mhz 40GB HDD DVD/CD-RW (pulled from another machine) These are the two anti-virus …
· 2 posts · started 20 Dec 2007 - 03:49 · last 20 Dec 2007 - 04:00
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Is the old myth true that they can only be used one way or the other? I want to turn mine on its side so it's a "tower" yet I read in Mac Secrets that once they…
· 18 posts · started 9 Dec 2007 - 17:40 · last 19 Dec 2007 - 21:30
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After months of absolutely nothing appearing on my local Freecycle group, someone advertised a Quadra 840av. I duly stuck my hand up and said 'yes please' and I…
· 9 posts · started 17 Dec 2007 - 08:41 · last 19 Dec 2007 - 08:34
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I just sent a message to somebody offering 3 PPC macs.
· 33 posts · started 1 Dec 2007 - 02:48 · last 19 Dec 2007 - 00:21
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Great instructional pictorial. Anybody we know? http://picasaweb.google.com/radius226/CompactMacintoshDisassembly
· 4 posts · started 17 Dec 2007 - 05:57 · last 18 Dec 2007 - 21:28
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Well this is my 4th unusable PSU (3 for my IIsi and now the one from my 7200) I discovered the problem is that I literally blew off about 5/8ths of my PWM contr…
· 8 posts · started 10 Dec 2007 - 04:45 · last 18 Dec 2007 - 20:59
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So from what I have read, it is possible to get OS X to run on a 233mhz tray load iMac. What would I have to do to get to be able to run it? Or would it be bett…
· 14 posts · started 15 Dec 2007 - 17:13 · last 18 Dec 2007 - 17:27
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Okay, so I have a set of 2400s that I've acquired over the past few months. The first one I picked up was a pre-production Japanese model (I'll put pix up on Fl…
· 2 posts · started 17 Dec 2007 - 11:14 · last 17 Dec 2007 - 22:48
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I have been using my PowerBook 150 A little more and I think I'm killing the battery charge. I have to plug it in for a second to get it to start (The pram batt…
· 2 posts · started 11 Dec 2007 - 22:12 · last 17 Dec 2007 - 10:43
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Does anyone know if the angle adapters (pds-pds/ pds-nubus) for the IIsi have L2 cache onboard? Or to put the question differently, is it possible to get L2 cac…
· 8 posts · started 12 Dec 2007 - 01:29 · last 16 Dec 2007 - 10:32
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I just received ( I love when stuff gets delivered and I don't have to go get it ) [}] ]'> the machines mentioned in the subject. The G3 mini tower; 266,…
· 10 posts · started 14 Dec 2007 - 06:45 · last 15 Dec 2007 - 05:49
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I have a Mac Classic that, on startup, immediately goes to an After Dark screen saver (the fish one) that is password protected. Is there a way to get around th…
· 15 posts · started 11 Dec 2007 - 19:35 · last 12 Dec 2007 - 16:06
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Continued from the thread in Conquests: Well, looks like I have enough stuff here to make one really really really nice ][+ and one parts unit. Unit #2 doesn't …
· 1 posts · started 11 Dec 2007 - 01:56 · last 11 Dec 2007 - 01:56
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I'm wondering, right now I have an iBook G4 with tiger, 768mb RAM, a 5400rpm 80gb hd and its the 1.07ghz model. I'm wondering, what are some ways other than mor…
· 7 posts · started 6 Dec 2007 - 22:05 · last 10 Dec 2007 - 22:57
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Have any of you ever returned to an older Mac having got used to a newer one and found the older one to be a lot worse than you remembered? Since I got my G3 I'…
· 68 posts · started 15 Jun 2007 - 17:01 · last 10 Dec 2007 - 00:41
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I've noticed for some time now an interesting little thing that my 540c does. It's running System 7.6.1, and every time you click on the battery monitor in the …
· 2 posts · started 9 Dec 2007 - 17:46 · last 9 Dec 2007 - 22:17
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Anyone know where I can get Revision B CRTs for Classics cheap? Just the CRT, don't need an analogue board or a whole Mac. (If you don't know the difference bet…
· 2 posts · started 9 Dec 2007 - 17:37 · last 9 Dec 2007 - 18:41
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We all know the aging early Compacts are prone to leaky capacitors which are all guaranteed to fail and need replacing as they near the quarter century mark. In…
· 17 posts · started 7 Dec 2007 - 17:30 · last 9 Dec 2007 - 18:17
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I was surfing around on eBay the other day and ended up buying an iMac G3 for $20.00. The computer has not arrived yet, but the ad said that it is password prot…
· 19 posts · started 6 Dec 2007 - 23:15 · last 8 Dec 2007 - 12:03
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