Bought a Flower Power iMac G3 that turned out to have a G4 upgrade inside. It started out as a Snow G3 400 but over time has had many parts added/swapped out in…
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I picked up a Macintosh Classic knowing it was non functioning for a very nice price. It has horizontal lines across the screen on start up with no bong. When t…
There are a handful of us who like the G5, and want to keep the machines running. The rest of you can ignore this post! The following link could be of use to so…
I have a weird issue with my Powerbooks 160 and 165: I can't set the time and date anymore. As soon as I leave the date/time Control panel, the date/time immedi…
I was trying out different SCSI configurations for an external HD when I noticed my LC III started giving the chimes of death immediately after startup. I can't…
I'm trying to fix a 128k Analog Board and would like to know if I can test the diodes and resistors and capacitors without removing them from the board? i have …
Lately, amid hard disk trouble (spiceyokodo no comments), my Performa 475 has started to make a very strange noise. Normally, wether the hard disk is working or…
I just stripped down a powerbook duo 270c which has a busted screen. I have noticed that the few electrolytic SMD caps this board has, are starting to leak, lea…
Because of all this talk about disabling the onboard video, and just running the Greyscale out of the IIsi video card, into the CRT. This should mean that we co…
After a long journey, I've finally located the fabled Dr. Dobb's articles written by John Bass detailing his SCSI solution for the original Macintosh 128K &…
Hello all, This is a start to my acquisitions thread. I've snagged a few 'new' old Macs in the last few weeks, which I'll perhaps detail in subsequent posts. Ho…
Hi all I have bought a Mac Portable last week end. Since it was VERY dirty, I started disassembling it to wash the plastics. I used the Macintosh Portable servi…
The holy grail of SE/30 computing. What compact Mac user among us hasn't lusted after this elusive upgrade combo? I myself certainly have for years. Well, today…
I've got a pb100 with a screen that comes on, the backlight comes on, and it looks like all the pixels come on and stay black. Brightness and contrast knobs do …
Today I acquired this very special Lisa...uh ...Macintosh..uh... machine! It is Lisa modelnumber A6S0300P, so a Lisa XL. But the inside is totally rebuild. It h…
I received a Newton H1000 in a big Mac haul from last week. It boots, the screen is crisp/bright, and it is in fairly good cosmetic shape (I like the rubber tex…
Hello everybody! This is my first post, but I have been lurking for a few months now. It's good to finally join! I have been wanting to get back into the world …
I was wanting to get some Hitachi 658128ALFP-10 chips for a project, but I know next to nothing about the naming (I'm guessing that the 128 is the amount of mem…
remember that 145 of mine that had the wierd video port coming off the side? I could not test it because some wires were snapped, and the machine was busted. I …
I saw JT's mention of the need for this thread here: http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=163030#p163030 so I decided to start rolling that ball. I posted a…
Hi, I've just acquired a mac plus (nothing strange there) with an extremely strange external hardrive. It's a paradise scsi 20 mb external hardrive. It has two …
Hey guys. I have both these fine machines. The 180 got roughed up real bad in the move, and the case is coming apart at the seams. One of the feet broke, there …
I haven't posted a conquest in a long time, and recently I've gotten several. Seems like people tend to create an all-encompassing thread for their findings, so…
http://www.jcsenterprises.com/Japamacs_Page/Processors.html An excellent page on compatibility of G4 CPU modules between different models. From theos911's post …
Hey guys, My FDHD is going nuts. Scored it yesterday morning and.. on the first power up the screen was waving and I could hear some cracks coming from the insi…