First up, I was reading about DOS card for the 6100 and how it could also be used in Quadra because without the 6100 angled adapter, it uses Quadra style PDS sl…
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A couple years back I was given a Powerbook G4 1.67ghz 15" (a1138) from a friend http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g4/specs/powerbook_g4_1.67_15_h…
Hi, I'm looking for schematic diagram to my TDK 699-0153 power supply for Mac LC II. Do you know where can I get it. I want to repair my Mac Greetings Kamil
Got home late from the Dr's appointment yesterday which sort of angered me for the delays. But along the way one of the local schools made a trash pile of old c…
I was looking through the Powerbook 500 series developer note: http://tech-insider.org/mac/research/acrobat/9405-a.pdf And thought it was interesting that the P…
An 8 kilobyte text file on an HFS+ drive shows up as roughly 30MB on a 1TB HFS drive (Mac OS Standard). That's what I get anyway. Large file sizes aren't too gr…
As a favor to dad, I recapped his IIfx for him. It was just two (2) caps - 47µf @16 cans that goes bad, they are on the right side, one under the power switch a…
I’d like to obtain and use a P630 as my main 68k machine. I’d also like to use a large-ish LCD display with it. The color depth is of no concern. Were there any…
My Centris 610 still has the stock 80MB hard drive and it's now 21 years old so I should do something. But i don't want to replace or change OS so it will still…
http://www.ebay.com/itm/201177491293 Don't know yet if it's 1360 or 1600. I hope it's a 1600.
Saturday I went out to a local recycler thinking I could snatch up some more vintage Macs for less than $40 a piece (got an SE/30 and some IBM 5150s for $18 eac…
Does anyone know what parameters are actually stored in the PRAM in the Powerbook 500 Series? Since my PRAM battery is dead (actually, missing, I just took it o…
It seems to be getting harder to find the 512KB SIMMs. Someone want to run some off using these: http://www.ebay.com/itm/271605768758?_trksid=p2060778.m1438.l26…
I accidentally posted this in the wrong forum but I couldn't figure out how to delete it there. Sorry! Does anyone know if you're supposed to connect passive or…
This would be my second PowerBook Duo 230, which I obtained from eBay for a mere $15, sold as-is for parts, as the previous owner could not get it to power on. …
Heres a few pictures of an SE I got in a lot last year. The front case is totally smooth. Back case looks like ordinary se case. Don't know whats original or sw…
It's been nearly three weeks that I've been screwing around with this. There's a freezing issue on my 9600 when I've 1) got -any- CPU upgrade in the machine and…
I have a two Pismos with two dead batteries. One is original, other one is aftermarket. When I first got the Pismos, the batteries did try to charge when first …
I liberated my IIfx from my attic where it's been for 10+ years. I'm pretty sure I got this back in the late 90's from the University of Maryland Computer Recyc…
I have a 9600. For some reason when I first got it a while back, pressing the power button would boot the machine. Now it doesn't work. Why?
Hi I have a Macintosh SE/30. Bought it at a market (sold as seen) for very little money. When I switched it on today I can hear what can only be described as a …
I just installed 4 vmram simms in my 700 and it doesn't seem it be working still limited to same colors resolutions I was before. I've moved them around in diff…
Hi, two "new" Powerbooks Got each for 20 €. First one is a PB G4 17" 1Ghz. Sold as broken/not starting, turned out to be a dead AC adapter. case is so so, some …
Where can I start? I opened up my Mac II. Hard drive is missing - check. 1 floppy drive - check. Does not turn on - expected. So what's left? Further inspection…
This is a PB100 I got over the summer, never had one before. Plugging it in and turning it on it chimes, I can see the screen backlight come on and the HD spin …