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I've got a mostly functional CC that has been sitting around in storage for years. The display needs a good degaussing (right now I have it sitting plugged in o…
· 16 posts · started 30 Nov 2013 - 08:23 · last 5 Dec 2013 - 07:12
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Yesterday at the flea market I found a Quicksilver G4/867 with memory and a hard drive. I don't know the amount of memory or the size of the hard drive, only th…
· 19 posts · started 21 Jul 2013 - 15:45 · last 4 Dec 2013 - 06:08
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I figure this is a peripherals topic. I'm looking into setting up a RAID Level 5 array for backing up my data in the future and looking for a little help. So fa…
· 12 posts · started 1 Dec 2013 - 07:55 · last 3 Dec 2013 - 22:26
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Hi All, Recently, I've had a few hard drive failures. I have done some reading online and people all over have been saying that hard drive failures are at an al…
· 201 posts · started 8 Apr 2013 - 06:47 · last 2 Dec 2013 - 05:14
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I guess this should stand on its own, there are a few related threads. Whatever, I'll explain/link later, I've got a couple of questions first. The questions ar…
· 10 posts · started 29 Nov 2013 - 23:08 · last 1 Dec 2013 - 20:44
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After seeing this guys vid's, looks like cap technology has came along way. I would assume all i would need is a big enough cap and a voltage regulator for 4.5v…
· 17 posts · started 15 Nov 2013 - 17:17 · last 1 Dec 2013 - 16:45
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What is the model number for the old Apple SCSI case shown in this video: When was the drive introduced? What was the original capacity? When was it discontinue…
· 13 posts · started 10 Apr 2008 - 18:43 · last 30 Nov 2013 - 06:02
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Hello, A year or so ago I purchased a grab bag of parts on Ebay that included a MicroMac Carrera040 http://micromac.com/products/carrera040.html. The card is th…
· 10 posts · started 23 Aug 2009 - 09:30 · last 28 Nov 2013 - 07:17
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My friend Tom gave me a Duo 230, a Duo 250, a Duo Dock, and an Apple Portrait Display! We spent some time playing around with the Duos, but ran into a strange p…
· 9 posts · started 27 Nov 2013 - 21:40 · last 28 Nov 2013 - 01:57
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I finally finished recapping a IIcx which hadn't been used in years (PSU blew up as well on first start-up :O ) and it seems successful. The problem I now have …
· 19 posts · started 29 Aug 2013 - 00:04 · last 27 Nov 2013 - 23:20
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Hi! I've been trying to find a way to fix my Mac, espescially after TWO large parcels failed to arrive , when I remembered this old PC guy that Dad knew. Sure e…
· 13 posts · started 3 Aug 2013 - 17:06 · last 27 Nov 2013 - 19:52
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. . . I just found the Apple logo stamped on the bottom of the 5.25" drive tray in the strangest, coolest sheet metal chassis for a wide, middling tal/mid level…
· 71 posts · started 20 Nov 2013 - 18:42 · last 27 Nov 2013 - 17:56
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no I'm not going to have two... but I keep heming and hawing about snagging that SE/30 from my boss some how. (I used it today, made me think...) so I have a pl…
· 43 posts · started 13 Aug 2013 - 02:05 · last 26 Nov 2013 - 01:42
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Got my IIci yesterday, and as i suspected the suppression caps in the psu have failed One of them i can find very easily (0.22uf 250VAC) but the two smaller one…
· 13 posts · started 20 Nov 2013 - 16:33 · last 25 Nov 2013 - 16:50
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Never thought I would see them for sale up in The Netherlands, but I did! Came with the original power supply and stereo RCA-RCA cables for hooking them up to a…
· 11 posts · started 15 Nov 2013 - 17:35 · last 22 Nov 2013 - 15:13
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I have 4 one meg simms installed in both this FDHD and SE Dual 800k drive. I tried 3 different sets of ram, the jumper is set to (2-4) I even tried the 1 meg po…
· 9 posts · started 19 Nov 2013 - 10:50 · last 20 Nov 2013 - 18:12
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Hello everybody, I've been a longtime lurker of these forums as I dream about collecting vintage macs but I've finally made an account now that I actually have …
· 47 posts · started 7 Oct 2013 - 19:44 · last 18 Nov 2013 - 13:50
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Hey guys, I've got a new video. I connect a Playstation 4 and a Mac 512K. I like this one because of the history that Sony and Apple together with the early com…
· 1 posts · started 17 Nov 2013 - 19:24 · last 17 Nov 2013 - 19:24
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I got a partial list of the caps on my analog board, just missing one axial that's upside down so I can't read it and I can only read the two big main ones in t…
· 1 posts · started 16 Nov 2013 - 15:38 · last 16 Nov 2013 - 15:38
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Two weeks ago, I bought an LCII which appeared to have a power supply issue. I opened up the Mac today and found my worst nightmare to be true. There was massiv…
· 3 posts · started 16 Nov 2013 - 05:25 · last 16 Nov 2013 - 14:34
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· 25 posts · started 2 Dec 2012 - 07:51 · last 16 Nov 2013 - 02:29
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. . . just a front bezel, but that's about all I could afford . . . . . . I've seen this in a couple of search hits: http://www.macgeek.org/museum/applelisa1/ h…
· 59 posts · started 20 Mar 2013 - 02:21 · last 15 Nov 2013 - 03:34
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This is my first post here and my vintage Mac collection is growing. Today I received a Macintosh M5120 non-backlit Portable and GCC Technologies WriteMove port…
· 17 posts · started 9 Aug 2013 - 05:02 · last 15 Nov 2013 - 00:08
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I want some capacitors for my Classic, the one's near the power supply, and would like to buy equal to, or better than OEM quality - without going broke for Tan…
· 14 posts · started 4 Nov 2013 - 14:26 · last 11 Nov 2013 - 22:31
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Evening all! I have been looking online at 1.6Ghz G4 Powerbooks and toying with the idea of buying one, but I would appreciate people's opinions on them. For ex…
· 37 posts · started 16 Oct 2013 - 01:30 · last 11 Nov 2013 - 10:46
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