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I've wanted a Lisa for so long now but yesterday I finally made it happen. I picked one up for $150 down the street. It came with Lisa, keyboard, mouse, and pow…
· 13 posts · started 20 Apr 2013 - 17:48 · last 27 Apr 2013 - 06:14
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So I really like having my 7100 back up and purring, it feels like old times. I'm playing some old games on there and exploring the by-gone era of software, but…
· 22 posts · started 13 Aug 2012 - 15:07 · last 27 Apr 2013 - 05:25
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Have a SCSI CD-ROM player for my Classic II. Here are the specs for my machine: - 10 MB RAM - 80 MB Hard Drive - OS 7.5.5 The machine's sound works fine, so I c…
· 3 posts · started 27 Apr 2013 - 04:31 · last 27 Apr 2013 - 05:21
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Is there any electrical reason this Tank Farm and Coil couldn't be relocated an inch or two to the right? I'm thinking caps with heat shrunk wire leads and a wi…
· 4 posts · started 24 Apr 2013 - 18:22 · last 26 Apr 2013 - 22:48
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OK, so I got a nice, new-to-me 80 GB IDE hard drive from some guy on LEM Swap. I install it on my recently refurbished PowerBook G4 12" (which was running very …
· 19 posts · started 17 Apr 2013 - 05:40 · last 26 Apr 2013 - 07:45
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I've been perusing this forum for a few months and read somewhere about PRAM batteries exploding and destroying the motherboard they are installed on. So this a…
· 5 posts · started 18 Apr 2013 - 21:12 · last 26 Apr 2013 - 06:43
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Just collected this evening a complete Newton 110. Came boxed and with all goodies including Psu and video tape, even a set of stickers and 3 Sram Cards My firs…
· 9 posts · started 24 Apr 2013 - 20:32 · last 25 Apr 2013 - 22:23
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That's right folks. I am the proud owner of Mr. Steven Job's personal Apple IIe. Here's the backstory: I found it in a dumpster outside his mansion before it wa…
· 48 posts · started 23 Apr 2013 - 17:56 · last 25 Apr 2013 - 20:00
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Hi there, Among the pile of stuff that I managed to get a few weeks ago is an external SCSI harddrive case, as shown below: I'd like to find out who made it etc…
· 14 posts · started 21 Apr 2013 - 17:51 · last 25 Apr 2013 - 01:19
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Today there was a flee market near my place. I went looking for books and perhaps some old macs, you never know. Then suddenly I saw her. She was sitting on a s…
· 14 posts · started 21 Apr 2013 - 11:08 · last 24 Apr 2013 - 18:14
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First of all, hello! I'm new! Last month I bought an SE/30 off eBay, and it's in otherwise perfect condition except it had very faint sound. I did my research a…
· 13 posts · started 16 Apr 2013 - 02:38 · last 23 Apr 2013 - 21:12
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Hello, I just aquired a Macintosh LC II and its 12 inch monitor from a friend of mine who got it at an estate sale. When I hooked everything up and turned on th…
· 24 posts · started 21 Feb 2013 - 08:07 · last 23 Apr 2013 - 19:55
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I was debating on running Mac OS 9.1 on my Powermac 6100/66. Is that recommended? I imagine that it would be slow as molasses, even though I maxed out the ram t…
· 31 posts · started 9 Apr 2012 - 21:43 · last 23 Apr 2013 - 19:31
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So I was looking at the Quadra 800 motherboard, and the layout looks remarkably smilar to a IIci, all the way down to the ports and the placement of the program…
· 7 posts · started 19 Apr 2013 - 18:38 · last 23 Apr 2013 - 17:54
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Retrofited an LC-PSU Board into an Apple IIe Power Supply the only catch is no -12 vdc, LC PSU does not provide it. Well it works, the color of wires already ma…
· 9 posts · started 18 Mar 2013 - 03:11 · last 23 Apr 2013 - 13:16
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Maybe the fumes or the Lead/Tin solder is starting to effect me... I'm in the middle of re-capping yet another Macintosh Portable Logic board right now. It came…
· 8 posts · started 21 Apr 2013 - 06:15 · last 23 Apr 2013 - 01:19
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Any ideas on how to remove the corrosion from the legs of the various components on this motherboard? I've included a photo of what it looks like so far. To be …
· 13 posts · started 9 Mar 2013 - 21:20 · last 23 Apr 2013 - 00:55
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I'm curious. I've been looking at the SE's motherboard and I see connectors for the SCSI drive, floppy drives, the speaker, and the power connector... but I don…
· 5 posts · started 13 Apr 2013 - 20:31 · last 23 Apr 2013 - 00:53
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I accidentally acquired a Powerbook G4 today and found what many threads here have led to - if the PRAM battery is flat, the main battery will not charge either…
· 2 posts · started 16 Apr 2013 - 09:50 · last 19 Apr 2013 - 23:15
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As far as I can tell, it's a stock G3, but its not booting. I get a chime on powerup, and that's it. No video, no HD activity, No CD-ROM activity if I stick in …
· 8 posts · started 23 Mar 2013 - 20:42 · last 19 Apr 2013 - 16:45
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Just for fun, I decided to check the local CL listings last night, figuring there was an outside chance of getting something while I'm home. (The IIGS is still …
· 5 posts · started 3 Apr 2013 - 18:42 · last 19 Apr 2013 - 16:20
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So we all know that a LOT of 512k Macs were upgraded to Mac Plus during the mid to late 80's, via "upgrade kits" that Apple released... That means, you still fi…
· 6 posts · started 16 Apr 2013 - 06:15 · last 18 Apr 2013 - 23:32
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POST YOUR blahblahblah you know the drill http://www.ebay.com/itm/170933925539 8 inch LCD @ 1024x768, with driver board (HDMI, VGA, AV), USB touchpanel, all wir…
· 19 posts · started 29 Mar 2013 - 12:19 · last 17 Apr 2013 - 16:21
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Hey all, I don't know if any of you remember me, but quite a while back I was interested in building my own 68k microcomputer. The best way to understand what I…
· 57 posts · started 25 Feb 2013 - 04:29 · last 16 Apr 2013 - 22:21
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Found an iMac at the side of the road on the way to work this morning. It's and Indigo and, based on the serial number, is a G3/500 (early 2001). The bad news i…
· 6 posts · started 16 Apr 2013 - 17:33 · last 16 Apr 2013 - 21:19
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