Is there a rule of thumb when looking at a 30-pin SIMM to determine its capacity? All my 30-pin machines are compacts, and I don't always have one open, so just…
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Out of my 20+ vintage Macs, I've only had 1 or 2 hard drives die on me. The hard drive in my Color Classic died this weekend. I opened it up to install an Asant…
. . . I never thought this could possibly work, but I've found a caveat mentioned about it . . . . . . but, first of all: Props to MinerAl for being the first o…
As the supply of 50 pin SCSI HDDs dwindles, there has been a fair amount of focus on bridges to attach various more modern storage devices to the SCSI bus. Has …
25 compacts of varying configurations from stock 512k's through Plus, including several 512k's with SCSI and one with what I'll assume is an external display ad…
Finally found one of these and the tower is in mint condition. A little dusty and hasn't been used since 2005. Came with its matching keyboard (Which by the way…
In all truthfulness, I'm more of a software guy then a hardware guy. So, I need help with the maintenance for the 512kE. I want to give it a full overhaul (minu…
Anyone have a copy of the Cute Cat extension? It seems to have been lost to obscurity. It was an extension that was similar to Boris on XWindows, it made it cut…
I've been reading a bunch of threads about using server drives in our old Macs, so I've been looking around . . . . . . If someone in the tech Support Brigade c…
Recently, my last Mac died (PowerBook 180). That left me without a working Mac for the first time since I purchased a IIci back in the 80's. Can I hear you say …
Keep this in mind when considering this project's unrealistic (at best) goal, & all these seemingly unrelated lines of research: The first G-3 IC Packag…
So for years I've been looking for a Workgroup Server 9650/350 they never come up for sale, I doubt there are many left. I finally found one locally (bought a l…
Hi guys, I've bugged some of you on IRC pending my account but figured I'd pick non-lurker's brains. And yes, I have Larry Pina's book on the way but I have no …
Just thought I'd post some shots here for those whom are interested { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "ligh…
I found this thing in the ancient "Current Hacks" box . . . piccies coming up soon, meanwhile: SCM SwapBox At any rate, there seems to be a lot more information…
Ok 3 months ago I got some parts of a 5300, a real basket case. Lots of parts but cables ripped and such. Well today in the mail for the price of shipping a guy…
OS9 LIVES FORUM REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE DEPT.If anyone here doesn’t know of and subscribe to Bobby Owsinski’s “The Big Picture” music production blog, you’re mis…
Hi 68K'ers! I'm sorting through my collection, which I haven't had time for in years. I'm looking at one particular machine, my PowerMac 7100/80. I acquired thi…
Found this nice Classic II system for $ 20. Can't say that i was ever really excited about getting a Classic, but considering this was a Classic II in good shap…
Hello, I have a PB180 that fails to do anything when the power button is pushed. As recently as 2 months ago, it powered up and booted just fine. Is there a "ch…
i replaced all the cap's, little of a pain in the butt, they were in-fact all leaking. except for the 16v 47, but i replaced that one anyways, none of the caps …
So craigslist paid off today. A nice older gentleman put his collection up for a huge sum hoping to find the right individual to "inherit" his collection. He ha…
So, I ended up with one of these in a big lot of video cards. I know that the Micron Xceed Color card can be used with an adapter to run the internal display in…
what spawned this thought was Dougg3's ROM simm, then bunsen mentioning how cool this ROM simm would be in a SE/30, used as a serial terminal emulator, i was th…
Got these from a friend today for free. iBook G3 clamshell tangerine (in a box with styrofoam) - 300Mhz - OS 9.0 International English - 32MB RAM - 3GB HDD - CD…