I printed out one of bbraun's, but the side holes didn't line up with an SE/30's HDD chassis. So I made a couple brackets myself, thought I'd share with anyone …

So you install 2 GB of ram and OS 9. Then you go to about this mac and you see that hey the system recognizes that there is 2GB of ram!!! And you get all excite…

This is an LC I bought as part of a deal because one of the ROMs was dead and would not boot. I recently got a new set of ROMs, put it in, and "BONG!" It's aliv…

Hi gang. So I've been working with an LC III that's absolutely driving me up the wall. When I got it from eBay, I plugged it all in and it did nothing. Black sc…

I've recently relocated my Color Classic from my mom's house, where it's lived happily since 1993 choking on cigarette smoke. I think it is going to need a reca…

Just acquired an Apple II+ today along with a Disk II. I posted these questions in my conquest thread, but I figured it made sense to post them here too: When I…

I'm new to the "hobby", just starting my collection of vintage machines. Here's my first! The original Macintosh, rescued from the bowels of a trash bin in (ver…

Sorry... I have to be a tool like everyone else. (Follow-up... sorry everyone else). As I was careening through the streets this morning in a rented convertible…

This seems to be my week for fishing crap out of the basement... I uncovered a stack of PB 1xx's I had sitting in the basement, got the whole stack off ebay 15-…

Not the car unfortunately, just one of those Lacie external drives designed by Porsche: { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous…

Hi all, I found a CL ad for "4 Apple towers and 3 Apple monitors." Three of the computers were G5s, and one a Sawtooth. There was a 22" acrylic Cinema display, …

Found both of these at my local recycler on my way home. Both are brand new, still shrink wrapped. A Pivot Interface Card, and more interestingly, a PowerView. …

Hi everyone I'm new here! I'm 17 years old, from Switzerland and have been saving old macs from recycling since 2009... I've got a "Mutant Mac", a 4400/200, wit…

I got a Color Classic today that wouldn't power on. I fixed the mother board; then I got a reddish hue issue that went away with adjusting the internal controls…

Are the expansion interfaces on the Macintosh Classic and Macintosh Classic II physically the same, and by this I mean same number of pins, same spacing, same s…

Hi guys! I posted in a vintage subreddit a few months ago about a Mac I got my hands on for cheap at a flea market, and was told to refer to y'all for more info…

I detached/pulled off the suction cup on the flyback transformer from the CRT tube on my Macintosh Plus to do some work on the motherboard. As I did that the pi…

hey guys merry xmas + happy holidays so i ahve a chance to get a dead powerbook 170 and im curious if anyone knows what the common symptom would be for one that…

Dear forum members, I'm going to recap a Macintosh SE Power Supply (made by Sony). The original capacitors are made by Rubycon, but I can't find any info on the…

Purchased a PowerBook 160 off of eBay of unknown condition as a project piece, and also because I wanted a grayscale PB. The unit did not come with a power bric…

Bought an powermac g4 sawtooth , my first vintage mac ever,for about 10 dollars . It's an old 400 megahertz model . I have already upgraded it with 1 gb of sdra…

I have a 128K Macintosh that I have had since new. Some time in the late 1980s I had it modified--added RAM (expanded to 512K ?) and added SCSI--I think. I have…

I found some lots of chips on ebay used on 4MB 64 pin SIMMs, M5M44100BJ. I'm going to do a circuit board layout and will have a few SIMMs made at a local PCB sh…

So I went for a walk in the woods yesterday and I came across a dump site. There was a giant Intergraph monitor that caught my eye and caused me to investigate …

Today I dragged my IIfx out of the basement, where it has been sitting quietly for years. I honestly don't recall if it ever worked; I'm pretty sure someone gav…