wikipedia said these were plagued with power supply issues, i happen to have one, that came from that load of mac's i received over the weekend. this one happen…
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I picked up a powerbook duo 280 at the hamfest. It fired right up and started booting into MacOS 8. But the screen is bad, starts that tunnelvision shit when yo…
Hello guys, I'm new on this forum. My first Macintosh I haved used was my dads one. A Macintosh IIcx in 1991, IIRC. It was a pleasure to use this easy to handle…
C1, C7, C12, C13 are 47uf 16v, C11 is a 220uf at 16v. These capacitors form a supply filter network on the 5V source. (If bad, will cause simasaimac condition. …
Will this work in the 7600? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-Power-Mac-intosh-ATI-Rage128-16MB-PCI-Video-VGA-Graphics-Card-630-2858-OEM-/380430850818?pt=PCC_Video_…
Just scored today a very nice looking Classic, not too yellow,in working condition (there is no HD but was part of the deal) and free ! Boot to the blinking mar…
Hey everyone. I wrote this a decade ago in the old forums and thought it might be appropriate to repost. HOW TO DISCHARGE A CRT SAFELY (Or at least as safely as…
In between hanging out with all the mothers in my family and my sister in law's birthday party, I took a load of 42 computers to the local PC Recycle center. On…
*hissssss* The Quadra 800 case, as used by the 800, 840av, 8100, and 8500, though attractive enough on the outside, is universally reviled as a pain to work wit…
It's only a partial rescue, but it's my first one, so here it is. My wife and I had an eMac in the first years of our marriage, and about five years or so ago, …
I did a good faith purchase on Craigslist for a guy's old IIci. I live in California, he's in Chicago. I paid $150 + about $30 parcel post shipping for a boxed …
I have several Macs and some drives will boot as a extra disk (no startup) but when I plug some in the computer trys to boot off it, no matter what I do heck a …
Quite a while back, I liberated an $11.99 B&W StudioDisplay after testing it in the Thrift Shop. Apparently, one needs to run these things for more than…
After what seems like forever, I am finally the owner of a PowerBook G4 12". It comes to me by way of a business associate who I first met in 2005 and see once …
I was looking for replacements to recap an SE/30 motherboard, and noticed that Panasonic has announced new type (Conductive Polymer Hybrid Aluminum Electrolytic…
i won these, They lowered the shipping for me, to 35 bucks. i've never messed with any of the Macintosh II Models, i'm sure it will be fun! http://www.ebay.com/…
I recently acquired a fully working Macintosh SE. It has a 20mb hard drive, and it is the model that can only read 800k floppies. It currently has 1mb of ram, b…
I have a (only one but can get two) of the following memory stick: Memory (RAM): 128MB=1X128MB FAST PAGE FAST PAGE Number of Memory Chips: 24CHCIPS Memory Capac…
. . . does anybody know of a tool, technique or procedure to do this easily, without marring the plastics? I've finally gutted my (DOA Flyback equipped : ) Blue…
I've had a PowerBook Pismo for the longest time. I got it for free from a guy who said it wouldn't start. I took it home, got it to turn on, and what followed w…
I rather suspect the answer to this will be what I expect, but I think it's worth asking the question just in case there's something I've either missed or over-…
Does not work. The SE/30 zebra striped and wouldn't boot. A definitive bust. There's no mention of this in any of the forum searches, so I thought I'd throw it …
I've been looking for a G4 iMac for a long long time now, but they are usually pick up only and/or go for stupid prices. I've missed out on a few good ones over…
I bought a broken Mac Classic for a Mini ITX project. I plugged it in just to see what it would do. Blank screen, DOA. I could hear something knocking around in…
I picked up a sick 512Ke to rehabilitate and am stumped at what the problem is. There is no startup `bong` and there are thin horizontal lines over the entire s…