Hello everyone, I wanted to share with you a couple of things I got today ! The guy brought in 6 massive cardboard boxes, 300 miles from where I live (Bordeaux …
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So, my latest conquest has still not successfully run under it's own steam yet and I am beat as to why. It will chime, and will power up the monitor (I have tri…
So, I just decided to consolidate my various stuff and things into a single thread on another forum yesterday so figured I may as well do the same here. Some of…
Earlier this year I raided a co-worker's Apple collection and bought his PowerBook 100 off of him. Unfortunately, his did not have a battery, or even a cover. I…
Hey, You guys may know whats wrong. 2 of my macs (Macintosh plus and Macinotsh Classic II) have an issue saving changes to the sound and mouse settings. the ma…
I have a lot of PC133 RAM laying around from various PCs I've parted out. I thought I would use it to bring my Power Mac G4 Sawtooth up to 1GB from 640MB. So, I…
A local guy I know ends up with old machines that people drop off. I went to pick up an old Compaq 486 tower and he had some iMac G5's. So I said what the hell …
I bought a PowerBook 540c on eBay, because I wanted a 68k laptop. When it arrived, I discovered it had been upgraded to PowerPC. I have two questions: 1. Would …
I recently took my Mac Classic II out of storage, it had been at the top of my garage for the past 10+ years. It gets pretty hot up there and as a result my bat…
These interfaces were created between 1990-1999 and are only usable by those who have a mac with a serial port. they came built in on older beige colored g3 or …
I was working on my LC III (again) and tinkering with the two external hard drives I acquired some time ago. It turned out that one of them had a functional har…
Hey guys, So I am relatively new to the board, mostly because my long standing Apple/Mac interest has exploded into a recent rash of acquiring vintage macs (muc…
Hi folks I managed to resurrect another trash-saved Mac which was sitting around here. Before, at the first try (probably after ~10 years without being in use),…
I have an extra 3400c case that I had in the back of my mind wondered what to do with. A friend just pointed this out: http://www.minnowboard.org/meet-minnowboa…
A few days ago I was doing a random search on Craigslist for computers that cost $30 or less. One of the results was an Acer Chromebook that had a damaged Chrom…
Hi, I recently bought a Quadra 950 and have been having some problems with it. It doesn't seem like there are a lot of these, and thusly not much information on…
I did my first re-cap yesterday on my SE/30. I'm glad to say it went well. I wasn't getting any sound before, now I get clear and loud sound through the headpho…
All the sites I have seen say that the 6500 tops out at 128MB but I know the official max is often not the actual limit. It is easy to get a couple 128MB simms …
I get a chime of death every time I boot the Quadra 700 (just randomly started happening). I narrowed it down to a RAM issue. I've tried every variation of chip…
So, after reading trag's contribution to a thread involving CPU card compatibility in edge-slot Powermacs, I note that there are actually fairly significant dif…
Hi, I have a problem : i have recupered a PowerBook 280C and a Duo Dock II and i have a problem. The first time i power up the PowerBook, it works, but after ~5…
Hello. Was wondering if anyone out there knew what would cause a Centris 650 to have a green tint to everything on the screen. Even the grey start up screen has…
Hello, My Mac II is not booting. From what I can see, one of the two 3V soldered batteries is dead. Who in hell even considered soldering batteries on a board! …
The answer may be obvious, but I received a non-working Mac Color Classic. I replaced the battery, turned the computer on, hit the power key on the keyboard. No…
Hey, everyone. Now that I have my G3 operational I want to get some faster storage in there. The G3MT came with an Adaptec 29160 card installed that I put back …