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I recently bought a powermac G4 mdd and i am trying to make it run cooler the specs are 10.5.8 leopard dual 1GHZ 1.75GB ram Dual Super drives HDS 250gb 120gb 10…
· 24 posts · started 24 Nov 2009 - 23:16 · last 20 Feb 2010 - 15:52
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Well, I seem to have had a triple-biorhythm low kind of day on Saturday - either that or I was just stupid! Managed to lose my glasses AND fry one of my Pismos,…
· 6 posts · started 17 Feb 2010 - 17:10 · last 18 Feb 2010 - 15:53
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This tech note: http://developer.apple.com/legacy/mac/library/technotes/hw/hw_13.html states that: "The Macintosh Portable contains 256K of processor ROM, which…
· 3 posts · started 17 Feb 2010 - 21:13 · last 18 Feb 2010 - 06:30
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i got a dead pismo battery in a junk lot (it could not be revived w/ battery reset on a lombard), so i decided to mod it } . i emptied it out (found the directi…
· 7 posts · started 2 Jan 2010 - 02:57 · last 17 Feb 2010 - 04:38
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Folks, I'm coming back to the barracks after a long hiatus, in the hope that someone can point me towards a solution. The problem: I wanted to put a newish CRT …
· 7 posts · started 14 Feb 2010 - 21:16 · last 16 Feb 2010 - 20:05
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I just got my hands a nice looking Macintosh IIfx. It has full memory banks (not sure how much) and three NuBus cards in it, but I'm not sure what they do: 1. S…
· 23 posts · started 13 Feb 2010 - 22:50 · last 16 Feb 2010 - 18:55
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Analog Board Connector 1 -12 V input 2 GND 3 4 5 ADB Power supply 6 GND 7 Power off command 8 GND 9 Composite signal output 10 GND 11 Video signal output(Blue) …
· 1 posts · started 16 Feb 2010 - 06:22 · last 16 Feb 2010 - 06:22
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Ok So my screen has those diagonal lines and I notice that the screen has like a lot of static electricity in it. I had my hand on screen and turned it on and i…
· 6 posts · started 15 Feb 2010 - 00:57 · last 16 Feb 2010 - 05:09
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From what I've read it is possible to put two disk drives and a hard drive into the SE, but it requires a special mounting bracket. Has anyone ever seen one of …
· 7 posts · started 12 Feb 2010 - 15:59 · last 15 Feb 2010 - 14:04
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Here's a question for you A2 experts. Looking thru my Apple II stuff, I found a "Zeus RAM Card", which is evidently an early version of the Apple II GS RAM expa…
· 7 posts · started 14 Feb 2010 - 19:12 · last 15 Feb 2010 - 03:06
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I've searched for instructions ( text and pictures ) to show me how and what to do. I took the metal case off and it seems to me that the 8500's RAM slots are h…
· 25 posts · started 7 Feb 2010 - 22:18 · last 14 Feb 2010 - 17:42
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Picked up an Asantefast 10/100 ethernet and a Radius 24 bit accelerated video card. Not sure what model the video card but I know it's not a Thunder GX. It coul…
· 15 posts · started 7 Feb 2010 - 23:13 · last 12 Feb 2010 - 04:47
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I just picked up a PowerBook 5300cs off of eBay. It just arrived today along with the manual. It is in near perfect condition and it is still running 7.5.2 and …
· 3 posts · started 11 Feb 2010 - 02:39 · last 11 Feb 2010 - 16:22
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I've got a Kanga G3 Powerbook which I picked up recently for essentially nothing. It's running 9.1 and its RAM is maxed out. The battery even holds a 2+ hour ch…
· 16 posts · started 16 Jan 2010 - 17:15 · last 10 Feb 2010 - 06:58
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http://homepage.mac.com/pillowcase1/PhotoAlbum56.html Very nice. Every Apple fan should have one.
· 16 posts · started 4 Jul 2007 - 04:39 · last 10 Feb 2010 - 01:44
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Hello, I have just received this macintosh SE/30 a few hours ago, and every time I try to turn it on, I get these vertical lines and the start up chime does not…
· 13 posts · started 8 Feb 2010 - 23:24 · last 10 Feb 2010 - 01:07
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I recently searched out a Power Macintosh 9500 (ended up with 17 other Gw & G4 freebies as well) for various bootstrapping projects and have it online a…
· 24 posts · started 13 May 2009 - 23:39 · last 9 Feb 2010 - 22:29
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Akimbo was an IP TV service that folded back in 2007. When they folded they gave me back the money for the set top box and told me to do what ever I want with i…
· 6 posts · started 18 Jan 2010 - 00:40 · last 8 Feb 2010 - 01:48
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Hi, my first freebie of the year - and a good one! Went with my father-in-law to a tip in Essendon, dumped our crap - checked out a skip with keyboards plastic …
· 3 posts · started 7 Feb 2010 - 10:08 · last 7 Feb 2010 - 16:15
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Is the Macintosh Performa 575 motherboard the same as the Macintosh LC 575? Will this motherboard work in my Macintosh Color Classic?
· 19 posts · started 15 Dec 2009 - 21:16 · last 7 Feb 2010 - 00:22
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Via a local kijiji seller: a 400MHz G4 AGP Graphics with 1GB RAM and a nice, quiet 20GB hard drive. It was filthy (smoker and dust) so it was disassembled and w…
· 4 posts · started 1 Feb 2010 - 00:14 · last 6 Feb 2010 - 22:44
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Hello all, I had a question that just popped into my mind. I had seen an adapter that changes USB to SCSI and since the hard drives that are in the old 68k Macs…
· 7 posts · started 4 Feb 2010 - 13:19 · last 5 Feb 2010 - 20:38
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So an eMac at my school has been acting up. I checked the CD Drive cover and it indicated to me that it is a 1.25ghz machine. What the machine does is, Sometime…
· 30 posts · started 27 Sep 2009 - 22:00 · last 5 Feb 2010 - 11:40
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WGS 95 has 48 RAM, Q950 has PPC upgrade 601-100 MHz, full 256 RAM, the other two didn't boot, one had sad bong and other probably PSU problem.
· 16 posts · started 1 Feb 2010 - 22:28 · last 4 Feb 2010 - 19:56
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