Well, not really using a mac SE. but i used a CRT from a Mac SE, Analog VGA circuits, one big ass color wheel, syncro circuits built on a breadboard, and VGA ou…
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Went to the dayton hamvention flea market and seen macs galore. shelves of compacts, all 10 or 15 dollars each. I picked the only one that said HyperDrive 20 on…
So this is a topic that I've gleaned a lot of spotty information on from this forum and elsewhere, but I still haven't figured out anything that works. Basicall…
In storage somewhere, perhaps a storage unit, bus locker, trunk, possessed by someone who I don’t have the name of yet: Mac Classic 1mb Apple I (unmodded) Lisa …
Grabbed a 512ke and an SE with 2.5mb ram, 800mb floppy and 20mb miniscribe for $10 each from craigslist today. The owner works for Intel in Hillsboro and was ge…
I came across a file on a certain server based on a hot online protocol. Can't remember which server exactly. The file, "aux-0.7-bin.tar.gz" seems to contain ju…
I recently got Linux (Debian 6.0 sid) running from the command line on a Quadra 605. A number of other people got the parts together, but I wrote up the method,…
Does such a thing exist? I'm running my LC III without a PRAM battery and on startup the 32-bit memory addressing is turned off by default. I could just pop in …
I was rummaging through some old CDs earlier and found a copy of NetCD. Now that I've managed to get my external Sun CD working with my LC III I wanted to try o…
Somebody did a very "Low Rent" version of one back in the day. It was done using wires and SIMM Sockets clustered and flopping about on the existing socket. Dr.…
Scored these two guys last weekend. LC 475 SE/30 $20 for the LC 475 and $45 for the SE/30 ,each came with a keyboard and mouse. Good deal IMO. Although the 475 …
My 33mhz LC 575 hardly feels fast. It's chip has no cooing whatsoever - completely exposed. Even when the memory is upgraded, it still feels sluggish. Would a h…
I can finally say im done collecting Macs now as ive reached my goal of getting every USA Released compact mac. Its taken 10 years but ive finally done it. This…
Successfully swapped in a full 68040 into my "new" LC 475 last night. It's a 33mhz '040 from my parents' old Quadra 950. No, sorry, it's not available - they on…
Hi all! One of the VRAM sockets of my Quadra 700 has a bent/broken pin... thus it wouldn't recognize the SIMM, disabling the other three good sockets also :-( T…
The main case is easy but - Is it possible to Retrobrite the front panel of a compact Mac WITHOUT removing the CRT assembly ? (ie: cover/tape up the screen very…
I have an external AppleCD 600e. Would it be possible to convert this drive to a CD burner to burn CDs with an SE/30 or other compact mac? Any recommendations o…
I took a stop into Half Price Books today after lunch and scoured around. Lo and behold, they actually had software in the clearance section! I didn't know what…
Been on a fixing up Macs spree this week. Got the beastly Quadra 950 running good. Man is it a quick machine for its age Been playing some old games on it, I in…
I was rummaging through my old photos, and ran across an OLD performa 5200 hack i had done. I patched in an intel pentium III system board into the original ana…
I was doing some reading of the first MacUser issues, and came across an oddity: an article on the new Font/DA Mover with an accompanying illustration that show…
Will this RAM stick work with a Mac SE 30? 1MB 30-pin 80ns 2-chip Non-Parity SIMM (p/n AFJ) http://www.memoryx.net/afj.html
Did anyone ever make a cache card compatible with the Centris 610? Mine is upgraded with a full '040 and runs A/UX. I'd imagine a cache card of any sort would r…
Just bought my Second Compact Mac its a Macintosh SE/30 it has a 92mb HDD and 9mb ram and runs System 7.1