Hello everyone. I really love this site and often lurk on here kinda living vicariously through all of you my love for retromac computing. I still have my Lomba…
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Finally got pictures taken of q700. The only problem three keys broke off in shipping, works great. Havent decided on a os yet. Waiting on upgrades to get here …
Someone decided to put together a parts list and 3D printer files for a compact Mac based on a Raspberry Pi and Mini vMac: https://learn.adafruit.com/mini-mac-p…
Was looking at random Mac videos, and came across this guys' tour of a IIci: How'd he get a spinning Apple menu? I want that! 10 minutes into the video. Anyone …
I still don't have the Cat printing completely, and I need to bring up my IW2 to complete the stand off. But I'm getting close. I suppose I should have a Plus o…
I conquested an Asante MacCon during my "forced absence" by the mods, so it's a not very recent. I managed to score it for only $85 as opposed to the close to $…
Hi, I have recently acquired a vintage Mac II. However it needs a few upgrades. It still has the hochsprung MMU which I want to swap for the Motorola 68851. I h…
ok so thanks to Doug (olePigeon) for sending me some ROM Simms. and thanks to my HAKKO 808 for making my life easy. Thanks to bbraun for his idea, that I should…
I'm a newby here and have a question. I have a 128K Mac and a Mac Plus. I use both with a Fanny Mac cooling fan. I have heard that the floppy drives when a comp…
hey do you guys think this hacked adaptor will work with DayStar 040 PDS Upgrade in a SE/30? { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_pre…
Someone had a Mac Plus on eBay that ended last night, but it turns out that it came in an original mac box, inclusive of all packaging materials and inserts. I …
What the heck is System 7.1P4? In todays conquest I got a bunch of floppies. Two are Utilities with System "Ver. 7.1P4", 690-0989 A. One looks stock, the other …
Some of us are eagerly waiting for Manabu Sakai's CF AztecMonster, a CF to 3.5" SCSI adapter. Well, after waiting several months for his shipment taking place a…
In this thread, Macdrone told me that using a floppy drive on a Powerbook 1400 would cause a power IC to blow. Has anyone else had or heard of this problem? It'…
I've got a 40MB Conner right now, and the motor simply won't spin up. I have the drive apart right now and it just won't go--it will try, then pause. This is a …
Ok, so i have some good news… the the Logic Board still boots and runs with out the 4megs of ram soldered onboard. so that is pretty cool. Screen Shot 2013-12-2…
The Mac LC maxes out at 512k VRAM Is this a hardware limitation or noted as there weren't larger single VRAM simms available for the original LC? EG - there's a…
It's been a long time and many late nights coming: That's a Mac Classic booted from a System 7.0 high-density 1.44 MB emulated floppy. WOOOOO! The same board no…
So I'm making a 2.5 to 3.5" drive bracket for mounting those drives inside a Mac. It can be easily mounted on one of those Mac sleds or inside a metal HDD cage …
Well I went through piles of 30 pin memory and got 2 matched sets of four to total 32 Meg's of ram! Had the stuff for a while now just went through it to get it…
Maybe it's me but I have never seen an SE/30 with signatures.. this one even has Steve's in it.. I am not sure how to run the date code thing so perhaps someone…
I have a Quantum 540S SCSI HDD mounted internally to my SE/30 as shown here: And here is the technical document on that drive: http://joomla.birdata.com/dss10/5…
Macintosh Quadra 840av ** I HIGHLY SUGGEST THAT, IF YOUR Q840av is working right now, And you haven't changed the CAPS yet. DO IT NOW! ** -- BE happy your Quadr…
Picked up a couple of these. I remember using them years ago in an SE or Classic maybe. I don't recall. But I do not recall if they let one "bypass" the theoret…
who wants to pay $150 for a nic that works in the SE/30… Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Boooooooooooooooooo! who whats to pay $9.99 for a LC NIC and install it into the SE/3…