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Hi everyone, As you probably all know, the Lisa was the precursor to the Macintosh and shared a lot of the same hardware and software. I'm going to look at addi…
· 21 posts · started 21 Feb 2015 - 23:51 · last 2 Mar 2015 - 01:36
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Wasn't really looking for another machine, was rather looking to get rid of some units, but monday, a lonely 20" Imac was lying on the street, just side by side…
· 17 posts · started 14 Feb 2015 - 18:55 · last 1 Mar 2015 - 08:56
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Hi folks, I finally found a 128K here in Toronto. But the A/B is dead. As I have a spare board (known to be in very good condition) that I took with me from Chi…
· 10 posts · started 23 Feb 2015 - 02:02 · last 26 Feb 2015 - 18:06
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Hello All, Great site! I signed up to this forum about a week ago, and I've spent some time going through the previous posts. Although there is a wealth of info…
· 29 posts · started 12 Feb 2015 - 16:10 · last 24 Feb 2015 - 19:35
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So, I just booted up my clapped out and flakey Dual 2.0 G5 which works sometimes when it feels like it, and it is for the moment, running without a glitch... I …
· 15 posts · started 22 Feb 2015 - 14:37 · last 24 Feb 2015 - 01:06
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I'm having trouble getting my TransWarp card working. It passes its internal system check, but it keeps crashing when I try to play Ultima V with it. I've done …
· 17 posts · started 16 Jan 2015 - 00:59 · last 23 Feb 2015 - 16:37
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Argggg….Due to the fans starting really soon after boot, wanted to change the thermal paste, so disassembled it. Was very difficult to remove the board. It was …
· 11 posts · started 27 Sep 2014 - 14:46 · last 21 Feb 2015 - 17:39
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I recently dug my old Mac Plus out of the closet, and was hoping to copy the data off the hard drive in order to use it with a mac plus emulator on the PC (Vmac…
· 12 posts · started 2 Feb 2015 - 04:16 · last 21 Feb 2015 - 01:08
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http://www.audioease.com/Pages/Legacy/dont forget about this (perhaps a sticky is applicable for this info?)Quote 2001-2008VST WrapperMark Of The Unicorn's Digi…
· 13 posts · started 15 Feb 2015 - 00:08 · last 20 Feb 2015 - 21:56
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Today my everyday use machine, a 12in screen Powerbook G4 1.5GHz, died horribly. Apps slowed to a crawl, noisey fan, palm rest on the case by HD side heats up, …
· 19 posts · started 19 Nov 2014 - 05:28 · last 16 Feb 2015 - 02:41
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Hello guys! While still trying to get my two Pluses working, last week I've bought a nice Macintosh SE (the FDHD model) for about 60 euros including shipping (t…
· 7 posts · started 6 Feb 2015 - 21:29 · last 15 Feb 2015 - 14:29
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i had the need for one, so i made one. { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The requested c…
· 64 posts · started 29 Jan 2015 - 13:31 · last 15 Feb 2015 - 08:23
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Hi, I was happy to discover this forum recently. I hope someone can help. When cold, my Mac 512K powers up, boots from disk, and runs perfectly fine for up to a…
· 1 posts · started 15 Feb 2015 - 00:06 · last 15 Feb 2015 - 00:06
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I just finished fixing up a Mac 512K. It works like new, including the internal floppy drive. But the external 400K drive is making me mad. It is a SONY OA-D34V…
· 5 posts · started 6 Feb 2015 - 15:07 · last 8 Feb 2015 - 22:17
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Back in October I told the story of a little boy's first Sad Mac. If anyone wants to read it the link to the post is here. Well, the story continues! In January…
· 8 posts · started 3 Feb 2015 - 05:49 · last 8 Feb 2015 - 05:38
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Hi, My PB160 boots up with a white screen. I do no see "Happy Face" or "Sad Face." Hard drive sounds like it's spinning. I connected it to an external monitor, …
· 5 posts · started 7 Feb 2015 - 04:08 · last 7 Feb 2015 - 17:36
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My Mac SE is pretty flakey (crashing randomly with different errors each time), sometimes as often as every 10 minutes. It came with a dead 20 MB hard drive but…
· 19 posts · started 20 Jan 2015 - 18:39 · last 6 Feb 2015 - 21:24
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http://www.synack.net/~bbraun/plusrom/index.html ( Rob's Post on his site ) The Mac Plus (and associated machines) have 1MB of contiguous address space around t…
· 78 posts · started 8 Nov 2014 - 05:03 · last 6 Feb 2015 - 18:13
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This thing has been one problem after another. Booted it up today to see this: { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previ…
· 6 posts · started 5 Feb 2015 - 01:01 · last 5 Feb 2015 - 16:29
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When the disk is inserted, the read heads go straight to the center, stop, then eject the disk. Is this just a disk drive issue or does it go deeper?
· 21 posts · started 24 Jan 2015 - 21:53 · last 4 Feb 2015 - 23:29
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So I listed my powerbook 140 for sale in the marketplace, and this weekend i thought id test it to make sure it still works. Dead. Got my Fluke 117 Multimeter, …
· 6 posts · started 19 Jan 2015 - 15:21 · last 4 Feb 2015 - 19:45
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Okay... So let's not start with whether the SE can run a version of Unix or Linux (etc). If it had an FPU, maybe I'd be more interested in trying but my origina…
· 10 posts · started 16 Jan 2015 - 04:51 · last 2 Feb 2015 - 17:49
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So I'm trying to figure out any sort of method to get information onto my imac without having to buy stuff. I'm a windows person so naturally I just have no ide…
· 14 posts · started 29 Jan 2015 - 22:53 · last 1 Feb 2015 - 18:58
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Hi all. The Wikipedia article about "Power-on self-test" talks a little bit about the Macintosh POST. It says this about Macs after 1998: "In the event of an er…
· 5 posts · started 27 Jan 2015 - 09:14 · last 28 Jan 2015 - 13:02
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I think I have a disk with some early versions of BASIC for the Mac on them but it's hard to search using "Mac" and BASIC" on Google to do some research. I have…
· 9 posts · started 17 Jan 2015 - 16:49 · last 24 Jan 2015 - 03:14
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