Hi, I was doing a firmware update this morning on the SATA card in my G4, and the OS crashed. After that, I was able to restart using the drive attached to the …
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Im not too familiar with Apple II items but here it goes. So I got this Apple IIc machine years back from a flea market for I think $10 or so. It had no power c…
I picked up a ibook indigo from ebay fairly cheap. Problem is, it has school inventory marker on the rubber surround on the lid, and on the bottom. Any way to r…
Hi, I'm fixing up a nice SE for my brother, loaded to the hilt with games. It's running a 500MB SCSI HD with System 7.1 installed, but I've found most B&amp…
My Orinoco Gold (flashed silver) card doesn't work in 10.4 but it does work in OS 9. Are there any cheap cards that will work in 10.4? I don't want to buy the w…
A while ago, I acquired a box of cables and accessories (I mainly wanted an M0100 beige mouse in it) but there was some other oddities in there. Along with a co…
Recently, a Macintosh Classic managed to follow me home and I've become infatuated with the idea of using it. It seems to have a lot of problems, though.... Whe…
This whole project started about a year ago. I bought this Plus on ebay. Realized it was an upgraded original 128k. So my quest has been to down grade it. I nee…
I got the cap on the end of the 512kE's CRT back on and it fired up like a champ, so I threw the 128k board in for testing. I didn't get a blinking floppy, no, …
Damn that plastic is brittle. I used a reasonable amount of pressure on the little panel under the PB 520's screen to get at the screws and nearly all the littl…
Hi Everyone, This is my first post as a member! Glad to be a part of the 68kMLA! A few weeks back I picked up a Color Classic that was sold to me as dead, for a…
I was just pondering solutions tonight to the recurring issue i have of blowing the deteriorated surrounds out of G3 iMac speakers... My Snow has gone through 4…
Folks; I have been working on bringing an old Macintosh II back to life. I'm not new to the process, but this one is stumping me. replaced both batteries replac…
This is some re-work that i am doing for a member. It was sent to me already re-capped with tantalums. I am trying to diagnose issues with it. Removing some cap…
Who already recapped their pb500 charger ? Mine is giving a heavy smell of capacitor fluid when it's used so time to recap. Anyone with tips how to open the hou…
This is a issue I have been battling over the years. Finally a solution that works. I submerge the whole damm mouse in alcohol, let it sit, 10-15 min, that goo …
I just got a Quadra 650 board in, which is currently fitted with a 68LC040, and I've got it up and running. I'm trying to install Mac OS on the original drive, …
first off i would like to say i know absolutely nothing about the powebook 100 out of the 3, when i power them on 1- no boot - back light comes on - no tone 2- …
Hi! I've finally got round to having another go at my StyleWriter II. But there's a problem... Whenever I try to print, it says something like "The cartridge is…
Today I got a powerbook 170 and a 145b. According to the previous owner the 170 was the only one working. But apparently both are working, there's just a faulty…
my buddy just dropped 1700 on this lisa, we are trying to determine if this is a Lisa II or Macintosh XL, or Macintosh Professional the PSU is bad. He wants to …
Hi! I've been trying to decipher how the Mac interfaces with the Suprdrive floppy drive through the ISM part of the SWIM chip. I've almost got it, but I don't u…
So I received a LC475 from mcdermd early this year. When i got it, and opened it up, it gleamed and sparkled like stroll through bronners on the 4th of july (ht…
Today I received the Mac Plus from mcdermd (Thanks again!). Plugged everything in, got a "bing", short "whirr" from the floppy drive, screen came on, but never …
Basics for first time cap job: http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3932529 4.5" Mini-Diagonal Cutters Model: 6400061 | Catalog #: 64-061 $7.49…