Ok so I go online and lookup the sad Mac error code and it says 04 is a memory failure, 8 8 being the locations or what, and no breakdown of the DC. I put in Ma…
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I've been playing with various ROM hacking stuff on the II series Macs, and I found this on eBay and couldn't resist snatching it up. It's a really weird shape!…
The title says it all - I am looking for a picture of an apple 7MB RAM card for the Macintosh Portable (Backlit). Fairly good resolution with pictures of both s…
I have a powerbook 100 from a recent acquisition. I noticed that the serial number fell inside some kind of a recall modification apple did. Anyone happen to kn…
Apple's Technical Note "DV14: SCSI Bugs" http://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/#technotes/dv/dv_14.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS10002404 has an interesting t…
As the title suggest, the display on the iMac DV SE i just built is rotated noticably clockwise. It wasnt too oddly positioned when I booted it the first time p…
I recently received a 512k that suffered a cracks case from a combination if poor packing and USPS abuse. Is there a proper method to fix a crack in the front c…
Well, this here isn't exactly my system so I can't just rip it open and reseat the roms and such. While wiping the hard drives of some systems my neighbor has, …
i would say this tool knocked about 15 minutes off, my re-caps. just push and twist. love it. http://shop.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/cb.aspx?a=1164820&p…
Hi all, It seems to me that (beyond the stuff common to all vintage machines like leaky electrolytic caps) there are three common points of failure in old Power…
Hi, I have several of these, and one works, but has a bad cord and plug at the computer end. The other one has a good plug and cable, but it doesn't work. I was…
I thought I had finished my accumulation phase, but... Tipped off by Byrd, I bid for a lot of Powerbooks on ebay, located in Canberra, Australia. Since freight …
OK, I know that this isn't a classic Mac snag, but I'm really stoked that I finally got my Raspberry Pi in the mail. I'm actually using it as I type. :lol: I ha…
Hey, I have just brought a LC to play with and noticed the keyboard had a habbit of typeing the letter 'L' by it's self, so i replaced the two 1uf caps in the k…
A few months ago I bought 2 external floppy drives for my 512kE, with the intension of putting the one in worst looking case in the 512kE as the eject motor wen…
I recently acquired two Mac 512k with the original 400k floppy drives. One of the machines had a jammed floppy drive so I did some searching and learned how to …
So...my SE/30 board came yesterday. Its awesome, and everything. Its been recapped too, which may/may not be a bonus. And I've almost got it running an OS. Almo…
Hi, I know this isn't a PPC PowerBook, but here goes anyway... I just got a MacBook Pro (model A1226, 2.2 GHz), and the video circuitry is acting weird. I suspe…
Esteemed folks; I recently acquired a IIci in a load of other Apple gear. It had been a developer's primary desktop for many years before it was shut off and st…
I have a nice powerbook 180, I would going to try to do the resedit hack and install OS 8.1. However, whenever I plug a SCSI CDROM into the computer it won't bo…
No joke. It smells like fish. I've had this machine for over a year and it's never smelled. All of a sudden, there's a strong fishy odor coming from the back. I…
photo-3 by oldmacs, on Flickr Just wondering what that could mean- It is on my PowerBook 150- It shows up sometimes and disappears and reappears while using the…
got G4 iBook for the kiddo, it's a 933 and has OS 10.4 on it. works fine. just wondering if there is a speed hit if I were to upgrade to 10.5 and if so how big …
http://www.ebay.com/itm/111055569304?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649 i did win this i need to test it tonight to see if it works. all…
I'm running a classic 2 with 10mb of ram and system 7.01. I've installed thread manager and drag and drop extensions also. I can't seem to get icab to work. Whe…