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So after messing around with my IIfx, I decided to look at the two IIci's I have. One acts completely normal. The board does have the metal-can caps, but looks …
· 21 posts · started 5 May 2012 - 05:03 · last 30 Dec 2012 - 08:41
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Like many of you, I have a number of apparently failed, or irritatingly noisy small 50-pin SCSI drives (most 250mb or less). I have been going through them. Sev…
· 19 posts · started 5 Dec 2012 - 02:07 · last 25 Dec 2012 - 18:11
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Hey guys! It's been a while. I've been trying to upgrade my Classic from 6.0.3 to 6.0.8, but there's a bit of a problem: When I try to image a floppy from my PC…
· 2 posts · started 22 Dec 2012 - 23:47 · last 23 Dec 2012 - 05:47
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Here's a bit of an odd question. When I first got my compact Mac (a Classic and an SE/30) I noticed that the picture was a bit off center so I opened them up an…
· 21 posts · started 12 Dec 2012 - 18:11 · last 20 Dec 2012 - 00:21
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Hi everybody! Today I am going to tell you a most extraordinarily entertaining tale of a floppy drive, a boot disk, and a screw driver. So... The tale of the Fl…
· 7 posts · started 13 Dec 2012 - 17:41 · last 18 Dec 2012 - 17:11
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I have a Mac plus working just fine from floppy. When I hook up an external zip, ID 6 no other device, termination is on... I hold the mouse button down while p…
· 7 posts · started 17 Dec 2012 - 16:55 · last 18 Dec 2012 - 03:18
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Alright, so today I got a call from a friend saying that their iBook G4 won't turn on properly. I grabbed a display and headed down. Using an adapter, I got the…
· 6 posts · started 17 Dec 2012 - 09:39 · last 17 Dec 2012 - 22:54
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{ "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try aga…
· 14 posts · started 13 Dec 2012 - 19:06 · last 16 Dec 2012 - 19:05
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Have to repair my iMate after ten years of everyday use, the green and the white wire of the USB connection on the iMate PCB got detached somehow. Could someone…
· 3 posts · started 12 Dec 2012 - 22:53 · last 13 Dec 2012 - 10:21
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I got around to scanning the paperwork, it's bad quality, but I don't plan to rescan as it was last-minute before I sold it to someone on LEMSwap: http://www.ea…
· 9 posts · started 20 Aug 2008 - 04:22 · last 13 Dec 2012 - 03:00
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Uniserver and I were tossing around a theoretical question ... Do you think that socketed or soldered 68030 processors would perform better, worse or the same i…
· 43 posts · started 8 Dec 2012 - 08:52 · last 13 Dec 2012 - 02:56
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Hi, Why is this? I thought I saw somewhere that I could cut a wire on the ribbon cable to fix this, assuming it's not the drive itself that's acting up (it seem…
· 9 posts · started 11 Dec 2012 - 05:17 · last 13 Dec 2012 - 00:43
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Hi all, I had a little trouble booting my PowerBook 2400c tonight, though I did get it to boot normally. However, I detected a faint burning smell and now the a…
· 6 posts · started 11 Dec 2012 - 06:08 · last 11 Dec 2012 - 19:09
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Hello, Having a problem getting the Pismo to boot anything other than whats already on the hard drive. I have several versions of OS9 on CD, OSX 10.2, 10.3 &amp…
· 11 posts · started 6 Dec 2012 - 16:50 · last 8 Dec 2012 - 19:04
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Heyy people, i have a 540 newly aquired. I love it! It gets dark corners after a while..can i swap a color lcd on this? The corners arent that bad but will prob…
· 2 posts · started 8 Dec 2012 - 18:20 · last 8 Dec 2012 - 18:49
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Hi! The other day, my floppy drive broke . I've traced the problem down to a faulty HD/DD switch (the one by the eject button), and now all I need is a replacem…
· 3 posts · started 3 Dec 2012 - 17:09 · last 4 Dec 2012 - 17:16
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Hi folks, I'm having an issue with one of the 128ks I'm restoring. When attempting to boot a known good 400k system disk in a known good 400k drive, I get a sad…
· 8 posts · started 29 Nov 2012 - 00:59 · last 1 Dec 2012 - 01:48
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Hi! This might sound unreasonable, but what is the best way to acquire a free Mac ? I'm looking for an SE/30, but almost any compact past the Plus would do (not…
· 18 posts · started 20 Nov 2012 - 17:18 · last 30 Nov 2012 - 07:25
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Anyone know which version of RadiusWare works with System 6.0.3? Trying to egt my original Mono Pivot display (model 191) working with the FPD-90 Pivot II card …
· 2 posts · started 27 Nov 2012 - 01:07 · last 27 Nov 2012 - 19:00
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Can someone help me understand what DiskCopy 4.2 is actually doing in my scenario? I have downloaded the System 2, MacPaint and MacWrite images from this site t…
· 4 posts · started 29 Aug 2012 - 17:47 · last 27 Nov 2012 - 18:26
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So after some fumbling around, I finally got my 15K RPM Fujitsu drive formatted. I used FWB HDT version 4. So now it's formatted... but I can't boot from it. St…
· 10 posts · started 22 Nov 2012 - 00:39 · last 27 Nov 2012 - 00:55
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ok, so far these vintage computers now have Internal 100mb SCSI Zip Drive in place of the hard drive: LC-III LC-II IIci Mac SE Also I have a Internal SCSI Zip D…
· 17 posts · started 23 Nov 2012 - 18:32 · last 25 Nov 2012 - 01:47
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Hi All! Any advice on how to fix a key that is stuck down on the Apple Keyboard II? Just got a Classic II in nice shape, the only flaw at this point is the stuc…
· 6 posts · started 14 Nov 2012 - 21:09 · last 19 Nov 2012 - 09:26
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So October 31st, some idiot decided they would be funny and stole my honda accord. In it was a 1.2Ghz 14" iBook G4. I also lost 2 iPods (Mini and Nano). While i…
· 30 posts · started 1 Nov 2012 - 09:09 · last 18 Nov 2012 - 06:00
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