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Picked up this piece of Apple history today. I've always wanted an iMac G3, but never put any initiative into buying one. It was listed pretty cheap (almost not…
· 10 posts · started 9 Sep 2012 - 05:15 · last 15 Sep 2012 - 16:02
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My friend used to own an iBook G4 1.2Ghz 14" a long time ago before both he and i got macbooks He ended up giving his old iBook to his sister and yesterday it c…
· 4 posts · started 11 Sep 2012 - 16:07 · last 13 Sep 2012 - 16:45
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Was posted in the lounge by Gary_W ... should be here. viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15293 GREAT NEWS! Finally a way to read 400/800K disks without an old Macby G…
· 34 posts · started 5 Feb 2011 - 04:08 · last 12 Sep 2012 - 04:49
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Hello all. I'm a little heart broken- hopefully the problem can be resolved. I have a MP 2000 upgraded (by Apple) to a 2100. I use it almost exclusively at my d…
· 4 posts · started 11 Sep 2012 - 23:54 · last 12 Sep 2012 - 04:44
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So I recently picked up a PowerBook 540c. Quite a nice machine...but with one little problem, the display: After reseating the connections between the interconn…
· 9 posts · started 25 Aug 2012 - 09:53 · last 9 Sep 2012 - 02:07
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I have several Apple II games I want to copy most have no issues but the 'big name' games always give errors on every part of the copy, so I assume its copy pro…
· 3 posts · started 26 Aug 2012 - 05:44 · last 5 Sep 2012 - 00:49
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is it still a conquest if it was from a family member? Uncle upgraded to an intel mini a few years back and had his old G4 mini laying around still. optical dri…
· 18 posts · started 30 Aug 2012 - 17:42 · last 4 Sep 2012 - 16:00
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One of the SEs in my classroom developed a sudden video problem. The entire screen turned much brighter and lighter, with white lines (very thin, about one pixe…
· 4 posts · started 2 Sep 2012 - 20:09 · last 3 Sep 2012 - 18:14
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Okay, so I know you can swap in a QS cpu in a DA g4. I've heard about being able to do it on a pci/agp g4 with some heavier mods. Basically, you have to remove …
· 3 posts · started 3 Sep 2012 - 07:23 · last 3 Sep 2012 - 16:49
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Went out bargain hunting today doing the whole yard sale / flea market thing today. First thing of interest I saw was a vintage Mac 512k that was horribly yello…
· 1 posts · started 2 Sep 2012 - 02:37 · last 2 Sep 2012 - 02:37
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Hey guys, I've a Kanga/3500/original PowerBook G3, and it refuses to boot. It started having issues a year or so ago, so I started transferring the data from th…
· 3 posts · started 30 Aug 2012 - 00:23 · last 30 Aug 2012 - 01:48
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My Dad gave me 318 vintage 800K floppy disks. He figured he was never going to look at the contents of them again. (Considering he doesn’t have an old Mac that …
· 11 posts · started 27 Aug 2012 - 17:08 · last 28 Aug 2012 - 17:07
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Hej, I know, it's a newbie question. But I need help :I I 've an old Mac LC and try to install german system 7.0.1; ok, great, it works. AND I've a SCSI-CD work…
· 3 posts · started 24 Aug 2012 - 20:03 · last 27 Aug 2012 - 08:44
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I accidently bent a pin removing my sonnet allegro 33mhz card for my se/30. I tried to bend it back and it broke off...am I screwed? What can I do? Pin #1 is br…
· 26 posts · started 10 Aug 2012 - 04:29 · last 23 Aug 2012 - 07:20
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I am trying to use the MESS emulator for some ROM testing, and I am having a pretty difficult time getting it to work (Mac OS X 10.6). :?: I am using the versio…
· 3 posts · started 20 Aug 2012 - 00:31 · last 22 Aug 2012 - 17:37
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Hi, I have an SE/30 which seems to be experiencing some oddness in the display. At the corners, everything seems to bend in toward the center, which distorts th…
· 5 posts · started 9 Aug 2012 - 17:27 · last 17 Aug 2012 - 09:19
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I've got a Mac IIci board that has had a couple of problems, over the last year: 1) the board is mute 2) the board powers off, after approximately 30 minutes of…
· 10 posts · started 2 Jul 2012 - 19:26 · last 17 Aug 2012 - 01:30
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I have a IIsi that doesn't boot. I put the hard drive in an external closure and connected it to my color classic, and the color classic displays the floppy ? a…
· 12 posts · started 14 Aug 2012 - 04:19 · last 15 Aug 2012 - 20:47
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So I got this PB180 from ebay for a great price ($20) and then I got the PowerMonster2 thinking I'd have a nice 180 setup. But getting down to it, I can't get t…
· 13 posts · started 9 Jul 2012 - 02:41 · last 12 Aug 2012 - 03:49
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I had gotten a CD SC a while back on eBay and never really tested it until now. I tried 2 cd caddy's and neither resulted in the disc spinning up. But that's ju…
· 5 posts · started 7 Aug 2012 - 07:21 · last 9 Aug 2012 - 03:32
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Is there anything that can be done with an SE with dead ADB ports? This machine was a street find, and I stupidly hot swapped the mouse in the process of trying…
· 10 posts · started 5 Aug 2012 - 02:28 · last 8 Aug 2012 - 23:13
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Hi, First the simple question: I have a PB 170 with an (understandably) dead battery. There are a number of replacement batteries available on Amazon and they'r…
· 7 posts · started 15 Jul 2012 - 03:31 · last 7 Aug 2012 - 05:44
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picked up a macintosh classic at the hamvention today. Has a ram card, its HDD, etc... Guess what. I got VERY lucky because it has the Maxell red battery. but i…
· 23 posts · started 18 May 2012 - 00:23 · last 6 Aug 2012 - 14:02
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Hello, Mac Liberators! Im running into a lot of problems trying to boot my Powerbook 5300cs from a CF card. I tried PCMCIA adapter and a CF->IDE adapter.…
· 4 posts · started 23 Jul 2012 - 06:34 · last 27 Jul 2012 - 06:19
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Hi all, I'm a little excited as I've managed to score a fairly complete Original Macintosh (a 128K, but badged 'Macintosh'). I don't have the machine yet, I'm a…
· 7 posts · started 18 Jul 2012 - 02:31 · last 24 Jul 2012 - 01:55
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