I have had 2 Macintosh Portables hanging around for a little while now, and haven't been able to get them to work. I came across a Portable power supply a littl…

I'm fixing up a 466 DA G4 for a friend and running into an issue booting in OS 9, which is something he needs to do. The machine boots into 10.4.11 with no prob…

I received this earlier this month via courier after completing another transaction with Strimkind (as usual, many thanks for the awesome packaging), and, natur…

http://www.ebay.com/itm/PowerBook-Keyboard-Replacement-New-D661-1652-/330580210533?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4cf81db365 Mine needs a keyboard. This…

As it says in the title, the PowerBook G3 I recently acquired suddenly choked and died in the middle of a reboot and won't boot. It's giving me four beeps, whic…

Yesterday evening I went out to go, and pick up an upgraded "Wallstreet" Powerbook G3 (it had a 500MHz Sonnet Crescendo G4 board installed). The unit was being …

Hello I have a http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g4/stats/powerbook_g4_1.67_15_hr.html . She's a very nice machine but the screen goes black 2 min…

I recently came home to hear a high-pitched whine from one of the old machines in my mancave (a.k.a. the basement office). It turned out to be coming from a Duo…

I am having some issues loading Mac OS on my SE/30. The machine itself includes 32MB RAM, IIfx ROM, and a 2GB LaCie branded Quantum Fireball SE. I have tested t…

Well, another lonely apple product has found it's way into my lap. I have managed to acquire this little homely MacBook. It has it's flaws, it has some cracks, …

I parted ways with $100 for a PowerBook 180 that came in the mail Saturday. I know it sounds like a lot for an old PowerBook but I wanted the 180b specifically …

I was hoping to gain some feedback from people that are familiar with this issue. I have been experimenting with various CF cards in my SCSI-IDE-CF adapter. I a…

The highend G5 towers mostly had liquid cooling systems that are said to be prone to failure, though I also read that the Quad G5's liquid cooling is better tha…

I tested out one of the 128k boards in my collection for the first time today: Unfortunately, I get a Sad Mac Error Code 040200 at cold boot: I never tested thi…

Thanks to the Xmas Wishlist swap thread, just yesterday I received my one and only 68k wish: a Mac Plus to work on. User aubrick reported that the Plus appeared…

Got today from a colleque an beat-up iBook 12" 1.2Ghz who was about to thow it away! The machine is bit scratcy but just fine display, has no powersupply, has n…

Today I was disassembling a newly acquired SE/30 to dust the insides and whatnot. The only thing I actually took out of the unit itself was the motherboard. Aft…

This question is mostly for bbraun, but I'm posting here in case others have help suggestions too. A couple months back in the "Another IIci ROM hack" thread, b…

Ok so I know there's a fair amount of info on the net and on 68kmla regarding decoding the Sad Mac error codes however, I'm stuck... I've a Mac 512k here which …

For those that having been reading my posts on the forum, I'm now a little bit closer to scaling to the peak of Ultimate SE/30! Now, that I've solved, with the …

Lately a lot of my fun mac stuff has been biting the dust (everyday). As a last resort before putting it all away, I come here for some advice..Today I had my C…

I just have a couple of questions about my mac plus (haveing opened it today to decide what needs to be done to restore it) do the plus's have the same problem …

Restoring another Pismo...interesting, there is normal sound via headphones but not through the built in speakers. Odd for the speakers to be blown but the soun…

Hello, I have a couple repair questions for 128k/512k machines. 1) I have 2 of these machines that show no video unless the analog board is flexed, then BAM is …

I got from a friend a powerbook 540c. He didn't know if it works because he hadn't power adapter and batteries. I bought a power adapter and two intelligent bat…