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I recently bought a Mac SE/30 which would boot from the Floppy and briefly from the SCSI drive after cleaning. But during a fresh install of System 7 the SCSI d…
· 2 posts · started 29 Nov 2015 - 00:42 · last 29 Nov 2015 - 01:31
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I finally got my hack to work. This will also work with a 128K. I have some sort of SCSI upgrade I found in that huge lot I helped acquire. It sits on the ROM s…
· 4 posts · started 24 Nov 2015 - 01:14 · last 24 Nov 2015 - 19:17
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Hi, been trying to get my 'newly' re-capped Mac Se/30 to fire up with a either its existing internal 40MB SC OS 7.1 (which worked pre-recapping) or a new (refur…
· 7 posts · started 13 Nov 2015 - 08:34 · last 23 Nov 2015 - 10:59
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Has anyone got a manual for the Outbound 125, that either they would be willing to send me, or copy, whether via scanning, or just phone camera photos of each p…
· 1 posts · started 22 Nov 2015 - 20:03 · last 22 Nov 2015 - 20:03
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I have a G4 A1138 that works except for the backlight (shining a flashlight shows the apple logo on the screen and text from a bad boot crash). I just replaced …
· 5 posts · started 21 Oct 2015 - 01:42 · last 18 Nov 2015 - 22:47
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I decided to try putting more memory into my Mac II (currently at 8MB). I purchasd 4 4MB PAL SIMMs from MemoryTen and dropped them into Bank B. The first time I…
· 13 posts · started 27 Jun 2015 - 06:39 · last 16 Nov 2015 - 04:26
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I recently recapped and refurbished an SE/30 to the point where the sound is loud and clear, and everything else seems to work great except for the display itse…
· 15 posts · started 29 Oct 2015 - 21:35 · last 14 Nov 2015 - 22:30
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Hi; I'm in the process of saving some old macs; I've encountered a difficult issue: only a specific MiniScribe 20mb hard drive works on a se/30. If I try anothe…
· 9 posts · started 11 Nov 2015 - 22:35 · last 13 Nov 2015 - 17:30
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I am struggling with my recently purchased PowerBook 540c. It had 7.5.3 on it with all the files and programs of a former user. I have done a fresh install of M…
· 13 posts · started 6 Nov 2015 - 03:42 · last 11 Nov 2015 - 19:57
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I am not a Mac person and this is probably super easy but I must have installed something and now my TAM boots to a gray screen that I can't get out of without …
· 4 posts · started 8 Nov 2015 - 15:53 · last 10 Nov 2015 - 16:47
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I have a Macintosh 512K (M0001W) which has been sitting in storage for the last 15 years. When I last used it, I remember it working fine however when I powered…
· 19 posts · started 26 Oct 2015 - 00:24 · last 3 Nov 2015 - 02:18
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Hello, Apologies if this post is in the wrong place; I looked around several of the boards but didn't see any hard drive discussion in Peripherals. Links to oth…
· 13 posts · started 22 Oct 2015 - 16:26 · last 31 Oct 2015 - 20:48
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I won this one at my local surplus auction. I discovered this gem amongst a bunch of 1,1 Mac Pros and G5s. I think whatever company that surplussed it accidenta…
· 23 posts · started 28 Oct 2015 - 16:28 · last 30 Oct 2015 - 21:20
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All, I have the somewhat famous/somewhat obscure issue with the blank page(s) printing from the cassette. One page will print, the page will be blank, and no fu…
· 6 posts · started 28 Oct 2015 - 13:29 · last 29 Oct 2015 - 21:26
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Much like LazarusNine, I had my own disaster. Two issues: 1. Had my iron set for 650F and was using some solder tweezers (Hakko FX-8804-02) thinking it would be…
· 19 posts · started 25 Oct 2015 - 04:27 · last 29 Oct 2015 - 19:30
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I've just had my last intact 65w G4-era AC adapter lose one of its cable-winding wings to a slight bit of jostling in my bag, joining several others I've had wi…
· 9 posts · started 27 Oct 2015 - 19:45 · last 29 Oct 2015 - 02:02
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Hey there, guys! I recently acquired a very clean looking Powerbook 180 (and an Apple branded leather carrying case made for it that I have never seen before). …
· 10 posts · started 27 Oct 2015 - 02:27 · last 27 Oct 2015 - 20:23
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Is anyone else having trouble getting to the page? I just get redirected to the generic support page. I also found this article http://support.apple.com/kb/TA48…
· 142 posts · started 12 Nov 2014 - 22:41 · last 27 Oct 2015 - 18:17
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OK. Got a nice looking Pismo out of the ‘Bay. All is good and it functions just fine except - 1. It will NOT start up from any CD or DVD with an OS on it (it wi…
· 7 posts · started 16 Oct 2015 - 00:56 · last 27 Oct 2015 - 00:42
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Anyone know what this is?? I have never seen a drive formatted like this before... Is this to use the "040 Fast Cache" option?? Over the years I never enabled o…
· 4 posts · started 7 Oct 2015 - 05:55 · last 26 Oct 2015 - 23:41
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I am researching old (pre-OS X) Mac viruses, the older the better. I've found references to quite a few historic documents that speak about their methods of inf…
· 19 posts · started 19 Aug 2015 - 18:13 · last 24 Oct 2015 - 06:34
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Hello everyone, I recently acquired a Powerbook 520c in cosmetically very nice condition. It doesn't turn on, though, and after measuring the output of the char…
· 1 posts · started 23 Oct 2015 - 22:05 · last 23 Oct 2015 - 22:05
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Im a bit stuck on this code, I've already looked at online but still cannot pin point what it means exactly: SADFACE 00000005 00008000 any idea? I've washed the…
· 13 posts · started 11 Oct 2015 - 12:49 · last 22 Oct 2015 - 02:59
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