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This thing, one my prized 68k, now my trubbles. This is every boot: It fails to find the OS so I put in a 7.5 disk tools disk and restart from that. It finds Ma…
· 7 posts · started 18 Nov 2007 - 01:26 · last 18 Nov 2007 - 15:48
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Running System 7.5 and Netscape 3. The system that came with it was borked, so that was the source of the issue. It is amazing how long these macs last.
· 3 posts · started 18 Nov 2007 - 05:00 · last 18 Nov 2007 - 14:13
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Hey all - as you might know, I've been enjoying my 1.5GHz DA G4 running 10.4 for about a month now, but I've encountered a problem. The HDD began making a repea…
· 8 posts · started 16 Nov 2007 - 22:28 · last 18 Nov 2007 - 13:22
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i have a 12 inch ibook G3 800 mhz who has ( surprise surprise ) the dreaded logic board failure desease its running now with a shim made of 2 cd's who are so la…
· 10 posts · started 16 Nov 2007 - 17:45 · last 17 Nov 2007 - 12:55
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I found an iBook G3 in a computer recycling pickup bin today. It looks like it has an 800MHz G3, 512MB RAM, a CD-RW drive, and 14" screen. I don't know if it wo…
· 14 posts · started 7 Nov 2007 - 20:18 · last 16 Nov 2007 - 19:22
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I recently stuck an E-Machines Double Color LX video card in my Mac IIfx, cabled through a VGA adaptor to a 17 in Sylvania CRT monitor. Works fine, but all reso…
· 12 posts · started 9 Nov 2007 - 03:15 · last 15 Nov 2007 - 23:12
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I recently finally got an apple IIe. However I find myself without any knowledge about the machine (last time I used one I was about 5 ) Anyway, after some time…
· 8 posts · started 5 Nov 2007 - 22:59 · last 14 Nov 2007 - 17:12
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LisaEm 1.2.2 has been released. As usual, it can be downloaded from http://lisaem.sunder.net/downloads.html This version is mostly bug fixes instead of features…
· 3 posts · started 12 Nov 2007 - 04:35 · last 14 Nov 2007 - 03:31
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hi! i found this on myoldmac.net: Hello to all pre-ADB Mac Users, I like to announce an open source, open hardware keyboard protocol adaptor project to connect …
· 8 posts · started 5 Jul 2007 - 13:36 · last 13 Nov 2007 - 23:38
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I always love to fire up old machines and push them to their absolute limit. Last year, when we still had the old forums, I became familiar with XPostFacto as I…
· 14 posts · started 8 Nov 2007 - 07:20 · last 13 Nov 2007 - 08:36
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Hi everyone, You're all probably sick of hearing of my Centris. Okay, for those of you that don't know, it works now. But I have one little detail I ran into to…
· 10 posts · started 7 Nov 2007 - 00:02 · last 11 Nov 2007 - 06:00
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I've got a Classic, affectionately nicknamed "Gimpy" due to her constant problems (hard drive died two years back, had an issue with the speaker), who has a rat…
· 5 posts · started 9 Nov 2007 - 04:23 · last 10 Nov 2007 - 03:55
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As per title: I've just managed to get a Sonnet Encore G4 ZIF (500 MHz) processor! I didn't think I was going to be able to G4-ise my Mac as these normally sell…
· 17 posts · started 6 Nov 2007 - 21:02 · last 10 Nov 2007 - 01:05
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I might be buying it. For about 12 dollars with the charger and a carrying case. -Is it easy to re cell the battery, and could one of you walk me through it? I …
· 7 posts · started 8 Nov 2007 - 00:52 · last 9 Nov 2007 - 22:25
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I was doing some repairs with Norton Utilities on a tray loading Bondi Blue iMac and everythng was going fine until it crashed in the middle of doing something!…
· 10 posts · started 22 Oct 2007 - 00:12 · last 9 Nov 2007 - 09:49
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Can anyone help? When I power it on, it gives the normal startup chime, I can hear the HD spin up and it tries to read. The display lights up but nothing shows.…
· 9 posts · started 23 Oct 2007 - 23:44 · last 8 Nov 2007 - 06:56
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I want to raise a question to this expert forum : I own from 1989 a Mac Pus, acquired at that time as a "used" machine upgraded from a Mac 512 by the original o…
· 12 posts · started 5 Nov 2007 - 09:41 · last 7 Nov 2007 - 06:21
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So a friend of a friend hears that I'm wacky for macs, and gives me a dead clamshell ibook that he had gotten from still someone else long ago, thinking he'd ge…
· 9 posts · started 25 Oct 2007 - 23:57 · last 7 Nov 2007 - 04:03
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hello guys, I bought a Performa 6300CD, installed Mac O.S 8,1 in it, to put using a HD Maxtor of a friend, everything I functioned today normal.... had that to …
· 6 posts · started 5 Nov 2007 - 00:21 · last 6 Nov 2007 - 01:50
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Hi, unfortunately i have no tv (i don't want to pay the tv license!), which means I find it complicated to use apple IIs. I have the posibility of getting a IIe…
· 14 posts · started 19 Oct 2007 - 17:34 · last 4 Nov 2007 - 03:29
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My latest are a Powerbook 160 from a friend and an eMate. The 160 had a broken trackball and a dead HD. As I had recently acquired a PB 145 with a screen that I…
· 1 posts · started 4 Nov 2007 - 00:10 · last 4 Nov 2007 - 00:10
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no, not an original, but a Platinum IIe. After playing with one 3 years ago, and amassing a huge pile of accessories (5.25 and 3.5" floppy drives, external mode…
· 8 posts · started 26 Sep 2007 - 06:44 · last 3 Nov 2007 - 14:41
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I would like to try out Adobe Pagemaker. I would like to be able to create Pagemaker documents on a LC 475 (OS 7.x, 132 MB RAM, 8 GB HDD, Apple Portrait Display…
· 6 posts · started 30 Oct 2007 - 03:28 · last 1 Nov 2007 - 11:10
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Anyone down under using an Apple TV Tuner for the Performa/LC series? ie 5500. I can't get a channel on the one I've just picked up, although all the local (Mel…
· 9 posts · started 29 Oct 2007 - 00:58 · last 30 Oct 2007 - 11:11
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What is the best way to make software available for downloads to be as compatible as possible with everyone's systems? When a known good disk image won't mount …
· 4 posts · started 22 Oct 2007 - 03:02 · last 22 Oct 2007 - 06:57
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