This morning, I managed to get ten free compact Macs. Yes, ten free compact Macs. One of said Macs is an SE/30. Now, before you go and get jealous, let's review…
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I caught a mac plus that had been hanging out on our local Craig's List for a few weeks. The guy who had it lived a few hours away in Champaign and it included …
Apparently there are extended diagnostic tests stored in ROM. What's the sequence to pull that up?
As insurance against the day when my LC475's hard disk inevitably fails, I'm investigating the idea of booting from an external SCSI Zip drive. Zip drives seem …
I'm doing a routine check to see that both my LaserWriter Plus and IIg are behaving fine. The plus I have never really used because when I got it all the trays …
I have an external Apple floppy drive, model M0130. It doesn't take any disks I try to feed into it. Any given disk will only go so far. Here's a picture of its…
So I was able to login on proxim.. and download the microSCSI driver. Does this also work with the Farallon Ethermac SCSI? Or should I be looking for a differen…
Hi! As I'm sure you are aware, the Macintosh system will only send keyDown events for up to two keys. If one presses more than two keys, they will not receive a…
Never heard about it, pretty complete kit including case screwdriver http://www.ebay.fr/itm/KIT-APPLE-ANTIVOL-/290973377076?pt=FR_GH_Informatique_Ordinateurs_Or…
Yesterday I received a Powerbook 165 with a "bad" hard drive. I was able to format the drive and install 7.5.3 on it while I hunt down the system enabler for 7.…
Powerbook 540 & 540c (both are apparently in a permanently vegetative state, I'm guessing they just need a PRAM reset, or something else similar. Nothin…
Or what to do when you really, really want a Compact... When I got into vintage Macs I quickly realised that I really wanted a Compact Mac. For me the Plus is t…
The PB 520 I have doesn't like to eject disks. It makes the sound like it's going to spit them out, but nothing happens, and then it just remounts the disk. Is …
Here in Columbus vintage/older Macs are hard to come by. Every now and then I search through Craigslist for something I'm interested in (Powerbooks and Compacts…
I just wanted to share my happyness about the Apple Extended Keyboard II, that I am now using again on a daily basis. I am still using just oldworld Macs for ev…
Just collected today one of those for 2 € { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The requeste…
I had a bit of time to spare today, so I went to the Goodwill Computer Works store in Pittsburgh. There's only one of these stores now for those of you who may …
Hi Everyone, I picked up an Avid Meridien BOB today at my local university surplus. It was cheap enough and came with some useful cables so I thought I'd buy no…
Finally got my first 'big' score, was watching ebay and a lot of 6 classic macs come up, put in a offer of £60 and was amazed it was excepted! Picked it up toda…
I know this sounds trivial, but after taking my platinum Plus out of its box for the first time in years today, I found myself really liking the shade of its ca…
Tangential discussion shifted from: You Know You're an Old-School Mac Guy When... p.7 . . . holding down the mouse button to put away removable media is intuiti…
My Quadra 950 boots perfectly but does not seem to want to play with a keyboard or mouse - neither work at all at any point in the boot process or otherwise - a…
I came back home to Pittsburgh yesterday. I've got my first day of business tomorrow (tutoring) so I'm using today to unpack and unwind a bit (already did my ho…
This ad hoc hack committee got its start in this thread: Anyway to use a PS2 keyboard with my Mac SE Superdrive? < room to copy relevant posts, etc. &…
Picked up a CC today with KB and Mouse. The case is in excellent shape. I think the logic board needs to be capped, doesn't want to boot, but it looks pretty cl…