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I don't know who Steve Jones is, but I think he kept his Mac Plus's keyboard in the barn for a while.
· 2 posts · started 10 Sep 2013 - 16:41 · last 10 Sep 2013 - 17:00
PowerPC
Well, the original 80GB hard drive in my old 12" PowerBook was going south (irreparable errors reported in disk utility, etc.), so I decided to install an OWC p…
· 3 posts · started 9 Sep 2013 - 22:31 · last 10 Sep 2013 - 11:33
Hardware
Hi! I'm failing to understand exactly how this works. Apparently the same logic board was used for the P475 as for the Q605, but the Q605 had a jumper set. What…
· 17 posts · started 4 Sep 2013 - 18:32 · last 10 Sep 2013 - 02:07
Hardware
For all you lovers of vintage mac and mac emulation (I'm picking most of you reading this fall into one or other of these categories), John Leake of retromaccas…
· 4 posts · started 5 Sep 2013 - 12:50 · last 9 Sep 2013 - 17:17
Hardware
my buddy sent this to me. can anyone tell by the looks of it what machines will this work in? I think he said it came from a Mac II
· 16 posts · started 27 Aug 2013 - 04:14 · last 8 Sep 2013 - 09:47
Hardware
Some small items, not big deal but was looking for SCSI Terminators anyway... the rest was some sort of a bonus (4 € the lot including the HD)
· 10 posts · started 7 Sep 2013 - 11:33 · last 8 Sep 2013 - 09:35
Hardware
I just bought a Powerbook 165 on eBay for $11 (+16 for shipping :b&w: ) The seller stated that it wouldn't boot because of a bad hard drive. I took a ga…
· 4 posts · started 8 Sep 2013 - 04:15 · last 8 Sep 2013 - 08:31
PowerPC
Does the 15" lighted keyboard fit in a 12" aluminum powerbook and keep the lighted feature?
· 4 posts · started 8 Sep 2013 - 01:14 · last 8 Sep 2013 - 04:17
Troubleshooting
My Orinoco Gold (flashed silver) card doesn't work in 10.4 but it does work in OS 9. Are there any cheap cards that will work in 10.4? I don't want to buy the w…
· 18 posts · started 16 Jan 2012 - 01:23 · last 8 Sep 2013 - 03:01
Hardware
I press the power button and it lights up and fades out, not a peep, no chimes or error code. HELP!!!???!!! :'(
· 9 posts · started 6 Sep 2013 - 19:26 · last 8 Sep 2013 - 01:01
Hardware
I have been slowly getting back into my vintage Macs. When I tried to fire up my SE, the Hard drive was dead, as was the floppy drive. So I replaced both, thoug…
· 11 posts · started 4 Sep 2013 - 22:27 · last 7 Sep 2013 - 23:28
Hardware
Does anyone know if an internal SCSI upgrade kit was made for the Plus? If so, anyone have any specific names that will make it easier to search? Also, is it a …
· 9 posts · started 2 Sep 2013 - 17:47 · last 7 Sep 2013 - 19:03
Troubleshooting
A while ago, I acquired a box of cables and accessories (I mainly wanted an M0100 beige mouse in it) but there was some other oddities in there. Along with a co…
· 1 posts · started 7 Sep 2013 - 16:40 · last 7 Sep 2013 - 16:40
Hardware
There's nothing like the sound of an MFM drive in the morning Scored a couple of eBay auctions for some Lisa parts: - Sun Remarketing 20MB MFM drive and control…
· 2 posts · started 7 Sep 2013 - 16:16 · last 7 Sep 2013 - 16:22
Software
I found this confusing: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook/specs/mac_powerbook190cs_66.html The summarized description at the beginning says "Dual …
· 4 posts · started 31 Aug 2013 - 22:37 · last 7 Sep 2013 - 08:37
Networking
My fancy new Mac Plus arrived in the mail recently, along with an HD 20SC with a clean installation of System 6. The only other software I have on it Zterm, and…
· 7 posts · started 6 Sep 2013 - 17:19 · last 6 Sep 2013 - 19:48
PowerPC
Interesting question for you all... I have a 1400c with a 400mhz G3 upgrade. However, the L2 cache is bad and cannot be enabled without constant freezing (usual…
· 4 posts · started 5 Sep 2013 - 15:38 · last 6 Sep 2013 - 07:31
Troubleshooting
Recently, a Macintosh Classic managed to follow me home and I've become infatuated with the idea of using it. It seems to have a lot of problems, though.... Whe…
· 2 posts · started 6 Sep 2013 - 05:11 · last 6 Sep 2013 - 05:16
Hardware
Any item why? I installed MacsBug 6.5.3 to test it out. The debugger installs on boot, but pressing the Programmer's Switch does nothing.
· 9 posts · started 1 Sep 2013 - 02:34 · last 5 Sep 2013 - 20:04
Troubleshooting
This whole project started about a year ago. I bought this Plus on ebay. Realized it was an upgraded original 128k. So my quest has been to down grade it. I nee…
· 35 posts · started 3 Sep 2013 - 07:57 · last 5 Sep 2013 - 17:35
PowerPC
The early G5's were PCI-X and had PCI-x video cards. Would those video cards work in the G4 towers that had PCI-X slots?
· 7 posts · started 5 Sep 2013 - 06:04 · last 5 Sep 2013 - 17:10
Hardware
I bought an LC 575 and just got it today. Sadly, it didn't make it in transit. It was smashed pretty bad. The case was in pieces ad the CRT was loose with a bro…
· 7 posts · started 4 Sep 2013 - 22:20 · last 5 Sep 2013 - 00:33
Troubleshooting
I got the cap on the end of the 512kE's CRT back on and it fired up like a champ, so I threw the 128k board in for testing. I didn't get a blinking floppy, no, …
· 30 posts · started 21 Aug 2013 - 03:26 · last 4 Sep 2013 - 01:59
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