This monitor powers on "when it receives a video signal", however when connected through my KVM it refuses to turn on. Is there any way I can short two pins tog…
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My son's 4th gen iPod classic has started giving him a "click of death" which I'm assuming means the hard drive inside has died. Is this something he can fix ea…
So I'm putting together a Quadra 840AV basically out of parts (got a motherboard + RAM en route, need to find a housing for it.) But I'm trying to expand it a l…
What's the difference between the 8524S and the 8524SA? Does anyone know? TIA Randy
Today I picked all this stuff up for $200. Upon going through it I feel like there's way more than $200 worth here. Definitely keeping all of it for life! http:…
So I have a Mac SE thats giving me Simasimac. I'm thinking of washing the board and also doing something about the corrosion near the back. However, its an SE b…
My Mac Plus (platinum) was running fine until yesterday. It was booting off a minimal 6.0.8 floppy. :b&w: Now the internal drive immediately ejects the …
Hi, I treated my SE/30 to a Sonnet Allegro "doubler" accelerator, boosting it to 33Mhz '030 off the socketed board. It installed easily bar having to lengthen t…
To go with my partway restored SE/30, I seem to have picked up some sort of retro mac bug. Background: I just picked up a used (obviously!) 1400cs. It's a fairl…
I had to kill a little time while I was waiting on someone so I started looking around on craigslist and saw a couple of xserves in the free section. Only thing…
Thanks to a heads up from my longtime buddy jr, it's finally mine . . . ALL MINE!!!!!!!! Muahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol: …
I found this image while searching the web. I used to have tangerine speakers just like that. I emailed the owner of that pic, but he hasn't seen them in 10 yea…
I've had this machine for about a month now, just havent gotten around to posting. But, a little while back, I was looking around for an LC III, and a seller on…
The Apple HiColor 15" LCD Monitor Patent Pending ) This is a project to turn a Gateway FPD15-40 LCD into an Apple-esque ADB capable VGA monitor. I'm using the b…
Was there ever an equivalent of the OSX Mac Hardware Test suite for Compacts? I could really do with some diagnostics. Maybe a library of scripts to exercise th…
I recently recapped 2x Color Classic logic boards. One of them works well and turns on immediately from the keyboard, with new Pram battery installed. The other…
Does anyone know of/have such a list? I have some old NICs, I want to see which ones work with the OS, so I can upgrade to 100BaseT(from 10BaseT).
well, in that case, I think it's misleading that Apple but in a bluelight for the promo video. Looks alot better, IMO.
I've got a pair of adapters for turning Laptop Optical Drives into standard IDE & MOLEX connector internals for desktop/tower use. Is there such a thing…
Turns out the seller doesn't want the Performa back, so I'm going to try and fix it. I've run into a bit of a snag. I can't figure out what it is. Nothing looks…
Per James1095's suggestion i just replaced just the (Lite Brown Caps) The Brand name of these pieces of crap is (ELNA) Long-Life These Certain caps are the only…
In a thread here I can no longer find, somebody posted a link to a video of a conference presentation on 400/800k drive maintenance. The presenter had up on scr…
http://classicoldsmobile.com/forums/interior-upholstery/50619-boiling-plastic-restore.html this is kind of interesting, He is saying boiling old plastics in wat…
Local computer recycler put these two machines (and others) on ebay. They charge a MINT for shipping so their auctions tend to end up very low. Thankfully I liv…
Found this morning a Weller WEC-20 Soldering Station. Was dirty, but complete, and only 5 €. Tested, and working great. { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_n…