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Hi, I have a couple of analog boards with an L2 width adjustment coil whose inner cores are missing and/or crumbling. Is it possible to replace the coil outrigh…
· 14 posts · started 16 Jun 2012 - 18:43 · last 25 Jan 2013 - 19:11
Hardware
Is this normal? My SE/30 is recapped and everything looks good.. Even the PSU is recapped. I get noisy scanlines that runs downwards when there's heavy motor ac…
· 15 posts · started 15 Jan 2013 - 08:12 · last 25 Jan 2013 - 10:45
Troubleshooting
Like the title says, for Christmas, my wife gave me $500 to spend on eBay. She knows how much I love vintage Apple gear and there's no way she could possibly bu…
· 16 posts · started 7 Jan 2013 - 17:07 · last 25 Jan 2013 - 04:32
Hardware
Is there any merit in this idea what so ever? I'v not tried this, but i am curious if it would work, as long as the epoxy was thick enough, I feel it would crea…
· 10 posts · started 20 Jan 2013 - 07:30 · last 25 Jan 2013 - 01:46
Hardware
I found this a little interesting. I was playing around on the eMac and decided to do a speed test between the iBook G4 (1.42GHz G4, 1.5GB of RAM, 4200rpm HDD, …
· 14 posts · started 20 Jan 2013 - 02:54 · last 25 Jan 2013 - 00:29
68k
Hate to render it useless, but its full 040 is going into the new 605. Can I just swap the LC in and still have a working but slower 950?
· 9 posts · started 12 Jan 2013 - 04:14 · last 24 Jan 2013 - 17:42
Hardware
Well this is interesting. NB: I do not know if this applies to all Keyspan serial adapters or just some of them. Caveat emptor. /ETA/ The author of the linked a…
· 2 posts · started 19 Jan 2013 - 09:48 · last 24 Jan 2013 - 17:41
Troubleshooting
Bought 2 iBook G3s off Craigslist today! Paid $25 for both and 1 charger. They both have their own problems, one has a DVD drive issue, other had the video card…
· 7 posts · started 23 Jan 2013 - 02:10 · last 23 Jan 2013 - 22:07
Hardware
This thing boots sick fast, I would say fully booted to the desktop in about 4 seconds. love it because i have everything i want and need, don't have to worry a…
· 53 posts · started 13 Oct 2012 - 05:42 · last 23 Jan 2013 - 04:41
PowerPC
My daughter's 15" 1.67mhz G4 has a newish battery that reports itself as having done 65,000 cycles. Yup. For obvious reasons, the charging is not going so well.…
· 9 posts · started 13 Jan 2013 - 20:42 · last 23 Jan 2013 - 04:00
Troubleshooting
Hi, I have an "unsupported" installation of Mac OS X 10.4 on my early 2008 Mac Pro, and I'd like to run TenFourFox on it. It works when I run it on a Mac which …
· 12 posts · started 21 Nov 2012 - 05:54 · last 23 Jan 2013 - 01:29
68k
System 7 was around for quite some time now. Were there any video game emulators that ran on it? Mainly looking for the original Game Boy. I don't know how hard…
· 15 posts · started 2 Jan 2013 - 22:46 · last 22 Jan 2013 - 23:28
Hardware
What would you suggest as the fastest CPU/Graphics upgrade for this little machine ?
· 19 posts · started 5 Jan 2013 - 20:28 · last 22 Jan 2013 - 17:24
PowerPC
Saw this big haul on CL today: http://charlotte.craigslist.org/sys/3445496258.html NICE example of a 512K. I know storage is at a premium at my place but I'm co…
· 10 posts · started 21 Jan 2013 - 18:58 · last 22 Jan 2013 - 16:46
Peripherals
I'm curious why there was never any Nubus card with USB ports. The imac came out in 1998, which means that it was less than three years since the top of the lin…
· 7 posts · started 21 Jan 2013 - 03:13 · last 22 Jan 2013 - 10:54
Development
Hi, I have a technical question about C++ coding. I don't know if it's the best place to ask this kind of thing here but I know that some of you are expert in c…
· 8 posts · started 19 Jan 2013 - 21:25 · last 22 Jan 2013 - 10:41
General
I seem to remember from long ago that equill (of blessed memory) spoke of a way to downsize 7.6.1 so that it works faster on slower 030 machines, much as 7.5.3 …
· 2 posts · started 19 Jan 2013 - 23:40 · last 22 Jan 2013 - 09:55
Troubleshooting
Alright, to start this story off, a little introduction. I've been working at Goodwill in a training program for about two months now. The reason this seemingly…
· 57 posts · started 23 Jun 2012 - 15:59 · last 21 Jan 2013 - 18:40
PowerPC
A friend's company was trashing some older mac's (an advertising agency) and offered some for me to rescue, of cos, i could not turn them down, free and all.. H…
· 6 posts · started 19 Dec 2012 - 18:10 · last 21 Jan 2013 - 07:46
Hardware
I recently won (in my pursuit of putting an LC shaped board inside a face-lifted Mac Classic II) both a Performa 460 and a Quadra 605. They both made it to me i…
· 10 posts · started 18 Jan 2013 - 15:54 · last 21 Jan 2013 - 04:09
Software
Here's something interesting I've stumbled upon. I remember back when Apple introduced HFS+ with System 8.1. I could format Zip Disks with the new file system, …
· 5 posts · started 7 Jan 2011 - 21:43 · last 21 Jan 2013 - 03:06
Networking
Yes, I bought 2 AirPorts. I like telling people that because it sounds like I bought 2 airports when I in fact bought 2 AirPort Base Stations! About a week ago,…
· 6 posts · started 18 Jan 2013 - 21:32 · last 21 Jan 2013 - 01:42
Hardware
Seems like everytime I fire up one of these systems something fails. Guaranteed.... The latest is a working system put in storage for a couple months that now w…
· 10 posts · started 7 Jul 2012 - 20:55 · last 20 Jan 2013 - 16:49
Hardware
So I go to a goodwill in aloha or all the time and they never seem to have any mac stuff, just pc towers usually. Well I look through a glass door in rcieving a…
· 7 posts · started 16 Jan 2013 - 23:56 · last 20 Jan 2013 - 11:00
Hardware
I've been collecting Macs for a while, usually one or two here and there, but today was the first haul worth mentioning; well, first one to fill up my small tru…
· 13 posts · started 13 Jan 2013 - 03:50 · last 19 Jan 2013 - 07:21
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