So craigslist paid off today. A nice older gentleman put his collection up for a huge sum hoping to find the right individual to "inherit" his collection. He ha…
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Today had time to visit the guy who offered an Color Classic to me earlier this week. Later he found out it did not boot up, or did, but black screen. It had be…
So, I ended up with one of these in a big lot of video cards. I know that the Micron Xceed Color card can be used with an adapter to run the internal display in…
I was browsing through craigslist looking for an iBook G4 to have as a back up laptop, since original MacBook and MacBook Pro prices are still very high, and th…
what spawned this thought was Dougg3's ROM simm, then bunsen mentioning how cool this ROM simm would be in a SE/30, used as a serial terminal emulator, i was th…
Silly question, and it's not mission-critical, but there is a method in my madness: Is it possible to send out a wol packet on a LAN using something like MacPer…
I got a different board and CPU for my MDD (Dual 1Ghz 167 FSB) and was wondering if the 1.25ghz of 1.4ghz DP is worth getting since I hear they overheat. My old…
Hoping I can weed out some problems through software-based testing before I go back to reading schematics all afternoon. Mac Mothership has two different versio…
Got these from a friend today for free. iBook G3 clamshell tangerine (in a box with styrofoam) - 300Mhz - OS 9.0 International English - 32MB RAM - 3GB HDD - CD…
I had an old 12"x12" Wacom ArtZII (Digitizer II) that got damaged before I really had a chance to play with it. It was the Mac version with the DIN serial port …
Hi, According to Scott Baret's CRT Guide, the two aren't interchangeable. However, he doesn't seem to go into a great amount of detail, other than there are two…
As with all things too many projects not enough time. Six months ago I got an accelerator G3 500 for my 7200 for cheap right from sonnet the A series. So a shot…
I recently bought a couple of Digital Audio G4 PowerMacs for small change. One of them was a dual G4 533MHz, which I promptly got running Leopard Server (via Le…
I bought a Lisa 2 off someone and it was supposedly "not working" { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightb…
Not much of a conquest, but I bought a 128MB 72pin SIMM for $20 shipped and it's Mystic compatible! 4k refresh, 32x32 organization. It fits in the CC motherboar…
I tried to reinstall the driver map (the thing before the main partition) on my SE/30's original HDD using Apple HD SC Setup, and somehow it failed. I tried to …
http://lowendmac.com/imacs/700-mhz-imac-g3-mid-2001.html anyone have one of these? or worked with one? i personally only ever seen the 600mhz iMac g3
I am so pumped! I found a complete NeXT setup sans the monitor cable for $20. I am second in line to buy it. I am hoping the first buyer falls through... Wish m…
Hi, is here someone who is able to "convert" some perl scripts (blog, guestbook) to macperl ? They work well on linux perl 5, but I'll put them to work on my Ma…
Saw today an ad offering an SE/30 with box and software + for the same offer free Powerbook Duo 230. So i offered some and i got it, the guy called me soon afte…
Hi, New printer in the mix and would like to enable LPR printing on a 7.6.1 Mac. Several sites mention installing LW 8.6 as the solution. Apple's "older softwar…
Does anyone know of an extension or control panel that will smooth the screen fonts of system 7, much like the way Mac OS 8 smooths fonts?
I got my hands on a working Macintosh Classic It starts up and runs just fine, the only problem being that there's no sound. Everywhere I looked says that the M…
Thanks to the amazing efforts of dougg3 and others on this group, I'm on the way of putting a "decent" display during the startup of a SE/30 with alternative RO…
Picked this original Macintosh bag for free tonight locally. The owner had bought it from USA back in 1985. Did not mention if also bought 128k or 512k. He used…