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If it's genuine and the backstory is true, this one is my coolest conquest in years. Well, I have to confess I haven't conquered that much lately… I bought that…
· 7 posts · started 11 Aug 2012 - 09:51 · last 12 Oct 2012 - 10:42
Networking
Hi everyone... my first post I've been following the boards for a while now and thoroughly enjoy reading about Compact Macs...my new hobby. I've been a Mac user…
· 4 posts · started 26 Sep 2012 - 19:04 · last 11 Oct 2012 - 19:25
Software
I received this along with a dual floppy Macintosh SE for free. The 20 MB Hyperdrive would spin up, but the data had become corrupted i suspect because it was l…
· 9 posts · started 6 Oct 2012 - 18:20 · last 11 Oct 2012 - 18:41
Troubleshooting
Since my Perfomra 475's hard disk appears to be broken , I had decided that there was another way I could use my mac. My plan was as follows: I had made two dis…
· 10 posts · started 10 Jul 2012 - 16:39 · last 11 Oct 2012 - 18:00
Hardware
I've got a couple of goodies coming from Sonnet, my favorite accelerator supplier (since the untimely demise of Radius :'( ) for my favorite (BOTH from Radius […
· 19 posts · started 2 Jan 2011 - 02:12 · last 11 Oct 2012 - 17:34
Troubleshooting
I have a :lc: (Performa 475). It had a dead PRAM battery, so I had wired it up to a voltage regulator that I had built, powered from a transformer. I then chang…
· 44 posts · started 8 Jun 2012 - 17:27 · last 11 Oct 2012 - 17:09
Hardware
Just got this off a guy who wanted to give it a good home for free. Have not even got it home yet to test but I am stoked. That full page apple display looks co…
· 22 posts · started 7 Oct 2012 - 00:19 · last 11 Oct 2012 - 09:54
Hardware
So I just pulled my 1GHz TiBook out of the closet for the first time in a while, only to find that it's now forgetting the date & time and leaving the L…
· 1 posts · started 11 Oct 2012 - 06:12 · last 11 Oct 2012 - 06:12
Troubleshooting
Here is another brainstorm topic if anyone has some comments into technical issues with this idea. I am trying to see if I can adapt the PDS pass-through slot o…
· 19 posts · started 30 Sep 2012 - 22:58 · last 11 Oct 2012 - 05:42
Peripherals
Hello everyone, I have an old Macintosh Plus, which I bought off eBay. I wanted to use a mac serial decoder to find information on it, but the serial number on …
· 8 posts · started 7 Oct 2012 - 14:27 · last 11 Oct 2012 - 02:32
Networking
So, I've got an ongoing problem with one of those "manta ray" looking Etherwave adapters. I had it working with 7.5.3 and Open Transport - TCP/IP worked nicely,…
· 1 posts · started 10 Oct 2012 - 17:11 · last 10 Oct 2012 - 17:11
Hardware
Got this up in Covington for free from a guy who got it from his grandmother and wanted it to have a good home. Plugged it in, booted it up and nice os 7.5 with…
· 3 posts · started 10 Oct 2012 - 09:41 · last 10 Oct 2012 - 14:45
Hardware
Hi everyone, As I've posted in the conquest thread... you guys know I had an Indigo iMac G3 which suffered from case problems. Well I pulled some strings and en…
· 18 posts · started 29 Sep 2012 - 01:22 · last 10 Oct 2012 - 02:58
General
I am looking for the free update from 8.x to 8.1.2 from the now defunct Connectix. If you have a copy, please post or send a PM, thanks!
· 3 posts · started 6 Oct 2012 - 07:57 · last 9 Oct 2012 - 23:45
Hardware
I haven't used a Mac in over 20 years, so assume I know absolutely nothing. And to prove how little I know, they may be the most nubie question ever: Just bough…
· 6 posts · started 8 Oct 2012 - 02:04 · last 9 Oct 2012 - 21:14
68k
So I'm close to having my second most favoured Mac back; a Powerbook 5300c I used all through high school, only to have the screen shatter! Well Beachycove was …
· 3 posts · started 9 Oct 2012 - 15:48 · last 9 Oct 2012 - 16:51
Troubleshooting
Could not resist as saw this offered for free. Powermac G5 with replaced 80Gb HDD. No idea of model & speed, the ad did not say and i did not ask ;D How…
· 8 posts · started 7 Oct 2012 - 19:19 · last 9 Oct 2012 - 05:04
Peripherals
Found this morning an Apple II Joystick, this is not an Apple branded product, but an Hayes one. It was boxed and dirty, and when i asked for the price, i get a…
· 13 posts · started 7 Oct 2012 - 16:22 · last 8 Oct 2012 - 15:33
68k
So with a load of macs I got last month or so I got 5 accelerators for macs and have 4 identified I think. So I'll describe them maybe you can shed some light a…
· 8 posts · started 5 Oct 2012 - 03:51 · last 8 Oct 2012 - 03:30
Software
I just saw this today, figured I would share it with everyone. Apple has disabled software update for all Macs running OS 10.3 and earlier, and also Mac OS 9 (a…
· 22 posts · started 18 Sep 2012 - 18:12 · last 7 Oct 2012 - 02:03
Software
Bought these from fellow european, Slomacuser, among a pile of Macintosh games for a friend (split the postage). Can't wait to install that card to maxed out LC…
· 5 posts · started 5 Oct 2012 - 19:12 · last 6 Oct 2012 - 13:20
Software
I have been using os 9.2.2 on this machine for months with no issue. I had panther installed only to use my hp deskjet f300. I havent booted panther in awhile b…
· 2 posts · started 6 Oct 2012 - 02:01 · last 6 Oct 2012 - 02:09
Troubleshooting
I bought one of these today untested, but with a 7 day return period if it doesn't work. It looked immaculate and would, I thought, make a very nice companion f…
· 9 posts · started 26 Sep 2012 - 23:27 · last 6 Oct 2012 - 00:52
Networking
Anyone have the MacPaint Woodcut file they can link to? I'd love to be able to display it again on my Mac. { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next",…
· 29 posts · started 3 Jun 2011 - 05:20 · last 5 Oct 2012 - 00:03
Hardware
Does anyone know of a utility to read/write to PRAM? I'm thinking of something that could be used to restore system config on bootup when the machine doesn't ha…
· 4 posts · started 4 Oct 2012 - 03:09 · last 4 Oct 2012 - 21:47
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