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Just poking around the back of the local computer store today, lots of stuff, mostly printers. Found: iMac FlowerPower - Man, is this thing UGLY! Mainly took it…
· 11 posts · started 2 Oct 2012 - 16:58 · last 4 Oct 2012 - 17:08
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Hey, my first post! So, I was wandering about my local thrift, and in the "collectables" section I see what looks like an older mac laptop in pretty good condit…
· 16 posts · started 29 Sep 2012 - 03:35 · last 4 Oct 2012 - 16:07
Software
Got these today from a friend, a sales guy who have worked with Apple since 1980/81. He find these from his summer cabin among lots of other things. Hope i can …
· 9 posts · started 2 Oct 2012 - 20:33 · last 3 Oct 2012 - 19:00
Hardware
Conquered a few devices lately. Vintage iDevices. Up first, my friend threw his old iPhone 2G at me. 8GB. Screen is in good condition, won't go past iOS 3.x.x s…
· 9 posts · started 30 Sep 2012 - 04:21 · last 3 Oct 2012 - 15:38
Hardware
Hi, I'm wondering how many of you have already started with recapping 128K-Plus Analog Boards or the SE series. Even though the capacitors still look fine and t…
· 18 posts · started 28 May 2012 - 21:31 · last 3 Oct 2012 - 03:34
Peripherals
While working on another project I thought it would be best to double check some info on how the Sun Remarketing SCSI card for the Lisa would behave with the Li…
· 1 posts · started 3 Oct 2012 - 03:06 · last 3 Oct 2012 - 03:06
OS 9
Do they have them? for the CPU? and if so which software OS9 or should be used to get the data? Just wondering because I would like to swap out all the fans to …
· 1 posts · started 3 Oct 2012 - 02:53 · last 3 Oct 2012 - 02:53
Peripherals
Does anyone know where to get a replacement ribbon for the ImageWriter II printer? I got one with my IIgs and I'm going to need a new ribbon.
· 18 posts · started 9 Sep 2007 - 18:19 · last 3 Oct 2012 - 02:07
Peripherals
I scored a working HD20 for $45. Not bad considering they're pretty scarce in working order and they usually go for $100+ on eBay. My 128K and 512k are on the b…
· 14 posts · started 30 Sep 2012 - 01:23 · last 3 Oct 2012 - 02:01
Software
Yes, it is actually a chore to put a 5.25" hard drive in your Lisa. There regular drive cage has no mounting holes to accept a regular 5.25" device. There's onl…
· 1 posts · started 3 Oct 2012 - 01:48 · last 3 Oct 2012 - 01:48
Hardware
As i have come across lots of IIci and IIcx cases, and less PSU's to run other than one (!) of them, i thought, as i really do not like the design of, putting a…
· 38 posts · started 18 May 2012 - 16:26 · last 2 Oct 2012 - 19:16
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I have been thinking for a while about the various versions of the Macintosh OS that came on machines such as, for example, the Performas. Remember 7.1P? That's…
· 22 posts · started 20 Sep 2012 - 17:14 · last 2 Oct 2012 - 17:56
Hardware
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· 10 posts · started 14 Sep 2012 - 11:29 · last 1 Oct 2012 - 06:00
Hardware
I have an SE/30 and of course has low sound and no boot chime ( I have some spare analog boards to try as the caps and board look pretty good ). My biggest issu…
· 7 posts · started 29 Sep 2012 - 22:11 · last 1 Oct 2012 - 04:18
OS 9
i have the eMac Mac OS 9.22 installed and i am dual booting OSX 10.4.11 Everything in Tiger is fully updated. I've been using it lately as my every day computer…
· 9 posts · started 22 Aug 2012 - 17:06 · last 29 Sep 2012 - 18:38
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So I have an SE/30. It's FD is dirty and I want to upgrade its RAM. BUT whoever had it last was a real idiot not to replace the screws, instead gluing it back t…
· 13 posts · started 24 Sep 2012 - 20:55 · last 28 Sep 2012 - 23:55
Networking
what do you guys think would be a good printer that should work with OS9 and USB? for the original iMac? any suggestions would be appreciated!
· 5 posts · started 27 Sep 2012 - 06:21 · last 28 Sep 2012 - 21:44
Software
I successfully got my IIe card to bootstrap from my IIci using the old version of Mac ADT. Unfortunately it just dies when it attempts to verify the disk format…
· 26 posts · started 11 Jan 2011 - 23:57 · last 28 Sep 2012 - 20:45
Troubleshooting
I have 3 SE/30 boards here that I performed my initial analysis on and am beginning to restore them now. Here is a youtube video I made of my initial findings:
· 26 posts · started 3 Mar 2012 - 20:23 · last 28 Sep 2012 - 08:13
Software
Hi Guys, Here's the situation: The machine doesn't boot from the hard drive. It gets a [?] disk. Since the only bootable floppy I have is a "Disk Tools" disk wi…
· 7 posts · started 14 Sep 2012 - 19:06 · last 28 Sep 2012 - 05:14
Software
A common problem when rooting around on old media is the tedious process of converting MacWrite files for viewing. Oftentimes these are ReadMe files that explai…
· 1 posts · started 27 Sep 2012 - 07:39 · last 27 Sep 2012 - 07:39
General
Anyone got the name of a good .Mod tracker for classic mac?
· 2 posts · started 24 Sep 2012 - 14:44 · last 25 Sep 2012 - 00:13
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Behold! Apple Macintosh 160SC Just got it home a bit ago. I don't care if all the insides don't work, I can fix it all. When I saw it on the shelf I thought it …
· 7 posts · started 22 Sep 2012 - 06:44 · last 25 Sep 2012 - 00:09
Hardware
This is the kind of computer you would find in it. { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The…
· 19 posts · started 20 Jul 2012 - 18:36 · last 23 Sep 2012 - 11:40
PowerPC
So I got an iBook G4 a few weeks ago, and out of curiosity I installed Lubuntu PPC 12.04 on it. I got past the wireless card issues that come with the operating…
· 4 posts · started 21 Sep 2012 - 02:44 · last 23 Sep 2012 - 06:28
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