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Purchased a PowerBook 160 off of eBay of unknown condition as a project piece, and also because I wanted a grayscale PB. The unit did not come with a power bric…
· 9 posts · started 26 Nov 2015 - 22:48 · last 29 Dec 2015 - 06:48
Troubleshooting
My G4 Sawtooth came with an ATI Radeon 7500 in it. After updating to 9.2.1 from 9.1, the machine freezes at the desktop unless I disable all ATI extensions. I n…
· 7 posts · started 9 Nov 2015 - 21:43 · last 29 Dec 2015 - 00:27
Hardware
Bought an powermac g4 sawtooth , my first vintage mac ever,for about 10 dollars . It's an old 400 megahertz model . I have already upgraded it with 1 gb of sdra…
· 5 posts · started 27 Dec 2015 - 09:05 · last 28 Dec 2015 - 18:06
Troubleshooting
Because I had to remove the internal 400k drive, I am using a 128k Mac with an external drive with the original system disk that came with the machine. When I g…
· 46 posts · started 1 Dec 2015 - 03:00 · last 28 Dec 2015 - 07:12
68k
Hello all, Love my 68K macs. My fav is my upgraded LC 575. I have been trying to find a 68K mac with a PDS slot AND NUBUS slots. Does this exsist??? Seams to be…
· 19 posts · started 25 Dec 2015 - 07:37 · last 26 Dec 2015 - 22:57
Networking
Can anyone verify that this is an OK thing to do? Just got a 512k working for the first time and would like to network it.
· 5 posts · started 21 Dec 2015 - 18:51 · last 26 Dec 2015 - 00:38
Troubleshooting
Hi I'm more of an SE/30 & Portable kind of guy but I also own a Mac Plus. The poor thing is sitting on a shelf because I can't thing of anything to do w…
· 8 posts · started 10 Dec 2015 - 18:50 · last 24 Dec 2015 - 20:56
68k
In the early-mid 90s, my friend had a game probably on his LC III that mostly consisted of minigames, one of which was just watching a TV screen with an infinit…
· 4 posts · started 22 Dec 2015 - 05:53 · last 23 Dec 2015 - 21:29
Software
I've been wanting one of these for ages. It's not the 8000 model, but it's complete with the box, manuals, and disk, and I got it for (what I think) is a fair p…
· 7 posts · started 12 Dec 2015 - 03:29 · last 23 Dec 2015 - 16:50
PowerPC
So, I walked into my local thrift store last Saturday, and I spotted it from 50 feet away - a 17" Apple Studio Display... one of the clear plastic LCD models wi…
· 2 posts · started 22 Dec 2015 - 19:38 · last 23 Dec 2015 - 03:24
Networking
Hi, I have a problem : i tru to connect a "DOS" Macintosh to the Net, and i have problem to do that. It's a Power Macintosh 6100 under Mac OS 8.6, with Ethernet…
· 2 posts · started 22 Dec 2015 - 18:29 · last 22 Dec 2015 - 22:25
PowerPC
Found a decent deal on a tibook 550 G4 I could not pass up. Needed a RAM upgrade and a HD (luckily they left the HD cable installed and all I needed was 4 screw…
· 14 posts · started 19 Nov 2015 - 23:03 · last 22 Dec 2015 - 21:25
68k
So the owner of the local computer store has been servicing Apple products since the late 70s and his showroom is an impressive collection of vintage Apple prod…
· 19 posts · started 24 Nov 2015 - 22:38 · last 22 Dec 2015 - 14:28
Troubleshooting
I just acquired 30 PowerBook Duo series machines, but only have 1 Duo Power supply. I know a lot of the power supplies should interchange, but I wanted to confi…
· 3 posts · started 15 Dec 2015 - 02:31 · last 22 Dec 2015 - 05:43
Peripherals
This is probably of interest to about two people here, including me, but anyway. You know those cheap roll-up USB keyboards and drumpads you see around the plac…
· 1 posts · started 22 Dec 2015 - 05:05 · last 22 Dec 2015 - 05:05
Troubleshooting
I have an Apple Personal Modem (A9M0334), and have tried to connect it to my Macintosh Plus as well as my Apple //e. The //e doesn't have any modem software, bu…
· 1 posts · started 22 Dec 2015 - 02:14 · last 22 Dec 2015 - 02:14
Hardware
I found some lots of chips on ebay used on 4MB 64 pin SIMMs, M5M44100BJ. I'm going to do a circuit board layout and will have a few SIMMs made at a local PCB sh…
· 23 posts · started 31 Jul 2015 - 21:07 · last 22 Dec 2015 - 02:09
Hardware
So I went for a walk in the woods yesterday and I came across a dump site. There was a giant Intergraph monitor that caught my eye and caused me to investigate …
· 34 posts · started 12 Dec 2015 - 15:00 · last 21 Dec 2015 - 15:18
Troubleshooting
So I recently re-capped my SE/30 analog board, but the focus control isn't working. Cutoff does work just fine. I have searched the forums and TomLee and trag m…
· 6 posts · started 11 Dec 2015 - 14:21 · last 21 Dec 2015 - 03:50
68k
I recently came into possession of a 512k Mac. I was really excited because it has the RAM upgrade and a SCSI controller card soldered straight to the CPU! But …
· 11 posts · started 28 Oct 2015 - 04:26 · last 20 Dec 2015 - 10:52
Troubleshooting
I purchased 8x 2MB RAM chips for my Mac IIx from WeLoveMacs and no matter what combination I try, I can't get any of the chips to register. Essentially, any com…
· 14 posts · started 18 Nov 2015 - 15:48 · last 20 Dec 2015 - 01:35
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