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I was looking for replacements to recap an SE/30 motherboard, and noticed that Panasonic has announced new type (Conductive Polymer Hybrid Aluminum Electrolytic…
· 10 posts · started 26 Apr 2012 - 18:18 · last 11 May 2012 - 06:13
Peripherals
I've been putting together a small collection of Classic Macs and peripherals, and one of the small irritants that I always run into is missing rubber feet. For…
· 5 posts · started 10 May 2012 - 16:33 · last 11 May 2012 - 04:23
General
Hey everyone! It's been a bit since I've had anything new to post about my Mac 512K experiments, but wanted to note a couple of things. First, with Mobile Me sh…
· 4 posts · started 10 May 2012 - 04:20 · last 11 May 2012 - 01:51
Networking
My main machine is an iBook G4 running Leopard. But I also do use OS8.6 and OS9 a lot on other machines. I am looking for a way to create .sit compressed archiv…
· 7 posts · started 5 May 2012 - 12:03 · last 9 May 2012 - 21:23
Hardware
i won these, They lowered the shipping for me, to 35 bucks. i've never messed with any of the Macintosh II Models, i'm sure it will be fun! http://www.ebay.com/…
· 19 posts · started 2 May 2012 - 06:13 · last 9 May 2012 - 20:59
Networking
If I can get my Mac SE Superdrive going and find an Ethernet card for it I'd LOVE to partake in the Retro Challenge if one is offered. Is anyone doing one in 20…
· 2 posts · started 21 Mar 2012 - 13:45 · last 9 May 2012 - 20:05
PowerPC
I just scored a 17" Powerbook G4 running Leopard with the following specs off of eBay: 1.67 Ghz 100 GB HD 2 GB Ram Superdrive It also came with an AC Adapter an…
· 11 posts · started 21 Apr 2012 - 22:54 · last 9 May 2012 - 10:47
Hardware
I recently acquired a fully working Macintosh SE. It has a 20mb hard drive, and it is the model that can only read 800k floppies. It currently has 1mb of ram, b…
· 5 posts · started 6 May 2012 - 16:15 · last 8 May 2012 - 22:06
Software
I have a chance a liberating a TiBook, but there is a catch... The current owner has a number of images taken with a QuickTake 150 on the drive which would need…
· 5 posts · started 8 May 2012 - 03:04 · last 8 May 2012 - 22:00
Troubleshooting
So I replaced the power board in my 128k and I am now getting Sad Mac 040002 at bootup. From what I can gather there is some bad memory on the motherboard that …
· 14 posts · started 13 Mar 2010 - 16:39 · last 8 May 2012 - 19:21
Hardware
I have a (only one but can get two) of the following memory stick: Memory (RAM): 128MB=1X128MB FAST PAGE FAST PAGE Number of Memory Chips: 24CHCIPS Memory Capac…
· 2 posts · started 7 May 2012 - 05:22 · last 8 May 2012 - 19:07
Peripherals
CelGen's Awesome Absolutely Apple Macintosh IIfx restoration project has inspired another pie in the sky/over the top hack of dreams notion . . . { "lightbox_cl…
· 23 posts · started 16 Apr 2012 - 15:16 · last 8 May 2012 - 17:29
Peripherals
I bought a System Saver for my 128k, because God blessed me with some extra funds and I am wondering when it gets here what I should do about my intended usage …
· 3 posts · started 8 May 2012 - 12:49 · last 8 May 2012 - 16:21
Troubleshooting
As some of you may know, I like to play around with my Mac 512Ke and get it to work with modern devices. I refer to it broadly as a Mac 512K, and mention the "e…
· 39 posts · started 10 Nov 2011 - 13:03 · last 8 May 2012 - 14:11
General
I have recently come into possession of working copies of MacTerminal and ThunderScan. Since both of these are essentially hardware drivers, and one of them was…
· 1 posts · started 8 May 2012 - 02:22 · last 8 May 2012 - 02:22
Peripherals
... with a single floppy Mac. This is one of the best video sequences I have seen of a Mac 128k/ 512k in actual use. All that swapping of disks would, I think, …
· 19 posts · started 24 Jun 2009 - 22:08 · last 7 May 2012 - 02:54
Hardware
. . . does anybody know of a tool, technique or procedure to do this easily, without marring the plastics? I've finally gutted my (DOA Flyback equipped : ) Blue…
· 2 posts · started 4 May 2012 - 19:59 · last 6 May 2012 - 23:56
68k
Good evening people, I am looking for some advice on a Classic I obtained a few months back and haven't got around to exploring it. My Classic's screen "wiggles…
· 4 posts · started 6 May 2012 - 01:17 · last 6 May 2012 - 20:31
Software
Just collected today a 17" Apple Studio Display. { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The r…
· 5 posts · started 6 May 2012 - 15:14 · last 6 May 2012 - 19:44
PowerPC
My daily driver remains my quad G5, and my regular laptop is this iBook G4/1.33 (12") I'm typing this in. I picked up a really nice Luxo 1GHz (15" USB 2.0) that…
· 19 posts · started 28 Apr 2012 - 18:59 · last 6 May 2012 - 16:55
Software
With a little luck, I should be the proud owner of a 12" PowerBook G4 in two weeks. This leaves me with a bit of a quandry. I currently have a Pismo (500mhz/1gb…
· 15 posts · started 26 Apr 2012 - 19:08 · last 6 May 2012 - 14:21
Troubleshooting
For a Mac Plus with a Sad Mac code 0177A, there's no fix but a logic board swap, correct?
· 1 posts · started 6 May 2012 - 13:55 · last 6 May 2012 - 13:55
Software
http://archive.digidesign.com/download/mp/QuoteThis download is for anyone wishing to use Pro Tools on Multiprocessor Apple G4 computers such as:G4 450mhz DP gi…
· 4 posts · started 11 May 2015 - 16:31 · last 6 May 2012 - 10:00
Troubleshooting
I noticed the flyback transformer on the analog transformer of my SE/30 has a crack that is glowing (top of the cylinder). Does this mean it is going to fail? S…
· 17 posts · started 1 Nov 2011 - 05:10 · last 5 May 2012 - 21:39
Hardware
I've had a PowerBook Pismo for the longest time. I got it for free from a guy who said it wouldn't start. I took it home, got it to turn on, and what followed w…
· 18 posts · started 24 Apr 2012 - 21:32 · last 5 May 2012 - 18:40
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