Just snagged an Apple model M0130 Floppy Drive in excellent condition for $5. It's yellowed, missing a rubber foot, and has tape residue on it, but there are no…
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So, I have a 1gb 80 pin SCSI hard drive I wanted to use in an SE/30. So I bought an 80 pin to 50 adapter for it. However when I boot up the system with disk too…
Preliminary research and thoughts: Inspired by the recent spate of video hacking on compact Macs, EvilTim's MPxPlayer, and of course the Poor Man's Greyscale Pr…
I normally post this stuff in my IIfx thread, but this time I'd also like to share it here in order to point out some of this years nicer conquests, if you can …
Well, the Color Classic is refusing to power on. Inspected the logic board, caps look okay. Replaced PRAM battery, no difference. The PS makes a slight whine wh…
I just got my Mac Classic boards back from being recapped and resoldered. The analog board works like a charm--no more jittery video! The logic board looks grea…
I had this card bookmarked on ebay but forgot about it. Kind of shocked it went for $180 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Orange-PC-MS-DOS-Coprocessor-card-NUBUS-Mac-Int…
I don't remember who it was, where it was or when it was posted, but somebody wanted to see a pic of my fully operational . . . . . . DuoTrackball Upgraded 190c…
Steve's passing has inspired me to pick up my resto /mod / now memorial project that I began years ago on my Classic. The case is in awful shape and needs *fill…
. . . maybe . . . so far it's just a quirky collage of found objects displaying relatively natural effects, but it made me think . . . . . . about using frisket…
So, I recently traded my spare Pismo to BGoins12 for an MDD without a power supply. Over the weekend, I put a post on the LEM swap list looking for one. Disappo…
Alright, finally got them set up next to each other. The bookends of the 17" iMac line. On the left is the July 2002 iMac G4 - 17". Running Mac OS 9.2.2, browsi…
Having just successfully connected a Mac Plus running System 3.2 to a Power Mac 8500 running System 9, I have to say that LocalTalk is the best thing ever. How …
My friend got my old G5 tower some time ago with the following specs: Dual Processor 1.8Ghz G5 6GB DDR-3200 RAM 1TB HDD, GeForce 5xxx Series (Can't remember) wi…
As a replacement for last winter's bashed-in-the-post dual 1.8GHz G5 tower, I have sourced a boxed, clean dual 2.3 (PCI-X) G5 tower, the one said to be the most…
Soo... I just installed WC3 on my cube which runs 9.2.2. All is well, until I want to play a network game. It starts running the software updater first. No swea…
Last night I commented on OWC's blog about their Black Friday 2011 specials. I was inspired to make a comment because I recently acquired a couple PowerBook G3 …
Morning all, I'm currently restoring a SE/30 and am wondering if I should try to get hold of a new monitor as the existing one is showing a reasonably high leve…
So how do I create/emulate a SCSI hard drive in miniVmac?
I wonder if anyone else has encountered issues with constant bus errors being thrown when writing (including copying within the device) to a CF card in a PCMCIA…
After toying around with the simple EGA video out stuff, I started thinking about bench testing/troubleshooting for the compact macs. Would anyone be interested…
Well this is going to be a fruitful day. So far I have picked up a box of Mac Cards for $20 and it included: 11 Video cards including a 9800pro Mac Edition, ixt…
Hi all, I have this coax network card installed in my LCII and was wondering what that PLCC style socket was? It looks like the same sort of ones that hold a 68…
. . . iKnow, iKnow, it's very likely bordering on iBlasphemy, but when a friggin' pair of these silly lil' white, and now that they've come of age, cuties showe…
Is it my imagination, or has vintage compact Macs skyrocketed in value? Years ago, I had bought a broken Mac Classic to butcher into a Hackintosh like so many b…