I recently took my Mac Classic II out of storage, it had been at the top of my garage for the past 10+ years. It gets pretty hot up there and as a result my bat…
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I have a Macintosh 512K (M0001W) which has been sitting in storage for the last 15 years. When I last used it, I remember it working fine however when I powered…
Hello, Apologies if this post is in the wrong place; I looked around several of the boards but didn't see any hard drive discussion in Peripherals. Links to oth…
These interfaces were created between 1990-1999 and are only usable by those who have a mac with a serial port. they came built in on older beige colored g3 or …
I won this one at my local surplus auction. I discovered this gem amongst a bunch of 1,1 Mac Pros and G5s. I think whatever company that surplussed it accidenta…
I was working on my LC III (again) and tinkering with the two external hard drives I acquired some time ago. It turned out that one of them had a functional har…
All, I have the somewhat famous/somewhat obscure issue with the blank page(s) printing from the cassette. One page will print, the page will be blank, and no fu…
Much like LazarusNine, I had my own disaster. Two issues: 1. Had my iron set for 650F and was using some solder tweezers (Hakko FX-8804-02) thinking it would be…
I'm hoping for some SE/30 expertise. I installed a 32-bit, third-party ROM into my SE/30. The system powered on and I heard the chime, but it was very staticky.…
I've just had my last intact 65w G4-era AC adapter lose one of its cable-winding wings to a slight bit of jostling in my bag, joining several others I've had wi…
I found a 250MB Avatar Shark drive, along with 4 disks. It has the PC Parallel Port cable. It also says on the box that SCSI interface cables for Macintosh comp…
So I got a hold of a few 280 motherboards from someone local, 1 powered on 2 didn't even after huge cleaning and recap, Have a 270 that has flaky video but will…
Hi everyone. Been reading this forum for years. So I have a old, lovable G4 12" Powerbook that I think has a dead HD. Ok, no issue right? A 2008 iMac I found in…
Hey guys, So I am relatively new to the board, mostly because my long standing Apple/Mac interest has exploded into a recent rash of acquiring vintage macs (muc…
Hey there, guys! I recently acquired a very clean looking Powerbook 180 (and an Apple branded leather carrying case made for it that I have never seen before). …
Hi folks I managed to resurrect another trash-saved Mac which was sitting around here. Before, at the first try (probably after ~10 years without being in use),…
Is anyone else having trouble getting to the page? I just get redirected to the generic support page. I also found this article http://support.apple.com/kb/TA48…
Hi there. Was wondering if anyone has heard of Macintosh speakers going bad. I have a G3 desktop Macintosh with the oblong speaker in that beige casing. Anyways…
I have an extra 3400c case that I had in the back of my mind wondered what to do with. A friend just pointed this out: http://www.minnowboard.org/meet-minnowboa…
OK. Got a nice looking Pismo out of the ‘Bay. All is good and it functions just fine except - 1. It will NOT start up from any CD or DVD with an OS on it (it wi…
Anyone know what this is?? I have never seen a drive formatted like this before... Is this to use the "040 Fast Cache" option?? Over the years I never enabled o…
As a result of the feedback I got from the topic at https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/26059-lc-iii-external-hard-drive/I was able to obtain an external…
A few days ago I was doing a random search on Craigslist for computers that cost $30 or less. One of the results was an Acer Chromebook that had a damaged Chrom…
Hi, I recently bought a Quadra 950 and have been having some problems with it. It doesn't seem like there are a lot of these, and thusly not much information on…
I did my first re-cap yesterday on my SE/30. I'm glad to say it went well. I wasn't getting any sound before, now I get clear and loud sound through the headpho…