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I mentioned this in Conquests, but I snagged quite the PowerBook yesterday. Bottom specs read 14.1 inch 233mhz with 32mb RAM, 2GB HD... nothing all that special…
· 5 posts · started 21 Jun 2010 - 04:45 · last 23 Jun 2010 - 04:14
Hardware
I have a Macintosh II down in the basement that I had not touched for at least 3 years. I don't even remember where I got it or when... I figured it had a IIfx …
· 2 posts · started 22 Jun 2010 - 16:36 · last 23 Jun 2010 - 03:24
Hardware
I have added the 160 pin PPC ROM module pinout to the Wiki. If anyone wants to go clean up the formatting I'd appreciate it. I'm not so good with that stuff. I …
· 1 posts · started 22 Jun 2010 - 23:29 · last 22 Jun 2010 - 23:29
PowerPC
so a little back story...... In about September I fixed up a 800mhz Quicksilver for one of the teachers in my school and in return I got a G4 sawtooth, and now …
· 1 posts · started 22 Jun 2010 - 20:23 · last 22 Jun 2010 - 20:23
Troubleshooting
Now this is an odd find: On offer is a VINTAGE COLLECTABLE - BRAND NEW Apple PowerBook {x00} Series Video Service Course as part of the Apple Service Training C…
· 28 posts · started 27 Jul 2009 - 02:46 · last 22 Jun 2010 - 18:55
PowerPC
It's been a pretty good couple of days for Apple finds for me. On Friday, I rescued a small treasure trove of original Stylewriter printer inks that were headed…
· 4 posts · started 21 Jun 2010 - 00:50 · last 22 Jun 2010 - 18:20
Hardware
Anybody got a clue? Could it really make this nice Mac Plus worth US $139? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250202694198
· 25 posts · started 31 Jan 2008 - 08:20 · last 21 Jun 2010 - 17:16
Hardware
I emailed a guy a few days ago when his ad appeared in a local classified. He had no price for his non working G4. I offered 20$...he took it but stated he was …
· 10 posts · started 17 Jun 2010 - 01:52 · last 21 Jun 2010 - 09:23
Software
I happened to stop by up there in dayton at mendelsons liquidation outlet. Well, i think they had 6 or 7 boxes of Apple Notebook Disks. still in its original sh…
· 7 posts · started 18 Jun 2010 - 02:25 · last 21 Jun 2010 - 06:12
Networking
Hi all - appreciate any help or information you may have - I'm looking to get my 4MB Mac Plus speaking TCP/IP. I want to use it as a terminal to telnet to other…
· 3 posts · started 1 Jun 2010 - 08:42 · last 20 Jun 2010 - 11:18
Troubleshooting
Hi I wanted to introduce my parents to Apple, so i went looking for a last generation iBook G4. I found an iBook G4 (mid 2005) 1,33Ghz It came with Mac OS X Leo…
· 2 posts · started 6 Jun 2010 - 08:17 · last 20 Jun 2010 - 10:33
Hardware
After having this in my closet for over two years, I finally have decided to give it a try with my 180c. According to the manual, it emulates an 80286 and comes…
· 3 posts · started 16 Jun 2010 - 06:10 · last 20 Jun 2010 - 08:43
Hardware
I've been on this quest to resurrect a Portable from motherboard death. A well-known portable collector gave me a box of motherboards from the non-backlit and t…
· 31 posts · started 9 Apr 2010 - 19:57 · last 20 Jun 2010 - 03:59
68k
Hey guys. I got one of the blue VGA Apple Studio Displays today at a yard sale for $5. It simply had a sign that said, "Not working" so I thought I'd give it a …
· 3 posts · started 17 Jun 2010 - 19:36 · last 20 Jun 2010 - 01:59
Hardware
That's right, geeks... everyone's favourite open-ended, semi-competitive retrocomputing free-for-all is just around the corner. Do you have what it takes to go …
· 11 posts · started 18 Jun 2010 - 02:22 · last 19 Jun 2010 - 19:48
Troubleshooting
I booted it up and clicked "about Finder" but all it says is version 1.1... nothing about the amount of memory. I recently came across one of these but I have n…
· 8 posts · started 18 Jun 2010 - 19:45 · last 19 Jun 2010 - 19:36
Hardware
I have a Geforce 6200 crammed into my G4 Cube (with a fan) and it seems to work just fine in OS X, but there are some games that don't like Classic so I occasio…
· 4 posts · started 13 Jun 2010 - 11:42 · last 19 Jun 2010 - 02:36
Hardware
While tinkering with a jailmac SE/30 motherboard and a IIfx ROM SIMM today, I discovered that the "Load Bank A first, larger memory must be in Bank A" restricti…
· 8 posts · started 15 Jun 2008 - 07:11 · last 18 Jun 2010 - 21:31
68k
Hi all, I have a "Macintosh Color Monitor" (its a 14" or so by the look) from around 1993 that I need to take apart - does anyone know where I can find a disass…
· 3 posts · started 13 Jun 2010 - 07:03 · last 18 Jun 2010 - 21:26
Networking
Is it possible to connect two Macs via SCSI and file share between them? I can't find anything about it online so I thought I'd check here. Thanks, agg23
· 18 posts · started 19 Dec 2009 - 13:23 · last 18 Jun 2010 - 02:08
OS 8
A recent dumpster diving trip rewarded me with a Power Computing 604/150, which is a 150 MHz PPC 604 mac clone. It's got three PCI slots, 384 MB of memory, and …
· 11 posts · started 10 Jun 2010 - 16:20 · last 17 Jun 2010 - 17:41
Networking
I learned today that PCMCIA ethernet dongles are not all interchangeable. Only a couple of dollars for that lesson, but worth putting down here to save someone …
· 1 posts · started 17 Jun 2010 - 00:37 · last 17 Jun 2010 - 00:37
Troubleshooting
Our player piano tech has a pretty nice year or so old macbook pro, and today he happened to snag the power cord just right where it ripped mostly out of the br…
· 7 posts · started 4 Jun 2010 - 23:48 · last 16 Jun 2010 - 09:26
68k
I've done enough looking around to be convinced that asking the advice of someone who's done a lot of this sort of thing is the way to go. So, that said: Has an…
· 5 posts · started 13 Jun 2010 - 08:53 · last 16 Jun 2010 - 07:07
Hardware
So this afternoon I fired up the LCIII to write a letter to the editor of the local newspaper. Nothing quite like doing word processing on a 68k Mac with Claris…
· 5 posts · started 15 Jun 2010 - 10:16 · last 16 Jun 2010 - 06:39
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