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I own 2 quadra 840av's and was wondering what software everyone used or is using to handle the video input and ouput, etc. Including anything they use for watch…
· 9 posts · started 26 Mar 2010 - 11:17 · last 1 Apr 2010 - 13:22
68k
I believe the SE/30, and IIx ROMs are identical. Since the Mac II can be upgraded to FDHD, does that also upgrade it to the IIx ROM? I know the SE/30 can use a …
· 13 posts · started 20 Sep 2009 - 23:48 · last 1 Apr 2010 - 08:33
Peripherals
Hi there. I'm testing some of my external 400k drives. Some of them have a perculiar problem which is completely the opposite of most of these drives: When you …
· 4 posts · started 31 Mar 2010 - 03:46 · last 1 Apr 2010 - 07:09
Networking
Well I have been searching for quite a while, and I finally decided to post. I today, dug out an old Powerbook Duo. The dock does have the un-assigned Ethernet …
· 19 posts · started 16 Feb 2010 - 00:31 · last 1 Apr 2010 - 04:38
Hardware
I got out the ole' Power Mac 9500 last evening and tried to start it up. No luck. Though the hard drive in it is fine and has OS 7.6 on it, it did not work. I g…
· 37 posts · started 20 Sep 2009 - 18:52 · last 1 Apr 2010 - 04:31
Networking
I have absolutely no reason to want a Newton. I have a Nokia N800, I have a Palm Zire 72, I have a BlackBerry for a phone, and all kinds of other gadgets and gi…
· 7 posts · started 30 Mar 2010 - 04:07 · last 31 Mar 2010 - 23:36
Hardware
Hi, Yesterday I picked up my first 512k. They are hard to get in Europe so I had to pay a whopping 20 euro for it ;-) But, on boot no glory. I opened it up and …
· 36 posts · started 22 Mar 2010 - 09:02 · last 31 Mar 2010 - 19:08
Troubleshooting
Howdy all, I bought a 14" 233MHz Wallstreet (or maybe PDQ, can't tell yet) a few days ago. The machine smells of smoke and most likely belonged to a smoker at o…
· 16 posts · started 21 Mar 2010 - 23:56 · last 31 Mar 2010 - 18:53
Troubleshooting
Well, after receiving my HD20, I immediately plugged it into my 512K-upgraded 128. It would boot to the HD20 disk, try to handoff to the HD20, and crash. I plug…
· 3 posts · started 31 Mar 2010 - 18:18 · last 31 Mar 2010 - 18:47
Hardware
For the Ram gurus here, a question. What happens if you mix FPM and EDO Ram in an 8600/9600? Machine gets flakey, won't boot at all, smoke and flames, or?? Also…
· 3 posts · started 27 Mar 2010 - 17:29 · last 30 Mar 2010 - 01:41
68k
For those who wonder when Motorola started producing 68LC040 processors without the errata that caused problems with software FPU emulation, here is the actual …
· 2 posts · started 28 Mar 2010 - 00:04 · last 29 Mar 2010 - 23:44
Peripherals
Last week I scored some beautiful Black hardware: - NeXTstation TurboColor, with SoundBox ADB, and ADB keyboard and mouse, pristine. - NeXT MegaPixel 17'' displ…
· 4 posts · started 29 Mar 2010 - 11:09 · last 29 Mar 2010 - 15:14
Troubleshooting
I now have an Acer/eMachines E181H widescreen LCD monitor. The resolution is 1366 x 768. On my PowerMac G4, it shows a max resolution of 1280x720. Of course the…
· 18 posts · started 23 Mar 2010 - 03:02 · last 29 Mar 2010 - 02:01
Hardware
It's a parts machine, (power supply bad, hard drive removed) but was being listed only as a 533mhz, nothing said about the dual processor but the photo of the b…
· 8 posts · started 23 Mar 2010 - 20:45 · last 28 Mar 2010 - 20:07
Software
I picked up a book called Macintosh Revelations yesterday. The best part about it is the CD that it comes with--a huge BMUG archive of shareware, freeware, and …
· 2 posts · started 27 Mar 2010 - 17:26 · last 27 Mar 2010 - 20:33
Software
I bought a used ATI Xclaim TV quite some time ago for next to nothing. It was a small external box for either receiving Cable television or via an attached ante…
· 4 posts · started 31 Aug 2009 - 18:25 · last 27 Mar 2010 - 18:46
Networking
I finally recovered from the... crash? When I lost power to the shed for a week, the non-graceful shutdown seemed to kill the server... I have a new motherboard…
· 46 posts · started 24 Nov 2007 - 14:53 · last 27 Mar 2010 - 15:51
Software
From tinkering with my older Macs I got pretty used to doing things the classic Mac way. Naturally, I decided to install OS 9.2.2 on a newly acquired 466 iBook …
· 7 posts · started 23 Mar 2010 - 23:03 · last 27 Mar 2010 - 03:01
Hardware
Working, in good condition with stylus and power supply $16.00. ;D
· 8 posts · started 26 Mar 2010 - 20:53 · last 27 Mar 2010 - 02:12
Networking
So I fired up my old color classic and put a network card in it. The machine detects it and I was able to set the TCP/IP settings to ethernet and drop my IP det…
· 12 posts · started 18 Jan 2010 - 00:54 · last 26 Mar 2010 - 21:01
68k
Does anyone know what a basic SE/30 would have cost in the first half of 1990?
· 31 posts · started 11 Mar 2010 - 19:57 · last 26 Mar 2010 - 14:04
Development
This is a subject that has been picking at me for some time. I have noticed very little "free" software for my newtons, most of it is shareware. What is worse i…
· 32 posts · started 10 Jun 2008 - 02:34 · last 26 Mar 2010 - 09:18
Hardware
Has anyone noticed how few 512ke's have been on ebay lately? There's been more 1984 Macintosh 128k's than 512ke's and there's been plenty of 512k's.
· 28 posts · started 17 Mar 2010 - 17:13 · last 25 Mar 2010 - 18:34
Software
All right, so I thought that the 2 GB HD in the Power Mac 8100/80 was toast, but it turned out that the System Folder had gotten unblessed for some reason. I bo…
· 10 posts · started 7 Mar 2010 - 18:37 · last 25 Mar 2010 - 17:37
Troubleshooting
I had my Q700 in the IIvx case open recently and my hand brushed the metal case and I got shocked. i thought it was a static discharge, but when I touched it ag…
· 18 posts · started 22 Mar 2010 - 02:21 · last 25 Mar 2010 - 15:39
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