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Hey, I bought a Macintosh SE at the weekend and was so excited for it to arrive. When it eventually did arrive i turned it on to be welcomed with an electricity…
· 25 posts · started 14 Oct 2009 - 20:01 · last 24 Oct 2009 - 10:25
Hardware
Picked up a Free Powerbook 3400 that the guy considered non Functional. I turned it on with another power adapter and it booted after holding down the PRAM rese…
· 7 posts · started 22 Oct 2009 - 01:49 · last 24 Oct 2009 - 07:32
PowerPC
These are many of my conquests since i started collection macs /repairing computers about 2 years ago: >iMac DV+, my first mac (now my friend's first mac…
· 1 posts · started 24 Oct 2009 - 02:58 · last 24 Oct 2009 - 02:58
Hardware
I have the motherboard for a bondi blue 233 MHz iMac. I remember that this Mac cannot use a drive bigger than 6 GB for a start up disk. I remember trying to par…
· 2 posts · started 23 Oct 2009 - 20:19 · last 24 Oct 2009 - 01:01
Hardware
Had some good luck with free conquests recently: Power Mac G4/450DP 2X Snow iMac/600's Beige G3/233 AIO Beige G3/233 DT PB 3400c 3X Duo 280c's IIci 5X SE's Appl…
· 7 posts · started 23 Oct 2009 - 03:19 · last 23 Oct 2009 - 20:29
Hardware
This is sort of interesting.... The write-up gets the nomenclature wrong, as there never was a 604e that ran at 300Mhz; that distinction belongs to the 604ev, w…
· 6 posts · started 21 Oct 2009 - 00:38 · last 23 Oct 2009 - 20:17
Software
Does anyone happen to have a copy of the TapGuard 1 or TapGuard 2 PowerBook utility, which is meant to keep a cursor from jumping around due to accidental conta…
· 4 posts · started 22 Oct 2009 - 03:43 · last 23 Oct 2009 - 14:30
Software
Saw this thread in the archives: archive/topic.asp.TOPIC_ID=5781.html and it mentions "QuickTake Drop"... but the links are now dead. I have some old images fro…
· 13 posts · started 5 Oct 2009 - 20:00 · last 22 Oct 2009 - 15:41
Hardware
. . . for $4.99 “as is” and it “is as” good as working! Not only that, but when I had to switch the “stock” Video Card outta the Quicksilver 2002 to test this f…
· 3 posts · started 21 Oct 2009 - 04:07 · last 22 Oct 2009 - 05:32
Hardware
I have recently acquired an Apple Macintosh IIx which does not power on. No chimes, No nothing. I have replaced the power supply and both batteries but still no…
· 18 posts · started 12 Oct 2009 - 17:14 · last 21 Oct 2009 - 18:45
68k
I just scored (for free) one LC 475, two Quadra 630s, two Quadra 650s, and a Beige G3 MT. I haven't been able to look them over too carefully yet (have to lay l…
· 5 posts · started 21 Oct 2009 - 00:39 · last 21 Oct 2009 - 02:00
PowerPC
Scored a working iMac G5 from my employer, but need to recap the power supply and motherboard before I dare to use it much. Got several others which aren't powe…
· 7 posts · started 18 Oct 2009 - 22:43 · last 21 Oct 2009 - 00:22
68k
Hi folks! New to the forum but I've been around Macs since the 128. I still have several vintage Macs in running order and a few that aren't. Included in the co…
· 6 posts · started 20 Oct 2009 - 05:13 · last 20 Oct 2009 - 22:58
Software
I naively thought that StuffIt would unstuff StuffIt files. I need to access the files in a .sitx file and StuffIt 5.5 doesn't recognize it as a valid archive. …
· 13 posts · started 13 Oct 2009 - 19:58 · last 20 Oct 2009 - 13:51
68k
hi, I'm a PC. I used to be a Mac though. I grew up with Macs. my dad owned an SE and had internet access since basically I was born (if you can really call late…
· 3 posts · started 19 Oct 2009 - 10:22 · last 20 Oct 2009 - 08:14
Software
Hi everyone, this is my first post in this forum. I am planning to buy a Macintosh Classic for MIDI purposes in a few days :b&w:. But I need someone to …
· 13 posts · started 15 Oct 2008 - 18:32 · last 20 Oct 2009 - 00:42
Hardware
I'm looking to put together a '040 machine with an Apple IIe card. From what I know, I think I want to find a Quadra 605, put a real '040 in it, and overclock i…
· 18 posts · started 14 Oct 2009 - 17:57 · last 19 Oct 2009 - 22:56
Software
I bought times ago a original Photoshop 1 on diskettes (main app is on one 800k I think), the problem is that the previous owner run it directly from diskette, …
· 4 posts · started 2 Oct 2009 - 07:26 · last 19 Oct 2009 - 07:14
68k
This week I finished off my first reel of 500 47uF tantalum capacitors. Woohoo. I haven't been keeping records so I'm not sure exactly how many old Mac logic bo…
· 11 posts · started 25 Sep 2009 - 23:42 · last 19 Oct 2009 - 05:31
Software
Has the forum's software been upgraded? I noticed a new search bar at the top of a thread to search, and when I recieved a PM from a member a small pop up windo…
· 12 posts · started 17 Oct 2009 - 04:04 · last 19 Oct 2009 - 04:23
Software
Can a hard drive be successfully "cloned" using Disk Copy in MacOS 7-9 in much the same way that a drive can be cloned using Disk Utility in X?
· 4 posts · started 18 Oct 2009 - 05:27 · last 18 Oct 2009 - 21:05
Development
How can you convert JPG or PNG to MacPaint files? GraphicConverter doesn't have MacPaint export as a option, though it says on the website that it will work.
· 7 posts · started 6 Oct 2009 - 01:43 · last 18 Oct 2009 - 01:12
Peripherals
Found this at a salvation army today, had no sticker on it so the guy said I could have it for $3.50. Came with two manuals and a somewhat dry but still decent …
· 7 posts · started 17 Oct 2009 - 21:10 · last 17 Oct 2009 - 22:10
Games
It has confounded me for a while that I somehow have managed to not acquire an Apple IIe for my retro-computing collection, but that problem has now been solved…
· 2 posts · started 17 Oct 2009 - 17:31 · last 17 Oct 2009 - 21:16
Peripherals
I picked up a ColorSync 17 monitor the other day for AU$10. Working perfectly. I'm just wondering though, why has mine got no ADB connection? It's got ADB ports…
· 8 posts · started 29 Sep 2009 - 12:21 · last 17 Oct 2009 - 02:02
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