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[ To achieve a more widespread response, this post has been duplicated at archlinux.org (my distribution's forum). ] As a sort of toy to play with in recognitio…
· 23 posts · started 18 Dec 2008 - 16:55 · last 13 May 2009 - 20:48
Hardware
I finally have a conquest worthy of mentioning! I recently acquired an SE/30. Turns out the battery is all corroded and damaged the motherboard, and the hard dr…
· 8 posts · started 10 May 2009 - 20:20 · last 13 May 2009 - 19:24
Hardware
Hi, I picked up an "as is" Powerbook 1400cs/166 from eBay for ~ $25 BIN, untested. It arrived tonight with the specs of stock 16MB RAM/1.3GB HD, floppy drive, a…
· 9 posts · started 13 May 2009 - 12:03 · last 13 May 2009 - 16:44
Hardware
I just got back from picking up a couple of Newton batteries from a fellow on Craigslist. One is a OMP battery(?) AND wall charger (Apple branded, part number H…
· 2 posts · started 13 May 2009 - 02:47 · last 13 May 2009 - 04:13
PowerPC
So I am curious. My 8500 has served me well (Thanks Orion!), but I've always wanted to toy with a dual 604e or 604ev card. Will the 8500 accept such a card and …
· 9 posts · started 10 May 2009 - 09:44 · last 13 May 2009 - 02:51
Hardware
Hi, The time is almost here to get my Macintosh 512k working again. Pretty soon I'll be able to afford a replacement analog board for it. But I have several que…
· 5 posts · started 11 May 2009 - 22:39 · last 13 May 2009 - 01:08
Software
So I am the clever and relative user of this forum Software, the torrents & LinkLists are not tolerated. You should find them yourself, taking your hand…
· 5 posts · started 12 May 2009 - 04:29 · last 12 May 2009 - 16:12
Hardware
So the title pretty much explains it all. Sometimes when I insert a disk into the PowerBook 180, the Mac restarts! Seems okay when it does, and it only happens …
· 4 posts · started 11 May 2009 - 02:44 · last 12 May 2009 - 07:51
Software
Hello. Can you find the System 7.5.2 disk images for Power Macintosh 7300 and 8500 for download? I've see the article in Apple System Software Recovery CD 1 dat…
· 16 posts · started 6 May 2009 - 02:51 · last 11 May 2009 - 23:45
Troubleshooting
I was on my iBook G4 tonight, when the machine froze up. I thought it was due to having a lot of tabs open in FireFox. I did the Command-Option-Escape command, …
· 43 posts · started 30 Dec 2008 - 05:28 · last 11 May 2009 - 17:28
Peripherals
Are the av cards (TV mostly) for the 6500 etc. compatible with those for the LC630 etc.?
· 5 posts · started 11 May 2009 - 02:22 · last 11 May 2009 - 06:19
Development
OK... I have successfully compiled every varriation of Mini vMac, plus hacked the source code to create a "Mini vMac '128Ke'" on *cough, cough* Windows, but whe…
· 4 posts · started 30 Apr 2009 - 19:48 · last 11 May 2009 - 06:16
Hardware
Hi all, My most recent conquest was an eBay gem: PowerBook 500 with PowerPC for $35, "untested." It didn't have an AC adapter or a battery. So I bought another …
· 8 posts · started 10 May 2009 - 18:08 · last 10 May 2009 - 23:53
Development
Hi, I saw a post about recelling a 500 series intelligent battery and it got me wondering if anyone has had any luck with recelling a Duo's NIMH battery. I love…
· 7 posts · started 9 May 2009 - 07:13 · last 10 May 2009 - 23:31
Hardware
QuickSilver G4 Board A much needed replacement. the other one was acting up. And because I was stupid: 933MHz G4 CPU (OC'd from 733Mhz) I tried to push my G4 up…
· 15 posts · started 4 May 2009 - 19:29 · last 10 May 2009 - 23:01
Hardware
Recently acquired a IIci, and it appears to work quite well, but there is one problem that is really annoying me. When I choose to Shutdown, the dialog saying "…
· 9 posts · started 5 May 2009 - 07:51 · last 10 May 2009 - 15:29
Networking
First, my apologies for the use of the word "simultaneous" without the morpheme "-ly", as is expected in the prescriptive grammar of Standard English. I ran out…
· 9 posts · started 8 May 2009 - 02:31 · last 10 May 2009 - 11:51
Hardware
Ok, so if you read my buildup thread, you know that I have a 300 MHZ beige G3 minitower that I'm trying to install tiger on. It has 768 MB ram, rev. c ROM (reco…
· 10 posts · started 30 Mar 2009 - 19:14 · last 10 May 2009 - 11:27
Troubleshooting
Following the protracted switch between service providers the RetroBBS is now back online, hopefully without any significant interruption from now on. Mark
· 8 posts · started 9 May 2009 - 00:22 · last 10 May 2009 - 10:22
Hardware
I had a bad hd and replaced it 2 weeks ago bad sectors. now it has stopped starting up 1 it chimes 2 i get a gray screen no pin wheel 3 nothing happens. i have …
· 5 posts · started 3 May 2009 - 14:26 · last 10 May 2009 - 09:46
Software
Here's one for the conquest books... THREE brand new, sealed, shrinkwrapped, never-before-been-used copies of Word 5.1. These three are getting installed on my …
· 17 posts · started 8 May 2009 - 02:08 · last 10 May 2009 - 09:26
OS 9
I've got spss 4.0 and haven't had any luck finding manuals. I was wondering if anyone has a scanned manual, or even SPSS 10 (which works pretty much as SPSS 13 …
· 2 posts · started 7 May 2009 - 18:04 · last 9 May 2009 - 14:53
Hardware
Mr Power Macintosh 8500 has stopped functioning properly. While I was using Photoshop 6, the screen froze, and I was forced to press the shut down button to tur…
· 19 posts · started 20 Mar 2009 - 14:57 · last 9 May 2009 - 05:46
Peripherals
Hi, I'm culling some of my collection, and have been contemplating whether or not to get rid of my Iomega Jaz 1GB drive and about five 1GB discs. I recall it wa…
· 17 posts · started 15 Mar 2009 - 11:48 · last 8 May 2009 - 20:20
Peripherals
Please forgive my SCSI ignorance here. It seems that I've maxed out the tiny 2 GB hard drive in my Power Mac 9500. I do have an external USB drive, that only wo…
· 12 posts · started 27 Mar 2009 - 02:20 · last 7 May 2009 - 23:08
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