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Two days ago when I was scanning the local auction website I found a Macintosh Classic I paid HK$250 (about US$33) and grabbed this little Mac home. It was havi…
· 9 posts · started 2 Feb 2009 - 08:25 · last 24 Feb 2009 - 04:15
OS 9
Hi guys. With all the talk about archiving old VHS tapes, I decided to set up a machine dedicated to this task. I chose my beige G3 MT, because I have the perso…
· 8 posts · started 21 Feb 2009 - 13:55 · last 24 Feb 2009 - 01:41
Hardware
I ordered this about a week and a half ago, and it arrived today. It cost $126 shipped, and arrived in astonishingly pristine condition. Like most 1u dual-proc …
· 16 posts · started 9 Feb 2009 - 19:46 · last 24 Feb 2009 - 00:16
68k
My dad scored me a free quadra 700 last week from a company he works with. Came around to turn it on this week and take a look inside. it got a 2GB IBM drive, a…
· 7 posts · started 22 Feb 2009 - 13:02 · last 23 Feb 2009 - 23:30
Peripherals
Well, a friend and I have made a deal with a local charity (Computers for kids, they put together computers for the less fortunate....and children too, apparent…
· 11 posts · started 19 Feb 2009 - 22:16 · last 23 Feb 2009 - 22:30
68k
Years ago I scored 2 LC3's on freecyle. One worked fine and still works fine to this day, the other worked for about 15 minutes making noise from the speaker (w…
· 4 posts · started 13 Feb 2009 - 05:29 · last 23 Feb 2009 - 21:12
Hardware
I had an instructor bring me a Powerbook G4 that won't power up. I tried resetting the PMU and taking the battery out, as well as re-seating the RAM. The charge…
· 10 posts · started 12 Feb 2009 - 16:16 · last 23 Feb 2009 - 15:08
Troubleshooting
Hello, I would like to add a zip drive to my mac classic. What kind of driver do I need to do that and does it require a specific OS version in order to recogni…
· 19 posts · started 19 Dec 2008 - 20:10 · last 23 Feb 2009 - 04:21
68k
} Woot! Picked it up off of ebay, has numerous small problems, hope to have it working like new shortly. I'll post pictures when it arrives. -Patrick Also score…
· 3 posts · started 22 Feb 2009 - 23:25 · last 23 Feb 2009 - 03:34
68k
Well, since we have custom BBCode abilities on the forums, I thought I'd test it by adding some shortcuts to the MLA Wiki. You should be able to link to any pag…
· 5 posts · started 17 Feb 2009 - 19:45 · last 22 Feb 2009 - 18:21
PowerPC
I am running OS X on my PB G3 Lombard and it needs a G4. I know there are upgrades for it out there, but I can't find one for the life of me that wouldn't requi…
· 2 posts · started 18 Feb 2009 - 23:42 · last 22 Feb 2009 - 18:18
OS 9
Hello everyone from a noob I currently don't have any 68K Mac hardware, though my first computer was an LC and I am looking to get some stuff (like maybe a Quad…
· 15 posts · started 16 Feb 2009 - 20:17 · last 22 Feb 2009 - 17:37
Peripherals
I got an Ultra 10 for 50$. Has 512mb RAM,333mhz UltraSPARC IIi,Sun Creator3d Card,4 Port Ethernet card,9gb 7200rpm HD, and a "Sun OS 5.10". Comes with the keybo…
· 3 posts · started 20 Feb 2009 - 01:28 · last 22 Feb 2009 - 16:55
Hardware
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/5104/photoaw9.jpg This picture does not do justice to the injustice these Macs have received. We will be parting basically all …
· 34 posts · started 14 Feb 2009 - 04:06 · last 22 Feb 2009 - 01:54
Peripherals
I know it's not Mac, but I found an absolutely killer lot of Tandy stuff, mislisted on ebay. A Tandy 200, with literally everything you could want. Previously o…
· 3 posts · started 21 Feb 2009 - 05:38 · last 22 Feb 2009 - 01:42
Networking
I am not sure whether I wanted to post this under retro-challenged, but my PowerBook 540c Webserver is now HTML 1.1 Compliant (I think) which means, NO CSS, no …
· 5 posts · started 21 Feb 2009 - 12:29 · last 21 Feb 2009 - 22:40
Hardware
For once, the overused eBay buzzword "RARE!!!ZOMGLOLBBQ!!!1101!!" is totally justified. And the price, though high, has some level of realism, considering. Appl…
· 8 posts · started 14 Jan 2009 - 12:02 · last 21 Feb 2009 - 17:57
Hardware
Since the battery for my PowerBook 230 Duo wouldn't hold a charge, I decided to take it apart. Now I'm staring at 10 NiMH cells that I need to replace. Unfortun…
· 11 posts · started 14 Feb 2009 - 10:51 · last 21 Feb 2009 - 17:27
Hardware
I just need something that I can use at school, without worrying about it getting damaged or anything like that. I was thinking along the lines of a 3400C, or e…
· 13 posts · started 16 Feb 2009 - 00:09 · last 21 Feb 2009 - 16:42
Troubleshooting
So I finally got a nice collection of Macintosh Type 1 fonts for use on my future 68K "Productivity Box" and I just realized: 68K-compatable versions Adobe Type…
· 10 posts · started 19 Feb 2009 - 17:25 · last 21 Feb 2009 - 15:18
Software
Got at a local market last saturday. VGC, with cradle and leather carry case. The price seemed right to me, $50 (not a conquest, but…) I'm happy with it, anyway…
· 3 posts · started 21 Feb 2009 - 00:26 · last 21 Feb 2009 - 14:43
Hardware
I'm having trouble with one of my SE/30's. The SE/30 is booting from its internal hard disk, it loads all the extensions and control panels. Then displays the m…
· 12 posts · started 9 Feb 2009 - 20:24 · last 21 Feb 2009 - 08:25
General
For those of you retro challenge folk who don't frequent the RetroBBS, it is going down this weekend and will not be coming back. At least it won't be coming ba…
· 1 posts · started 21 Feb 2009 - 05:00 · last 21 Feb 2009 - 05:00
Peripherals
All: I have a Mac 512K that, at some point in its life, received the 800K drive upgrade (including the 128K ROM upgrade).I'm going to get my hands on a 400K flo…
· 2 posts · started 20 Feb 2009 - 22:23 · last 21 Feb 2009 - 04:26
Hardware
I have a PowerBook 170 and am hoping to take it to a conference in March. I don't have a working battery but am looking to either buy one or find the means to r…
· 3 posts · started 20 Feb 2009 - 03:39 · last 20 Feb 2009 - 23:37
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