In your opinions, is it really worth shelling out $200 to bump my 1400 to a G3/400?

Today I checked the mail on the way home from school and happy to see that my battery arrived. Brought it home and opened it up. It is a 7800 mAh battery, a lit…

Well, in my Quadra 800, my rasterops card goes loose in its socket if touched at all by the monitor wire. Thus a crash and death chimes on boot. So I have to: O…

Picked up a 16MB RAM card for $35 shipped and (i paid the extra $5 to go from 8 to 16) and an AAUI->RJ-45 Adapter for $10 shipped. I know people may thin…

is there any way add os 9 permissions after os x is already installed? or can i add a partition after the drive is formatted?

I have an Apple IIc, and a power supply is on the way. Now all I need is a composite video cable in order to hook it up to my TV. Just wondering...does it have …

Okay, here's the official announcement: we're on for January '09 retrochallenge.net/2009/winter/ Good Luck!

The screen keeps flickering a brown hue and colors are off. :-/ halp? :O

Hi, Before I go ripping things apart, I was keen to see if anyone had tried the same. I've a Powerbook 170 - my favourite 68K portable, which suffers from bad "…

Hi - new to this, so please bear with me! I have an SE/30 running A/UX 3.02 and associated 7.0.1 finder. All working fine. I'd like to get this networked, but I…

I got two DVD-ROM drives yesterday for about $4. I'm hoping one of them will let me get my Beige G3 up and running again since it doesn't like any of the loose …

I decided to build a budget performance desktop based on some parts from my brothers old Dell computer(used to be a 2.4ghz celeron). I had a Dell case, 2 disc d…

Hi all, I've been a vintage apple guy for a very long time, but I never was interested in posting stuff about them. Its been a while since I've worked on any of…

Hello I have an original Macpaint disk. I acquired it but it does not seem to be recognized in my 512k or plus or SE machines. I have cleaned the disk drives so…

Hi, I remember reading somewhere that the ADB port was introduced a while after the first Macintosh. Sure enough, upon seeing the pictures of the back of a Mac …

I love this picture. Now that's a 128K Mac that's actually worth something! The signature looks fantastic like that. Makes me wonder why we haven't seen a Steve…

My Beige G3 seems to suspend itself, I've tried to tell it not to. But to wake it what am I supposed to press? Power key on keyboard does nothing and power key …

Hi, My first post, this is a great forum with a vast amount of information I recently bought a SE/30 on eBay and I'm working on restoring it to it's original co…

Hi! I am new here, and I thought I would do a poll. What is your favorite version of system 7?

Hello! I and another individual are starting a classic Mac software archive with a focus on 68K. Much of the software will be things that I grew up using. Howev…

and my first ever computer. My mac 128k's power supply shorted for reasons unknown. i am very sad since this computer had a lot of sentimental value to me AND m…

Hi folks, Has anyone ever seen a ROM/FPU expansion board for the Classic II? I'm not convinced that anyone ever bothered to take up Apple's offer of developing …

...and here's what I found -two Apple II clone systems -two CP/M cards for Apple II -alchemy 200mhz board (future color classic upgrade i think) -tons of hard d…

Hi, does anyone have an older version of Apple's Macintosh Programmer's Workshop - I want to be able to run it within System 6 under Mini vMac, and the version …

I recently purchased a Mac Classic II from ebay. At first, the computer did not boot with no startup or death chimes and no video. After washing the logic board…