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Just got home with a nice conquest: Mac 128K complete with keyboard, mouse, external FD, original disks and manuals. Working well. Imagewriter. Not yet tested. …
· 4 posts · started 31 Jan 2009 - 02:51 · last 31 Jan 2009 - 19:03
Software
I noticed this earlier this week. If i read a thread, and click the link to return to the forum section, it doesn't mark the thread as "read". The only way to g…
· 1 posts · started 31 Jan 2009 - 18:31 · last 31 Jan 2009 - 18:31
Peripherals
Completely unnecessary and expensive at $40, but I didn't have one and it's got SuperDrive screen printed on the front. Yay!
· 11 posts · started 24 Jan 2009 - 11:10 · last 31 Jan 2009 - 18:05
Development
So I was ResEditing (from Mini vMac - compiled for mac 128k) the Mac 128k Guided Tour disk in hopes of creating a normal system 0.85 startup disk, and while edi…
· 10 posts · started 30 Jan 2009 - 03:10 · last 31 Jan 2009 - 03:27
68k
I know I've seen this posted here before, but many searches couldn't find it. I seem to remember a post about setting up another computer as a sort of email rel…
· 1 posts · started 31 Jan 2009 - 02:56 · last 31 Jan 2009 - 02:56
Peripherals
SE
I got an SE today through a Kijiji ad. It is the M5011 version. Came with a Imagewriter II. It may have a HD issue - the red light stays on and I hear nothing f…
· 13 posts · started 28 Jan 2009 - 03:02 · last 31 Jan 2009 - 00:37
Networking
And yes, I finally did it. Full brosing on my Apple IIgs. No, I'm not using Contiki, I am cheating a bit. I'm using Lynx (actually Links) inside of a Unix shell…
· 5 posts · started 15 Jan 2009 - 18:48 · last 30 Jan 2009 - 22:43
Software
So I booted up my Quadra 840av for the first time since I got it years ago. Big time mac collector shipped it to me along with a bunch of WGS 6150's and other p…
· 6 posts · started 30 Jan 2009 - 06:20 · last 30 Jan 2009 - 21:26
Troubleshooting
Hey guys, I have a Mac Classic B&W from 91 that used to work great, but now, it will chime and startup to grey screen with mouse, say welcome to Mac, Th…
· 18 posts · started 15 Dec 2008 - 23:09 · last 30 Jan 2009 - 20:57
General
Most of us know that when the "Macintosh 512K" was released the original "Macintosh" was retroactively labeled "Macintosh 128K". The most oft attributed date fo…
· 1 posts · started 30 Jan 2009 - 18:12 · last 30 Jan 2009 - 18:12
Hardware
How do you charge this thing if the main battery is dead? Remove it and plug it into the wall?
· 7 posts · started 22 Jan 2009 - 18:29 · last 30 Jan 2009 - 17:27
Software
Though this might interest some people....it's basically how virtual memory was first implemented on the early macs. US Patent 5063499
· 2 posts · started 29 Jan 2009 - 18:55 · last 29 Jan 2009 - 19:24
Hardware
I am thinking more and more about the possible solutions for my LC problems. I swapped the power supply yet the video problems that returned last week persist. …
· 9 posts · started 29 Jan 2009 - 02:09 · last 29 Jan 2009 - 13:43
Hardware
Now that I have my 475 up and running I have a question or two about its RAM use... About this Macintosh states that the system is using 30MB of the 36MB instal…
· 4 posts · started 29 Jan 2009 - 06:45 · last 29 Jan 2009 - 07:19
Troubleshooting
Installing Tiger on Beige G3 w/SuperDrive and XPostFacto This is mostly for the benefit of Google searchers and anyone here trying to install Tiger on a Beige G…
· 3 posts · started 23 Jan 2009 - 16:24 · last 29 Jan 2009 - 03:58
Software
I was at the local thriftshop where my mom volunteers at looking for keyboards (my last PS2 one broke a pin in the plug) and I found two keyboards and powercord…
· 16 posts · started 23 Jan 2009 - 20:01 · last 29 Jan 2009 - 00:34
Hardware
WHY WHY WHY Well now the Q800 Death chimes. The Mint well kept Q800, is acting stupid. Lobo out of the case- proper bong Lobo in the case- Death chimes grrrr I …
· 8 posts · started 24 Jan 2009 - 19:18 · last 28 Jan 2009 - 21:14
Hardware
We all know Apple offered official upgrade kits for the original 128K Macintosh to 512K as well as 128K/512K/e to Plus upgrades, which involved swapping logic b…
· 8 posts · started 27 Nov 2008 - 18:24 · last 28 Jan 2009 - 21:08
PowerPC
I have been wondering what is faster, IE or Netscape.
· 10 posts · started 17 Jan 2009 - 00:11 · last 28 Jan 2009 - 21:06
Software
Noob topic: I recently acquired a Color Classic that came to me with 7.6.1 preinstalled. Obviously, the little CC doesn't have enough punch to fight that battle…
· 11 posts · started 19 Jan 2009 - 04:12 · last 28 Jan 2009 - 20:49
Hardware
Is it possible to hook up an IDE drive to an SE/30 via IDE-SCSI adapter card? Could the drive be used as a boot drive for system 7? What about system 6? Thanks …
· 9 posts · started 24 Jan 2009 - 18:33 · last 28 Jan 2009 - 18:45
68k
The same seller who markets the power monster scsi-cf cards for powerbooks appears to have come up with something special for the SE/30: http://cgi.ebay.ca/Stra…
· 6 posts · started 26 Jan 2009 - 14:26 · last 28 Jan 2009 - 12:12
Software
Does anyone here have experience of installing an ide-cf adapter in a powerbook? Is it worth the time & trouble?
· 10 posts · started 7 Feb 2008 - 23:08 · last 28 Jan 2009 - 10:06
Software
Hi: I just posted instructions with lots of pics on how to install a CF Card as an internal hard drive - with the appropriate adapter - into the PowerBook 5300c…
· 8 posts · started 14 Sep 2008 - 05:28 · last 28 Jan 2009 - 09:23
Troubleshooting
Just in time for Christmas, this 5300 PowerBook never opened, brand new sealed in box. Now you too can experience first hand the cracked cases, broken AC connec…
· 15 posts · started 21 Dec 2008 - 19:08 · last 28 Jan 2009 - 09:17
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