I bought a no-LEDs-light-at-all Pismo battery for $3 today at a flea market. I was planning to use the guts for experimental purposes. However, it is too good t…
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<| Hey guys. I'm a 23 year old computer software aficionado. I'm especially interested in software for older platforms. Not so much the hardware. Before …
I bought a computer from someone and it has foolproof installed. The seller do not know the password. I cant even make it boot from the floppy. I look other inf…
Just an FYI, the link in the post writing window that links to how to use bbcode redirects to the main page of the 68kMLA Wiki that has no mention of bbcode wha…
PM 8500/120 PM 9500/200 National Instuments LC-GPIB with cable pic http://picasaweb.google.ca/r911ster/Oct1108# Pulled from a lc-475
So, about 5 years late, my iMac 333 is finally running Panther! However...there is a slight (big) problem.... The internal 24x notebook CD-ROM drive, well, lets…
Horray! I've always wanted to screw around with one of these. It's a 117mhz, 16mb, but thats a start. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item…
I got a contact from a person I did deals with on craigslist a bit back, and he told me he had a desktop he was trying to get rid of. It was a Dell Dimension 44…
Anybody have any idea what it is? It seems to have the stock CPU and RAM in it.
Sony DVD-+RW 16x, w/ DL Ability @ 6x. It's SATA. Cost me $20USD, plus about $0.60 in gas T'was right around me not bad?
I have acquired an SE that appears to start up fine from its internal HD but that has a black screen. Yes, I have tried the brightness knob. Couple of quick que…
I went to my local dump one day and I saw something that stood out above all the other beige boxes. It was a tray-loading iMac. I thought that it would be cool …
So I had my Power Mac 9500 all ready, and was going to install OS 9 on it. I remembered that I had the Sonnet G3 card in it, and since I was reformatting the dr…
Hi Everyone! I'm new here (in the sense that I've been lurking for years, registered a month ago to PM and now am finally posting), and I just posted a NuBus wi…
Today I got a 512MB PC-133 SDRAM for $30. My old PC really needed more RAM. Works great so far.
I received a Powerbook 2400c in the post yesterday, with the usual symptoms (DOA). There are some people around here with experience of these machines, and I ha…
I came across a pile of emacs. They had been tossed off a truck, I picked up a couple of them as I dumped my stuff off. They are 2005 models with 1.42ghz cpu's.…
If anyone has or uses a Wacom digitizer tablet I could sure use some help. I have not been able to locate any kind of user guide for this thing. I was given a W…
Got an e-mail that the non-profit recycler had more Mac stuff. Power Mac G4 450 MHz Dual w/ nice specs - $40 Had an OF password but I got it cleared. Installing…
friend sent me a link to an external USB 2.0 DL Burner that was $39 Shipped. Cheapest I have seen yet! It's an open-box item, so if anyone is thinking about get…
I got this a few days ago from the recycler. Yesterday it turned on but now it won't Sometimes you see the green light flash on and off quickly, but that's it. …
I'm trying to get Sweet16 up and running. The disks for System 6 have been downloaded but are in SEA format. My B/W G4 has no floppy drives and Sweet16 does not…
Which pretty much means two colour classics. I paid through the nose for them, but that's why I drag my arse to work every day... I plan to harvest my LC 575 bo…
I'm trying to get my Apple 300e external CDROM player to work with my SE running OS 6.0.8 I know the 300e works with OS 7 but the specs tell me it will go back …
Hi I have a couple old macs at home and Im figureing a use for them. I thought of usig them as some kind of unix server, or some light control in room (still ha…