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I used to have all these 5.25" Apple II educational games. They were made by a company called SVE. They had a red label. The most notable ones included the loll…
· 4 posts · started 12 Sep 2008 - 18:24 · last 14 Sep 2008 - 01:34
Hardware
Hi, I just went out today and got a long shaft Torx-15 screwdriver. It's long enough for the screws in the recess, so it should take care of all 4 screws. I wan…
· 6 posts · started 13 Sep 2008 - 19:12 · last 13 Sep 2008 - 23:39
PowerPC
I CAN NOT believe the haul I made today. There was free computer recycling going on in my city for 2 days, and on the second day (today), I went down there and …
· 18 posts · started 8 Sep 2008 - 04:18 · last 13 Sep 2008 - 23:20
Troubleshooting
I received a MacBook to repair from a customer. Being a used laptop, it had the password from the previous owner still on the unit. So far I have tried going in…
· 2 posts · started 13 Sep 2008 - 20:46 · last 13 Sep 2008 - 22:24
OS 8
My old high school was getting rid of some machines, so I went and picked a few up... I got 500mhz G4 Sawtooth and two iBook 366mhz Clamshells, graphite yey
· 8 posts · started 11 Sep 2008 - 02:21 · last 13 Sep 2008 - 16:36
PowerPC
400mhz Power Mac G4 Gigabit Ethernet. Just had a logic board replacement and needs the operating system reinstalled. It won't boot from CD though. Disc in, ever…
· 2 posts · started 13 Sep 2008 - 07:27 · last 13 Sep 2008 - 07:48
Troubleshooting
Well, I've found issue number two; the pismo seems to be fine with DVDs, but it refuses to do anything with CDs, kinda obliterating my hopes of Jaguar. Has anyb…
· 4 posts · started 13 Sep 2008 - 01:53 · last 13 Sep 2008 - 04:16
General
I've discovered a way to reuse a single instance of hardware specs in multiple places, eliminating wasteful copy-and-paste steps. See the Community Portal talk …
· 1 posts · started 12 Sep 2008 - 22:24 · last 12 Sep 2008 - 22:24
Hardware
So I've already touched on this on the G-Series Powermac forum, but I figured I'd extend it here. A while back techfury90 and I learned that ECU had a surplus s…
· 7 posts · started 12 Sep 2008 - 16:59 · last 12 Sep 2008 - 20:02
Hardware
The video works on my Mac SE, but shadows are cast to the right of objects on the screen and the whole right side of the screen is bowed out a little. Also the …
· 17 posts · started 17 Aug 2008 - 23:46 · last 12 Sep 2008 - 20:01
Troubleshooting
i recently acquired an awesome 128k 1984 macintosh in great condition with keyboard + mouse The unit does not power up however, and i was wondering if this coul…
· 6 posts · started 11 Sep 2008 - 17:38 · last 12 Sep 2008 - 19:54
PowerPC
I pulled out a DVDROM-CDRW drive from a Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 that had it's LCD hit by an elbow. Put it into the Pismo sled, and wamo. It works. I tried a …
· 4 posts · started 12 Sep 2008 - 06:27 · last 12 Sep 2008 - 19:23
Hardware
I just received this powerbook. Bought it as is for parts. I plugged it in with the adapter from another model that fit. I tried it after a couple of hours, and…
· 14 posts · started 11 Sep 2008 - 01:59 · last 12 Sep 2008 - 19:07
PowerPC
While my formerly recycled PowerBook G4/500 is disassembled to JB Weld a broken hinge (it was easy to get the display apart, as most of the old adhesive had sin…
· 2 posts · started 12 Sep 2008 - 18:07 · last 12 Sep 2008 - 19:05
Software
So, today I got a dual 450 gig-e, with a rage128pro in it. I right away hooked it up to my LCD, and started it off an OSX installer, to see that the video was v…
· 8 posts · started 12 Sep 2008 - 05:39 · last 12 Sep 2008 - 18:15
PowerPC
Have a Dual 800 pulled from a QS trying to get fully working 100% in a DA anyone have any other suggestions for getting the L3 cache to work/show up? I have don…
· 1 posts · started 12 Sep 2008 - 17:42 · last 12 Sep 2008 - 17:42
Troubleshooting
first car thats going to be a running project. as far as i know, it's a 65 and i'm picking it up next week!! gonna be a fun project!! ;D ;D
· 17 posts · started 7 Sep 2008 - 01:31 · last 12 Sep 2008 - 17:38
Hardware
Well, fixed the slowness problem, but now when I try to install a new 400mhz g3 upgrade card, I get a bong but no display. Ram is confirmed good, as is video. C…
· 10 posts · started 9 Sep 2008 - 00:38 · last 12 Sep 2008 - 13:48
Troubleshooting
It took up the entire screen beeping with a countdown to meltdown. at max volume I unpluged the quadra and I will nuke over the HD with A/UX. It did this in the…
· 31 posts · started 20 Jul 2008 - 02:58 · last 12 Sep 2008 - 05:09
Software
Hey Guys: This might be old news but I heard about this archive a long time ago (maintained by Apple until 2001) full of "unsupported" System software and other…
· 3 posts · started 11 Aug 2008 - 22:36 · last 12 Sep 2008 - 05:03
68k
Not 68k but I need a download to the Photoshop 6.0 trial version. My friend is giving me his PhotoShop 6.0.1 disk but AFAIK it's windows only, but has a perfect…
· 4 posts · started 11 Sep 2008 - 06:03 · last 12 Sep 2008 - 04:26
Peripherals
Going through the piles of stuff in my office I came across the following: Beige G3 motherboard with 333mhz processor and 4MB video SODIMM, TwinTurbo 128 PCI vi…
· 7 posts · started 8 Sep 2008 - 03:12 · last 11 Sep 2008 - 13:15
Hardware
Will a dead PRAM battery in a Duo 2300c cause a battery in the bay to not be recognized at all? ('X' over battery icon) I've cleaned the contacts, etc. already.…
· 3 posts · started 10 Sep 2008 - 04:14 · last 11 Sep 2008 - 11:35
Hardware
Hello everyone, I bought a Mac SE with the following specifications: 1 Mbyte Ram, 800K drive, 20SC Hard Disk I've used and built only PC's nearly all of my life…
· 6 posts · started 3 Sep 2008 - 08:15 · last 11 Sep 2008 - 10:09
Software
This is all from the b*stard recycler (Scrap Computer). Today someone else was the manager and he was a lot nicer. Three broken eMac 1.25 GHz, $25 each. Capacit…
· 3 posts · started 11 Sep 2008 - 01:28 · last 11 Sep 2008 - 01:57
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