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G'day, Currently I'm recapping my old IIsi mobo after the video stopped working. Here's hoping it's just caps. Anyway, I've got a Daystar 33mhz 040 accel that I…
· 10 posts · started 22 Dec 2014 - 02:51 · last 6 Feb 2015 - 14:20
Peripherals
Hey all, First post for me. I recently dragged out my SE/30 out of the garage. A friend was nice enough to donate it to my growing collection of retro computer.…
· 12 posts · started 2 Feb 2015 - 05:27 · last 6 Feb 2015 - 02:02
Troubleshooting
This thing has been one problem after another. Booted it up today to see this: { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previ…
· 6 posts · started 5 Feb 2015 - 01:01 · last 5 Feb 2015 - 16:29
PowerPC
In my Quest for Towers... I acquired a beige G3 server to compliment my 9600s. I found it through LEM swap for a great deal. G3 Server, 333MHz processor, 512MB …
· 21 posts · started 2 Feb 2015 - 21:29 · last 5 Feb 2015 - 15:04
Troubleshooting
When the disk is inserted, the read heads go straight to the center, stop, then eject the disk. Is this just a disk drive issue or does it go deeper?
· 21 posts · started 24 Jan 2015 - 21:53 · last 4 Feb 2015 - 23:29
Troubleshooting
So I listed my powerbook 140 for sale in the marketplace, and this weekend i thought id test it to make sure it still works. Dead. Got my Fluke 117 Multimeter, …
· 6 posts · started 19 Jan 2015 - 15:21 · last 4 Feb 2015 - 19:45
Peripherals
Does anyone have one of these rebadged Canons from 1993? There seems to be little information on the web about them, and I can't even find a decent picture of o…
· 6 posts · started 4 Feb 2015 - 16:03 · last 4 Feb 2015 - 18:06
Software
I have a HD20 SC that works great when attached to my SE, but will not boot up either one of two Mac Plus machines. The manual says I need the "Hard Disk 20SC I…
· 10 posts · started 4 Feb 2015 - 02:47 · last 4 Feb 2015 - 15:30
Software
This isn't really a peripheral... Many compact Macs came standard with a lock roughly dead-center on the back of the case. The icon next to the slot is of two l…
· 9 posts · started 4 Feb 2015 - 01:38 · last 4 Feb 2015 - 14:18
Networking
Hello everyone, I have a SCSI ethernet box Asanté EN/SC which worked fine for many years but then stopped working suddenly. The symptoms are: no matter which ap…
· 5 posts · started 1 Feb 2015 - 15:55 · last 4 Feb 2015 - 00:42
Hardware
I recently bought an Apple /// (256k model), Monitor ///, Disk /// external drive, manuals, and software. All of the units are cosmetically in amazing condition…
· 7 posts · started 30 Aug 2014 - 04:08 · last 3 Feb 2015 - 14:26
Software
Anyone ever heard of this? I can't find it online. I'd be curious to see my Portfolio interface with a Mac. Let me clarify... this is a Mac application, purport…
· 2 posts · started 2 Feb 2015 - 19:15 · last 2 Feb 2015 - 21:15
Development
a friend sent this to me In seamlessly compiling System 6/7 era software in a modern open source compiler to yield "real" OS X apps. Pretty amazing. The guy ret…
· 5 posts · started 31 Jan 2015 - 03:35 · last 2 Feb 2015 - 17:49
Troubleshooting
Okay... So let's not start with whether the SE can run a version of Unix or Linux (etc). If it had an FPU, maybe I'd be more interested in trying but my origina…
· 10 posts · started 16 Jan 2015 - 04:51 · last 2 Feb 2015 - 17:49
Hardware
Got these in the mail today, $20ish for the lot. Supposedly dead, so going to reference and replace capacitors to see where that takes me. I better keep them in…
· 24 posts · started 9 Jan 2015 - 00:04 · last 2 Feb 2015 - 00:05
Software
Hi, on System 7.1. and 7.5 I cannot choose another partition of my external drive to boot from. I can click on e.g. the 2nd partition/volume in the control pane…
· 10 posts · started 21 Jan 2015 - 22:24 · last 1 Feb 2015 - 20:47
Hardware
Welp, it came to a point where I was without a daily Mac recently after my G5 2.0DP developed those logic board issues, and after percervering for a few days wi…
· 11 posts · started 1 Feb 2015 - 14:12 · last 1 Feb 2015 - 19:35
Troubleshooting
So I'm trying to figure out any sort of method to get information onto my imac without having to buy stuff. I'm a windows person so naturally I just have no ide…
· 14 posts · started 29 Jan 2015 - 22:53 · last 1 Feb 2015 - 18:58
Hardware
Either the shimmering box or a random system error will come up randomly after 10-15 minutes of use. It doesn't matter what version of the system is being used,…
· 3 posts · started 1 Feb 2015 - 05:26 · last 1 Feb 2015 - 10:01
PowerPC
I just acquired a 14" PowerBook G3 233 MHz (Wallstreet) as an alternative to my Beige G3 tower for making floppies for my older Macs. It's a beauty for sure ( p…
· 4 posts · started 31 Jan 2015 - 20:06 · last 31 Jan 2015 - 20:19
68k
I received two PowerBooks G3 for parts. One of them was complete, but not working, the other one was missing some parts, so I made one from two. But I want to g…
· 7 posts · started 1 Jan 2015 - 14:28 · last 30 Jan 2015 - 16:22
Hardware
Have any of you experienced this with MDDs, or maybe other Macs? When I power them off after use, I cannot get them to start again until momentarily unplugging …
· 6 posts · started 1 Jan 2015 - 12:37 · last 30 Jan 2015 - 15:19
Software
Posted this on FB, but not everybody's there so here.. Any software suggestions for imaging / reading Macintosh 3.5" disks (400k, 800k and 1.4Mb) more deeply th…
· 13 posts · started 2 Jan 2015 - 08:56 · last 30 Jan 2015 - 11:45
Networking
Anyone know of a model of inkjet printer with drivers to support a PPC machine running 10.4? I'm guessing by this day and age, one might find one with drivers f…
· 13 posts · started 26 Jan 2015 - 17:21 · last 30 Jan 2015 - 01:27
Software
I have an iBook G3 14'' with ram installed but without hard disk and when I try to boot it makes 3 beeps and then nothing.The previous owner said that it was de…
· 5 posts · started 28 Jan 2015 - 20:03 · last 29 Jan 2015 - 18:04
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