So, I went to start up my Macintosh Plus for the first time in a while and the system itself was fine. However, when I went to use the mouse I could only move t…
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This is driving me nuts. I have three PCI cards for encoding video, and none of the have ever, ever worked right for me. Currently I have a VCR on loan and have…
Saleae just sent me a Logic Pro 8 logic analyzer. I guess they're trying to raise awareness in the hobbyist/hacker community by sending free hardware to blogger…
I have a color pivot monitor model 0356. The focus appears to be off. If I turn the brightness and contrast down, the focus seems to improve, but they are too d…
I had a good day today, the same person that had the free Classic brought me an SE/30 today, free again! I also got the stuff I traded with another member here …
I went to my friend's home the other day to pick up a SCSI 68 to 80 adapter he found for me. He then said if I wanted his PM 7300/200 I could have it for free. …
I just picked up this 512k off ebay. Before this the oldest mac I had was a Quicksilver so I am quite new to the pre OS X macs. { "lightbox_close": "Close", "li…
The flash tool program that I developed for the Mac Plus ROM adapter doesn't work under System 3.2 - it bombs with error ID = 12, which seems to mean I called a…
My firend picked up a lot of old Macs that were sitting in a basement for last 10 years. Mostly from the 1991-98 era, including two Power Macs 6100. I fired the…
Happy New Year! I got my hands on a lot of old computer gear recently. None of it is that interesting on the Mac side of thing (some interesting Amiga pieces...…
I recently managed to get my Mac SE on the net using a DaynaPORT pocket SCSI/Link. I have been having trouble getting any of the really OLD browsers to go to an…
I'm comparing the specs and these machines looks almost identical, minus the CPUs that they use. The system bus speed is the same, it has the same amount of PCI…
I'm ready to switch out the 68LC040 33mhz chip in my Mystic CC mobo for a 68040. There seem to be a few 25mhz chips on ebay but I can't find a 33mhz or 40mhz fo…
Hello Guys, I have a Macintosh Performa 200, it has a good power supply, Hard drive, CRT.. everything is okay with it except the logic board. The logic board ha…
Hello, I have an LCII that I recently re-capped and acquired a DaynaPORT LC II ethernet card for. I installed the card and it successfully passes the diagnostic…
I read somewhere that the restore/recovery CDs that you got when buying a system back then were pretty much machine-specific. What would the real difference be …
Hello I am thinking of bidding on a Performa 200 whose symptom is a solid white screen. Has anyone here come across this issue and is this enough to place a gue…
Hey, So i have stuffit light install on my se from a .sea file. but this verson of stuffit and the few others i've managed to find don't see the .sit files I ha…
This was an interesting one. When it arrived years back, it had a slight issue with a flickering image that'd drop the green out from time to time. I stored it …
Hello My powermac G4 Quicksilver has a patterned ticking noise that appears to emit from the power supply even when the machine is switched off. Does anyone hav…
I have a Sonnet SATA card in a 9600 along with an SSD from OWC. In a real world test, I got about 10MB/sec transfer rate going from one directory on the SSD int…
My first new/old Mac in years! Ended up paying too much ($55) but it was local, and has the rear door (though on second glance, the latch seems to be missing--o…
I have a null modeom comeing from ebay, I'd like to conect my macintosh'es Mac serial to DB9, to the Null,. then to my IBM server. I'd ecentialy like the IBM se…
Hi, I was hoping someone with an iMac G3 could tell me if running the display at 640x480 produces a blurry image. I think the native res is 800x600 but 640x480 …
Hello all. I have a mac plus with a unidentified upgrade board(68030,FPU and RAM) that I recent got from someone who was moving. When I turn it on it gets the s…