Well I have a Performa 475 here, got this one from jt. First time I flipped the switch I get a somewhat slow death chime. If I turn it off an on quick I get a h…
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So, my good ol' temperamental Classic is at it again. After the time of success of booting from the ROM (hard drive is still dead and unconnected) to be able to…
Hey guys I am going to try and explain this as simply as I can, sort of confusing. I have a bunch of old games for Macintosh, however most of the disks are corr…
When I have a crash on my system 7, I can notice "Rescued Items" in the trash. I was just wondering if those files represent the state of the RAM before the cra…
I was working on an LC II board I was selling, and fired it up one more time before putting it in a box. Nothing, just a blank screen, not even the chime, it mu…
I made a System 1.0 boot disk from a PowerBook 170 using a high density 1.44mb floppy diskette. It boots and works fine on my Macintosh 128k using an external A…
Hello all... After 28 years, I managed to get my original Mac 512Ke back from a friend (who kep it in my home country after I moved). For a quick laugh, see her…
I did something stupid You know the type of fly back transformers that don't have the bleeder resistor? That caused a big problem for a motherboard that was wor…
I finally had some time to work on the Performa 6115CD that I got from Dog Cow for the price of driving about 75 miles, round trip. I have a few other extras (c…
I replaced the Mac Plus default power-up "beep" with a harp strumming sound. Fun times. Using the current method, any sampled sound of 0.66 seconds duration cou…
Data Desk is a tool for Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA). First released in 1986, it is one of the oldest Macintosh programs still actively developed and sold. I…
As Supertramp said: "Dreamer... you know you are a dreamer"... Who knows... maybe there is still a copy of the holy disk somewhere?
I just won a Power Mac 7500/100 with a Sonnet Crescendo 500MHz G3 card. Comes with keyboard, mouse, mousepad, and extra RAM. Also has original box for G3 upgrad…
I had finally gotten my old Mac 512Ke together after a mildly successful floppy reapir, and after about 1 hour of use it started going crackle crackle and then …
Hey Guys, This video playing on the Macintosh 128K is just fascinating, Any of you know how i can get hold of a copy of this video.. this video is played from t…
We all know the Color Classic II is rare, but I can't seem to find ANY photos of a Performa 250!! Does anyone have one? Do they even exist??
I've got a nice 2100 thats been kind of borked up since I got it. The unit powers on and brings you to the screen calibration screen. The screen responds to the…
As per the topic title, I fired up my Powerbook 1400c for the first time in a few months and discovered that the mouse button now longer wanted to work. Trackpa…
The floppy drive in my newly-acquired IIci had some dust bunnies spilling out the front slot. I opened it up, and found this: View attachment 4996 :O xx( :scram…
While taking apart a G3 Desktop I realized it uses an interesting sound board which I thought I would share here.(personally I find the modular nature of this b…
I just picked up a IIci system, my first acquisition in a while. According to the previous owner, it was working as of about two years ago. When I power it up n…
A while ago I replaced my G4's CD-ROM with a DVD-ROM. After the change the Mac would no loner boot from the DVD drive, even though it came from another blue G4.…
I am thinking of buying a quadra in the indirect future. I have a performa 6116, imac g3, powermac g4 mdd and powerbook 540c but i would like to have a motorola…
Yeah, I know. Its been awhile... Anyways, my current "collection" of PRAM batteries pulled from other machines is starting to die on me left and right. For some…