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Browsing ebay late at night before bed can make for some odd acquisitions. Today I got in the original model G5 1.6Ghz in pretty decent condition. Sold for $30 …
· 26 posts · started 18 Sep 2014 - 07:53 · last 8 Oct 2014 - 05:50
Hardware
I posted a message to the LEM Swap list looking for a heatsink for frankenmac. A guy near me said he had one. When I went to pick it up he had three mac's and h…
· 5 posts · started 8 Oct 2014 - 01:39 · last 8 Oct 2014 - 03:47
Hardware
So I got a 40" Dynax (Best Buy?) TV for free, with a note that just says "won't turn on." Opened it up and found that the huge capacitor had literally blown its…
· 19 posts · started 29 Sep 2014 - 17:46 · last 7 Oct 2014 - 18:48
Hardware
Just a few days ago, I was visiting a client and commented on his Bondi iMac when he pulled out a beat-up box with a PowerBook Duo 230 and dock. He has no idea …
· 12 posts · started 5 Oct 2014 - 15:44 · last 6 Oct 2014 - 22:38
68k
My Mac Plus is stored at my parent's place and I don't have any plan to make a 400-ish miles trip just to get the Mac Plus. I did find the 20MB hard drive with …
· 24 posts · started 1 Oct 2014 - 10:14 · last 6 Oct 2014 - 22:34
Peripherals
So I found an Apple Lisa in GA!!! It arrived today... Needs a good cleaning and some cap repairs and stuff... Widget is dead for sure.. I can hear a piece of me…
· 4 posts · started 6 Oct 2014 - 18:27 · last 6 Oct 2014 - 21:16
Peripherals
Craigslist- $30 I picked up: - 1 NEC CDROM - 2 x external scsi enclosures - 2 x Mac SE 800k with 20meg internal - 1 x Classic 2 - 1 Cx - 1 Ci - 1 IIgs - 3 Exten…
· 12 posts · started 4 Oct 2014 - 16:52 · last 6 Oct 2014 - 21:06
Hardware
Hi, I have a SE with a bad internal 20MB hard drive that will not format. Any suggestions where i can find a compatible drive? What are the specifications i nee…
· 13 posts · started 3 Oct 2014 - 20:02 · last 6 Oct 2014 - 19:01
68k
So I am curious... Perhaps someone can weigh in here... I have purchased over the years two Apple Dealer signs.. I bought the second one mostly because the firs…
· 8 posts · started 6 Oct 2014 - 16:06 · last 6 Oct 2014 - 18:30
Hardware
Just fitted this card to my IIci - was hoping to move my Aztecmonster + CF drive over to it at some point for faster IO, but for the moment the CF card is still…
· 18 posts · started 9 Sep 2014 - 19:48 · last 6 Oct 2014 - 14:15
PowerPC
I've been using my iBook G4 1.33ghz off and on lately and noticed something odd when booting 10.4.11. While it has been connected to my home wifi before it alwa…
· 5 posts · started 5 Oct 2014 - 15:15 · last 6 Oct 2014 - 04:13
Peripherals
Hello Guys, I have a working Macintosh Plus, Classic ii, IMac G3, IMac G4 and Mac G4 towers. I also have 1.44mb and few 800k floppy disks.. The macintosh plus a…
· 10 posts · started 4 Oct 2014 - 12:41 · last 5 Oct 2014 - 22:44
68k
I recapped my SE/30 recently and all was well, until I noticed that after leaving the machine off overnight there was no startup sound on power up. Once the mac…
· 5 posts · started 4 Oct 2014 - 03:39 · last 5 Oct 2014 - 20:01
Hardware
I was wondering if anyone tried recapping the bad power supply in a PowerMac G5. If that is the problem with them. Is bad caps the cause of so many PowerMac G5 …
· 5 posts · started 19 Sep 2014 - 18:39 · last 5 Oct 2014 - 15:41
Troubleshooting
My 5120 doesnt have any expansion cards, and I had noticed decent cards are hard to come by, if not impossible. Soo... I have been thinking, I was going to desi…
· 44 posts · started 19 Sep 2014 - 18:15 · last 4 Oct 2014 - 20:48
Software
http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/digital-performer-3whats new in v3.0?http://web.archive.org/web/20010609190822/http://www.motu.com/english/software/dp/dp30/edit…
· 33 posts · started 23 Sep 2014 - 07:59 · last 4 Oct 2014 - 17:21
68k
I responded to a CL listing for some compact Macs. From SE/30s to Pluses. Today I picked them up! Bonus was a couple 512ks (one regular, one enhanced). Five se/…
· 19 posts · started 29 Sep 2014 - 20:30 · last 3 Oct 2014 - 16:19
Hardware
This one arrived today - talk about well packed!. Got the camera out in case it just might blow up (never seem to have the camera running when that happens) Wha…
· 8 posts · started 1 Oct 2014 - 02:09 · last 3 Oct 2014 - 08:12
Troubleshooting
Someone was giving away a fat PS3, in peices, in a box, on CL a while back, and I snagged it. I just got around to putting it back together and unfortunately I …
· 34 posts · started 24 Sep 2014 - 03:31 · last 3 Oct 2014 - 07:25
68k
I have a bunch of memory sticks and I wanted to kick up my Centris to max 68MB but something isn't working right. A 16MB SIMM shows up as 8. A 32MB SIMM shows u…
· 6 posts · started 30 Sep 2014 - 09:24 · last 3 Oct 2014 - 01:38
Hardware
Hi All, Picked up a Mac IIfx off of Craigslist. The owner couldn't get it started and it had a cap corrode in it at C42. It was a botched up job and one of the …
· 15 posts · started 22 Sep 2014 - 21:44 · last 3 Oct 2014 - 00:02
Hardware
Ok so someone is selling a Mac IIsi in my area. It has a monitor but it does not work. So my next order of business is to figure out how to hook it up to a non …
· 23 posts · started 13 Sep 2014 - 22:21 · last 2 Oct 2014 - 23:16
68k
This has been on my mind for years, and have never acted on it. But where does it say that an LC or Classic is stuck at 10 Megs of RAM? Most II Series data bus …
· 31 posts · started 28 Sep 2014 - 17:55 · last 2 Oct 2014 - 08:04
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