Lately, amid hard disk trouble (spiceyokodo no comments), my Performa 475 has started to make a very strange noise. Normally, wether the hard disk is working or…
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After reinstalling my PM 6500 I realized something a little too late. My floppy disk with the sonnet L2 G3 card was corrupt, and not just corrupt, irrecoverably…
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I just stripped down a powerbook duo 270c which has a busted screen. I have noticed that the few electrolytic SMD caps this board has, are starting to leak, lea…
Because of all this talk about disabling the onboard video, and just running the Greyscale out of the IIsi video card, into the CRT. This should mean that we co…
Hi, Does anybody know of a video format which doesn't tax a G4 so hard? Obviously, a modern format is out, so how about older ones, like MOV or AVI? c
After a long journey, I've finally located the fabled Dr. Dobb's articles written by John Bass detailing his SCSI solution for the original Macintosh 128K &…
Hello all, This is a start to my acquisitions thread. I've snagged a few 'new' old Macs in the last few weeks, which I'll perhaps detail in subsequent posts. Ho…
Hi all I have bought a Mac Portable last week end. Since it was VERY dirty, I started disassembling it to wash the plastics. I used the Macintosh Portable servi…
The holy grail of SE/30 computing. What compact Mac user among us hasn't lusted after this elusive upgrade combo? I myself certainly have for years. Well, today…
I've got a pb100 with a screen that comes on, the backlight comes on, and it looks like all the pixels come on and stay black. Brightness and contrast knobs do …
Today I acquired this very special Lisa...uh ...Macintosh..uh... machine! It is Lisa modelnumber A6S0300P, so a Lisa XL. But the inside is totally rebuild. It h…
I received a Newton H1000 in a big Mac haul from last week. It boots, the screen is crisp/bright, and it is in fairly good cosmetic shape (I like the rubber tex…
A couple of years ago, I decided to do a hack that'd be what I thought of as a Mac Mini. I eBayed a 12" MacBook Top Panel to test its suitability for the side p…
Ok... so on this board I have not seen a PB100 battery rebuild.. But I did see another forum with a solution someone did... Any help here is greatly appreciated…
Finally got my MP 2000 online using a Lucent WaveLAN silver card. 3 hours it took me to work out the settings! Kudos to the Japanese guy for writing the drivers…
Got a couple of these power supplies in. Both dead. one of them had 5V standby, the other one does not. Both have good fuses. This post is about ONE, as I only …
Hello everybody! This is my first post, but I have been lurking for a few months now. It's good to finally join! I have been wanting to get back into the world …
I was wanting to get some Hitachi 658128ALFP-10 chips for a project, but I know next to nothing about the naming (I'm guessing that the 128 is the amount of mem…
remember that 145 of mine that had the wierd video port coming off the side? I could not test it because some wires were snapped, and the machine was busted. I …
I saw JT's mention of the need for this thread here: http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=163030#p163030 so I decided to start rolling that ball. I posted a…
Hi! I'm new to this forum, and new to old Macintosh machines, but not new to networking and computers. I was recently given the following equipment, and now I h…
I'm sure some of you have seen my games thread in the Trading Post (aka "I will buy your 68k mac games!") but I wanted to start a section here to help me keep t…
Hi, I've just acquired a mac plus (nothing strange there) with an extremely strange external hardrive. It's a paradise scsi 20 mb external hardrive. It has two …
For lack of better term, I've had a Duo 230 suffer from small pink blob and I've seen a few other like this. For some reason it seems I've seen this only in Pow…