Nope. No green lights inside a stock "Macintosh" or an OEM upgrade. If you have one, there's something undeniably foreign inside there. Can't imagine why there would be one inside …
Check the RAM. The checkerboard is different from the lines that you get with simasimac. Cleaning the connections with a pencil eraser and reseating the memory sometimes makes the …
68kMLAHardwareby QuadramanSun, 21 Mar 2010 - 07:59
A few days ago, I got my hands on a Classic II with an allegedly dead hard drive.
Replacing the drive was no problem, plenty of spares.
Powered the beast. Yaaaaaaa!………No startup…
"floor plans for some hospitals in Washington"
Are you one of those people who goes adventuring in abandoned hospitals in the middle of the night? :lol:
68kMLASoftwareby QuadramanSun, 21 Mar 2010 - 05:18
So.... I found more stuff. IIsi (my first computer ever), LC 475 (nothin special), and Performa 6320CD (my first PPC Mac). I also see a Mac Plus but I can't reach it yet. I also fo…
JDW, that's if you have a boot floppy present. Just looking at the machine, assuming it doesn't power up, or don't have access to power. If it does power up and you don't have a 40…
Awww, man. That Goodwill maintains a museum. Guess where all the really good vintage stuff goes.
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Yeh, but they have more S-100 and pre-1980 stuff than they c…
I have a 400MHz iMac (in Indigo) and run OS 9.1 on it. Of course, I don't do any web surfing on it, and am content to use it with iMovie 2 (got it mainly to do smaller video jobs a…
68kMLAHardwareby Scott BaretSun, 21 Mar 2010 - 02:44
You'll need an Apple II to read the 5.25" diskette. The drive you have will plug into the back of the IIc, IIc+, and IIGS, and will work on a II, II+, or IIe with the proper floppy…
68kMLAHardwareby Scott BaretSun, 21 Mar 2010 - 02:28
I like the trackball better, too. Apple was inconsistent in where they silk screened the model number. 210s-270s usually had it on the bottom of the LCD panel, 280s & 2300s…
I forgot another telltale sign--the sound of the floppy drive. Listen to the drives in the two videos and you'll hear a HUGE difference between the 400K and 800K drive.
68kMLAHardwareby Scott BaretSun, 21 Mar 2010 - 02:23
Graphic Converter has a handy "Save for web..." menu item under File. It opens a dialog where you can resize, set the image format, and various other parameters.
Well scored there LCGuy! Getting the machine over 512MB will make a big difference in OS X - but it should still run adequately. And they make great DVD players, especially with …
Is it not possible to confirm what the machine is what based on the boot dialog?
If you want to confirm if a given compact Mac is an original 128k or 512k with 64k ROMs versus a 5…
I have 10.2.8 on my 700mhz Snow model and the speed is good but the lack of support for newer software keeps me from using it much. I only have 256mb in it, so until I can scrape u…
68kMLAHardwareby QuadramanSat, 20 Mar 2010 - 17:31
That's not exactly what Scott wrote:
The only surefire ways to know if it's enhanced (originally or not) are to look at the serial number (anything made in April 1986 or lat…
Here's where I am: I have the IIe running; I can get to the IIe profile page. I disassembled and cleaned the Apple 5.25" drive including the read head an re-assembled it. The LCIII…
In a box labelled "old PowerBook RAM" that I recently obtained, I have a variety of small Wallstreet RAM chips, a 32MB Duo chip, and some other bits and pieces, all of which I can …
68kMLAHardwareby beachycoveSat, 20 Mar 2010 - 14:06