Unconquest: Closet space! — #2
I set 4 broken iMacs on the curb last night, as well as an IBM typewriter, some dead stereo equipment and a broken Apple StyleWriter, all from the (overcrowded) warehouse. I could …
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Unconquest: Closet space! — #1
I've found its way easier to give old macs away on Freecycle than to find them!
I've dispatched 3 mostly broken G3 iMacs and a G3 Minitower to happy collectors/tinkerers in the la…
Tecmar Drive For 128K & 512K Mac — #5
Yes we do. That could open up some doors, huh?
Maximum HD capacity on a 6100 — #9
Isn't 2GB the max file size on HFS, not the max volume size? Power Macs certainly came with >2 GB hard disks before Mac OS 8.1 was released.
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Powerbook 180c issues — #6
Well, I think the 16 MB is from software (i.e. RAM Doubler). So it has a 4 MB chip installed, along with the onboard RAM.
IIsi ROM SIM gives death chime in my SE/30s — #12
The System 8 UI looks absolutely awful in monochrome. The System 7 one was finely tuned to be minimalist and work on small monitors. The System 8 UI assumes only madmen run monochr…
Powerbook 180c issues — #5
You mean "à propos de cet ordinateur", missed it on my way to control pannel like 5 times... there is 2 lines for memory, integrated memory is 8192kb, total is 16384kb. Is that in…
IIsi ROM SIM gives death chime in my SE/30s — #11
...running OS 8.1 on these systems, but I never thought people actually did it seriously, since a 16 Mhz 68030 is probably not the best CPU for running such an OS.
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Powerbook 180c issues — #4
http://www.academ.com/info/macintosh/pbook.shtml is the link. (the info is at "The Rest Of The PowerBook 100 Series")
To check, just click on the Apple logo on the top-left and…
Powerbook 180c issues — #3
I would check the specs, but i forgot how to do so, especially in french , can you remind me how to do so? It has 4megs of ram i beleive. The sticking drive is not too bad, on …
Powerbook 180c issues — #2
I'm thinking you will be able to use the AZERTY keyboard normally in English fine, as it's just a different keyboard layout, not something that uses different software.
Also, the …
IIsi ROM SIM gives death chime in my SE/30s — #10
Interesting, I never knew about the horizontal lines - I always thought it was done to make the SE/30 a 32 bit clean system. I've read on Gamba before about people running OS 8.1 o…
Powerbook 180c issues — #1
I didn't use the word problems in the title because i mostly have small issues with it. I'll list 'em here...
The battery is dead and will not hold any charge. This i'm gonna live…
Pair of 840avs — #15
I promised pics, but due to working alot, I leave my camera in the car. I brought it in to take a few pics, so I might as well snap a few others.
Quadra from the front:
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Macintosh Portable issues — #4
I've also acquired a bunch of motherboards with various problems. One a random note, washing the motherboards in the dishwasher seems to help clear up the leaked electrolyte from t…
LC II Buying info? — #12
I had the one floppy and hd config lc ii, but i made a post on free cycle and i found somebody who said i could have 5-6 b&w g3s and that they have a ton of old beige macs …
Macintosh Portable issues — #3
Ive been on close contact with Houlton, who rebuilds and sells Portables on ebay. I have purchased a brand-new rebuilt battery last year, and the portable remains plugged in 24/7 a…
IIsi ROM SIM gives death chime in my SE/30s — #9
When swap my stock SE/30 or the IIfx ROM sim in, both work fine.
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Von I really hate to say it, but such is strong evidence that: (1) You have a bad IIsi ROM, …
Recent conquests — #3
Yeah I posted up in the TAM thread too - what can I say, I'm pretty excited and it's still weeks away!
Secondly the 7600/G4 should be good fun to play around with.
Recent conquests — #2
I read about the TAM over on MacTalk...very cool! Good score on the 7600 too, apart from the 80MB HDD, it sounds like a nice machine, especially for free.
Maximum HD capacity on a 6100 — #8
Isn't 2GB the max file size on HFS, not the max volume size? Power Macs certainly came with >2 GB hard disks before Mac OS 8.1 was released.
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In my exp…
IIsi ROM SIM gives death chime in my SE/30s — #8
I think a better idea would be removing/unplugging the hard drive, all of the memory, any installed cards, etc. and just try to boot the Macintosh SE/30 with the bare motherboard a…
Recent conquests — #1
Been inactive a little while on the forums, but added two items just recently to my conquest list.
Was lucky enough to pick up a PowerMac 7600/200 with a Sonnet G4-400MHz processo…
Maximum HD capacity on a 6100 — #7
Isn't 2GB the max file size on HFS, not the max volume size? Power Macs certainly came with >2 GB hard disks before Mac OS 8.1 was released.
LC II Buying info? — #11
Dual-floppy LCs were rare. I only saw one batch of them in the field when they were in service (they were in a school library). I believe Apple also sold LCs and LCIIs with only on…