but its not 1984 any more and yes I have been reading this thread, and video works uses a propitiatory format, so good luck figuring that one out! One would need to write a playe…

Well, I'm back from behind enemy lines again and I brought back a Blueberry Bundle, another MordorSoft Ergonomic KBD, to complete the pair I need for yet another KBD HackAthon . …

he ostensibly saved the company with such gimmicky computers as the iMac & Cube (?) etc, but those products were YEARS in development, long before the (volatile) steve brou…

I'm not 100% sure I understand your point. In 1984, such a thing took hours and hours with 128K RAM, 400K discs and your Imagewriter printer with Thunderscan. Which explains why we…

Maybe I'll get my screwdrivers out and perform a little surgery

Thanks for the advice, but ... reset that and the PRAM but it's still not working. Now it just boots to a gray screen and nothing else. FWTDM still doesn't work. :?:

It's possible the hard drive is bad, or the volume is bad. Depending on what you're connecting the unit to in target disk mode, if the volume has issues it will not mount or show u…

Try resetting the NVRAM, +opt+o+f and type "reset-nvram" No quotes and then type exit and reboot. Also try resetting PRAM and SMC if it has it.

The only way to get anything like full frame video on a 68000 was to literally scan each frame of video one at a time, dither it for 1-bit, and then string them together in an anim…

Okay, whoever was laughing at the start of this thread needs to see these clips... really quite remarkable! Click to expand... I'm still laughing. You realize how much work it …

My 12" PB is on the fritz again. The optical drive died a while back and I was able to use FWTDM to reinstall, etc, etc. I just got the flashing ? again now, but I can't reinstall…

You must be thinking about the original Wallstreets because the rev 2 models did fit the whole screen in 640x480 and 800x600 modes on the LCD (you were stuck with 1024x768 on the o…

Never hurts to order spares, as they are inexpensive and easily lost. Click to expand... Good point. I'll hold off until I know what's inside but I'll probably order some extra…

Alright, Tom replied. Should I buy one for $35 shipped?

Try writing to Tom Owad, who wrote the article I linked. A few years back he had crates of the things, NIB, which he couldn't get rid of. Rid of which he could not get. Whatever…

I make no guarantees, and this is the advice of an inveterate packrat. Grabbing half a system "just in case" the other half turns up is the precipice of the slippery slope to craz…

I like my B&W's but thats around the time Apple went trendy with form over function. Click to expand... / such gimmicky computers as the iMac & Cube (?) etc, b…

With a RAM upgrade to 1MB or more and an 800K floppy, short full screen animations were possible, such as these:http://web.me.com/henryspragens/stuff/Mac_Movies/Mac_Movies.html Cl…

I just got a Classic II and it seems I might need to replace the caps too. I haven't the tools to open it yet so I don't know what's inside. What capacitors (type and quantity) wou…

THAT'S THE ONE! / VGA port?? Click to expand... IIRC it was only made in Blueberry / it shipped with a standard VGA connector Click to expand... Later models were also colo…

Okay, whoever was laughing at the start of this thread needs to see these clips... really quite remarkable! The Apple II music is awesome too!

There is something cool about beige macs, I like my B&W's but thats around the time Apple went trendy with form over function. Click to expand... That'd be the effect …

Rodime were one of the worst makes of drive back in the day. I believe an early edition of The Macintosh Bible mentions Rodime as an unreliable drive. A simple Google search reveal…

I just got a Classic II and it seems I might need to replace the caps too. I haven't the tools to open it yet so I don't know what's inside. What capacitors (type and quantity) wou…

Basically when state entities such as universities, schools, offices, etc get finished with things like desks, chairs, projectors, computers, and so on they enter the surplus syste…