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Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #9

oh I have been thinking about it sorta half hart, I am using a tv card in my computer, and it makes 80 col text impossible to read, growing up with the apple monitor II green scree…
68kMLA Hardware by Osgeld Wed, 28 Apr 2010 - 21:19

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #8

Is it possible to easily modify or add circuitry to make some kind of digital sync signal for the monitor? Any chance an IC analog to digital (ADC) converter might suffice?
68kMLA Hardware by Nathan Wed, 28 Apr 2010 - 20:26

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #7

There are a couple of things that can make a TV mess up on an Apple II or II Plus. First, composite NTSC video is 525i, 30 frames of 525 lines each second interlaced in 2 fields of…
68kMLA Hardware by H3NRY Wed, 28 Apr 2010 - 05:54

The original CRT iMac's popularity today — #17

I would argue that the G3 iMac will eventually become a valuable item because of the following: It was iconic, yet has now become a complete white elephant. they are readily avai…
68kMLA PowerPC by johnsonfromwisconsin Wed, 28 Apr 2010 - 00:06

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #6

Number 018 http://www.faqs.org/faqs/apple2/faq/part16/ From: Michael Pender and Rubywand 018- What is the usual way to connect an Apple II to a display? For a IIgs, you con…
68kMLA Hardware by Nathan Mon, 26 Apr 2010 - 21:29

WGS 9150, are they rare? — #16

TRAQ: How are the conditions in your attic? Humidity and heat/cool cycles are hell on plastics. Click to expand... Not great. It rarely gets below 40F around here, but in the …
68kMLA Hardware by trag Mon, 26 Apr 2010 - 17:22

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #5

I remember someone told me that modern comb filters on the last generation or two of tube TV's was to blame for the useless image that is generated by older computer systems that o…
68kMLA Hardware by Paralel Mon, 26 Apr 2010 - 01:52

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #4

Nice score, I got a ][gs back in june but haven't been able to use it (TVs make terrible composite monitors). The one time I did use it, the power supply was making noises. Clic…
68kMLA Hardware by Nathan Sun, 25 Apr 2010 - 22:18

The original CRT iMac's popularity today — #16

The G3 iMacs will never truly become collectors items. After all, they are awfully hard to stack a hundred and twenty to a pallette. } If anything from the PPC onwards has las…
68kMLA PowerPC by II2II Sun, 25 Apr 2010 - 17:33

PPC Mac Clones — #28

Gah! That laptop is super ugly. However the Skylab sounds like it truly was the Holy Grail. "As far as Mac Prototypes go, one of the most glorious I ever saw was the Radiu…
68kMLA Hardware by Temetka Sun, 25 Apr 2010 - 10:10

What kind of disks does my Disk ][ use? — #12

Yeah? That company seems to have an index.html site and an index.php site (the one I listed), it's a little confusing. If you ever try buying some disks from them, let me know how …
68kMLA Hardware by Nathan Sat, 24 Apr 2010 - 14:39

Symbolics Macivory Quadra 650? — #6

They really are quite rare. But this auction was asking too much. 500$-1k$ would be too much for me, but for a complete setup a more reasonable price to ask. Consider that once the…
68kMLA Hardware by CJ_Miller Sat, 24 Apr 2010 - 09:44

G3/500 vs. G4/400 in B&W — #14

I think Leopard on a B&W G4 is a bit adventurous for my blood. It seems to be running stable at 400mhz (using the jumper block from the original Rev. 1 board) on a clean i…
68kMLA Hardware by jruschme Fri, 23 Apr 2010 - 14:46

The original CRT iMac's popularity today — #14

when I added a G3 500 DV to my collection... My daugther (8years old) immediatly said it will be her computer... so I think this line of imac is still attractive... (now she finds…
68kMLA PowerPC by gilles Fri, 23 Apr 2010 - 11:04

G3/500 vs. G4/400 in B&W — #13

If you're really ambitious, you can get Leopard running on a B&W with a G4. Sure, it'd be slow, but there's still a lot of software out there that works fine on 10.5.
68kMLA Hardware by johnklos Thu, 22 Apr 2010 - 19:17

color classic wont boot (hdd ok) — #10

put the hdd in my classic II to see whats on the hdd and it booted the CC hdd Click to expand... you installed your hard drive from your Classic II into your Color Classic and …
68kMLA Hardware by Bunsen Thu, 22 Apr 2010 - 11:48

color classic wont boot (hdd ok) — #9

I've had a similar problem with my color classic: I removed the logic board and blew out the dust with canned air and when I put everything back together the color classic wouldn't…
68kMLA Hardware by Bill.Canfield Wed, 21 Apr 2010 - 19:56

G3/500 vs. G4/400 in B&W — #12

Well, I finally got tired of the dead B&W sitting on the floor, so I started checking ebay for a replacement motherboard. I ended up scoring a Rev. 2 B&W motherboar…
68kMLA Hardware by jruschme Wed, 21 Apr 2010 - 14:54
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