You guys got it up to $615! 8-o

weather to fix it to toss it... Click to expand... Perhaps you meant to say, "whether to fix it or to donate it"? To toss (i.e., trash) a fixable vintage Mac the likes of an S…

yea its terminated. the computer was making some pretty darned loud high pitched "squeek" sound that was ear peircing. then it would quit. This would fade in/out a few seconds to a…

Dont know why though. that sucks becuase the drive inside is a quantum 800mb. Click to expand... (a) termination? ( B) low-level format?

I have a few question 1. I have this clip thing from a centris 650 what does that do? 2.What are the pin out's for the power brick for the centris? 3.I have this very very Long …

weather to fix it to toss it... Click to expand... Perhaps you meant to say, "whether to fix it or to donate it"? To toss (i.e., trash) a fixable vintage Mac the likes of an S…

All i have is toast 6 and the bootable option is gone unfortunately. trying to locate a copy of toast 5 but no such luck. Click to expand... You can find Toast 4 and 5 at Macin…

weather to fix it to toss it... Click to expand... Perhaps you meant to say, "whether to fix it or to donate it"? To toss (i.e., trash) a fixable vintage Mac the likes of an S…

From doing a bit more reading, people are saying their iBooks won't boot at all if the GPU is loose. In my case, it does boot (I can hear the hard disk rattling away as it boots in…

All i have is toast 6 and the bootable option is gone unfortunately. trying to locate a copy of toast 5 but no such luck.

any ideas? Click to expand... First I assume you are selecting HFS not HFS+. You also have to make sure the partition map is legacy as well. In Toast there is a tick-box which …

Well, i dug out my old miniscribe drive which i was able to hook in place of the CDrom and to start up the machine. i fixed the system folder on the internal drive which caused it…

True that!

The hot coin is the only method I could do right now due to lack of tools. But I just don't think it would be the safest as you would be applying a huge amount of heat immediately …

weather to fix it to toss it... Click to expand... Perhaps you meant to say, "whether to fix it or to donate it"? To toss (i.e., trash) a fixable vintage Mac the likes of an S…

We see this type of spam-bot a lot. They make seemingly innocent posts (which are often slightly incoherent as it seems they assemble them from snippets of other posts, as macgeek4…

Nice little trio you got there. Not having owned a IIfx, I think that might be the best machine. Sure the 7600 is more powerful but the IIfx holds a special place in a lot our mem…

Get your boot floppies here. Always good to have one handy with a classic Mac.

If you really want, I can send over copies of System 6.0.4/6.0.8/7.1/7.5 boot disks to you. You only really need a bootable system disk with the Apple CD-ROM driver.

If you have a newer mac go find a USB floppy drive and then download OS 7.01 or 6.08 disk images from Apples website. Click to expand... You can't make 800k disks (which is wha…

booooooooooo..... NOT what i was wanting to hear...... theres no sound either. now its a cost weigh thing. weather to fix it to toss it...

If you have a newer mac go find a USB floppy drive and then download OS 7.01 or 6.08 disk images from Apples website. Or just buy OS disks on ebay. You eventualy have to spend a …

Unfortunately, you're in a catch-22. You can't boot directly from the CD like that; you need an actual boot floppy.

I'm beginning to really pull my hair out. ready to start smashing things. I am in a bit of a pickle. since no machine besides this SE/30 that i own has a floppy drive, i got issue…

hmm, It looked like a spam bot to me. If he was going to spam correctly he shouldve made a new thread