Your Mac shows 512K because it has the original 64K ROMs most likely. You actually have 1.5MB of RAM installed, it looks like. The mobo RAM chips have probably been replaced upgrad…

Hi, Yesterday I picked up my first 512k. They are hard to get in Europe so I had to pay a whopping 20 euro for it ;-) But, on boot no glory. I opened it up and after scanning t…

Sounds like typical symptoms of capacitor leakage. My Classic II gave me the jailbars a few years back, washed the board and although the sound never returned, the machine was as g…

I have a classic II that had a similar problem, it was cap leakage.

Methinks the classic II is slightly dead. Pulled the thing apart again, the motherboard was fairly free of dust. Examined the RAM and connectors, no tarnishing or discolouration.…

"Software for processor cards in PCI power macs is not *required* since it replaces the original processor. It will run just fine, except Apple System Profiler may not display the …

Austin's Goodwill Compter Works is excellent, and there are several other computer recycle / resale operations, as you'd expect in a university town. Click to expand... What ar…

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 th…

Just a note/ flag that these are currently available at $1.99 each on ebay (with best offers available too) if you want to revive a PowerBook by replacing a dead backup battery. Th…

Sometimes if you leave it on for a long time (and we're talking anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours) it will just "mysteriously" chime and start up. I've done this on an SE/30 and …

Success! It turns out that the problem was two-fold: first was the PRAM battery, second was a SCSI conflict. Both are two really newbie mistakes which shouldn't have taken 5 month…

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 …

Thanks Quadraman, I'll do that. I had plans for the machine. Nick

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 …

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…

Should a 'Macintosh' show a green light in the drive bay?

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. Click to expand... Yeh, but they have more S-100 and pre-1980 stuff than they c…

My choice on the G3 iMacs would be: Slotloaders: OSX TrayLoaders: 9

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…

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…

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.

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.

A very nice score there tyrannis. The last and best of the Duos - upgraded with the superior pointing technology!