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…

Ah! It's not a real hyperdrive. I opened it up and no hard drive, controller, etc. Just a 512k with a HyperDrive case, for whatever reason. Oh well, it's still cool. One of these d…

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 …

Look under the monitor bezel on the front for a serial number sticker. The letter after the M0001 number will tell you what model your machine started out as. Click to expand...…

We've got a big trash cleanup coming up here next month. I'm hoping to pick a few more Macs then, though it's getting harder to find the oldest stuff. I've found 3 Pluses out for t…

The interesting thing about the HyperDrive was that it was one of the few third party mods that did not void warranty. Apple mentioned it in their service manuals at the time.

You can see my HyperDrive 20 photos here. For the sake of comparison, I would love to see some photos of the inside of your Hyperdrive kit, especially the hard drive mechanism. Y…

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…

Pictures it is. Also, I think it might be 64k. When hitting the interrupt button, it either acts weird until I let go of the button, or it shows a sad mac. That, and the borders, a…

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

The HyperDrive was an internal hard drive sold by General Computer that was added to many early systems. Apple didn't include any hard drives internally until 1987 in the Mac SE mo…

First off, hello. I am a new member here. Secondly, I was driving down the street today and saw what looked like the top of a mac in a pile of trash on the side of the road (sprin…

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…