yes, i have to use the control panel to dim the screen. it's a Macintosh Classic I. yes, it has a fan, but it doesn't come in contact with the processor itself. instead, it's place…

hi all-as you may know, i want to prolong the life of my Macs to the fullest extent. examples of this are, if i walk waway from it, i dim the screen to min, check the temp of the p…

Got the 3400c unit last night - it is in quite nice condition for its age and did have a CD drive as well as floppy drive. I think it is a 180mhz early machine. 64 mb ram card in p…

well, i got the rest of the computers and the time to work on them, and, combining all three i bought+ my pismo and my mom's clamshell, now i have this:> lombard/101-333mhz,…

can i install a fan on the poor old 68000 processor? ... i'm running a Macintosh Classic Click to expand... Ummmm, A Classic already has a fan in it. Are you sure you mean an a…

I have a powermac 7500/100 and when i was trying to use toast deluxe 4 to run some 'toast files' the computer was stuck many times. I was using the power button to turn the compute…

i'm running system 6.0.8 on a Macintosh Classic I. no external hardware ( aside from keyboard and mouse) Just an internal floppy and 40 mb HD

totally speaking out of my rear here, but I would think it depends on the machine the early compacts are designed for convection (cooling) airflow, adding a fan might disturb that…

hi all- as you may know, i want to prolong the life of my Macs to the fullest extent. examples of this are, if i walk waway from it, i dim the screen to min, check the temp of the…

I just tested my brand new Stanley RB5 and I love it! That pic is a little misleading, it shows blades (called irons on a real plane, but these are tiny & replaceable/…

well, i got the rest of the computers and the time to work on them, and, combining all three i bought+ my pismo and my mom's clamshell, now i have this: >pismo-500mhz,1gb r…

with a 4hr battery and in very reasonable nick all around Click to expand... If the battery casing is in bad shape, I think you can still get replacements from NewerTech, a ni…

My two daily driver lappies are a 12" 1.33GHz iBook G4 and an 867MHz TiBook. The iBook is solid and I really like the size.

Ah, what $60 will get you... I just picked up a //c with power supply, plus matching 5.25" external floppy drive and green-mono CRT. Includes original manual and two set-up guide…

Yes, that's it. But don't you use a miter to follow the edge and cut it? Maybe I was thinking of a router. Crap. Shows how much I know about what I'm doing. :lol: Click to …

Luckily, it hasnt done it again, but i am not going to plug the other one in for safe measures. However, i noticed when you turn the power on to the unit, it bongs and starts righ…

you might want to take a look lowes has these little clear rubbery stick pads for like 2-3bucks for 12 of em or something. Decently styleish and will serve your purpose well.

An iBook (12" 1.33GHz) purchased off of eBay arrived last week for one of my children, thus freeing up my old 12" 1.5GHz PowerBook that had been hers for homework in secondary scho…

I think you mean "rabbet" the edge . . . . . . as that's the name for the joint you've done in ASCII art (nice job, btw [] ]'&gt if I'm interpreting it correctly. …

Would anyone be willing to work on cap replacement on Mac Plus analog boards? If not I may just have to teach myself how to fix these things and start a service of my own. I love…

Looks very good, have you got "before" piccies?Which part do you need to mitre? :?: Click to expand... No before pictures, sorry. The LC 575 bezel is pretty different than t…

And they're back Nice work there.

Make sure you post plenty of pics along the way!

Images are down?

Take it apart, go buy a tub of Oxiclean, and deyellow that poor machine at once! (If you can spend 2 hours dremeling the bezel, you can spend a day deyellowing it.) Click to expa…