The original beige model; got it for free! It doesn't work ATM though.

Yesterday I received an email regarding a large amount of macs free. Today I went out to see what I could pick up. Well this place was quite a sight. Front of the house loaded w…

Dropped into a yardsale and spotted a sad looking Strawberry Imac sitting with a bunch of monitors. I asked the lady how much for the Imac. The price was the same for all of them…

=What is a card that has some cool features, isn't ridiculously expensive, etc? I already have a video/ethernet card.

Hi, I purchased a NewerTech PowerPump clock chipping/overclocking device for my Quadra 700 on eBay (dlchief I think it was). This device purports to overclock the onboard 25Mhz '…

My 5500/250's motherboard seems to be acting up. Thanks! -JRL

I´d like you to help with your great experiance to virtually assemble the fastest OS 9 machine ever. Interresting is to clear some questions regarding the most powerful possibiliti…

Is there some way that I can run my Powerbook 540c without a HD? All three of my scsi drives will not work, so the only alternative I have is running off a floppy. Does anyone kn…

recently i got my hands on a 2001 QS 733 with a vile ati rage 128 pro card with a piddly 16 mb ram and the rage 128 just decided to die ...typical as it happens i…

The fans in my original (1Ghz) 17" PB have been acting strangely. I have been using it in hot locations recently, but now in the AC with very low processor usage and average bottom…

Good morning! So i have a G4 with gigabit Ethernet running at 400MHz (4x100), 512MB PC133 (4x128). I have a dual G4 533 (4x133) in my possession and would like to install it. Now …

Hey everyone just found a Power Macintosh 8100/110 on the curb in NYC. It has a MaCally Keyboard and a Kensington Mouse. Tons of upgrades towards the rear. Looks like it was a vide…

Hello, A year or so ago I purchased a grab bag of parts on Ebay that included a MicroMac Carrera040 http://micromac.com/products/carrera040.html. The card is the 33mhz model desi…

I just wrote a System 7.5 NAD floppy to complete the OS 8 on LC III hack, anjd was gretted with "Sorry, a system error occurred. bus error to temoporarly turn off" blah blah blah..…

The chap I got a Radius Two Page Display (Radius Mono 20GS) from a year or so ago has just given me a couple of associated rarities after a bout of move-inspired housecleaning: the…

My wife's iMac G5 started running warmer than normal (75C to 80C) and the fan started getting noisy. So I opened it up for the 3rd cleaning and noticed all the bulging capacitors! …

Does anyone have a clue to why the "Hours of Use" (the one you get in TechTool) gets reset a few times a week? It should display something like 43000 hours since 2004/3/19, but ab…

Hi, With the advent of Snow Leopard, G4 towers sure are getting cheap these days ... picked up this beauty for AUD $99! It came in pristine condition (bar many stickers on the si…

my fan is noisy! i am sure that it is no noisier than anyone else's fan, but recently its been bugging me. has anyone ever ran their SE without the fan? i assume it would be mor…

So I picked up an Apple IIe with a Disk ][ from the local Goodwill. I want to buy some disks to use, but my google-fu is failing me. I seem to recall that it requires hard sectore…

(just noticed this may be in the wrong forum, sorry...) I just grabbed a cheap 6400/180 (see post in conquests), came with an M2943 multiple scan monitor. All seems to work well, …

I've got a partially restored Quadra 700. It came with nothing, no RAM, floppy drive, hard drive, or even internal device cables. It now has all the internal devices, maximum RAM…

Another Conquest here! (Sorry in advance since it is not really vintage, Judging by the conquest wars going on...) Got me an iBook G4 from a family friend! Said he didn't need it …

So I have my 840av working.... it's running off've a 2gig external hard drive. I recorded some video and saved the file which then has to be converted, but when I try to save the …

Pisces DM-10 The ultra-rare, vertically flat (ie Color Classic bezel compatible), 10" Trinitron point of sale monitor as used in the famous Cube G4 Power Color Classic. Standard …