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A Tech Notice for all PCI-based Macintoshes — #1

Hello, everyone! Just a friendly note to send to all of you whom own a Macintosh with PCI expansion bus. Just this past week, I've found that all the bus slots on my Power Mac 75…
68kMLA Hardware by phreakout Thu, 31 Dec 2009 - 20:32

IIci - Bringing back my 1st Mac — #18

I'd say your assessment is correct, but that the cleaning (which had to happen) not only helped establish that, but also helped establish that the machine may otherwise be just fin…
68kMLA Hardware by beachycove Thu, 31 Dec 2009 - 19:33

IIci - Bringing back my 1st Mac — #17

My motherboard looks absolutely beautiful and after waiting some extra days as advised I decided to go for it. I reassembled the IIci and it immediately booted up (spontaneously)…
68kMLA Hardware by IIciNov90 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 - 18:59

How to clean a IIfx power supply — #18

It helps keep things organized if you dedicate machines to specific software/tasks. There are a few machines in my collection I got for free and was about to toss because they loo…
68kMLA Hardware by Unknown_K Thu, 31 Dec 2009 - 06:09

How to clean a IIfx power supply — #17

I finally got around during the past couple of days of idleness over the holidays to reassembling the IIfx (in Mac II case) mentioned in the above posts. Some observations: Dirt…
68kMLA Hardware by beachycove Thu, 31 Dec 2009 - 05:55

Boxed Quadra 605 and 14" Apple CRT! — #6

Very nice. Boxed stuff is so rare. I actually have boxes with no corresponding (serial # matched) machines... I have one for a 7600, one for a PowerBook G3, a G3 Tower, and an App…
68kMLA Hardware by Mike Richardson Thu, 31 Dec 2009 - 05:24

Just scored another Duo off eBay — #3

I've never seen that external HDD, that looks cool. Click to expand... It's a floppy drive. The front piece kinda folds down and props the front end of the drive up a bit. Hard…
68kMLA Hardware by netfreak Thu, 31 Dec 2009 - 00:39

Just scored another Duo off eBay — #1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300363277979&ssPageName=ADME:L:COSI:US:1123 I set it up and everything except for the battery works great!!!
68kMLA Hardware by Green78II Wed, 30 Dec 2009 - 20:53

3400 board question... — #1

Wow! I just heard back from a seller that he's got a 200 mhz board for a PB 3400 for only $20. Can anyone confirm that it's possible to transplant a 200mhz. board into a unit that …
68kMLA Hardware by J English Smith Wed, 30 Dec 2009 - 20:48

Stuck Battery in PB100 — #3

The battery most certainly has bulged. I had bulged (and obviously dead) batteries in all my 1xx conquests. To force the door to slide, +1 for the ruler tip above. Then I'd pull! …
68kMLA Hardware by superpantoufle Wed, 30 Dec 2009 - 19:34

Boxed Quadra 605 and 14" Apple CRT! — #4

That, is really awesome! Congrats, and I hope that there will be good unboxing pictures! Even if, as it looks like, it's been unboxed before. [] ]'>
68kMLA Hardware by Cory5412 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 - 06:52
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