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Welcome to the world of Newton ... I have a 2100 sitting on my desk at home it gets the occasional use (criminal I know) I would probably use it more if my Powerbook 1400 was not b…

Perform the hinge fix on it. I tried doing it to mine, but the display cable was wedged under the hinge. It worked fine before, but after removing it (CAREFULLY), the touch portio…

I bought it off eBay and it arrived today. Manuals, documentation, and software were still sealed in the original bag. Box got kind of dinged up, thanks to the lovely folks at UPS.…

Oh, well... i knew he would nuke it sometime... ...Which is why I kept a backup!

Because it's easier just to nuke it, rather than weed out what ever's not PD, freeware, or shareware. :-/

It looks like ~tl deleted the "Macintosh Software" wiki page!

I have often heard the claim that the Apple /// was intentionally crippled, usually for marketing reasons and always with the implication that it did not have to be done. But is t…

well I check the firm ware and its the newest verson, I was just stating i hade 10.5 install I have put a coppy of the disk on a fire wire hard disk, but it gives a gear and no log…

reported the bug and the workaround to Epson. To no avail Click to expand... This was last year, right? Click to expand... :lol:

reported the bug and the workaround to Epson. To no avail Click to expand... This was last year, right?

I have often heard the claim that the Apple /// was intentionally crippled, usually for marketing reasons and always with the implication that it did not have to be done. But is t…

Is it a case of the firmware not wanting to boot from the DVD? Typically firmware updates can be done from MacOS 9. What has 10.5 got to do with the issue?

I have the installer dvd for a g4, 10.4 server It will not pot or mount, unless i stick the disk in after os 9 has loaded, the only way i think i could install it is to install 10…

Apple used to brag at the time that the /// was a 16-bit machine because there was a state machine appended to the 6502 to handle 16-bit words and the data buss fetched 16 bits at …

[i'll make a scan of it. Click to expand... May you live to be a thousand years old, sir!

I second this - hopefully we can find someone with enough spare time to scan the entire book. Click to expand... "Macintosh Hacker's Bible" is apparently available from a libr…

As for dates, Apple sent us a prototype a few months before release. There were other developers who were seeded with prototypes much earlier. Click to expand... PICTURES

I guess I'll have to dig the old Mac out of the closet and put the 64K ROMs back in it. I was under the impression that the 1.4 drives only worked with the SWIM chips, and didn't r…

It's been a while so my memory may be fuzzy, but I got my first Mac at work in Nov '83, and bought my own Mac in May '84. A bit later Apple came out with the first 3.5" Apple][ dri…

It's been a while so my memory may be fuzzy, but I got my first Mac at work in Nov '83, and bought my own Mac in May '84. A bit later Apple came out with the first 3.5" Apple][ dri…

The original Classic was released as part of a line-up which also included the LC and the IIsi. All three of the machines were intended for the low-budget market: Classic as the ch…

I find it odd how Apple went from expandable SE/SE30's to a Classic 2 with no expansion whatsoever. Click to expand... Maybe stupid, but not odd. There's a simple explanation w…

A 128 can read & write to an 800K external drive. A 1.4 drive won't work. When I got my Mac in 1984, one of the first upgrades I made was to stick an 800K mechanism from an…

A 128 can read & write to an 800K external drive. A 1.4 drive won't work. When I got my Mac in 1984, one of the first upgrades I made was to stick an 800K mechanism from an…