I don't know if it's a case of too many contestants or too few voters, but we seem to have ended up with no less than five RetroChallengers in the top three slots! Without further …

It was very common to see Lisa 2s sold with an external 5MB ProFile instead of an internal drive. As I recall Apple marketed the Lisa 2 in three configurations: base, 5MB external,…

Update: I used MacADT to transfer the disks, but only managed to get the same 11 which I had originally made into .shk archives. I have now uploaded the whole package to asimov. So…

I have a 9.0.4 image with updates to 9.2.2 I also have a 9.2.1 DMG, which does not boot but does install through OS X through classic. What you could do is run an 9.2.2 Installer…

Thank you for the replies. Dealing with a cranky car right now and won't be able to dive in on this until the weekend.

Hi, Sent you an email. What is really interesting is that there are other disks still out there. A quick type in Apple Disk brought back over 15K of results. Only a small percenta…

I just removed the resistors, which was incredibly difficult, my 15w iron didn't seem to melt the factory solder very well, and then just cut small wires, tinned them and soldered …

Thats pretty cool, I got 2 Free clamshells from my school, and may even get some more. 1 Graphite 466 and 1 Blueberry 300, I'd like Tangerine and Lime though. My school does not ha…

I just removed the resistors, which was incredibly difficult, my 15w iron didn't seem to melt the factory solder very well, and then just cut small wires, tinned them and soldered …

You can just ditch the resistors and use rear window defogger paint you know. Also trace pens or whatever they are called. Can't get em where I live though. >_>

I ended up overclocking it to 400 mhz, I didn't try 433 because I didn't want to risk messing up soldering twice if it didn't work. http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/7540/400k.jp…

Status: There are 22 disks, 11 of which I was able to make into .shk archives. The rest have varying amounts of disk errors. I will be trying more in-depth methods in the coming da…

Well I diagnosed the problem with the other Powerbook5300C, I will need to ask more about the issue however.

To my understanding, *EVERY* Lisa 2 (and Macintosh XL) shipped with an internal hard drive. That was pretty much the big selling point over a 'real' Macintosh. The original dual-T…

To my understanding, *EVERY* Lisa 2 (and Macintosh XL) shipped with an internal hard drive. That was pretty much the big selling point over a 'real' Macintosh. The original dual-…

Disk controler for lisa was designed for 2x Twiggy drives. When controler was adapted to 3.5inch, the ROM was written only for 1 drive so, even if hardwork should work with 2 driv…

Hi, Some of them will require integer basic or maybe Dos 3.2 to boot up. I am surprised that they still have them. They usually purge old things in favor of newer items. Where abo…

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Incase you have not seen it http://forums.macnn.com/73/mac-modification/305763/clamshell-ibook-questions-lcd-cd-logic/

Either way, the stock 24X CD-ROM is a complete dog and deserves to go, I've spent hours troubleshooting a few Clamshells only to find the reason I can't install OS X is because the…

I've rebuilt many Clamshells over the years, and have found OS X 10.3.9 to be more than passable due to the 4X AGP graphics card - it makes things like Expose smooth, once you have…

Definitely 9.2.2. OSX on 800x600 is horrifying to use.

I just checked my AIM version and I'm using 4.6. Granted, it's nowhere near the level of iChat as far as refinement is concerned, but for basic conversations it works fine. It also…

Today while I was doing some stuffit-expanding on my 5300cs, I went for a game of Maelstrom. I turned it off before I lost a life. That's how horrible the screen is.

I often think to myself that I'd like to get a 5300 or a 190 just to play around with. Then my common sense gets the better of me and I realise that there's nothing I could really …