People dislike the classic-form Macs? Absurd! I love 'em. I like my SE because it's old, and its little 20MB hard drive is loud enough that I don't need the activity light to know …

I love them! They are reliable little machines. I have two that I got Surplus from Denver Public Schools. Through Commecial Surplus LLC. NEVER I mean NEVER do business with them…

My LC475 has a 128mb SIMM in it.... (it takes a looooong time to memory test at boot...) Click to expand... wow !! Do you have the reference of this SIMM ? I was happy to hav…

You can switch that memory test off. I forget how. Click to expand... I remember now. You have to start up the Memory control panel by double clicking it with the Apple or Op…

I don't have anything bad to say about ANY of my 11 compacts... 2 Classic II's among them. The SE/30 just happens to be my favorite with it's 2 ADB ports (I plug my barcode scanner…

... despite the prevailing mood of the people here, and what most Mac sites will tell you, the Classic II is an excellent machine ... Click to expand... It's not all Gloom and …

I'd be excited if i my Classic II still had a good analog board I've got one...got it in '98, and it died only last year. Great machine

YES. Someone else is excited about getting a Classic II! Congrats man, despite the prevailing mood of the people here, and what most Mac sites will tell you, the Classic II is an …

Thanks guys! I just might give this a go once I get a spare mini-IDE hard drive and the necessary screwdrivers. I found this when I was crawling about the web. What do you think? …

My LC475 has a 128mb SIMM in it.... (it takes a looooong time to memory test at boot...) Click to expand... wow !! Do you have the reference of this SIMM ? I was happy to hav…

Let me guess... the first thing you did was open MacPaint and write "hello" on the screen.

Charlieman I tried the two 64mb chips in a Quadra 650 and got a total of 72mb ram. That is one chip plus the onboard memory. the two 64 mb chips are in the last two sockets 3 and …

Charlieman I tried the two 64mb chips in a Quadra 650 and got a total of 72mb ram. That is one chip plus the onboard memory. the two 64 mb chips are in the last two sockets 3 and …

Last time I tried to use known working IDE drives from newer PBs in my 150s I was getting SadMacs. I had a bootable floppy made up and they would boot from the floppy with the orig…

... So can I just format it with one of the programs on the utilities disk or can I format it with transmac from my PC? I just might make a file server out of it for some other mac…

This is good info on powerbooks. I have a 150 and soon I'm going to have a 145b and some 100s that I think just need an os. I want to know how hard it is to put a new hard drive in…

It will get lots of use and care. I am making a painting on it right now. :beige:

have fun with the little guy. it will get more use with you then it did with me thats for sure. its not in too bad of shape it just needs to be cleaned up a little bit thats all...…

Thanks to MacG4, I got a Macintosh Classic II. 6mb of RAM 80mb HD System 7.1 Very crisp screen My addiction has been cured! I finally have a black and white mac! Yay!

I had another go at the cables in the PB145 tonight, paying particular attention to the display cable that connects to the inverter board, adjacent to the keyboard cables exposed w…

$500.00CAD working. I did not realize how big they were. Shipping would be something too.

So uh... did you ask how much for one of the Lisa's?

13 Lisas?!?!? That's insane!

Broke down and bought this card from ebay. There was no shipping costs as he lives 5 minutes from me. I amlooking for thedriver/ software for it. It may be just a extention. The …

Nice haul and some great Powerbook info in this thread.