I picked up a Mac Classic (2MB, 40MB HD) and it was immediately subjected to a recap.  As part of that process, I cleaned around the old cap areas with alcohol and re-tinnned the p…

Hi folks... I have a technical question (?) on Chris Lawson's VGA mod of the Color Classic.: http://colourclassicfaq.com/general/vga.html First, I would like to quote a post mad…

Hello, I have an issue with an Apple IIgs. The text is kind of doubled in Text mode. When I boot a system disk, in graphic mode, everything is fine. I have some experience in elec…

Hi... My TV is the very last CRT HD Sony TV.  Deep, deep blacks, and pure whites.  Yes, it is only HDMI 1.1, but I love the 1920 X 1080p picture. No motion artifacts. I am gettin…

Wondering if I could challenge myself to use only PowerPC for a week? Things I do: Watch YouTube (I'm thinking MacTubes/YouView) Browse the Web Edit video and upload it to YouTu…

Hi... I would like to pull the analog board in my Color Classic.  Any one know of a web site (that is not dead) that has good photos of this?  I have the Mac Service manual, but t…

Hi folks.... I just upgraded the OS in my Color Classic (with a Color Classic II logic board) to 7.5.5 After that, I installed a ethernet card and software.  The software has a o…

Hi Folks.... Can anyone tell me the CFM and the dBA of the *original* Color Classic fan? The original fan is 80 mm X 80 mm by 25 mm.  I believe the fan housing can take at least …

I'm having a strange behaviour (just started recently) with freezes on my Quadra 700. The first time it just happened whilst I was using it, and the segment of the hard disk that …

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Hello.... I am new.  I am moving to another country soon (I am in the USA now).  I sold or gave away all of my Apple computers but for my Color Classic.  I am trying to fix it up …

Ok so I found a great solution to replace the battery..... Purchase these http://www.ebay.com/itm/180979418921?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT …

Hello, I'm new to the forum and Macintosh. I recently bought a non working SE/30 on eBay that came with a nice surprise in the form of a (hopefully working) network card. -Turned…

I have a recapped classic 2 mobo with an 80mb hard-drive. I plugged in the hard drive, turned the mac on and booted from the system 7 disk utilities floppy. Once the reformatting w…

BLOB is definitely retired from reverse engineering and schematics! hasn't worked on a board in over two years. But I called him up and asked em very nicely and he said that he wou…

I have no idea what I'm doing, and only minimal familiarity with the Mac, so please bear with me. I have a Performa 636CD (same as LC 630, or Quadra 630 with nerfed CPU), and some…

So today a friend of mine came in with a big and beige PowerMac. It powers on and works, but the screen and picture tend to pop and go out. Are these models prone to flyback failur…

So I picked up an Macintosh SE FDHD to get software moved between my pc and both my Macintosh SE's. After replaceing some ram that died after 5 minutes of running its doing all nic…

So I just went to boot up my Classic and got the following sad mac error... 00000002 0000FFF7 The first boot produced a bong, then the sad mac appeared, 2nd attempted boot I got…

hello. today i got a 128k logic board. but it came with sad mac code "04006c". when i turn it on i heard bong and that code came up. i had serched the code through internet "goo…

One key didn't work on my M0110 which came with my newly acquired Lisa/Macintosh. I seemed that the spring of that key was broken. The keyboard itself was very dirty. I decided to …

Hello everyone I've got a powerbook 1400 with a broken lcd panel but could not find a repair part. Any idea where I can find? Thx

Got an SE30 going, however, it continually give a dialog box stating the disk is unrecognized and asks to reject or initialize. The icon shows an external disk drive in the warning…

I had a few bad Macintosh Conquests lately.  From a local recycler I got a Powerbook 140 & a Macintosh IIcx which don't work.  The Powerbook is beyond help, the Macintosh I…

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