Darn, no luck yet reinitializing. I only got the internal drive to appear once in Disk Repair– it said the drive has a problem that Disk Repair can't fix– and HD SC Setup says it's…

. . . a brand new Apple Extended Keyboard II in box, a Apple Adjustable Keyboard new in box, and a box of used 30-pin SIMMs (4MB I think). I also find out the origin of "$240" a…

Most old laptops were built to fall apart, Click to expand... But modern laptops are designed to have hardware failure after a couple of years. xx( Yes, it is from eBay. Hav…

Is the Thinkpad A20m a recent ebay purchase? I have been going nuts collecting old P1 and 486 Thinkpads lately (blame Cory5412 for getting me started). Most old laptops were buil…

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Anyway, yesterday I call my Grandpa (who had noticed that one of his friends had a couple old Apple ][gs, and I ended up getting one a while back), and tell him that I've gotten ar…

That's super weird. I wonder if it's not really some kind of automatic year insert, such as "10.2.9 will be released in mid-[CURRENT_YEAR] to address several bugs", but that would …

cseals3, I looked up the error code "0000000F" "00000002" in my copy of Macworld Mac Secrets, 5th Edition by David Pogue and Joseph Schorr. Staying focused on the "00000002" code…

" There are rumors that 10.2.9 will be released in mid-2009 to address several bugs and vulnerabilities that remain in version 10.2.8." http://lowendmac.com/osx/jaguar-10.2/index.…

I installed that and opened a .MID file that I had made on another computer and I didn't get any signal coming out of the machine into the MIDI unit I have. I don't understand what…

I've always wanted a really nice first generation iPod. It seems like most of them would have been thrown away by now, because new iPods are so cheap compared to the first one.

So I was poking around craigslist yesterday, when I came across "First Gen iPod - $20." Interested, I clicked to find what appeared indeed to be a 1G iPod! E-mailed the girl, and w…

I have the Apple AV cable and I can confirm that the plug is slightly longer than normal and has 4 contacts... I'd guess it has to be since the jack on the clamshell supports a sta…

Since the output consists of two stereo channels and one composite video line, there have to be four connections. A standard stereo headphone connector can't work -- it has to have…

Here's the download for MIDIgraphy from Harmony Central: http://www.harmony-central.com/Software/Mac/midigraphy.html

Update: Installed a lean version of 7.5.3, now to replace those leaky gross caps on the logic board. Bleh.

There's a shareware sequencer called MIDIgraphy that IIRC will run on System 7. Searching these forums for MIDI will reveal other clues.

Ok I finally used what little knowledge of UNIX I have to figure out what I was doing wrong and make a proper boot disk. Thanks to JRL for helping me get my computer to boot up ag…

I mean I did exactly what the procedure in the link I posted above told me to do. It seemed to work fine, no error messages were displayed. What am I doing wrong?

What machine are you installing 7.1 on, and do you have another old Mac to verify the network disk you made? Pretty much any Mac that came with a floppy drive will boot from the 7.…

So I had to just turn the machine off before the install finished and now when I boot up I get the old "The 'System' file on this startup disk may be damaged. The Installer can be …

An alternative to 7.1.1 is 7.5.3 (freely available from Apple; no need to download an unauthorized OS release of dodgy ancestry). If the size bothers you, just use Gamba's "digital…

Where did your "Programs" disk come from? Scribbling the word "Programs" on a disk with a crayon isn't going to fool it.

....it is asking me for the disk "Programs" which did not come with the OS I downloaded from Macgarden. What the heck is it talking about? Before I installed the new OS I had a dis…

btw, my IIc has the same port, so am I to assume it will work on that? Click to expand... I would also like to know whether the AppleColor will work with Macs. Nice score btw, …