I saw one for $10 at a yard sale. Always liked the graphite, so took it home to satisfy my curiosity. With 1GB of RAM, a 160GB disk, airport card, and a fan it runs Tiger quite wel…
who else thinks these iMacs rock!!!??
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I do! That was the first computer I ever bought and it's still chugging along. Great investment.
Upgrade the RAM and y…
just got me an iMac DV 2000. Graphite, slot loading dvd rom 400mHz my first G3 machine too. This thing's got it's stock 128Mb RAM and the stock 13Gb hard drive with the original in…
Or use Ciderpress. Or PM me and we can work something out, I have already converted them into 5.25 .DSK images, and could make you a .PO 800k image too if you want.
Photo with some of the paint taken off.
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I know everyone is going to hate me for this but here goes.
I like it. A lot.
Get some rags and spray them with oth…
68kMLAPeripheralsby TemetkaThu, 12 Nov 2009 - 07:40
Currently waiting on the results of a coating of DOT 3 brake fluid (on the top cover); wish me luck!
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Definitely let us know your results in detail. I have n…
68kMLAPeripheralsby Dennis NedryWed, 11 Nov 2009 - 18:30
Latest ProTerm is here:
http://lostclassics.apple2.info/downloads/?dl_cat=10
and they explicitly ask that it not be mirrored. It'll take some doing to get it from .shk format in…
68kMLAOS 9by david__schmidtMon, 9 Nov 2009 - 11:31
Otherwise, check out the huge FTP over at ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/
They have nearly everything, with the possible exception of the latest Proterm.
Some of us here collect KIM-1s, btw. Learned how to program it in high school with the hex keypad in 6502 assembly. Still have it. Works great. It's fun to have a computer that's a…
68kMLAPeripheralsby ClassicHasClassThu, 5 Nov 2009 - 06:33
This wasn't getting the attention it deserved in another forum so I felt it appropriate to move it here.
I am most interested in knowing about the MacSnap 5.0 "RAM upgrade" (witho…
Model 100's are awesome machines for what they're capable of. I have several here. A piece of lore behind the Model 100, btw, is that the Word Processing component of it is the l…
68kMLAPeripheralsby sastevens59Wed, 4 Nov 2009 - 21:40
I have no idea what "dodgy C programmers" has to do with anything.
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With DMA, a dodgy C program can write into the data that something else is about to write …
68kMLAPeripheralsby CharliemanTue, 3 Nov 2009 - 20:05
The Mac II onwards were designed to use NuBus bus mastering for high speed data transfers. Both devices had to be on the NuBus, of course, and support bus mastering, at least as a …
Awesome! i loved those things. I used to have one. Try to find the floppy drive (and accompanying disk) that gives you 100KB floppy storage on a modern floppy. The floppy also ru…
As far as I know, the first Mac to actually have DMA (which the very first IBM PC had) was the IIfx and it was only used under A/UX.
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The Mac II onwards were …
68kMLAPeripheralsby CharliemanMon, 2 Nov 2009 - 19:32
1) External drive must supply termination power (the power supply in the Plus is too feeble to do the job, so the design team decided that the external box should supply term power…
68kMLAPeripheralsby CharliemanMon, 2 Nov 2009 - 19:15
about a year ago i purchased a trs-80 model 100 at a garage sale for $3. at that time i thought that it did not work. today i took it out, plugged it in, adjusted the screen resolu…
Another factor is that Apple probably didn't want to re-engineer an older board when they were focusing on replacing the Plus with the more cost-effective Classic. The Classic was …
68kMLAPeripheralsby Scott BaretMon, 2 Nov 2009 - 00:58
The PB 170's HD is actually a 1 GB IDE HD connected to a IDE-SCSI bridge.
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Oh man, that's truly a great find - I've sought out one of these bridges for years.…
The PB 170's HD is actually a 1 GB IDE HD connected to a IDE-SCSI bridge.
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Oh man, that's truly a great find - I've sought out one of these bridges for years.…