Nice work with the Classic, but I think the PowerForce G3 is the most interesting thing in your collection...

Good conquest, and welcome

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Sweet! I just got into the 68k Desktops as of yesterday. I have a patched-together Quadra 840AV sitting behind me running 8.1. Not sure what I plan to do with it, but I will thin…

Can anyone e-mail me a copy of system enabler 065 version 1.1? All the download links appear to be broken at this point!

Don't believe everything you read on the internet - the Classic is awesome, no matter what anyone says. Make sure you're using system 6 and not 7 for a speedy and enjoyable experi…

good stash and welcome

Greetings, long time listener, first time caller here. Click to expand... Welcome aboard, comrade! :b&w: My house is starting to become a Mac museum... :lol: …

Greetings, long time listener, first time caller here. Well, I've been lurking for several months now and I finally have a compelling reason to register and post. I've been a Mac u…

Picked it up from a friend since I am working on this project (Quadra 840AV, follow link to see the rest) Works great. It looks like a good pic believe it or not, despite having …

With all the issues they had, even back when they were new, I'd imagine that a working 1710 series display would be rather hard to find nowadays.

What you really want is an old, but undeveloped design. Well, at least that's what I want, what I really, really want … to make out of the spare parts I have from a plastics-chall…

Hi! I've been thinking. The only real way to make sure we still have powerbook 5XX machines that aren't in a million pieces for any meaningful amount of time is to make a new enclo…

Oh man... I had that monitor for years until it went *pop* one day and never worked again. It was a BEAST to move around for LAN parties & whatnot, but I LOVED that monitor…

Interesting - I thought that ALL PowerBooks use the keyboard as a part of the cooling system. Click to expand... The black covering on the pismo keyboard that melts when it get…

Also - will the machine be upset when I remove sys enabler 401 out while the system is runnig? Click to expand... The best thing to do would be to remove System Enabler 401, th…

Computers back then were designed for office use and not home use correct (TV interference wasn't a major concern). Click to expand... Not true, most MICRO-Computers were desig…

Computers back then were designed for office use and not home use correct (TV interference wasn't a major concern).

I fixed the problem of the CRT not outputting Edge to Edge image, there is a small know on the back. WackyMacs: I won't solder [incorrectly ] this machine this is so far my mos…

I started at that exact same screen for 15 years yes there should be a knob on it somewhere to make it black again, altho it might be inside, if memory serves me correct there wer…

That keyboard also lacked an escape key, control key, numeric keypad (though you could buy an external one)...it was truly a "keyboard for the rest of us"!!!

Yep, manuals meant a lot more back then than they do now, that's for certain.

That's a very nice system. Just a friendly word of advice, please don't go soldering any joints together.

Also there were no arrow keys on the 512k Keyboard 8-o [] ]'>

Good Luck! Let us know how it goes!