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…

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…

Did Kensington ever make a trackball for the Mac 128k/512k/Plus? I much prefer trackballs to mice with my classic Macs and have a couple ADB models for use with my SE/30's and even…

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 …

I recently got a Macintosh LC 520.  It has System 7.1 installed but it contains a whole bunch of old garbage & extensions so I wanted to do a fresh install.  However when I…

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…

Howdy from Texas.  [] ]'>   I was given a Macintosh 128K & Apple ImageWriter I by one of my clients a few years ago and just got around to booting it up.  Unfortuna…

posting their Mac TVs I figured I would post mine too. I have been waiting to have a more complete setup and yes that is design keyboard from Europe and not proper keyboard but it'…

So I have a Macintosh SE with an internal hard drive... but no drive cover on the second floppy slot.  I'm wondering if anyone knows of a 3D model that I can print for this?  I hav…

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…

Hello! I wanted to start making the Replica I from the book "Apple I Replica Creation Back to the Garage" but i got problems with finding the appropriate PCB Manufacturer in europ…

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…

Hi, I have a classic two which has to support for hd20 emulation. It has a hard drive in it, which spins up and makes noises, but it does not mount when I boot up the mac. Is there…

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 went to the wiki to look up the procedures to clean up a floppy drive, and I got this: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/local/www/vhosts/wiki.68kmla.o…

I have found a nice "Power Mac" : there is a Pentium 4 inside, and a BIOS.   It's a Developer Transition Kit from 2005, the first officiel Intel Mac, with Mac OS X 10.4.1.   {…

So...I finally got another ADB keyboard and a vga adapter...and as luck would have it...I also got my local surplus store (Astro Too)'s lone AAUI adapter. Tada! I have it all hooke…