Anything I can do? Was trying to format a CF card in a PCMCIA adapter [that read on my 3400; it's not Cardbus].  First time I inserted it, the machine either froze or restarted.  …

I'm hoping this can be a repository for specific repair help/information for the Powerbook 3400c.  Macdrone has been doing sort of research/experimentation on repairing some of his…

My 5120 doesnt have any expansion cards, and I had noticed decent cards are hard to come by, if not impossible.  Soo...  I have been thinking, I was going to design and build a R…

This is not Elfen posting but his youngest daughter, he's in the hospital for observation as it looks like its a bad allergy issue that is he undergoing. Details tomorrow when I ge…

I managed to finally get myself an Apple //e, but it is missing three of the four feet. I did some googling and found some references to a Radio Shack item, but the website comes u…

So I replaced the power board in my 128k and I am now getting Sad Mac 040002 at bootup. From what I can gather there is some bad memory on the motherboard that causes this. Does an…

I took apart my Macintosh Portable this evening to make a count of the different capacitors I'll be needing to replace as part of the standard "holy crap this is old I need to repl…

There's 512MB of Ram (4 sticks) in the 9600 I just got but I can't find anything on the Chipmunk site that corresponds to the chip markings. They're Sonnet sticks but the Sonnet l…

... is gone. Why? I think thats enough playing around with stupid amounts of quotes. Click to expand...

What's with the Forum rules thingy at the top?

I recently received an old 400mhz blue and white g3 from someone and intended to use if for some pre-OSX stuff I have. I managed to get it to start up, and was able to boot from th…

Because MIDI latency and jitter on modern computers is a problem. I've been contemplating in either get a dedicated hardware MIDI sequencer or an old Mac for MIDI sequencing, so I …

OK my spare SE/30 is having a major problem! I think it's the SCSI chip. Which is not socketted! It will hang on boots and reboot, and after messing with it, SCSI is dead on the…

What are some of the signs of a flyback transformer that is bad or going bad?

The idiot being me, of course I have a 2100 sitting around, and the battery is just about toast. I'd like to get my hands on the AA battery tray, but Newton bits & pie…

I'm sorry if this is easily found on the site; I did look for an answer but could not find it. I need to contact an admin/moderator for the following issue...any pointing in the r…

Hello, long time lurker, first-time poster. :b&w: A week ago I found the threads related to de-yellowing the compacts (viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9381&start=0), …

Recent problems with my MDD inspired me to get my first TiBook as a portable media machine, but I still need to get my tower working again. It is so flaky now I almost with I could…

Hey admins... I'm having a bit of trouble keeping the spammers off the PPCMLA board and sending out PMs to everyone. That doesn't seem to happen here. What countermeasures are y…

I recently acquired a NIB Apple IIe card and put it in a Quadra 605. Everything works just fine, except when I tried to hook up a 5.25 floppy drive (A9M0107), the IIe card doesn't …

Got a PB 100 today, now I have a use for the 20 pin external floppy I got with another powerbook!

I have a nice looking Macintosh Classic, the only problem is that the image is slightly tilted to the right. It needs a little adjustment to make everything right again. What's t…

When i check the contents of a folder i use the list my name. When i want any given file to be at the top of the list i add a blank or several blanks. What do i do to make a file…

I have an SE/30 that refuses to boot from the internal drive. I have a 1GB HD that is loaded with System 6.0.8 (SE/30 specific files) that will boot fine when placed in an externa…

Ok so I got my Mac Classic today and everything works on it (thank gosh) except for the speakers. You can barely hear them but you'd have to cram your head in the screen to hear it…