Out of curiousity... have any of you ever used BatteryReset 2.0 on a Lombard? If so, were you successful at fixing a battery? I've got a Pismo and a battery that refuses to take a…

Hi, I received my PB 3500/Kanga G3 Powerbook the other day, and set out fixing it up with a new HD and general spruce up, it came with 5GB HD and 64MB RAM (32 + 32MB) I also have…

Sorry, I'm a little excited. This machine has been my Eleanor for many years. I've wanted one ever since I was a wide-eyed teenager staring at one in the display window at Micro Ce…

Today I got a G4 466MHz and wanted to do a clean reinstall of OS 9.1. I took my original retail Os 9.1 CD (not an bundled to a machine one) an tried to boot. CD-Rom starts to seek…

My 8600/200 604e with 256k cache, which has an Adaptec scsi pci card and 9 GB 68-pin drive, gives a repeated "bus error" message on cold startup in 8.6. Essentially, it gets to the…

I've been running this 8500 with a Sonnet 500MHz G3 processor for years. I've had no issues with it and I've been quite satisfied. I've rigged this machine with 768MB of memory, …

I thought I might show my latest mod, a core2duo color classic. Tearing down. { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous…

Hey, I bought a Macintosh SE at the weekend and was so excited for it to arrive. When it eventually did arrive i turned it on to be welcomed with an electricity sort of crackling …

Hi everyone: I'm a new member here, and I came across this forum while searching for information about my Macintosh SE/30's debilitating SimasiMac condition. I've been reading th…

Hey everyone, FIrst time poster here. :scrambled: I was wondering if anyone would be able to point me in the right direction as to what I should do with my PowerBook 180. Back …

What if there was a wiki about old macs where we combined Jag's House, Gamba, and others links into one place to make finding info easier? It would be similar to the 68kMLA wiki b…

Hi all, I know at some point I've seen some youtube video of a problem like this, so I thought I'd run this by you guys. Last night I decided to turn on my Macintosh Plus. Howev…

I was loading Tiger onto an eMac. I booted off the external drive and opened Disk Utility and noticed the internal hard drive was red, and SMART status reported it was failing. I …

After months of lusting for one, I finally got my mitts on the last of the ADB PowerBooks. It's the 300MHz model and the lot came with plenty of extras: DVD drive w/card, Wireless …

My Macintosh SE suddenly reset itself multiple times in a row while I was just typing in Note Pad.

I just did a search for "SE" "ROM" and "Plus". The three terms together, nor each individual term returned any hits. Is there a minimum number/type of characters to performa search…

From a local Freecycle pickup. Blueberry 400mhz DVD. 256mb ram and 10gb hard drive. Needs a keyboard. So far it works fine. Not sure what I'll do with it. Maybe I'll use it f…

Okay, so I've gotten through a couple Shadowrun novels recently, good reads. And I was thinking how cool it would be to have a Deck. And then I thought, Hey, I've got a couple of…

I picked up a couple of 800K external drives and neither will eject a disk after being cleaned & lubed. In both cases the first little plastic gear in the eject mechanism i…

Grrr! > So last night I pulled the old Mac "128" with its SuperMac 2MB RAM + SCSI upgrade outa the closet. No boot. Hard disk keeps recalibrating over & over. Tr…

Yes, it's true. Even I am human. For those who don't know, I run the sound, lighting and technology department at a local church. I have been using my Pismo (under OS 9.2.2 with…

I'm beginning to really pull my hair out. ready to start smashing things. I am in a bit of a pickle. since no machine besides this SE/30 that i own has a floppy drive, i got issue…

This question was posted in the software forum in a thread about System 7.0.1. Some have accused Mr. Thomas of being a spammer, although I am under the impression that he is simply…

Look at this Ebay auction! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220477983782 I couldn't believe this when I saw it. I think the price might be a bit high t…

A DB-15 to VGA adaptor with DIP switches! I'll keep this one in NJ and my other non DIPPED one in NY . Is there any advantages to having DIPs?