The drive on the front would be a caddy loading CD-ROM drive, most likely an AppleCD 300, which is a 2x CD-ROM drive. You can either find a caddy for it and use it, or you can swap…

ok Well thanks a bunch, I do know my centris does need a repair, The power brick ( the thing you plug in power) that has died, after all of the years it was on, I am going to plug …

Does anyone happen to have the SE/30 ROM SIM/Logic Board schematics? thanks. Thinking about trying something....

From doing a bit more reading, people are saying their iBooks won't boot at all if the GPU is loose. In my case, it does boot (I can hear the hard disk rattling away as it boots in…

I think earlier versions (around System 3) even supported a custom "StartupSound" file that would play while the machine started up. But you cannot replace the boot chime, its burn…

You can add a new startup sound pretty much like changing the startup screen, but it's not likely your friends did this if they weren't ResEdit type hackers. Click to expand... …

editor wasn't the question

... but it's been at least 17 years ago. Click to expand... Dimentia?

back on topic can the classic / plus playback animated gif files? Click to expand... The only gif editor I remember didn't do animation. There wasn't much support for gifs on t…

back on topic can the classic / plus playback animated gif files?

You can add a new startup sound pretty much like changing the startup screen, but it's not likely your friends did this if they weren't ResEdit type hackers.

I'd suggest cleaning the drive heads first. I've played with a lit of Macs and run into over 100 floppy drive reading problems and only in a couple of cases was the drive actually …

Turns out it wasn't MacBottom's disk I had; it was LoDown, the guys who copied MacBottom. Also turns out Wally Wallstreet's drive can't read half these old diskettes. :'( I'…

Shareware, freeware, and public domain isn't against the rules, and you can find that software here: http://macgui.com/downloads/?cat_id=56

1. That sounds like a clock chipping accelerator, it clips onto the logic board and makes the CPU run at a higher clock speed, speeding up the system. They were very common back in…

You guys got it up to $615! 8-o

weather to fix it to toss it... Click to expand... Perhaps you meant to say, "whether to fix it or to donate it"? To toss (i.e., trash) a fixable vintage Mac the likes of an S…

yea its terminated. the computer was making some pretty darned loud high pitched "squeek" sound that was ear peircing. then it would quit. This would fade in/out a few seconds to a…

Dont know why though. that sucks becuase the drive inside is a quantum 800mb. Click to expand... (a) termination? ( B) low-level format?

I have a few question 1. I have this clip thing from a centris 650 what does that do? 2.What are the pin out's for the power brick for the centris? 3.I have this very very Long …

weather to fix it to toss it... Click to expand... Perhaps you meant to say, "whether to fix it or to donate it"? To toss (i.e., trash) a fixable vintage Mac the likes of an S…

All i have is toast 6 and the bootable option is gone unfortunately. trying to locate a copy of toast 5 but no such luck. Click to expand... You can find Toast 4 and 5 at Macin…

weather to fix it to toss it... Click to expand... Perhaps you meant to say, "whether to fix it or to donate it"? To toss (i.e., trash) a fixable vintage Mac the likes of an S…

From doing a bit more reading, people are saying their iBooks won't boot at all if the GPU is loose. In my case, it does boot (I can hear the hard disk rattling away as it boots in…

Since it's such a common vector for SPAM attacks, external links in signatures have now been disabled. You can still link to pages on the MLA wiki using the wiki tags (see here) an…