Sometimes if you leave it on for a long time (and we're talking anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours) it will just "mysteriously" chime and start up. I've done this on an SE/30 and …

ROTFLMAO, I just LOVE your username, dorkbert! :lol:

Actually I have toaster boards just lying around... :}

Success! It turns out that the problem was two-fold: first was the PRAM battery, second was a SCSI conflict. Both are two really newbie mistakes which shouldn't have taken 5 month…

Nope. No green lights inside a stock "Macintosh" or an OEM upgrade. If you have one, there's something undeniably foreign inside there. Can't imagine why there would be one inside …

Look under the monitor bezel on the front for a serial number sticker. The letter after the M0001 number will tell you what model your machine started out as. Click to expand...…

We've got a big trash cleanup coming up here next month. I'm hoping to pick a few more Macs then, though it's getting harder to find the oldest stuff. I've found 3 Pluses out for t…

The interesting thing about the HyperDrive was that it was one of the few third party mods that did not void warranty. Apple mentioned it in their service manuals at the time.

You can see my HyperDrive 20 photos here. For the sake of comparison, I would love to see some photos of the inside of your Hyperdrive kit, especially the hard drive mechanism. Y…

Thanks Quadraman, I'll do that. I had plans for the machine. Nick

Check the RAM. The checkerboard is different from the lines that you get with simasimac. Cleaning the connections with a pencil eraser and reseating the memory sometimes makes the …

Pictures it is. Also, I think it might be 64k. When hitting the interrupt button, it either acts weird until I let go of the button, or it shows a sad mac. That, and the borders, a…

Should a 'Macintosh' show a green light in the drive bay?

I wouldn't mind doing that, but no this came from some dumpster diving.

"floor plans for some hospitals in Washington" Are you one of those people who goes adventuring in abandoned hospitals in the middle of the night? :lol:

The HyperDrive was an internal hard drive sold by General Computer that was added to many early systems. Apple didn't include any hard drives internally until 1987 in the Mac SE mo…

So.... I found more stuff. IIsi (my first computer ever), LC 475 (nothin special), and Performa 6320CD (my first PPC Mac). I also see a Mac Plus but I can't reach it yet. I also fo…

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Amiga......4000.....Gaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! Please tell me it doesn't have a video toaster, too. xx(

JDW, that's if you have a boot floppy present. Just looking at the machine, assuming it doesn't power up, or don't have access to power. If it does power up and you don't have a 40…

My friend uses an Indigo iMac to control a small DMX light board for a small chapel. It's pretty wicked.

Awww, man. That Goodwill maintains a museum. Guess where all the really good vintage stuff goes. Click to expand... Yeh, but they have more S-100 and pre-1980 stuff than they c…

My choice on the G3 iMacs would be: Slotloaders: OSX TrayLoaders: 9

I have a 400MHz iMac (in Indigo) and run OS 9.1 on it. Of course, I don't do any web surfing on it, and am content to use it with iMovie 2 (got it mainly to do smaller video jobs a…

You'll need an Apple II to read the 5.25" diskette. The drive you have will plug into the back of the IIc, IIc+, and IIGS, and will work on a II, II+, or IIe with the proper floppy…