I'm not 100% sure I understand your point. In 1984, such a thing took hours and hours with 128K RAM, 400K discs and your Imagewriter printer with Thunderscan. Which explains why we…

well it isn't vintage yet... it is still a very capable machine and the difference from 2.0GHZ to 2.3 is not much, only 300MHZ anyways... and with 16 gb ram this thing doesn't stut…

Nice haul! :O

Hot damn! There was a 50 MHz '030 card (also Daystar) that went for $40 recently on eBay.

Maybe I'll get my screwdrivers out and perform a little surgery

Thanks for the advice, but ... reset that and the PRAM but it's still not working. Now it just boots to a gray screen and nothing else. FWTDM still doesn't work. :?:

You'd be lucky to get $700. Honestly, you're insane to think you'll get more, or the buyer is a sucker. They're almost vintage. You never get your investment back with upgrades, an…

As for dates, Apple sent us a prototype a few months before release. There were other developers who were seeded with prototypes much earlier. Click to expand... PICTURES

It's possible the hard drive is bad, or the volume is bad. Depending on what you're connecting the unit to in target disk mode, if the volume has issues it will not mount or show u…

Try resetting the NVRAM, +opt+o+f and type "reset-nvram" No quotes and then type exit and reboot. Also try resetting PRAM and SMC if it has it.

I guess I'll have to dig the old Mac out of the closet and put the 64K ROMs back in it. I was under the impression that the 1.4 drives only worked with the SWIM chips, and didn't r…

Nice find! IIci are nice machines! What video card is in it?

Awesome!!! 8-o

The only way to get anything like full frame video on a 68000 was to literally scan each frame of video one at a time, dither it for 1-bit, and then string them together in an anim…

It's been a while so my memory may be fuzzy, but I got my first Mac at work in Nov '83, and bought my own Mac in May '84. A bit later Apple came out with the first 3.5" Apple][ dri…

Okay, whoever was laughing at the start of this thread needs to see these clips... really quite remarkable! Click to expand... I'm still laughing. You realize how much work it …

You must be thinking about the original Wallstreets because the rev 2 models did fit the whole screen in 640x480 and 800x600 modes on the LCD (you were stuck with 1024x768 on the o…

Never hurts to order spares, as they are inexpensive and easily lost. Click to expand... Good point. I'll hold off until I know what's inside but I'll probably order some extra…

Alright, Tom replied. Should I buy one for $35 shipped?

Try writing to Tom Owad, who wrote the article I linked. A few years back he had crates of the things, NIB, which he couldn't get rid of. Rid of which he could not get. Whatever…

It's been a while so my memory may be fuzzy, but I got my first Mac at work in Nov '83, and bought my own Mac in May '84. A bit later Apple came out with the first 3.5" Apple][ dri…

I make no guarantees, and this is the advice of an inveterate packrat. Grabbing half a system "just in case" the other half turns up is the precipice of the slippery slope to craz…

I like my B&W's but thats around the time Apple went trendy with form over function. Click to expand... / such gimmicky computers as the iMac & Cube (?) etc, b…

With a RAM upgrade to 1MB or more and an 800K floppy, short full screen animations were possible, such as these:http://web.me.com/henryspragens/stuff/Mac_Movies/Mac_Movies.html Cl…

I just got a Classic II and it seems I might need to replace the caps too. I haven't the tools to open it yet so I don't know what's inside. What capacitors (type and quantity) wou…