Hello, I got the guts to a G3 iMac here, i thin its 400 or 450mhz. I'm going to re-purpose is as a StepMania machine for my GF. There are some labels on the pin-outs on there but …

In my semi-weekly search of Craigslist, I found a week old listing for a 128. The lister says it has a 256 KB RAM upgrade (which makes it still less than a 512, but more usable th…

Hi all, my first time here. Someone recently gave me a 9600/233 Power Mac that has a 21" Sony Trinitron G500 monitor. The monitor is connected to the 15 pin out of the computer v…

I just bought an iMac G4 on eBay with a blank hard disk and no CDs. It only has 128mb of RAM so I want to put OS 9 on it (It's the 700mhz model that shipped with 9.2.2 and 10.1.2 i…

Hello all, Tomorrow I receive my first Newton, a MessagePad 2000, but how do I know whether I have a German or US version of it? Thanks in advance

Here's a few pics of some of my older conquests. I've included a few pics of the basement double tier area... Feel free to guess at what some of the stuff is. { "li…

"Three Strikes…" We operate a "Three Strikes…" policy when it comes to warnings. Members who break the rules will first be issued with a warning via a Private Message. A second off…

I picked up a G3 Platinum Minitower overclocked to 466MHz today, with a Voodoo 5 5500 PCI card installed (the one with DVI and VGA). The Voodoo card was, of course, the real prize.…

Are there any free fan control utilities for the aluminum powerbooks? I've found one for the MBP, but nothing for the G4's except for two that you have to pay for before you can do…

Managed to grab a Powerbook G4 15" High Resolution model off of ebay for $200. It has a battery charging issue, which seems to be a common ailment with the aluminum books, but it h…

I decided to work on my old Mac IIci today. It was stored outside in the weather for several years before I got it. The ports on the back are a bit rusty and there are signs of c…

Is it possible to use an external Jaz drive with System 6? Thanks, agg23

The campus PC repair shop has a "scrap pile" of old machines, mostly PCs, which are destined for the recycler. In the past year, I have purchased a desktop G3 and a 20" Apple Color…

I just bought one of these off of another member From what I gather, it's got an Ethernet port, CD-ROM, Zip Drive, Maybe a battery, Active-Matrix screen, 180Mhz CPU, 144MB RAM (Ra…

i got a mac se at a garage sale a little while back, and it was working fine. then one day, i powered it on and it only boots to a [?] . i put in the system floppy, and it booted…

I've noticed this lately... at home on my crappy 56k dial-up, the 68kmla (I have "view new posts" bookmarked) consistently loads faster than Google's home page. Just thought it odd…

What can I say, I've found a whole new reason to dig through all my Apple collections again. My brother in law sent me a dvd movie he found on the net called "A brief history of A…

Hi all, Ok, I consider myself as a near hardcore macuser (and vintage Macs collector) for a long time, yet yesterday I felt just like a dumb newbie. Not that those two words are s…

Not so much direct Mac hardware, but this sure is making my PM9600/350 and 8500/G3 450 happy. Que Firewire CDRW external drive - Minus power supply - Repinned the power supply con…

I have the original Macintosh Classic, and I was wondering what the maximum hard drive could be that could fit in there. Apparently, my hard drive is fried in it, based upon what …

I've been running Mac Systems since 6.0.3 and yet somehow this version escaped me for all of these years. Are there any advantages to running this vs. 7.1? ie. does it being "Pro…

I can't seem to find anything on the correct procedure on taking apart a Performa 6300CD (or 6320CD). Splitting Mac OS 8.6 and Debian between a 1.2GB HDD is quite a squeeze. Could…

Hey! My car's trunk is quite full this morning... I got a working (boxed!) Duo 230 with all its accessories (but sadly without original disks and manuals), a working DuoDock for i…

I happened to browse the local classifieds but rarely do since nothing cheap is ever there, and came across someone selling G4/450 towers for $20 a pop. No ram or HD, but I've got …

Well, my Portable is back to its old tricks: Power on, chime, die. Doesn't matter what I unplug from the logic board, I can't even get it to do what it did yesterday (power up, sp…