No, that's not not 30 old MacBooks — 30 old Mac books. Though finding 30 old MacBooks would, of course, be a most welcome event in life (should anyone "out there" be so minded as …

I'm wondering if I'm out of luck on this SE/30. It's a liberation that I knew didn't work but I thought I'd try my luck anyway. The great SE/30 repair reference (http://www.biwa.…

Hello all, I am going to try this again ... The retro challenge last spring is what originally brought me to this fourm, course then I had a bad plan with a palm VII, so I then sw…

I do not have a video camera although i do have a Samsung VCR330 http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/EM/200603/20060329170551109/EN/main.html and I want to copy from the VC…

The CD push to open button on my Performa6360 is not working all the time unless i find the sweet spot. Is there a software application to open that drawer ? How difficult is it …

I'm thinking of entering the Retrochallenge with a little project of my own: to not only get my LCIII (my very first computer) on the Internet for the first time, but also to use i…

For $40 CAD I got a Pentium 3 850MHz, 256MB ram, and 20GB HD, with a 17" viewsonic flat CRT monitor. I am going to install Linux on this beast, or Rhapsody. Pictures: http://yfro…

Hi, I've got a Cube, upgraded with a PowerLogix 7448 1.7GHz CPU card. Now, I'd *really* like to be able to install OS9 on this machine. But I can't seem to get the damn thing righ…

I've got a dead PB100 that's been sitting in my closet for some time. The battery refuses to budge when I try to move it (the door won't move at all). Any tips for successful remov…

What type of Hard Drive does the Color Classic use, does it use SCSI or IDE? Also will 2GB be compatible with this machine, and where can I purchase one online? I'll be putting a …

Hello I have an old Mac SE/30 that, like the title says, won't boot properly. The guy I got it from said it was working fine the week before I got it but he was freeing up space on…

It's really not as old school as it could be, but I'm excited. It's an IBM Personal Computer 330. It was destined for the recycler at work and I'd ask if I could keep it (we have a…

Anybody know if this book is of any value for the average compact Mac enthusiast?

Well, Bunson has got me a-thinkin about a tinker with my G4 Cube again, with his reference to dual G4/500MHz cards in a Cube. I can get one of these shipped on eBay right now for a…

My Performa 6360 has a internet by phone port that i have never used since the day i bought this mac as a used unit about 5 years ago. Can i remove it without too much labour and …

I have a powermac 7500/100 and when i was trying to use toast deluxe 4 to run some 'toast files' the computer was stuck many times. I was using the power button to turn the compute…

hi all- as you may know, i want to prolong the life of my Macs to the fullest extent. examples of this are, if i walk waway from it, i dim the screen to min, check the temp of the…

Hey all, how to completely deassemble Power Macintosh 7100?

Ah, what $60 will get you... I just picked up a //c with power supply, plus matching 5.25" external floppy drive and green-mono CRT. Includes original manual and two set-up guide…

An iBook (12" 1.33GHz) purchased off of eBay arrived last week for one of my children, thus freeing up my old 12" 1.5GHz PowerBook that had been hers for homework in secondary scho…

I posted MacDraw schematics from reverse engineering my Mac back in 1984. You'll need MacDraw to open them. Anybody know of an OS X app that can open or translate MacDraw docs? ht…

Someone gave me 2 of these machines that he had in his attic since about 2001. they came from a local school district and has all the school programs on them. Well, i fired one of…

I still need to mitre the edge so it'll fit nicely, but so far I think it's turned out great. Took me about 2 hours to dremel the whole thing. { "lightbox_close": "Clo…

Hello, what is the easiest way to transfer files between a LC 475 (7.5.3) and a MacBook Pro (10.6.2)?

I have a duo 210 that won't boot, and I seem to have lost the floppy drive for it. I want to get access to it so I can fix my finder and system files (played around with them in re…