I have no idea what I'm doing, and only minimal familiarity with the Mac, so please bear with me. I have a Performa 636CD (same as LC 630, or Quadra 630 with nerfed CPU), and some…

Hello! I wanted to start making the Replica I from the book "Apple I Replica Creation Back to the Garage" but i got problems with finding the appropriate PCB Manufacturer in europ…

I've recently relocated my Color Classic from my mom's house, where it's lived happily since 1993 choking on cigarette smoke. I think it is going to need a recapping, and the 160m…

Just opened up both my IIc's thinking that I would have a 256K RAM Upgrade in one of them. The cleaner (and older) of the two (little case yellowing on it) was just a plain 128K II…

So, I am thinking of getting a PowerBook 1400cs/166 off eBay to run Mac OS 7.5/7.6 (I'll probably use 7.6 since it's better on PPC) really fast. But, everymac.com says that the 16…

So today a friend of mine came in with a big and beige PowerMac. It powers on and works, but the screen and picture tend to pop and go out. Are these models prone to flyback failur…

Yesterday i spotted an LC III for sale, was only 10 euros, but advised only for spares. Already have one of those, but too cheap not to call the owner. The LC was complete, and n…

Hi, I have a classic two which has to support for hd20 emulation. It has a hard drive in it, which spins up and makes noises, but it does not mount when I boot up the mac. Is there…

Given the pin out for the Powerbook 5xx series charger, could one be powered by an AC adapter that only has two wires, one live and one ground? My thinking is I could tie the groun…

Hi guys I was hoping someone could help ID a few motherboards, these are two separate boards I am looking at and I want to make sure they are Apple II and not Apple II+ motherboar…

So I picked up an Macintosh SE FDHD to get software moved between my pc and both my Macintosh SE's. After replaceing some ram that died after 5 minutes of running its doing all nic…

So I just went to boot up my Classic and got the following sad mac error... 00000002 0000FFF7 The first boot produced a bong, then the sad mac appeared, 2nd attempted boot I got…

hello. today i got a 128k logic board. but it came with sad mac code "04006c". when i turn it on i heard bong and that code came up. i had serched the code through internet "goo…

Saturday there was a recycling program at a church and I volunteered to help with the electronics. Most of the people there were really nice but this one guy hated me, he wouldn't …

In my Macintosh XL I found three cables. Two are for a disk, but not for a floppy drive. 26 holes in two rows of 13. Who knows what they are? And what is the white one? Seems some …

One key didn't work on my M0110 which came with my newly acquired Lisa/Macintosh. I seemed that the spring of that key was broken. The keyboard itself was very dirty. I decided to …

Hello everyone I've got a powerbook 1400 with a broken lcd panel but could not find a repair part. Any idea where I can find? Thx

Why on earth is the max ram in this Mac an odd amount? I haven't tried to put a 32mb simm in the slot labeled 16mb max... But I was curious if anyone ever tried, or modified this? …

Got an SE30 going, however, it continually give a dialog box stating the disk is unrecognized and asks to reject or initialize. The icon shows an external disk drive in the warning…

I had a few bad Macintosh Conquests lately.  From a local recycler I got a Powerbook 140 & a Macintosh IIcx which don't work.  The Powerbook is beyond help, the Macintosh I…

Hi! My friend has a iMac G3 with the id Powermac4,1 with a Airport Card. When he is trying to connect to his wireless network he gets the error message: There was a error joining …

So. In my new quests with vintage apple collecting, I seem to have acquired the most homely PB duo one has ever seen. The battery blew up long ago. The front filter on the LCD pane…

No longer have to bum the chip off snuci. { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error": "The requ…

Is it a conquest if you uncover something in your own storage space? I have a workshop in my garage that's been home to my Apple/Mac accumulation for over 10 years. I'm moving lat…

I went to the wiki to look up the procedures to clean up a floppy drive, and I got this: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/local/www/vhosts/wiki.68kmla.o…