Google gets it wrong. According to their 20 Year Usenet Timeline, the first post mentioning Macintosh and Lisa was made on August, 1982. In fact, the earliest post mentioning Maci…

Just joined here after acquiring my IIci. My second mac, after a core duo macbook. Kinda fun to play around with. { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next…

I have started work on a project to emulate the floppy drive used in the original Macintosh. My goal is a device which is plug compatible with the Apple external 400KB floppy driv…

I just scored 7 brand new Farallon PhoneNet adapters for 50 cents each. If I can manage to scrounge up a couple more vintage Macs, I'm gonna host a LAN party with some friends and…

A while back, I determined that the installation issues with my PM 5500/250 I had were due to dried CPU grease. I'm stuck on how to take out the heatsink and fan assembly though. A…

Hey Guys I'm geting a I-book G3, the owner told me it's screen goes black and they have to restart the computer to get the screen to work. I plan to use this G3 for school work a…

Hi, I posted awhile ago about a non working Power Mac 8500. The problem was that it had no video out. Fortunately, it was just the adapter that didn't work, and I found a new Mac …

What's the best version of Word for Mac to run in Mac OS 10.4.11? I was going to poke around and see if I could find a used copy of Office 2003, but I want to make sure that's the …

. . . for a 466 DA runnin' 9.x and a Quicksilver 02 runnin 9.2.2? Any help would be greatly appreciated! TIA

Mustang EVT PtotoBook I guess it's fitting that “my Eleanor” is the Mustang EVT, the prototype of a souped up 5300ce. I've had two run-ins with this machine of myth. The first tim…

What to do with my LC III... Right now it's just sitting here, so anyone got any ideas of what I could use it for? It'd be a shame for it to just sit here unused...

I am thinking of buying a macintosh performa 6116. I would like to connect to this machine a roland mt-32 so to play old adventures like sierra with roland sound. Does this mac mod…

My Sawtooth won't turn on! I have replaced every component other than the logic board and power supply with spares. When I press the power button, nothing happens. Is it the logic …

I successfully applied the hires 640x480 hack on my Color Classic. I've never even soldered before. Turned out great. My next step is to solder on a resister so I can expan…

Having several modern CCFL backlit LCDs that have gone dim, I'm wondering how well the 68k portables' LCDs hold up to age. What are some of the common problems, and what should on…

My Quadra 605 running MacOS 7.6 does not see the shares on my FreeBSD 7.2 with Netatalk running. I can confirm that afpd and atalkd are running. The network is currently Q605 -&am…

I have a dead Macintosh Plus (early non-Platinum) just sitting here. I think for the most part a lot of it works, despite the PSU being a little bit flaky due to bad joints and the…

The last month or so I've been busy acquiring and storing several Macs. Some were nearly complete, others not so much. They were all no-cost, though I did have to spend several hou…

While I can say I found it, I can't say I own it. *sniff* I saw this gem on eBay a few weeks ago. If I had $1500 to burn, I would have picked it up in a heartbeat. So I did t…

I have a Mac IIci with no ROM in the ROM slot, but it works fine. What's the ROM slot for? Does it provide any advantages?

Hey all. I have a IIcx that's been working fine up until last night, when I tried to install an ADB-PS2 adapter to use with a Logitech mouse. The adapter didn't seem to work, and w…

the computer that I am working on is: 1.33 GHz iBook G4 1Gb of ram 60 Gb Hd Running 10.4.11 Tiger the problem that I'm having is: 1) there is an apple wireless mouse model nu…

Just found this on the way to a shoot. In Brooklyn I found on curb a powermac g3 in fair condition. It has 2 HDs and 1 is scsi. It has no RAM but like 2 SCSI Cards. There's also a …

I got an MDD (DP 1.0), Sawtooth, and 9600/200 (with XLR8 processor) for free today. All of them came with disks and dox. Also got 3 floppy disks, a zip disk, a USB FDD, and 9 DVI…

400mhz, 64mb, 6gb hardrive, os10.0.3- $50! it still has a working battery that is supposed to hold almost 3hrs! i already upped the ram to 1gb, and it will get Tiger later tonight…