I got a powerbook G3 lombard here, and its dead as dead can be dead.....
Here was the issue. some kind of liquid was spilled in it, and immidiately he pulled the power and battery…
68kMLAHardwareby techknightThu, 1 Oct 2009 - 00:29
Trying to get said machine on line, and the one problem is that the video image on the monitor is offset to the right by about an inch and a half. I know it's not the monitor, beca…
Got a phone call from my Sister this afternoon, and when I was done talking to her, I talked to her other half, and he said he had a wheelie bin worth of computer cables left in hi…
I was messing around with TvPad on my Newton the other day and thought, "Hey, how cool would it be if someone were to write a Newton app that controlled Front Row on the Mac!?" Th…
Well, I've finally got the right-sized piccies for the different DeclROMs in question:
Duo MiniDock: socketed 32 pin PLCC DeclROM
DuoDock: SMT 32 pin _________ DeclRom
Duo…
Got this from trag here on the forums for a killer price of 10$! Hes got tons more! It works awesome with my 512k (Albeit the color is a bit off :rambo: ) Now I need a boot flop…
So I took a few seconds off collecting old Thinkpads to snag a free for shipping Wacom Digitizer II (Model UD-0608-A). It is here with pen and stand and seems to work.
How many p…
The PowerMac 9500 i will probebly be getting has a card that i have finaly identified as a Pro Tools card. Is it worth anything? I dunno where the thing that plugs into it is.
So an eMac at my school has been acting up. I checked the CD Drive cover and it indicated to me that it is a 1.25ghz machine.
What the machine does is, Sometimes not wake up from …
I picked up a ati pc card thinking maybe I could flash it for mac, but I have not found a rom for this setup
AtI Rage 128 Pro with 512K flash cmos rom
(sticker says)
Xpert 2000 …
Hey all, I'm new to the site!! Kinda thought I come introduce myself a little
I'm Akira from Greater Manchester, England. Been using Macs ever since they introduced System 7 wa…
I know this PB wont run X,
But at the moment it's running mac os 9.2 Cad French
I am trying to find the owner of the computer as i found it in a recyling bin in my town, the com…
Hiya Folks, I'm new here!!
Recently I acquired an used but well looked after PowerBook Titanium 867Mhz unfortunately the seller only included Leopard retail installer disks 8-o …
i have in the past added macs to existing networks but never created one from scratch, here are the things that i get to work with:
1 Power mac G4
1 Power Mac G3
2 patch cords
…
Has anyone seen this before? I bought a Plus on eBay for $10 and it has a daughtercard with an 030 (and FPU). I bought the Plus just to get a working analog board, so wasn't expe…
My recently-acquired IIfx (with Mac II top cover) came to me in an excessively grimy condition. Oddly enough, because it cleaned up so well, the layer of dirt may have actually pre…
A Plus
An SE
2x IIcx's
A 7100
An 8100
A Dot Matrix Printer
A whole bunch of SCSI gear
Means I'll definitely have to have a clean out, and if I double up on either of the Pow…
Perhaps as a result of my ineptitude with the search engine, I have seen/found no current/prior reference in these forums to this sale on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl…
I was loading Tiger onto an eMac. I booted off the external drive and opened Disk Utility and noticed the internal hard drive was red, and SMART status reported it was failing.
I …
68kMLATroubleshootingby Mike RichardsonSun, 27 Sep 2009 - 02:20
Anybody have any experience with these FDD emulators? Seems like the ideal solution for vintage, networked challenged compact Macs. Manage your disk images on OS X, copy them to a …
I just installed Leopard on this(fresh install) and ever since, when I scroll on a web page, the area around my mouse pointer moves down the page(its hard to describe, but heres a …
After months of lusting for one, I finally got my mitts on the last of the ADB PowerBooks. It's the 300MHz model and the lot came with plenty of extras: DVD drive w/card, Wireless …
This week I finished off my first reel of 500 47uF tantalum capacitors. Woohoo.
I haven't been keeping records so I'm not sure exactly how many old Mac logic boards repaired tha…