Because MIDI latency and jitter on modern computers is a problem. I've been contemplating in either get a dedicated hardware MIDI sequencer or an old Mac for MIDI sequencing, so I …

I was able to recently obtain a 15" NEC 1530 15" LCD display. It is white and matches my IIci nicely. I have a Radius Precision Color Xp nubus card. The resolutions listed at th…

I've had two Dell Optiplex GX1 desktop machines for a while that I have been wanting to upgrade and finally found two of these with 1.4ghz P-III's installed. Not Celerons like you …

Nothing too big but managed to pick up a power board for my 128k for $25 shipped. I made that bid a week ago and didn't think it would win, but I guess demand for these is slackeni…

Since I needed a bunch I decided to go with a bulk purchase and managed to find 10 packs for $28 shipped. Nearly every beige Powermac and Quadra I have thinks it's 1956. 8-o

http://cgi.ebay.com/PowerLogix-Black-G4-Cube_W0QQitemZ120539575325 WTF?

Folks, Went to an AUSOM members-only swap meet on the weekend, didn't pick up a much mac stuff, a couple of Pismo CD and DVD drive units, a couple of games, stuff, boxes of stuff,…

Hi, me again. We have a Quicksilver G4 at my school, and I've recently set it up as a browsing machine. If I'm correct, its a 933 MHz Model with 128 MB RAM, not 100% sure on the H…

Picked up a 9600 G4/800 today, 512 MB Ram, a 4 GB SCSI drive and a 10 GB IDE drive driven off an IDE/USB/Firewire card. Radeon 7000 Video card and the usual floppy and CD drives. …

Hello all, I recently acquired a PowerBook 540c. So far, I'm very happy with it, blah blah and blah. Anyways, as I was snooping around the System Folder, I noticed something: a Po…

I have System 7 installed on my SE/30 but I'd also like to install System 6 an use system picker to switch between the two. I've renamed my System Folder to System 7 so it doesn't…

So the instruction manual from Sonnet says their upgrades only work up to 9.1 but I know there are people here who refuse to accept such things so I have to ask. Have any of you go…

So you just got a beige PCI Mac with no OS installed and you have Mac OS 9.1 and Ubuntu 9.10 for PPC Macs available for a clean install. Given how old 9.1 is and that no modern sof…

Ought I to keep the StarMax 3000/200 clone I recently acquired, or offer it up to the recycling gods? Alternatively, is there anyone here who wants it for a clone collection? It's…

I got a used G3/375 Sonnet upgrade a few days ago and put it in my 7600/132 today and system profiler is reporting a G3 at 417mhz! I didn't know these could be overclocked.

I recently managed to obtain a PAL Encoder card to give me colour (color) output from my Europlus. Typically for a card this old, there was no documentation. Is there a recommende…

I am giving my Newton MP 2100 to a friend and I want to remove any and all personal data on it beforehand. Is there an easy way to reset it back to factory settings/data. I do no…

Hello all, I recently purchased a dual floppy Macintosh SE off eBay for a mere $20! I'd been really wanting to mess around with some old Macs earlier. Then I found out about …

All right, so I thought that the 2 GB HD in the Power Mac 8100/80 was toast, but it turned out that the System Folder had gotten unblessed for some reason. I booted up with a CD an…

Can we look into 'enabling' tapatalk for the forums which will enable native browsing of forums?

Whenever I switch my Macintosh SE FDHD on or off, there is a static pip. Does anyone know why?

Hello, I am new here. I am happy to join up with my many like-minded comrades. I wish I would have discovered this place earlier. Here is my latest restoration, my first one in a…

Had an amazing haul at Goodwill yesterday, best in ages! { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_error…

I've noticed recently that whenever my Classic II accesses its HD the screen wobbles. As soon as the HD access stops the screen stabilizes. I have never seen anything like this bef…

Lessay you are daisychaining floppy drives to the floppy port on your IIci. What is the maximum amount of drives you could possible daisychain?