So, I finally took the 280c out of storage where it's been since renovating the home office. Unfortunately, it seems to have developed some kind of keyboard problem in the interim.…

I think that some of the RAM might be bad, because the 8100 is now unstable. I'm getting random Finder quits, hangs, and even a System bomb on startup (you know, the fun kind, wher…

Sometimes if you leave it on for a long time (and we're talking anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours) it will just "mysteriously" chime and start up. I've done this on an SE/30 and …

ROTFLMAO, I just LOVE your username, dorkbert! :lol:

Actually I have toaster boards just lying around... :}

Success! It turns out that the problem was two-fold: first was the PRAM battery, second was a SCSI conflict. Both are two really newbie mistakes which shouldn't have taken 5 month…

Nope. No green lights inside a stock "Macintosh" or an OEM upgrade. If you have one, there's something undeniably foreign inside there. Can't imagine why there would be one inside …

Look under the monitor bezel on the front for a serial number sticker. The letter after the M0001 number will tell you what model your machine started out as. Click to expand...…

We've got a big trash cleanup coming up here next month. I'm hoping to pick a few more Macs then, though it's getting harder to find the oldest stuff. I've found 3 Pluses out for t…

The interesting thing about the HyperDrive was that it was one of the few third party mods that did not void warranty. Apple mentioned it in their service manuals at the time.

You can see my HyperDrive 20 photos here. For the sake of comparison, I would love to see some photos of the inside of your Hyperdrive kit, especially the hard drive mechanism. Y…

Thanks Quadraman, I'll do that. I had plans for the machine. Nick

Check the RAM. The checkerboard is different from the lines that you get with simasimac. Cleaning the connections with a pencil eraser and reseating the memory sometimes makes the …

A few days ago, I got my hands on a Classic II with an allegedly dead hard drive. Replacing the drive was no problem, plenty of spares. Powered the beast. Yaaaaaaa!………No startup…

Pictures it is. Also, I think it might be 64k. When hitting the interrupt button, it either acts weird until I let go of the button, or it shows a sad mac. That, and the borders, a…

Should a 'Macintosh' show a green light in the drive bay?

I wouldn't mind doing that, but no this came from some dumpster diving.

"floor plans for some hospitals in Washington" Are you one of those people who goes adventuring in abandoned hospitals in the middle of the night? :lol:

The HyperDrive was an internal hard drive sold by General Computer that was added to many early systems. Apple didn't include any hard drives internally until 1987 in the Mac SE mo…

First off, hello. I am a new member here. Secondly, I was driving down the street today and saw what looked like the top of a mac in a pile of trash on the side of the road (sprin…

So.... I found more stuff. IIsi (my first computer ever), LC 475 (nothin special), and Performa 6320CD (my first PPC Mac). I also see a Mac Plus but I can't reach it yet. I also fo…

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Amiga......4000.....Gaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! Please tell me it doesn't have a video toaster, too. xx(

JDW, that's if you have a boot floppy present. Just looking at the machine, assuming it doesn't power up, or don't have access to power. If it does power up and you don't have a 40…

Supermac Thunder II WITH the DSP daughter board. :lol: So which 68kmla'ers were bidding against me?