Could be, or a Pismo. If in doubt, ask them to turn it over and read the specs off the compliance sticker on the bottom. Seems like they go cheap if the seller a: does a ba…

This tech note:http://developer.apple.com/legacy/mac/library/technotes/hw/hw_520.html states that: "There is no way that the Macintosh operating system can recognize NuBus RAM an…

Also, just missed out on a Lombard that went for 21 pounds (I bid 20). I think it was a Lombard, I spent hours looking at pics and specs trying to find out. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/…

1 can a dead pram battery(3.6v) stop the hdd from working2 Network Access Disk image. dose it see hdd's Click to expand... Possibly but you should have tested that right off th…

3 to 4 hours last time on the Indigo, swapped the hard drive out (hence the Tiger donar for the Blueberry) + changed the CD drive for a combo. I wish I'd thought of doing the FSB …

The only way I can even think of would be to run a PC hardware emulator like QEMU or Virtual PC, then run "Hackintosh" OS X inside that. It would be dog-slow, though. (Hrm... Yo…

We are only allowed to place rack units in the data center I've tried micro-atx boxen clipped to the side of the racks behind panels and got whacked for that pretty hard. Still…

It gets really confusing when you wander into one of the NuBus cards that actually is a video card plus network card, such as the E-Machines ColorLink series. I have one with RJ-4…

Now display seems to always lit. When it is lit I hear a noise. Is it normal? But I continue to get this message "No battery reserve power remains. The Macintosh will go to sleep…

It definitely sounds like a bad capacitors issue, which also is associated with Simasimac. Symptoms include low volume or no sound at startup, zebra-like pattern, checkerboard or …

I'd imagine very very old LCDs couldn't be any harder. Click to expand... It is stupidly easy in the displays in the 1xx series.Like, mars478 could do it.. though he might brea…

It's a hard repair, I must say, but not the hardest I've done. I did this upgrade to my Graphite with a 20GB HD, it dissassembles the laptop completely, just to get to the HD.

Ye-ouch! I'm hoping mine was 'just' the motherboard and the processor daughtercard...at current used prices, plus shipping to and from, the damage on mine might be as low as $80 o…

You might not think it's such a good deal if you plan on replacing the hard drive. Getting inside those things is a notorious PITA.

That's an amazing deal! Congrats!

Thanks everyone for your help, I finally decided to allow the OS 9 disc to format the hard drive and installed it Firmware now updated, and Tiger installation restored perfectly w…

It has arrived !! As described, 300mhz, 288mb, 3gb with a dead battery and cracks around the apple under the screen + the plastic on the handle No airport card, 10.2 was installe…

ok lets start again. I found a color classic on new zealands ebay trademe.co.nz it would not boot.. so when it came i looked inside bad caps. replace the caps and booted it up…

You really do need a battery. 6 Volt lead-acid type as for a burglar alarm, if you don't want to rebuild an original battery. The AC adapter doesn't supply enough surge current, ev…

Got it working! Located a ][ Plus in working shape, and put the stuff in it. I've been going through the diskettes checking each one for read errors, locating backups and duplicate…

The difference between an AUI 15-pin transceiver and an AAUI Apple transceiver other than the connector used is Apple's AAUI port furnishes 5V power, and the AUI port furnishes 12V…

Does that mean that if you put the Portable ROM in an SE and adjusted some decoding in the GLUE chips to point at the right places the SE could have 8 MB of RAM? I guess you'd also…

- I've read the portables need a battery because the power supply isn't enough to operate properly. You need to leave the battery in the Portable. - Did you look in the Control pa…

At last i managed to hear sound from roland mt-32 . I bought the real 'Hosa CMP-159 Mini to 1/4" Phone Stereo Breakout 10ft' (http://www.proaudiosuppliers.com/hosa-cmp-159.html) …

I have a PowerBook 1400cs and a Powerbook G3 Lombard, but I bought it from a site with the same idea as eBay, so I don't know if it is intended to be brighter.