Just finished cleaning off my latest find: An original Mac, upgraded a bit. This is my first pre-90's Macintosh, and I'm quite happy! Paid $40 for it, though it doesn't come with a…

The LC 5xx line is indestructable! I have a clean LC 580 with 52 MB (max) ram, 3 GB HD, System 7.5.5 and it runs any 68k app with ease. Never had any issues with it.

I have made a boot disk with a minimal system and RamDisk+. I startup from the floppy and run it from the RAM disk. The only thing is the battery will not show though it did (som…

Recieved the Airport compatible PCI card and it works great!!! it's nice to have the wireless now... So my upgrading is done on this... it as far as it will go... but it's a very…

I guess it depends on what you get into. Somebody who doesn't much like compacts won't think a conquest of a dozen SE/30's is a big deal while others would drool over it. Some peop…

Could a bad PRAM be killing it?

For me, a mini-epic would be scoring a sealed box of 10 Apple-brand 400K floppy disks with the Picasso artwork, because they seldom come up for sale. Click to expand... That wo…

For me, a mini-epic would be scoring a sealed box of 10 Apple-brand 400K floppy disks with the Picasso artwork, because they seldom come up for sale.

Yeah I agree. Yes Nico it was you. I do think a Mac Plus is epic because I don't have a working Compact (yet-- A 512k is on its way to me ) But I found a keyboard and mouse in …

8. EBAY LINKS. I feel we should not post eBay links at all since it often leads to discussions about the seller and even it doesn't, it will often lead to something negative about …

OK, Well you know the IIcis I liberated? All of the Floppies that came with it (Except one- Macintosh Basics) Don't have that extra hole on the side. I have SUM (Symantec Utilit…

Which is why I think you can't really categorize conquests into distinct awesomeness-levels. Click to expand... For other people, that is. For yourself, then yes. I have defini…

LOL, that would've been me you're talking about. I guess the fact you bring this point up already proves that this is a very subjective thing. In my view, the Plus is a pretty com…

It's the ratio of how desirable/rare the item(s) were, compared to how much money was dispensed, multiplied by the total number of items received.

So I've been thinking. What is an EPIC OMG ELEVENTY Conquest, and what is a small conquest. How do we categorize these conquests? I read a thread about a Mac Plus conquest with …

It may not be quite the only alternative. 1. You could presumably run it from an external SCSI hard drive. 2. You might, with a little ingenuity, manage to configure and run it t…

Is there some way that I can run my Powerbook 540c without a HD? All three of my scsi drives will not work, so the only alternative I have is running off a floppy. Does anyone kn…

Thanks you all. I know a Mac Plus isn't the most remarkable of conquests, but I thought it'd be fun to document it like this for a change. And I came to the conclusion that I shou…

recently i got my hands on a 2001 QS 733 with a vile ati rage 128 pro card with a piddly 16 mb ram and the rage 128 just decided to die ...typical as it happens i…

Note that I wrote all that from the top of my head, so I might have gotten a few details wrong or maybe even forgotten a step somewhere. I also left a couple of things open for you…

And then after reaching that number, the counter overflows and goes back to zero automatically. It's the same problem the Unix timestamp will face in 2038 on 32-bit computers.

Formatting a high-density 1.44M floppy as a single- or double-density 400k/800k floppy works well enough, but you won't be able to reformat it back to 1.44M if you ever need to. Yo…

What version of the system is it? A IIci needs at least 6.0.4 to run. It could be that the startup disk was made for a particular Mac model. If you made it for, say, a Plus, it wi…

Speaking of Usenet, where is comp.sys.mac.vintage or the equivalent? I've already got comp.sys.apple2. :-* Click to expand... It's actually quite amazing how CSA2 manages to …

With the tape trick, I just had to get a whole bunch of 1.4 disks and eventually I found one that worked as 800k when taped. Good luck.