Just wait until CaryMG gets back here and sees us all laughing at him. :'( We're sorry, CaryMG!!! xx(

It's supposed to be in perfect working order, and that's got to be worth something. Click to expand... Part of the spirit of the MLA is to rescue these old Macs and then return…

It's supposed to be in perfect working order, and that's got to be worth something.

:lol:

Cool! Thanks for all the info... Very interesting... I'll get the soldering iron out, and try not to ruin anything!

Misusing the PMU as if it were a CUDA has a good chance of not resetting your MLB when you need to do so. Click to expand... I followed this: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1939…

Haven't even seen these yet, but ... I now have one or two early PowerBooks from the "gray plastic" era. I saw a CL post for a bunch of freebies in a driveway, with a pic of about…

Looks pretty nice, not too terribly yellowed.. though for $110 I'd want more than a 30MB HDD and 8MB RAM.

8-o :lol:

You had better be sure that you make good use of that Mac Classic II! You'll have to use it for something useful, every day, to make up for that price!

Perhaps this is why my video is changing? Click to expand... I didn't think you performed the 640x480 mod. An interesting side note here: I put my Mac TV logicboard in the CC …

… I have an external cd-r … but when I put a cd in the cd-r drive, it isn't mounted on the desktop … Click to expand... If the 840av is indeed the successor to/baton-carrier af…

You seriously paid $110 for a yellowed Classic II? Oh dear...

I'm working on a fix for this, but how many users do we have here that have a Macintosh Portable with a drive that does not successfully startup? Typical symptoms include a spinup …

I read quite a few Usenet posts last evening on this subject, most from the late 80's. It looks like co-operative multitasking is going to be the way to go, unless one can get a ca…

$110? Click to expand... I picked up a Classic II yesterday for $3 at a church rummage sale. Click to expand... pwnt

$110?

CLICK > Macintosh Classic II Sweet, huh? :b&w:

If you still have harddrive space leftover, solve that problem with Netscape Communicator...

... Other plans for this unit: - Replace ... - Upgrade the ROMs to handle a 1.44 MB SuperDrive floppy drive. - Install ... - Eventually, ... By the end of the restoration, I s…

Mac OS 9.2.1 should have all the required drivers/extensions needed to make sound work on that QS 2001. Have you checked to make sure that the sound wasn't muted? If that checks …

From the last mentioned website: "This board works hard while you're using your Color Classic. Performing the "Takky" modifications to your Color Classic only increase the stresse…

'Nothing to do with it' may not be on target if your lack is the correct firmware version for the newer G4. The DA requires 4.2.8f1. The QS in all likelihood needs 4.4.8f2, and O…

Well, you could use the LC 575 board, and save the CC board for later restoration.

Wonderful. Unfortunately I don't have a 575 board to get the other analog components for stereo speakers, but I don't know if 8bit 22khz sound is worth it for stereo anyways. Ver…