I'd suggest cleaning the drive heads first. I've played with a lit of Macs and run into over 100 floppy drive reading problems and only in a couple of cases was the drive actually …

Turns out it wasn't MacBottom's disk I had; it was LoDown, the guys who copied MacBottom. Also turns out Wally Wallstreet's drive can't read half these old diskettes. :'( I'…

Shareware, freeware, and public domain isn't against the rules, and you can find that software here: http://macgui.com/downloads/?cat_id=56

1. That sounds like a clock chipping accelerator, it clips onto the logic board and makes the CPU run at a higher clock speed, speeding up the system. They were very common back in…

You guys got it up to $615! 8-o

weather to fix it to toss it... Click to expand... Perhaps you meant to say, "whether to fix it or to donate it"? To toss (i.e., trash) a fixable vintage Mac the likes of an S…

yea its terminated. the computer was making some pretty darned loud high pitched "squeek" sound that was ear peircing. then it would quit. This would fade in/out a few seconds to a…

Dont know why though. that sucks becuase the drive inside is a quantum 800mb. Click to expand... (a) termination? ( B) low-level format?

weather to fix it to toss it... Click to expand... Perhaps you meant to say, "whether to fix it or to donate it"? To toss (i.e., trash) a fixable vintage Mac the likes of an S…

All i have is toast 6 and the bootable option is gone unfortunately. trying to locate a copy of toast 5 but no such luck. Click to expand... You can find Toast 4 and 5 at Macin…

weather to fix it to toss it... Click to expand... Perhaps you meant to say, "whether to fix it or to donate it"? To toss (i.e., trash) a fixable vintage Mac the likes of an S…

From doing a bit more reading, people are saying their iBooks won't boot at all if the GPU is loose. In my case, it does boot (I can hear the hard disk rattling away as it boots in…

The //e doesn't have an MMU. There are just soft switches, addresses in the $C03x range you hit to switch banks of RAM. Works the same as the Language Card on the Apple][. Click…

All i have is toast 6 and the bootable option is gone unfortunately. trying to locate a copy of toast 5 but no such luck.

any ideas? Click to expand... First I assume you are selecting HFS not HFS+. You also have to make sure the partition map is legacy as well. In Toast there is a tick-box which …

Well, i dug out my old miniscribe drive which i was able to hook in place of the CDrom and to start up the machine. i fixed the system folder on the internal drive which caused it…

True that!

The hot coin is the only method I could do right now due to lack of tools. But I just don't think it would be the safest as you would be applying a huge amount of heat immediately …

weather to fix it to toss it... Click to expand... Perhaps you meant to say, "whether to fix it or to donate it"? To toss (i.e., trash) a fixable vintage Mac the likes of an S…

We see this type of spam-bot a lot. They make seemingly innocent posts (which are often slightly incoherent as it seems they assemble them from snippets of other posts, as macgeek4…

Nice little trio you got there. Not having owned a IIfx, I think that might be the best machine. Sure the 7600 is more powerful but the IIfx holds a special place in a lot our mem…

Anyone heard of LUnix? Unix on a C64 - page seems a bit old though. And uCLinux ideas might be helpful about getting around lack of MMU. EDIT: Doh...didn't remember that LUnix ha…

Apple used to brag at the time that the /// was a 16-bit machine because there was a state machine appended to the 6502 to handle 16-bit words and the data buss fetched 16 bits at …

Get your boot floppies here. Always good to have one handy with a classic Mac.

The //e doesn't have an MMU. There are just soft switches, addresses in the $C03x range you hit to switch banks of RAM. Works the same as the Language Card on the Apple][. About t…