I have been looking for one of these for a very long time, on and off, and just did another search on a whim. Within the past 10 mins., I landed one on eBay for $5 plus shipping (o…

I had the pleasure to pick up a Performa 640CD with DOS card for FREE! yesterday. This thing had its RAM upgraded to the max: 52 MB on the logic board and 32 MB on the DOS card. …

Thanks for creating and hosting this forum. I bought my first mac, a Mac Plus, in 1986. So I guess -- probably like so many here -- I was a "Mac" guy way back when Mac was cool, an…

i went out to yard-sales this morning with out any expectations of great finds, but MAN did i SCORE!! 8-o imac g5, 2.0ghz, 1gb ram, original box, brand new keyboard and mouse- $…

A friend of mine just got a Powerbook 1400cs but without a CD-ROM drive. Its running a horrifyingly old install of 7.5.3 thats probably been on there since 1996. We'd like to get…

I am also finally the proud owner of a Lucent WaveLAN silver card and successfully got one of my 1400s online yesterday. Any tips from other 1400 web users re optimizing speed, be…

Just got another Powerbook 1400; this one needs a little TLC. Is the best source of parts still Wegener Media? I need a rear foot/screw, PCMCIA door, cover latch etc. Also, does a…

Hi all, as this is my first posting i like to introduce myself a bit. I'm Carlo from Germany and I'm an longtime Apple user. I started with an Apple //c in 1990 and now I'm using…

Hi all, The various threads here about 128MiB 72-pin SIMMs working in certain machines that were never intended to use them got me thinking. What, precisely, about the Classic II …

Got this gem today for the low low price of free. Almost mint condition. First Generation 10GB iPod with Scroll Wheel { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "N…

This wasn't getting the attention it deserved in another forum so I felt it appropriate to move it here. I am most interested in knowing about the MacSnap 5.0 "RAM upgrade" (witho…

Got this from school. Joins my other 2 Clams. It's the FireWire model, I installed OS X Server on it before as a fun project and it's still on there More Pics to come.

I have been able to hack the built-in video driver of my PowerMac 8500 to support 1920x1080 and 1680x1050 LCD panels perfectly (been using 1920x1080 for over a month now with zero …

This site requires turning off stylesheets when viewed with Classilla 9.0 (View->Use Style->None), each time the link is opened in a fresh window/tab. It's somewhat i…

Ok, the title of this topic is maybe not the most original… sorry for that! I recently conquered a "dead" PowerBook 100 which cost me next to nothing. It came with its power brick…

The machine (240 V Classic - not II) has not been switched on for about 4 years and appears dead. I have opened up and can see the voltage on the inside of the mains switch but I …

I am working on a project with my Plus. The analog board is dead and while I do plan to fix it, I want to play around with a microcontroller. Anyway, One thing I'll need the microc…

Out of curiousity... have any of you ever used BatteryReset 2.0 on a Lombard? If so, were you successful at fixing a battery? I've got a Pismo and a battery that refuses to take a…

about a year ago i purchased a trs-80 model 100 at a garage sale for $3. at that time i thought that it did not work. today i took it out, plugged it in, adjusted the screen resolu…

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110449049167 Just waiting for the postage quote (should be around $20)

Thanks to eBay, I'm now the very proud owner of a tangerine clamshell iBook. It came with all of its original packaging and install CDs so I had my own exciting little unboxing. I…

A friend of my moms was looking to upgrade her mac. She went from a 933mhz w/ 256mb of ram and a big ol clunky crt to my dual 1ghz g4, 1.5gigs of ram and the 17" adc monitor. I mad…

I've been busy the past few weeks with some new items: C600/240 96MB RAM 3.5GB HD USB Card Boots to 9.1 but a bit noisy G4/400 192MB RAM 20 GB HD CDRW No OS; Does not boo…

I just had my first occasion to replace a hard drive in an eMac. My goodness, what a gigantic PIA! It was easy to do, but it took about an hour from start to finish and included s…

Couple nice G4s and a Q840AV. But mine, but I think I know whose they are.