I have recently acquired an 867MHz Titanium Powerbook G4. Since having it the past few days, I've learned this thing has got a huge set if problems. Most of these I think can be …
Goodwill ComputerWorks - Austin decided to resume selling older hardware. The result was an afternoon of 68k conquest:
Quadra 605
LC III
IIsi
Atari 1040 STE unused - CIB
Atar…
I was thinking that maybe instead of just the "Software" forum we could have Sub-Forums for each of the system softwares up to OS 9? I'm not sure if this has been discussed before.…
I came across two external drives today, first is a USB2 CD-RW from goodwill for $6. Normally they have no computer stuff, but I found it in the bottom of a bin with the original c…
One of these has just arrived from a fellow lister. It is working fine from what I can see. And what a beautiful screen! I can see why they were in high demand back in the 90s.
Th…
I've always loved the TiBook. When they came out, I couldn't believe how amazing and modern the design was. Well my time has finally come to be a TiBook owner! This past week I …
Hi,
In the old days, when my Lombard was much younger, when I would swap out batteries with my Lombard in sleep mode, my green light would keep on blinking, and I could then wake …
About a week back I bought an LCIII and some other bits off a member on an Australian Mac forum I go on. Came through today, here's what I got:
- LCIII (manual inject), haven't po…
I just noticed this today:
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"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cann…
. . . maybe the joint ain't on critical life support quite yet! [] ]'>
http://www.applefritter.com/node/7308
It'd be a shame if their forums died, some of our valuab…
. . . you be the judge!
I was upset after finding out that a really nice USB KBD that I'd found and tested with HP_Mini at the Thrift where I liberated my 21” Graphics Series V…
I'm a little confused. I read that the Apple /// was intended to eventually replace the Apple II line, but allowed limited Apple II+ "emulation" to encourage users to switch, but i…
I know, my history with iBook G4s isn't all that fantastic. In my nature though I had to try... this little machine is another victim of the "fractured solder syndrome" that plague…
First a bit of back story - Skip ahead if you want to get to the goods
I did some work for a local church years back involving restoring a few older computers (Pentium IIs and …
Hi,
Just opened my Macintosh Plus to give it a quick check-over, to make sure that no components have blatantly malfunctioned. Generally, it looks okay on the interior:
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Here's a set of interesting schematics to build your own Apple Widget. Suddenly I begin to understand where stuff like this comes from. Where are these kinds of schematics for the …
Just picked up a very nice looking pismo. The first one I have had! No hardrive. Plugged it in. Nothing. Checked and reset the ram, added a hardrive. Checked all the cables unde…
I've been thinking about this for a little while now, and it seems to me that in my old Elementary school, there were candy iMacs that could go all the way down to Black & …
Last night I opened my 512k to record all its capacitors (I think I've found a way around my worries about lead, so now I'll be ready to replace those capacitors!!! ).
But anyw…
i managed to flash one of my video cards an nvidia geforce 3 ti 200 for the quicksilver
it works just fine
but when the Qs boots and displays the grey apple scree…
I recall reading a tutorial once about converting a Disk II to use directly on an Apple III, instead of buying the more expensive Disk III mechanism. But in recent Googling, I can …
68kMLADevelopmentby Mac128Mon, 31 Aug 2009 - 18:39
Were can you get old Macs in Ohio? Preferably the Dayton area? I can't find anyplace that sells them, or people who want to get rid of them. :'(
Thanks,
agg23
What kind of SCSI card was available for the G3 Power Mac? I think it was 68 pin, but I don't know whether it is an HD-68 or a VHDCI-68? I want to be sure before I buy an adapter. …
68kMLAPowerPCby thinkdifferentMon, 31 Aug 2009 - 12:01